
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
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Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.

Skyberry Garden
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

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An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 18.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.6%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 24.6%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 8.9%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Automation 18.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Automation 23.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Strategy 5.5%
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 50.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 6.6%, Management 6.4%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Automation 28.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 10%, Simulation 8.6%
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 30.1%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 10.8%
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 33.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Management 14%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%
A sci-fi game where you help restore collapsed ecosystems on an alien planet. Raise and breed bees, grow native plants from bee produce and automate production as you stabilise the planet's ecosystems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Automation 21.5%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Farming Sim 9.4%
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 25.8%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Automation 11.7%, Management 10.4%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Automation 20.8%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 9.2%
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 18%, Base Building 11.6%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Automation 21.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.6%
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 45.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 6%
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 37.3%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Automation 17.3%, Farming Sim 15%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 6.7%
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 8.9%
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 31.8%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9.6%
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Management 9.8%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 11.9%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 11%, Management 8.8%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Automation 16.1%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Automation 23.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 11.4%, Crafting 10%
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Automation 9.1%
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 50.3%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
An incremental roguelite colony sim about bees, mutations, and controlled chaos. Experiment with management, crafting, research, and upgrades. When mutations spiral out of control — collapse the hive, keep progress, and start fresh. Every run unlocks new strategies and a buzz of unpredictable fun.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 46%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 9.3%, Crafting 5.1%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Automation 25.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 7.1%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 8.6%
Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Automation 17.7%, Farming Sim 14%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 11.2%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 15%, Colony Sim 11.2%, Management 10.2%
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 52.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 7.7%, Strategy 5.3%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 10.4%
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 32.6%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 9.6%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Management 10.6%
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 32.4%, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.3%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 10%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 23.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 7.3%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 9.8%
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Automation 22%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%
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 37.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%
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 45.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Crafting 8.1%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.7%
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 19.3%, Management 12.2%, Farming Sim 9.1%, Base Building 9%
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 11.9%, Farming Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 21.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 11.8%
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 37.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 12.1%, Crafting 7.3%
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 10.1%
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 42.7%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 8.7%
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 8.4%
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 41.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 8.3%
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Automation 12.5%, Management 8%, Crafting 7.3%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Automation 21.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Management 7.8%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Management 12%, Crafting 11.9%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 9.2%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.1%