60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Singleplayer, Colony Sim.
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
White Signal
Manage a remote mountain shelter, rescue stranded survivors, and survive the brutal cold.
Clan & Flood
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Manage a remote mountain shelter, rescue stranded survivors, and survive the brutal cold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Snow 8.7% ★
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Survival 20%, Historical 13.3%, Political Sim 12.9% ★, Resource Management 12.4%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Historical 15.2%, Strategy 8.7%
Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 17.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Simulation 8.2%
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 25.1%, Historical 22%, Survival 18.9%, Resource Management 12%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Begin as a small stone age tribe. End as a global super power in a future age. Craft and research your way through history!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Resource Management 17.1%, Historical 16.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 10%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, Survival 20.7%, Historical 13.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Historical 16%, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 11%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Manage your fantasy city, balance resources, and navigate the demands of different factions. Unlock new characters to join your city and help maintain order. Earn new cosmetics to customize the look of your lord. But beware the dangers that plague your little city at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Political Sim 15.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 9.5%
Raise a banner and run a mercenary guild in a grim medieval fantasy realm. Recruit and read your blades, negotiate contracts, send them into procedural missions, and survive a living political web where every payday bites and nothing is ever certain.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Survival 12.1%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 30.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 8.5%
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
Why similar: Historical 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
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 31.6%, Survival 16.3%, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Lead a Norse colony in Vinland across 50 years of survival, politics, relationships, and faith. Make difficult choices to manage food, shelter, defense, popularity, and the colony’s shifting allegiance between the old gods, Rome, and Constantinople.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Historical 13.9%, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 12.5%
“Oedo Developer” is a city builder featuring Ieyasu Tokugawa's Edo. Story and free play modes are available, the first offering a history based city building experience, and the second allowing you to freely develop the lands. Plan, build, distribute, and learn as you make the Edo of your dreams!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Historical 24.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Political Sim 10.8% ★, Resource Management 10.6%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 10%, Minimalist 7.9%
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说，通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话，并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Historical 23.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Simulation 10.9%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Historical 22.4%, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 9%
Build and manage a wilderness colony where settlers gather resources, construct rooms, farm crops, hunt animals, craft food and supplies, and survive through a job-driven simulation as your settlement grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 7.2%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Historical 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Survival 22%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10%
Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Survival 24.5%, Resource Management 20.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.7%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Historical 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political Sim 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Survival 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%
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 45.5%, Survival 18.9%, Historical 14.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 5.6%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Survival 15.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8%, Survival 18.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Survival 20.4%, Strategy 19.9%, Resource Management 16.3%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Historical 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Historical 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A fully voiced branching narrative RPG of the Roman arena with a unique engraving and VO for every choice and outcome. Four origins, over 1,800 choices, and 19 endings. You will bleed on the sand. The only question is whether you bleed for them, or for yourself. Every choice leaves a scar.
Why similar: Historical 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Lore-Rich 10%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Snow 13.2% ★, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Become the Governor of people trapped in a concrete coffin. Manage resources and citizens, make cold decisions, and try to survive inside the shelter.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.9%, Text-Based 23.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Survival 9.8%
The dark lord has tasked you to decide which heroes pass and which heroes do not. There are becoming too many papers and to top it off the camp with the other goblins will not last long without you. Decide who passes through during the day and manage the camp at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Political Sim 21.5% ★, Resource Management 18.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Historical 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Resource Management 21.2%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Simulation 10.4%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, Survival 21.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
Guide fragile homunculi with limited lifespans through humanity's final bid for survival across six hostile worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Survival 20.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Resource Management 10%, Cinematic 8.2%
Smuggle banned books to save the Nation! Make tough choices, manage resources, and decipher secret messages in this narrative adventure based on true events. Help preserve a forbidden language - one dangerous mission at a time.
Why similar: Historical 25.9%, Resource Management 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 7%
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Historical 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.5%, Lore-Rich 12.2%
In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.
Why similar: Historical 25.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Strategy 9.9%
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: Colony Sim 30.9%, Historical 19%, Political Sim 17.1% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 332 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
Why similar: Historical 31%, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 11.3%
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Survival 16.9%, Historical 15.7%, Political Sim 12.1% ★, Resource Management 9.2%
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Historical 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Political Sim 10.9% ★
Driven by thirst for fame and fortune, you take command of a merchant caravan, guiding it to the farthest reaches of the world – the legendary Port Helmia. Along the way, dozens of difficult decisions await you, and each one could mean your end.
Why similar: Historical 37%, Text-Based 22%, Strategy 21.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Investigate a dark mystery aboard the RMS Titanic before the final night becomes a fight for survival. Explore, solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and make impossible choices as history’s most famous ship sinks beneath the Atlantic.
Why similar: Historical 35.9%, Survival 27.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Cinematic 9.6%, Choices Matter 6.1%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 71.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13.7%
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Why similar: Political Sim 20.5% ★, Historical 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.7%
Build an army, raid rival corporations, and defend your base while it keeps running without you. Research upgrades, arm your Titan, and dig into a moon that isn't as abandoned as it looks. Something was here first. Find out why it's gone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Text-Based 20.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!
Why similar: Historical 47.3%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7%
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 50.3%, Survival 22.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Simulation 4.6%, Strategy 4.6%
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 51.3%, Survival 20.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Resource Management 3.3%
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 39.6%, Survival 19.9%, Historical 14.8%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 9.4%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Historical 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Resource Management 17.3%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 11%, Choices Matter 9.6%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Historical 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
