60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Colony Sim, Sandbox, Open World.
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
From Nothing
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 7.7%, Top-Down 7.3%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 6.7%, Building 4.8%
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Base Building 11%, RPG 7.6%, Magic 6.7%, Top-Down 5.8%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 7.7%, Building 6%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, RPG 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9%, Top-Down 7%
Project Starbound is a single-player space exploration game built in Unreal Engine 5. After a habitable moon is discovered, players explore the solar system, take on missions, build bases, and navigate faction conflicts in a story-driven, low-poly universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 13.1%, PvE 12.5%, Trading 12%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 7.7%, Building 4.7%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 6%, Building 5.5%
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 5.2%
Explore the cursed continent of Kopno and shape your path through moral choices. Choose one of six unique races and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build a thriving fantasy settlement worthy of leading your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, RPG 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.5%, Base Building 19.3%, PvE 8.5%, Survival 6.1%, Open World 3.6%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, Base Building 13.5%, PvE 8.9%, Crafting 5%
The world is dying. The answer lies beneath. Dig deep into the husk of an ancient god-worm, build your defenses, slay the parasites that feed on its remains, and uncover the truth before it's too late.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 18.8%, Base Building 11.7%, RPG 11.6%, Top-Down 8.3%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 8.2%, Building 7.6%
An open world, free roaming, medieval fantasy realm. Survive and expand your own settlements amidst warring factions, dangerous monsters, and diverse characters. Choose your path: thief, trader, farmer, assassin, or colony builder!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 13%, RPG 8.6%, Top-Down 6.6%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 9.3%, Building 6%
An open-world, base-building, adventure game with quirky humor and llamas. Explore the wasteland of Alaska smashing skeletons in your supped-up cab and trading veggies with the native rhino people. Do the bidding of a mysterious cube from space and unlock the secrets of the desert.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, PvE 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Top-Down 7.9%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 11.6%, Building 6.5%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 10.2%, Top-Down 6.6%
"The Gift of the Gods" is a Western fantasy theme of seed peas + town simulation business construction game. In the game, you will play a lord, recruit residents, assign jobs, appoint marriage, explore outlands, lead residents to expand their territory, and create your own utopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7%, Base Building 17.1%, RPG 15.8%, Magic 10%, Building 4.5%
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 9.7%, Top-Down 9.2%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 5.1%, Building 5%
Fight monsters, level up skills, build structures, or casually live in a massive open-world. Join the public server or host your own and invite your friends to share an adventure.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 13.3%, Top-Down 7.9%, RPG 7.6%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 9.3%, Open World 5.8%, Survival 3.8%
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47%, Sandbox 17.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Top-Down 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
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 41.1%, Sandbox 17.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.8%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, RPG 6%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, Sandbox 18.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 5.5%, Crafting 4.9%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 5.5%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1%, Sandbox 20.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 6.8%, 2D 3.5%
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 58.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 6.1%, Survival 3.8%
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Sandbox 21.2%, Top-Down 8.6%, Trading 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Trading 12.1%, Crafting 6.3%, Building 6.2%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Sandbox 19.6%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 6.1%
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Top-Down 6.7%, Open World 5.5%
Fight, survive, subjugate and destroy. Build and fortify a base, establish production chains that turn raw scrap into finished steel, and command your workers to keep it all running. Your brain implant knows the way. The rest is up to you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Top-Down 6%, RPG 5.2%
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 40.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Top-Down 7.8%, Building 6.9%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Top-Down 6.2%, Open World 6.1%
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 46.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 6.9%, Survival 6.1%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 6%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Open World 9.6%, Building 6.3%
Just staying alive in the primal world is hard work. Yet you dream of ruling it. Unfortunately, so does everyone else.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, PvE 11.3%, Open World 9.2%
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 9.9%, Top-Down 8%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 6%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 6.9%, Building 6.5%, Top-Down 5.5%
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, PvE 14.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Top-Down 8.2%, Open World 7.7%
“Survive and rebuild on a mysterious island. Explore diverse biomes, battle zombies, craft, farm, trade, and harness electricity in this open-world sandbox adventure — alone or with friends.”
Why similar: Sandbox 24.1%, PvE 17.7%, Base Building 14.2%, RPG 13.7%, Open World 10%
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.8%, Sandbox 19.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Top-Down 5.7%, Survival 4.9%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 7.4%, Survival 5.4%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Top-Down 6.1%, Survival 5.7%
When calamity struck, the world of Highreach was shattered. In this open-world survival game, build encampments, rescue survivors, and soar across the skies on your airship to explore a lost world and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 13.7%, PvE 12.3%, Open World 10.8%, RPG 6.3%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 7.7%, Open World 5.1%, Survival 4.9%
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 11.5%, PvE 6.9%
Survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge resources, build up a homestead, form a community, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Open World 13.5%, Top-Down 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Sandbox 19.9%, Open World 14.2%, RPG 9.3%, Crafting 7%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, Top-Down 6.9%, Building 5.7%
Establish and grow a dwarven colony. Mine deep into the rock for precious ores and gems, then craft the finest wares to trade. Attract more dwarves as your renown spreads and your gold hoard increases.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Trading 10.2%, Open World 8.2%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, PvE 8.2%, Survival 7.3%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.2%, Sandbox 22.6%, Building 6.5%, Crafting 5.6%, Survival 4.6%
