
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Management, Colony Sim.

A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?

Terra-7
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.

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.
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 24.9% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%
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 41.4% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Building 8.1%
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.7%
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 39.2% ★, Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 7.1%
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 29% ★, Management 14.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.5%
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 11%, Simulation 9.6%
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 36% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.1%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Management 15.7%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 8.2%
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 28.7% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 9.9%
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 40.8% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 8.5%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 10.6%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Underground 12.2% ★, Management 12%, Science 11.3% ★
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 40.1% ★, Base Building 24.5%, Management 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.9%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Management 16.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.4%
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 33.7% ★, Base Building 24.7%, Management 15.4%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 6.9%
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 32.8% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 7.3%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 10.1%
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 30.3% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9%
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 36.5% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Management 14.7%, Simulation 12%, Building 10.6%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.3% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 8.5%
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 23.3%, Simulation 19.9%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
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: Outbreak Sim 36.6% ★, Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Strategy 7.2%
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 11%, Base Building 10.9%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 12.2%
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 34.3% ★, Base Building 20%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
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 37% ★, Base Building 21%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Underground 6.4% ★
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 33.5% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Simulation 15.4%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Management 13.3%, Science 10.4% ★, Sandbox 9.3%
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 28.6% ★, Base Building 18%, Management 13%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.1%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.6%
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Outbreak Sim 24.8% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.7%
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: Outbreak Sim 22% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 8.8%
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 28.7% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 12%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 11.4%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 9.1%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Building 12.9%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.9%
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Management 14.5%, Building 8%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 21%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 10.1%
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Management 13.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.3%
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 37.7% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Outbreak Sim 12.1% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Building 9.1%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Base Building 21.7%, Management 14.9%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 6.9%
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 32.9% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10%
SOLUM is a floating-island factory sandbox. Extract Sol and automate production across an expanding Island-Network. Build networks, route goods, and keep your islands stable against the pull of a collapsed star.
Why similar: Simulation 17.9%, Management 17%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15%, Science 12.5% ★
Survival strategy with indirect control and tower defense elements. Build and manage your medieval town.
Why similar: Simulation 24.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 13%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.8%
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.6%
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Management 15.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.4%
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 36.8% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 7.5%
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 25% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Science 14.1% ★, Management 12.1%, Building 9.8%
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 33.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12%, Management 11.7%, Building 8.9%
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Management 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12%
An enchanting fantasy colony simulator where the world comes alive through intricate simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Simulation 23.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Procedural Generation 4.3%
Become a one-person house flipper. Buy, repair, and renovate neglected mansions. Restore these grand estates to their former glory and sell them for a profit
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Management 19.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Building 14.2%
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 27.9% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.3%
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 32% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 13.7%, Building 12.5%