
An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.
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An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

Death By FrostByte
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

HOMUNCULCHU
Guide fragile homunculi with limited lifespans through humanity's final bid for survival across six hostile worlds.
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Time Management 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 7.8%
Guide fragile homunculi with limited lifespans through humanity's final bid for survival across six hostile worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Survival 15.2%, Building 15.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Strategy 6.2%
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Automation 24.1%, Time Management 15.7%, Building 13.7%, Economy 9.7%
An intense space colony management simulator. Manage your colonists' stamina and health to prevent them from dying of exhaustion. Mine ore, process resources in the workshop, and craft equipment to stabilize the core. Save your crew and climb to the top of the leaderboard!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Time Management 14.2%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.1%, Logic 9%
A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Time Management 18.2%, Building 14.4%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 8.8%
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 32%, Automation 18.9%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Economy 7.3%
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 45.6%, Building 16.6%, Survival 15.2%, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 7.2%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Building 15.5%, Survival 14.1%, Automation 8%, Futuristic 7.9%
Nothing is greater than Aquasplendere, and we hear his voices. His blood flows through our world. Embody the descendants of the Great Deaf bloodline and lead the epic journey of our civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Automation 20.8%, Survival 14.4%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 6.8%
A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Automation 17.4%, Time Management 13.4%, Building 11.8%, Futuristic 8.3%
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Survival 13.4%, Time Management 13.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 9.4%
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 41.1%, Automation 22.4%, Building 18.5%, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 2.3%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Strategy 19.6%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 13%, Building 12.8%
Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Building 12.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Logic 8.8%, Economy 7.6%
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Automation 17.7%, Time Management 13.6%, Building 11.4%, Economy 10.2%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Survival 14.7%, Time Management 13.6%, Automation 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Survival 15.2%, Automation 14.9%, Logic 10.6%, Building 7.5%
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 54.1%, Survival 16.4%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 6.1%
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 55.8%, Survival 18.6%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Top-Down 2.2%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Economy 9.6%, Automation 8.5%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Automation 20.2%, Building 14.8%, Economy 8.3%, Survival 8%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Building 17.8%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 11%, Futuristic 5.9%
BROBLAST is a top down builder game where you defend your base from enemies
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Automation 20%, Time Management 16.2%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.5%
Organize a sustainable island and survive growing tourism demand, or the game ends quickly. Island Mojo Blocks is a casual island builder and survival game, with unique delivery and production network management. Quick strategy and planning are key to survival in this fun and challenging adventure!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Survival 14.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Logic 11.1%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Building 15.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Strategy 8.9%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Automation 20.6%, Survival 17.1%, Building 16.8%, Top-Down 3.3%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Building 19.7%, Strategy 17%, Survival 15%, Economy 6.8%
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 35.8%, Automation 19.8%, Time Management 14.2%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.1%
Craft, defend, and conquer in Colony! Solo or with friends. Engage in battles against rival colonies, harness automation for efficient production, explore new islands with new resources, and master the art of survival. Don't wait, your colony needs you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Automation 22.3%, Survival 13.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Economy 8.7%
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 43.2%, Survival 15.9%, Building 13.8%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Automation 24.1%, Building 19.3%, Futuristic 9.4%, 3D 0.8%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Automation 22.2%, Building 14.9%, Survival 11.3%, Economy 10.6%
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 61.5%, Building 13.2%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Sci-fi 2.8%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Automation 32.3%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 10.2%, 3D 0.7%
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 40.8%, Building 20.8%, Survival 20.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 3%
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Building 16.3%, Survival 16.1%, Economy 11.4%, Strategy 9.7%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.7%, Automation 33%, Strategy 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%, Indie 0.3%
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 54%, Building 22.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Adventure 0.6%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Automation 31.3%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 7%, Economy 7%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.8%, Building 15.9%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Economy 4.8%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.3%, Survival 16%, Building 12%, Automation 11.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%
Explore & build your way home in this time-bending production puzzler.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Automation 21.1%, Logic 9.9%, Time Management 9.7%, Economy 8.2%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Time Management 13.5%, Logic 12.3%
Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2%, Survival 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 4.9%
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Building 14.6%, Survival 13.7%, Automation 13.1%, Strategy 10.5%
You will lead an exiled royal dynasty, building prosperous cities, gaining the trust of the people, and preparing to overthrow the usurper. In the unique dynasty mode, the leader can find a partner and have children to shape the future of the kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, Building 16.2%, Time Management 15.7%, Survival 14.8%, Economy 8.9%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Automation 25.1%, Building 13.3%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 7.1%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 61%, Strategy 16.4%, Building 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Indie 0.3%
A cookie factory automation puzzle where new orders force you to rework a running factory. Combine dough colors, shapes, and toppings, share limited machines and modules across production lines, and split or merge rails. One expired order ends the run. How long can you keep the ovens running?
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Logic 17.9%, Time Management 15.3%, Building 14.6%, Puzzle 10.8%
Expand among the stars! It is 72k years in the future, and a new wave of Human expansion abounds. Join the ranks of the Ecxos, prep star systems for habitation, and develop your tools and ships to enterprise ever faster and further.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 14.8%, Time Management 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Economy 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 57%, Survival 19.3%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 4.9%, Sci-fi 3.3%
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Time Management 14.6%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Economy 8.6%
Beer Factory Crew puts you in shoes of a production facility manager. Your goal is to produce finished shipments of beer and sell them. You can manage inventories and work in progress, machine orders, worker assignements and research new items.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Automation 19.6%, Time Management 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Economy 10.2%
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Automation 20.6%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Building 15%, Survival 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Building 18.7%, Economy 12.6%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 10.4%
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 37%, Automation 18.8%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 8.8%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Building 14.3%, Survival 14%, Economy 9.8%, Futuristic 9.3%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Building 13.1%, Futuristic 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, Time Management 10.5%
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 59.7%, Building 15.1%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Economy 5.4%