Games Like Hammerting

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 14.1%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive dwarven colony simulator that offers unparalleled depth in mining, management, and simulation.

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 38.9%, Base Building 22.4%, Management 11.5%, Building 9%, Procedural Generation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A premier colony management game that focuses on survival, base building, and complex character interactions.

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 18.7%, Mining 14.2% ★, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes mining, exploration, and survival in a procedurally generated world.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Crafting 20.7%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 8.5%, RPG 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes resource management and adaptation to harsh environments.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Crafting 19.8%, Building 19.2%, Resource Management 5.6%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling dwarven colony sim that mirrors the mining, crafting, and building loop of the seed game.

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 39.2%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the vertical mining and complex automation mechanics that make managing a subterranean base challenging.

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: Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and automation in a sandbox environment, perfect for players who enjoy the production aspect of Hammerting.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Economy 16.1%, Building 13.8%, Fantasy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features large-scale colony management with deep simulation of economy and population logistics.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 14.5%, Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides vertical base building and colony management in a historical setting with deep structural mechanics.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical building and water management, offering a unique twist on the colony-sim genre.

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated dwarven colony simulator that places a heavy emphasis on management and survival.

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 26.5%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces programming-based automation to colony management, allowing for highly efficient resource gathering.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Economy 10.6%, Colony Sim 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep automation and complex resource management for building massive production chains.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 23.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Inventory Management 10%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D survival colony sim with robust base building and resource management mechanics.

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 10.1%, Automation 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of mining and colony survival with a classic management feel.

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%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 6.7%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes building, simulation, and managing the needs of your settlers.

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on blacksmithing management and crafting, mirroring the production-heavy gameplay of the seed game.

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features sci-fi colony management with a strong focus on exploration, mining, and base expansion.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Automation 25%, Crafting 22%, Base Building 21.9%, Building 18.7%, RPG 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with top-down exploration, mining, and combat in a persistent world.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Automation 17.1%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes automation and crafting, providing a satisfying progression loop.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 14.3%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management game centered on crafting and production chains in a medieval setting.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Resource Management 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates colony management and survival elements on an alien planet.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 12.4%, Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with RPG-style decision-making and character-driven narratives.

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 26.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game with a strong focus on base building and resource gathering.

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management game with a focus on building and simulation within a magical academy setting.

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 23.7%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony sim that emphasizes automation and building in a zero-gravity environment.

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 28.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.5%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony management game that requires careful resource allocation.

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Mining 11.2% ★, Economy 10.1%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and logistics, perfect for players who want to optimize their resource flow.

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Mining 21.5% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management game centered on production and logistics within a miniature factory setting.

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 10.4%

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Automation 14.8%, Mod 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9%

Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

Why similar: Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.3%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.8%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Automation 15%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.4%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Mining 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, Automation 13.2%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.3%

Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 14%, Automation 13.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.7%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Mining 16.3% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 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 19.6%, Automation 13.2%, Mining 11.5% ★, Inventory Management 10%, Base Building 9.6%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Economy 16.4%, Management 13%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 24.7%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.2%

HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

Why similar: Building 24%, Crafting 22.2%, Base Building 21.4%, Fantasy 10.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Mining 22.7% ★, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%

It`s impossible to refuse to help Odin when he asks to find his pet, Fenris, the hound of Hell. A mix of cinematic adventure and a colony building strategy that will take you deep down to the underground world of dwarfs.

Why similar: Mining 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 25.7%, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.7%, 2.5D 7.9%

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 32%, Automation 24.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Strategy 4.7%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.4%, Building 18.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 4.6%

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 44.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 6.5%

Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!

Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.5%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Management 12.9%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%

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 29.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.6%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 16%, Economy 14.9%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10%

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Mining 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.3%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 11.1%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 15.1%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.2%

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 29.6%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.5%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 8.3%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Mining 17.7% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Building 10%, Exploration 6.5%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Inventory Management 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.2%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%