60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Survival.
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 44.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 7%, Survival 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%
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 36.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.2%, Simulation 8%
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 37.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Base Building 18%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Simulation 7.7%
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 26.7%, Dwarves 20.5% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 7.6%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 42.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 11.1%, Building 6.6%, Sandbox 5%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 8.7%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%
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 44.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 7%, Survival 6.8%, 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 39.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Sandbox 6.4%, Survival 6.3%, Building 6.1%
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 38.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Survival 7.1%
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 41.9%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 6.5%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.2%
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 12%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 9.1%
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%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Survival 7.8%, Simulation 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 16.8%, Strategy 8%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 7.7%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 14.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 8.3%
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 34.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.7%, 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 36.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 7%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Simulation 17.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 9.8%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 45.4%, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.7%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Base Building 20.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Survival 9.9%
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 35.4%, Base Building 18%, Survival 10%, Isometric 8%, Strategy 7.5%
Stoneborn combines classic colony simulation with a vibrant dwarven culture. Your dwarves celebrate weddings, hold grudges, and fight to survive. Build a multi-level fortress and shape the story of your colony in a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Dwarves 24.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 6.8%
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%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 11.1%, 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 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.9%
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 40.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 7.3%
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 31.6%, Dwarves 25.5% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.5%
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 19%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.1%, Crafting 6.7%
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 17.1%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.4%
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 42.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 11.4%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
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%, Base Building 19.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 8%, Survival 6.4%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 10.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 9.4%
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 36.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 6.4%, Survival 6%
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 34.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%
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 41.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Simulation 7.7%
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 30%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 7%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Base Building 21%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Isometric 6.6%
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 16.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Isometric 7.9%
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 32.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 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 34.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.1%
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 17.5%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 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 31.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
Start as a single dwarf with limited tools. Craft, explore, build and trade as you recruit more dwarves and rebuild a lost colony. Tunnel deep in to the rock, building a network of rail to bring your goods to the surface. Progress from basic goods to the finest ales, wood, metal and stone works.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Dwarves 20.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%
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 17.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 7.1%
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 42.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Survival 10.5%, Building 6.3%
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 49.5%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 7.9%
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 39.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.9%
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 35.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 7.6%, Strategy 7.6%
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.4%
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 18.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 24.4%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Isometric 6.7%
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 27.8%, Dwarves 20.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 7%, Crafting 6.9%
