Games Like Flotsam

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 16.8% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Farming Sim 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Automation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base built on the back of a giant creature, mirroring the nomadic survival feel of Flotsam.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.5%, Automation 13.5%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A water-based colony sim where you build and expand your settlement across the ocean, capturing the exact aesthetic and gameplay loop of the seed game.

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Real-Time with Pause 19% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the management of a mobile, flying city that must scavenge for resources to stay aloft.

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 36.8% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on building and managing a floating city in a post-apocalyptic ocean world.

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: Automation 18.2%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with the necessity of relocating your base to survive, perfectly matching the nomadic nature of Flotsam.

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 21.1% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build and manage a thriving city on the ocean floor, sharing the water-themed setting and resource management focus.

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 16.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Automation 12.4%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex water physics and irrigation mechanics that are essential for the survival of your beaver colony.

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: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes survival experience where you manage a mobile space station, emphasizing resource scarcity and base maintenance.

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder set in a world reclaimed by water, focusing on survival and societal management.

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim set in space that emphasizes scavenging, ship-building, and survival against 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 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to adapt to constantly changing environments and resource constraints.

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you manage a settlement against harsh weather and rising water levels.

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 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends city-building with economic management and survival mechanics.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for survival city-builders, focusing on extreme resource management and difficult moral choices in a frozen wasteland.

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 19.2% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that requires you to scavenge ruins and manage a growing settlement in a harsh 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: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding society after a global catastrophe, requiring careful exploration and resource gathering.

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 18.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you must manage resources and infrastructure to keep your colony alive in a post-apocalyptic environment.

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 34.7% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 6.6%, Resource Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that emphasizes the delicate balance of resources and population management.

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 21.6%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 12.4%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that incorporates survival and resource management in a unique, animal-themed setting.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex automation and resource logistics, ideal for players who enjoy the technical side of base-building.

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 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes building and managing the needs of individual settlers in a vibrant world.

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 20.9% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13%, Economy 10.7%, Nature 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows for detailed building and survival management in a historical setting.

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 29.3% ★, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim that offers unparalleled depth in managing survivor needs and base expansion.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing city-builder that focuses on growth and economy, providing a lighter alternative to intense survival games.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A settlement-building game that focuses on automation and logistics to expand your civilization.

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 30% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 8.8%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused base-builder where you must manage oxygen, food, and energy to keep your colony alive in space.

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 32.7%, Resource Management 16.4%, Survival 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Colony Sim 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's survival mechanics with deeper societal management and city expansion.

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 28.4% ★, Farming Sim 26.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim that emphasizes the daily lives and needs of your settlers in a harsh environment.

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 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that challenges you to manage multiple settlements on isolated cliffs after a nuclear disaster.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep automation and resource management for players who enjoy scaling their production systems.

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 22.8% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

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: Real-Time with Pause 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Automation 15.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 20.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 14.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Survival 7.9%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Automation 17.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.6%

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 22.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 7%

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 26%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.8%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.8% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.1%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%

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 22.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Automation 16.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Nature 10.4%

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 34.3% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.8%

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 29% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 21.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.7%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Resource Management 7.7%

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 17.6% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.6%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Automation 17.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

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 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.7%, Economy 11.3%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%

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 19.4% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

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 25.5% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.1%