
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
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Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.

TFM: The First Men
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Woodland Rebels
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 6.9%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
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 37.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, Building 6.9%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 7.7%, Management 7.2%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.2% ★, Survival 10%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.5% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.5%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 7.4%
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 35.1% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.1%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 6.8%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 41.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Survival 8.9%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Management 10%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 11.9%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 7.2%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 41.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 5.6%
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 33.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 5.3%
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Sandbox 12%, Building 12%, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Survival 8.2%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.9%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, RTS 9.8%, Building 7%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 12%, Open World Survival Craft 10.6% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.8%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Building 6.1%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.9%
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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.3%, RTS 9%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Open World Survival Craft 8% ★
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Sandbox 7.5%
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 10.4%, Management 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 7.5%
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, RTS 16%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 7.6%
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Management 9.1%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 8%
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 40.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 7.7%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 8.7%
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 35% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 7.4%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 6.9%
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 31.8% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.9%, Survival 7.9%
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Procedural Generation 11%, Survival 10.8%, Building 8.2%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.4%, Crafting 6.8%
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 7.9%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8%, Management 7.4%, Survival 7.1%
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 8.4%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Management 8.7%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.4%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 9.1%
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, RTS 10.2%, Management 9.3%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Base Building 9%, Sandbox 8%