Games Like DwarfCorp

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: Dwarves 78.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.1%, Strategy 3.2%, Base Building 3.2%, Simulation 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-simulation game that serves as the primary inspiration for the genre's depth and complexity.

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 64%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 13.5%, Indie 4.7%, Base Building 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony-sim that focuses on managing a civilization of gnomes with deep crafting and building systems.

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 55.5%, Base Building 14%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony-sim that emphasizes survival and resource management in a procedurally generated fantasy world.

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 60.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled emergent storytelling and colony management depth that defines the modern colony-sim experience.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides robust 3D construction tools and terrain management that allow for complex, multi-level base designs.

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 75.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a charming voxel-based aesthetic and vertical building mechanics that closely mirror the visual and gameplay style of DwarfCorp.

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: Dwarves 78.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.3%, Strategy 3.4%, Simulation 3.2%, Base Building 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A recent colony-sim that focuses on the challenges of building and maintaining a mountain fortress.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on underground dwarf colony management with a heavy emphasis on mining and automation.

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: Dwarves 84% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Strategy 1.9%, Simulation 1.3%, Indie 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling sandbox game that tasks you with managing a tribe of dwarves through mining, crafting, and defense.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Dwarves 88.3% ★, Simulation 4%, Base Building 3.9%, Strategy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build your own dungeon and manage minions, offering a villain-protagonist perspective on colony building.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 72.6%, Simulation 19.8%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game focused on survival and clan management in the harsh Scottish Highlands.

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarves 94.1% ★, Colony Sim 2.1%, Strategy 1.3%, Simulation 1.3%, Base Building 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim that emphasizes building and defending a dwarf settlement against various threats.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with RPG elements, allowing you to rule your fantasy kingdom and make difficult moral choices.

A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Why similar: Dwarves 95.5% ★, Strategy 3.3%, Simulation 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused strategy game where you guide dwarves through subterranean levels to build a thriving kingdom.

Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!

Why similar: Dwarves 81.5% ★, Colony Sim 10.9%, Base Building 2.3%, Strategy 2.3%, Simulation 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, top-down strategy game that captures the frantic nature of managing a dwarf workforce.

Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.

Why similar: Base Building 41.6%, Strategy 32.9%, Simulation 25.5%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game focused on building underground dungeons and managing complex production chains.

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 56.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on crafting and base-building with a gritty, indie-developed aesthetic.

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 66.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Base Building 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite colony-sim that emphasizes tower defense and resource extraction in a hostile environment.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 66.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive city-builder and colony-sim that offers extensive tech trees and management options.

A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.

Why similar: Dwarves 94.9% ★, Simulation 3.6%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie simulation game that offers a straightforward approach to managing a dwarf colony.

Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!

Why similar: Dwarves 98.5% ★, Strategy 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: An auto-battler that focuses on the combat and character customization aspects of a dwarf-themed game.

Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Why similar: Dwarves 79.2% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.7%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation hybrid that focuses on survival and village management in a challenging world.

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 87.4%, Simulation 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that tasks you with building a town to attract and support adventurers.

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Why similar: Dwarves 82.5% ★, Colony Sim 11.2%, Strategy 3.2%, Base Building 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense and farming-sim hybrid that features procedural generation and roguelike elements.

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building simulation that focuses on resource management and survival in a subterranean environment.

Dwarf Shop is a Shop Simulator with, you guessed it, Dwarves! Help the Dragon Clan lure their very own dragon by amassing piles and piles of glorious gold. Send one dwarf deep into the caves to find ingredients while the others craft various equipment and sell them to unsuspecting customers!

Why similar: Dwarves 93.8% ★, Simulation 3.6%, Strategy 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic side of dwarf life, tasking you with managing a shop and crafting inventory.

Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Why similar: Dwarves 90.4% ★, Strategy 3.7%, Simulation 2.7%, Base Building 2.5%, Indie 0.7%

Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.

Why similar: Dwarves 86.4% ★, Colony Sim 10.3%, Base Building 3.3%

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Why similar: Colony Sim 64.5%, Gore 11.5%, Violent 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony-sim mechanics with action-oriented strategy and city-building.

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 74.4%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 2.6%, Indie 1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual simulation game that combines 2D platforming with colony-building elements.

Dwarf Tower is a turn-based tactics game of tower building and spellcasting. Each turn you develop your tower by placing blocks, constructing rooms, and play various spells. Your tower can have Libraries (store spells), Crystals (generate mana), Dwarf Dwellings (give you dwarves to repair the tower) and some other rooms.

Why similar: Dwarves 97.6% ★, Strategy 1.7%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-building game that tasks you with constructing a tower while managing your dwarf population.

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Strategy 38%, Simulation 35.7%, Base Building 26.3%

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 20.4%, Base Building 18.6%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.3%, Simulation 22.1%, Strategy 22.1%, Indie 2.6%

Manage population's mood, gold and rations. Figure out ways to optimize cell placements for efficiency. Grow and decorate your nest into a multi layer, self sustaining factory.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.

Why similar: Dwarves 95.1% ★, Base Building 3.5%, Indie 1.4%

Galactic Mining Corp is a unique rogue-lite, action game with crafting and base building mechanics. Head into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy work force, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything.

Why similar: Base Building 55%, Simulation 45%

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Strategy 46.7%, Simulation 41.3%, Indie 12%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 63.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 3.2%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 64.9%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 14.3%, Indie 4.7%

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Colony Sim 59.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 9.4%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Gore 8.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.1%, Strategy 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 14.6%

Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.

Why similar: Dwarves 96.5% ★, Strategy 3.5%

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 62.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 2.1%

Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Why similar: Simulation 45.7%, Strategy 41.9%, Indie 12.4%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 57%, Strategy 15.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 13.3%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Colony Sim 61.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 12.1%

Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.

Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Strategy 25%, Violent 20.8%, Indie 10.4%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Base Building 11.3%

Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.

Why similar: Simulation 57%, Strategy 43%

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 56.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12.5%, Indie 3.3%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 16%, Indie 4%

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 65.4%, Base Building 12%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 3%

From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Why similar: Strategy 57.6%, Simulation 28.6%, Indie 13.8%

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 15.6%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 14.4%