60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Strategy, Simulation.
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.
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.
Underground Nomads
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.
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 44.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 7.1%, Survival 6.6%, Simulation 6.6%
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 34.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Dwarves 12.3% ★, Survival 8.7%, Simulation 7.6%
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 37.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7%, Crafting 6.8%
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 42.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 10.9%, Building 6.6%, Resource Management 5.2%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Dwarves 20% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 44.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 6.9%, Survival 6.5%, Simulation 6.3%
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 39.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 6.3%, Survival 6.2%, Building 6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 6.4%
Stoneborn is a colony simulation where you lead a group of dwarves in building a thriving settlement in a procedurally generated world. Delve deep for valuable resources, face lurking dangers, and shape your colony’s destiny through research, combat, politics, and diplomacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Dwarves 22.8% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%
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 39.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
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 32%, Base Building 16.7%, Strategy 8%, Sandbox 7.9%, Simulation 7.7%
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 34.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.2%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 11%, Strategy 10.7%, Sandbox 9.8%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
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 36.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 45.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.7%
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 40.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 7.1%
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 37.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 6.4%, Crafting 5.9%
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: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Crafting 6.6%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Dwarves 25% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.6%
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and create production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 42.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Building 6.3%, Survival 5.9%
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 35.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 6.2%
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 41.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 7.9%, Survival 6.3%
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 34.8%, Base Building 17%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9%, Building 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 36.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.2%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 11%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 7%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Isometric 7.8%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 6.3%
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 33.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 7.1%
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 32.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 29.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Strategy 7.9%
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 49.4%, Survival 12.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 7.9%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 15%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
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 34.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 6.9%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 35.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Isometric 7.2%
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 39.9%, Base Building 24.2%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Isometric 6.6%
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 36.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Dwarves 20.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%
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 31.4%, Dwarves 19.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.5%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 24.2%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9%, Simulation 8.6%
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 40.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.9%
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 35.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.7%
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 33.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 7.8%
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 39.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 9.2%, Survival 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 39.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 7.6%, Strategy 6.5%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 20.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Building 6.6%
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 8.4%
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 35.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.4%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Base Building 19%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.2%
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 19%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 8.8%
