- #1 Sheltered 2
97% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%
- #2 Oxygen Not Included
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 40.6% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 6.2%
- #3 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #4 Survival Bunker
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Survival 13.8%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.6%
- #5 Wasteland Train: Conductor
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jinye
Windows
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 18.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 8.9%, Strategy 8.1%
- #6 Ecopunk
93% matchVery Positive84% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
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 38.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Survival 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #7 Snow Ash
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 reviews2026
Dev: Ember StudioPub: Paras Games
Windows
Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game. In this snow-covered world, you’ll take on the role of a messenger, braving blizzards to deliver goods between scattered shelters. In the biting cold and swirling snow, where will your journey lead?
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 18.4% ★, Card Game 17%, Card Battler 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #8 Never Secure
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Survival 15.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%
- #9 Sheltered
91% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, Survival 23%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 7.2%
- #10 Surviving the Aftermath
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 8.1%
- #11 Underground Nomads
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.9%
- #12 Infinite Way
89% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Playful Division
Windows
Infinite Way is a deck-building roguelike where you travel, fight and survive in post apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Card Battler 28.8%, Card Game 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%
- #13 Tokeis
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Card Game 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Card Battler 9.6%
- #14 Lil Guys
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 8.6%
- #15 Oxygen: First Breath
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #16 Rise Against the Invaders
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
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: Colony Sim 37% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 11%, Building 8.5%
- #17 Frostpunk: 1886
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11%
- #18 Order: The New Dawn
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 9.3%
- #19 Deep In Snow
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Survival in a post-apocalyptic ice age with settlement building. Dig through the snow, find resources, build shelters, and defend yourself from evolved beasts and feral locals. Explore ruins, trade, and rebuild civilization in the harsh world after the icy cataclysm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 13.3%
- #20 Starfall Deck
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vespertine Game
Windows
Construct humanity's last refuge in a vertical tower-city amidst deadly storms. In this rogue-lite city builder, manage scarcity by day and strategically play your deck to expand by night. The storm is coming—play your cards right to keep Hope alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Card Battler 19.5%, Card Game 15.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #21 Hello World
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Mac · Linux
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #22 Alchemy in Dungeon
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: 雪鸽工作室
Windows
Roguelike auto chess, delve into dungeons to slay monsters, collect materials, and craft the ultimate potion combinations!
Why similar: Card Battler 36.4%, Card Game 32.4%, Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.9%, 2D 2.5%
- #23 The Last Haven
81% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 11%, Colony Sim 10.9% ★
- #24 Lost Heaven Station
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
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 31.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #25 Endzone 2
79% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 31.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #26 Subzero Tides
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Dystopian 14.9%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 8.6%
- #27 Dark Moon
78% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
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 31.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 9.8%
- #28 Frostpunk
78% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 15%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 7%
- #29 Buoyancy
79% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #30 Space Haven
77% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #31 Oxygen
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29.5% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #32 Red Dust Colony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 7%
- #33 Ocean Punk
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10%
- #34 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
76% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 7.1%
- #35 After the Collapse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Base Building 15%, Survival 12.5%, Management 8.7%
- #36 Founders' Fortune
74% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 49.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 9.6%, Building 7.6%, Resource Management 7%
- #37 New Cycle
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #38 Dream Boundary
72% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: SUO YIKE
Windows
Craft your deck before venturing forth. Strategically navigate the map, strengthen your abilities with talents and relics, and confront relentless enemies as you journey toward the unexplored frontiers of the Dream Boundary.
Why similar: Card Battler 42.7%, Card Game 30.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%, Strategy 10.9%, 2D 2.2%
- #39 TFM: The First Men
73% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 44.2% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 6.9%
- #40 Nuclear Crawler
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40% ★, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Management 10.1%
- #41 Embark
74% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 53.7% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 10.4%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #42 Dystopians
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 11.6%, Dystopian 11.1%, Management 9.5%
- #43 Maia
73% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #44 Fallout Shelter
71% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Base Building 26.8%, Survival 20.5%, Management 9.4%, Building 6.8%
- #45 Endzone - A World Apart
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #46 Clan & Flood
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, Survival 17.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 11%, Strategy 9.2%
- #47 Drownlight
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 11.8%
- #48 SacriFrogos
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uóki Games
Windows
A roguelike strategy and survival game where ever-growing sacrifices are required to keep the mysterious Eternal Flame alive. Build a colony of Frogos and create unique builds every run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Card Game 16%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #49 Until We Die
70% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 7.9%
- #50 Cat Guardian
69% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: YaeegyPub: Wild Thoughts
Windows
Cat Guardian is a flexible card game blending tower defense and survival. Manage resources, build, and strategize to protect the Tree of Hope from zombies. Can the cats of Meowx Planet succeed in their mission and survive? It’s up to you!
Why similar: Card Game 22%, Card Battler 19.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%
- #51 Infinity
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 傲娇工作室
Windows
It's my turn!做好被我击败的觉悟吧!
Why similar: Card Battler 34%, Card Game 29.6%, Turn-Based Combat 18.6%, Strategy 13.6%, 2D 3.7%
- #52 Sect Leader's Decree
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.2%
- #53 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #54 Tree House Survivors
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Building 8.3%
- #55 Take Root
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zhukovsky Games
Windows
Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 6.5%, Survival 5.9%
- #56 Meteorfall: Rustbowl Rumble
66% matchVery Positive96% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Slothwerks
Windows
Meteorfall: Rustbowl Rumble is a wild, no-holds barred card brawl in the wacky world of Meteorfall. Build a face-melting deck, break the rules, and stomp your opponents in this fast-paced & fresh take on roguelike deckbuilders.
Why similar: Card Battler 32.6%, Card Game 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Combat 7.1%
- #57 Edge Islands
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 38.9% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9%
- #58 Arcbound
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Management 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.4%
- #59 Starship Colony
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 36.7% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 8.8%