Games Like Drownlight

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Real-Time 10.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Base Building 8.2%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%

A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.

Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 8.5%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Real-Time 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.2%

Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13%, Management 6.8%, Survival 6.7%

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 22.6%, Economy 9.4%, Building 9%, Base Building 9%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Lovecraftian 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 8.7%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 10%

BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 8.6%, Survival 8.1%

Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 7.8%

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Real-Time 16% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8%, Economy 6.9%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 8.3%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.7%

Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9%, Building 9%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Survival 8.5%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Economy 8%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Building 9.7%, Economy 9.3%, Management 8%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 7.6%, Survival 7%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10%, Management 8.1%

A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.3%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 24.1%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 8.6%

It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 9.2%, Economy 9.1%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.3%, Building 9.2%

STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.1%, Economy 9%

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 9.2%, Management 8.3%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.6%

Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 8.3%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 24.6%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 9.5%, Building 8.7%

Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 24.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9%, Management 8.6%

Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 8.4%, Resource Management 8.3%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10%, Survival 9.7%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22.8%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 7.4%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Economy 8.3%

A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.5%

Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Building 7.5%

We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Resource Management 6.1%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 7.6%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 22.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.7%

Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 8.1%, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 6.7%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 21.1%, Survival 9.7%, Economy 8.7%, Building 8.3%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, City Builder 9.3%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, Economy 10.6%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Economy 8%

XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. Defend your city from disasters, cyberattacks, espionage, diseases, and growing unrest. Expand through powerful corporations that fuel growth, influence neighboring settlements, and reshape the balance of power.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.2%