
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.

Worlds Explorers
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.

Oceaneers
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating 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.
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 23.7%, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Survival 9.8%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating 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 22%, Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Building 7%
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 32.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Management 7%, Sandbox 6.9%
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 21.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 8.4%
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 25.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 10.7%, Management 9.5%, Crafting 6.7%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 35.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 12.2%, Building 7%, Resource Management 6.9%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Management 6.8%
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 27.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
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: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 8.6%
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 19.3%, Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 7.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 30.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Procedural Generation 13%, Management 11.9%, Survival 11.4%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Management 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
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 35.9%, Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 7.6%
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 30.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 41.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 6.9%
Explore a living, procedurally generated world where creatures and characters act independently of you. Hunt, gather, craft, build, and fight to survive as you uncover the mystery of Gravehollow, where cheating death can awaken dangers best left undisturbed.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.1%, Management 6.4%
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 24.9%, Open World Survival Craft 13.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.2%, Management 8.1%
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 27.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9.8%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 6.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
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 39.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 7.8%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.2%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 6.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.7%, Management 10.2%, Building 7.2%
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.2%
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 29.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 25.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.3%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 6.1%
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 39.4%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 5.5%
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 31.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
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 25.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 10.8%, Management 8.4%, Building 7.8%
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 27.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, RTS 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
Just staying alive in the primal world is hard work. Yet you dream of ruling it. Unfortunately, so does everyone else.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 36.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.7%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.3%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 10.8%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.1%, Building 7.7%
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 26%, Base Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 21%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 8.2%
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 29.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.2%
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 29.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.6%
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 32.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11.1%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 34%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 6.1%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 7.3%
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10%
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 29.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8.1%
Survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge resources, build up a homestead, form a community, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 27.9%, Base Building 15%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.8%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Management 9.9%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.8%
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 30.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 11.6%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.1%
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 25.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.4%
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 28.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 10.3%, RTS 8.8%
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%