60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Strategy, Simulation, 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.
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.
Compact Colonies
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.
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 19.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Political Sim 13.1% ★, Historical 13%
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 36.7% ★, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 15.9%, 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% ★, Historical 21.7%, Survival 18.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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 18.1%, Historical 15.9%, 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 47.4% ★, Survival 20.7%, Historical 13.3%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.2%
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 26.6% ★, Political Sim 15.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 9.6%
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 29.8% ★, Survival 15.1%, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Resource Management 13%, Choices Matter 10.2%
“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 37.5% ★, Historical 24.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Political Sim 10.9% ★
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 20.4%, Resource Management 20%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Narration 10%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.5% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 10.1%
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 37.5% ★, Survival 21.5%, Resource Management 17.2%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative roguelite where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Lore-Rich 7.1%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Historical 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Simulation 11.1%
Found a tech startup in 1990 and see if you can survive the dot-com bubble. Navigate 48 quarters of hype, hubris, and hostile board meetings across 19 possible endings. It's Oregon Trail meets Silicon Valley.
Why similar: Historical 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 43.1% ★, Survival 20%, Strategy 19.9%, Resource Management 17.1%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Resource Management 12.3%
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 45.6% ★, Survival 18.6%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 5.8%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Historical 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Narration 8.3%
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 23.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 18.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Narration 12.6%, Simulation 10.7%
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% ★, Political Sim 21.9% ★, Resource Management 19.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
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 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Survival 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
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 46.1% ★, Survival 21.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.8%
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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Historical 18.7%, Political Sim 17.3% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Narration 10.7%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
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 36.1%, Text-Based 22.1%, Strategy 21.4%, Resource Management 19.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Why similar: Political Sim 21% ★, Historical 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 10.8%
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 71.6% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 13.8%
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 50.2% ★, Survival 22.1%, Resource Management 17.4%, Simulation 4.6%, Strategy 4.6%
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 39.4% ★, Survival 19.6%, Historical 14.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 9.5%
Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!
Why similar: Historical 46.9%, Choices Matter 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.
Why similar: Historical 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Text-Based 13.8%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Historical 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 17%, Choices Matter 10.4%
《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 10%, Strategy 9.7%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4% ★, Survival 19.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 7.7%
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 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Survival 11.9%
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 52% ★, Survival 20.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 3.5%
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 29.6% ★, Resource Management 17.9%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Resource Management 18%, Survival 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Snow 12.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Will You Be My Disciple? is a choice-driven cult management game shaped by unexpected encounters and characters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Simulation 10.6%
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%
You wake inside a dead god. Darkness. Decay. No way out. Build your colony among rotting organs and forgotten chambers. Ancient parasites stir. Your species must adapt or join the rot. No two playthroughs tell the same story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Text-Based 14%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 18.1%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 11.4%
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, Historical 25.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 9.1%
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%, Resource Management 15.9%, Survival 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Lore-Rich 10.1%
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 33.2% ★, Historical 27.9%, Political Sim 14.5% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 9.9%
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 29.6% ★, Historical 19.1%, Political Sim 13.9% ★, Narration 8.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 21.5%, Historical 19.9%, Atmospheric 5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 38.7% ★, Historical 20.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Resource Management 7.2%
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 32.4% ★, Historical 24.1%, Survival 16%, Resource Management 14.1%, Strategy 7.1%
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 29.6% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Political Sim 12.6% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Survival 10.3%
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 28.4% ★, Historical 21%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 8%
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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Historical 17.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
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 39.6% ★, Survival 22.9%, Resource Management 21.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 4.7%
