
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.
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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 36.7%, Survival 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Snow 8.6% ★
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%, Survival 19.7%, Historical 13.1%, Political Sim 13% ★, Resource Management 12.8%
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 36.8%, Survival 16%, Resource Management 15.8%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 8.8%
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 21.8%, Survival 18.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 31.1%, Resource Management 17.7%, Historical 15.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 9.9%
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 47.1%, Survival 20.7%, Historical 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8.1%
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 26.7%, Political Sim 15.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 9.5%
“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 37.6%, Historical 24.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 11%, Political Sim 10.9% ★
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 10.1%
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 31.5%, Survival 16%, Political Sim 14.4% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Text-Based 9.7%
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 37.7%, Survival 21.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10%
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 23.6%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Simulation 11%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Historical 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 18.6%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 5.7%
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 19.8%, Text-Based 18.7%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Survival 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%
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 43.2%, Survival 20.1%, Strategy 19.9%, Resource Management 16.8%
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%, Resource Management 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Snow 12.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%
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 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 22.8%, Resource Management 21.9%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Simulation 10.5%
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 42.9%, Political Sim 21.7% ★, Resource Management 19%, Strategy 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
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 45.8%, Survival 21.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%
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 16.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Why similar: Political Sim 20.8% ★, Historical 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.7%
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Lore-Rich 12.4%
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 17.5%, Historical 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Lore-Rich 10.9%
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 30.8%, Historical 18.7%, Political Sim 17.2% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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 36.4%, Text-Based 22%, Strategy 21.5%, Resource Management 18.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Survive the most famous maritime disaster in history. In Titanic Escape Simulator™, navigate a historically accurate, dynamically flooding ship. Force jammed doors, battle the freezing cold, and make impossible moral choices to secure a lifeboat before time runs out.
Why similar: Historical 36%, Survival 27.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Cinematic 9.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%
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 71.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 13.7%
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 50.1%, Survival 22.1%, Resource Management 17.1%, Simulation 4.6%, Strategy 4.6%
Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!
Why similar: Historical 47.1%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7%
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 39.5%, Survival 19.7%, Historical 14.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 9.5%
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 51.4%, Survival 20.2%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Resource Management 3.4%
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%
The Earth is dead. Take control of the ARC-7 terminal and manage the fate of 5,000 souls. Balance energy and credits, make moral choices, gamble, and survive the Loan Shark. Every keystroke has a price in this 100-day dystopian text-based simulation. Your shift begins now, Operator.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Survival 12%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Historical 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Strategy 9.6%
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of military events, become one of the volunteers of the country, where your every decision can become critical. Explore locations, make decisions, complete challenging missions. Everything is in your hands. Good luck!
Why similar: Historical 21.2%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 11.6%
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 29.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 29.4%, Historical 20.8%, Survival 15.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 6.9%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Historical 26.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy — negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Text-Based 13.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Lore-Rich 8.6%
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Historical 25.6%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9%
Will You Be My Disciple? is a choice-driven cult management game shaped by unexpected encounters and characters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Resource Management 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Simulation 10.6%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Survival 13%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%
Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Strategy 21.4%, Historical 19.9%, Atmospheric 5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Be the Ruler: Britannia is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure RPG set in early medieval England. You are the king. Found a dynasty, and play your descendants later. Wear the crown, gain allies, plot, defend lands. Play many times to discover the full possibilities!
Why similar: Historical 23.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Survival 15%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Lore-Rich 10%
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Historical 28.1%, Political Sim 14.5% ★, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 9.9%
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Historical 21.1%, Survival 17.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 8%
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Historical 24.2%, Survival 16.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 7.1%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Historical 20.7%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 15%, Resource Management 7%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%
As the head of security, you will decide the fate of those who try to enter the underwater colony. Among the hundreds of arrivals, you may encounter dangerous criminals, spies, and the infected. You will decide who lives here, who is banished, and who is eliminated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Political Sim 12.6% ★, Choices Matter 11.7%, Survival 10.4%
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 39.7%, Survival 22.9%, Resource Management 21.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 4.6%
Tavernier is a mix between a tavern-management game and an interactive fiction. You'll play as a barkeeper managing his tavern, coping with events, good and bad alike, in a (not so peaceful) town. A town that keeps a dark secret...
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.8%, Resource Management 18.8%, Strategy 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Simulation 16.5%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Simulation 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 51.9%, Survival 17.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Resource Management 6.9%