Games Like Floodland

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: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive survival city-builder that mirrors Floodland's focus on moral choices and societal management under extreme environmental pressure.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands significantly on the political and factional management systems that are central to the experience of Floodland.

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: City Builder 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar post-apocalyptic setting where players must manage resources and protect their colony from environmental hazards.

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 28.6%, City Builder 22%, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, Resource Management 13%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features high-stakes resource management and constant environmental threats that demand strategic adaptation.

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 25%, City Builder 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival 12%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic colony simulator that focuses on exploration and managing a diverse group of survivors.

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 26.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that shares the theme of rebuilding society after a global catastrophe with a focus on resource scarcity.

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 26.6%, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique survival mechanic where you build a city on the back of a giant creature, emphasizing the need to balance growth with environmental harmony.

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 41.1%, City Builder 32.6%, Survival 11%, Strategy 8.6%, Resource Management 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational survival city-builder, it captures the core struggle of managing limited resources to keep a population alive through harsh seasons.

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 30.3%, City Builder 27%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the brutal reality of survival, requiring careful resource planning and defense against environmental and external threats.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game forces players to manage social unrest and resource scarcity while navigating a desperate, high-stakes environment.

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 49.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Survival 17.5%, Strategy 9%, Atmospheric 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep social simulation and focus on individual colonist needs provide a complex layer of management similar to the clan dynamics in Floodland.

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 25.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival city builder captures the theme of rebuilding on the remnants of a flooded world.

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 29.6%, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This refined sequel improves upon the original's survival mechanics, offering a more polished experience in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 33.8%, City Builder 30%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that challenges players to manage trade, population, and disaster recovery.

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%, City Builder 25.4%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with survival elements, requiring players to build and defend their society against harsh conditions.

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 26.4%, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It requires players to manage essential life-support resources in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing the fragility of your colony.

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 27%, City Builder 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The central focus on water management and drought survival makes it a thematic cousin to Floodland's environmental challenges.

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 26%, City Builder 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-scarce survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where water management is critical to your people's survival.

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 53.4%, Crafting 22.3%, Farming Sim 20.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Simulation 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on clan survival and managing the social dynamics of a group in a harsh environment aligns perfectly with the themes of Floodland.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that forces players to adapt to a unique, resource-constrained environment.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, City Builder 35.2%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 7.8%, Choices Matter 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game tracks the survival of a small group through the ages, focusing on resource management and environmental adaptation.

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 39.9%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that requires players to maintain life support and resource production in an unforgiving 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 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on faction management and the harsh realities of survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.7%, City Builder 32.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Survival 4.8%, Resource Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony builder emphasizes environmental hazards and the need to manage a growing population's happiness and resources.

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 34.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Survival 13.9%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony building with survival against supernatural threats, requiring careful management of your survivors' needs.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, City Builder 28%, Survival 14.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features social management and city-building mechanics that require balancing the needs of different social classes.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 27.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic survival city-builder that requires managing limited space and resources on isolated cliff tops.

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder features a unique moving base mechanic that adds a layer of strategic movement to the standard survival loop.

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 32.5%, City Builder 21%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 7%

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 28.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 10.8%, Choices Matter 6.9%

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 39.1%, City Builder 30.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused village management game that forces players to deal with seasonal changes and resource scarcity.

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 24%, City Builder 16.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Survival 11.9%, Colony Sim 10.1%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Political Sim 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 5.9%

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 42.4%, City Builder 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Strategy 9%, Survival 8.3%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 12%, Immersive Sim 7.6%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Grand Strategy 11.4% ★

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Political Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 6.9%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, City Builder 23%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 8.5%

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 23.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 11.2%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 8.5%

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 26.8%, City Builder 22.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 8.6%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 22%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 10%

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 32.9%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 6.6%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 8.5%

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 46.9%, City Builder 23%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 27.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 10%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Resource Management 16%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 11.7%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 9%, Strategy 8.7%

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: City Builder 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.6%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.

Why similar: Political Sim 41% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 6.3%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 29.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 6.1%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, City Builder 28.9%, Resource Management 18.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 1.1%

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 30.7%, City Builder 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 27.7%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 9.2%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Exploration 6.8%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 6.7%