Games Like Ecopunk

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 16.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact post-apocalyptic setting and colony-management focus as Ecopunk.

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 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar blend of base-building and survival against threats in a ruined world.

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 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Survival 12.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a colony in a harsh post-apocalyptic landscape with similar resource-management loops.

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 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in post-apocalyptic survival where every decision impacts the hope and survival of your colony.

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 43.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that mirrors the survival and management depth of Ecopunk.

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 29.2%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Hunting 9.9% ★, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep survival-focused colony management experience on a hostile planet.

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 37.2%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty colony-sim that emphasizes survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building and survival with a unique post-apocalyptic premise of living on a giant creature.

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 32.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that mirrors the base-building and survival mechanics of Ecopunk.

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 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar colony-sim experience with a heavy emphasis on survival and resource management in a hostile environment.

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 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intense resource management and survival aspects of maintaining a colony in a post-apocalyptic bunker.

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 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world that requires careful management of limited resources.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Agriculture 14.1% ★, Management 12%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and protecting your settlers from the elements.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that requires managing resources and adapting to environmental challenges to keep your colony thriving.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Sandbox 13.2%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the desperate need to build and manage a colony in a hostile, ruined world.

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 25%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct peer that focuses on rebuilding society in a post-apocalyptic world through careful resource management.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 59%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that established the core mechanics of managing resources to keep a population alive.

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 36.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 13.2%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and defending a settlement in a harsh, survival-oriented environment.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and resource management in a survival-heavy setting that echoes the feel of Ecopunk.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Management 13%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Agriculture 6.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges you to manage resources and population growth in a harsh environment.

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 29.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on survival and resource management in a world where air is the most precious commodity.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends base-building and survival with the unique challenge of managing a zombie-infested world.

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 42.8%, Agriculture 18% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on survival and resource management in a harsh, historical setting.

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 57.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.3%, Resource Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set on the water that requires careful resource management to keep your floating colony afloat.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%, Combat 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony-sim that offers deep management and survival mechanics for your growing population.

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 39.6%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the management of your people and the survival of your settlement against external threats.

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 33.4%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 7.9%

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 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 9.1%, Survival 8.1%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim that tasks you with managing a bunker population in a post-apocalyptic world.

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 11%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the struggle for survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Why similar: Management 31.2%, Simulation 19.7%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.6%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.2%, Management 6.9%, Resource Management 5.7%

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 33%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.6%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 8.9%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 27.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Survival 12.1%, Simulation 7.3%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.2%, Survival 26.8%, Simulation 25.9%, Indie 4.9%, Crafting 2.6%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Base Building 8.8%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 5%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 9.7%

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 48%, Management 12.4%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Base Building 7.5%

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 19.9%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 10.5%

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 40.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 12%, Survival 8%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 3.8%

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.5%

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 38.3%, Survival 12.2%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Agriculture 19% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 8.4%

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Management 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.4%, Building 7.6%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Post-apocalyptic 25%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 4.1%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 5%

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Management 16.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 7.3%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Management 14.8%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.5%

In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.8%, Sandbox 24.2%, Survival 17.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 7.8%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%