Games Like Havendock

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Automation 13.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This ocean-based colony sim shares the exact premise of building a settlement on water while scavenging resources from the waves.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 15.4%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Automation 10.1%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar cozy, high-stakes colony management experience where you must build on a moving creature.

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 19.3%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Farming Sim 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Agriculture 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: The heavy emphasis on programming robots to automate repetitive tasks mirrors the progression found in Havendock.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Crafting 19.7%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 16.1%, Open World 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the core loop of expanding a base on the ocean while managing survival needs and crafting new structures.

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 18.6%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the ocean-based building concept to space, focusing heavily on automation and expanding your base across multiple platforms.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.3%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends cozy city-building with automation and resource management in a charming, stylized world.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Agriculture 10.7% ★, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your base that feels very similar to the early game of Havendock.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Agriculture 16.5% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing city-builder that emphasizes the growth of a colony with a charming, fairy-tale aesthetic.

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 17%, City Builder 16.9%, Automation 12.8%, Farming Sim 12%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on water management and vertical colony building, it offers the same strategic satisfaction of adapting to an aquatic environment.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Agriculture 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, Life Sim 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The cozy, low-stress approach to survival and base-building on a rooftop feels very similar to the atmosphere of Havendock.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar colony-sim experience where you must manage a small group of survivors in a confined, resource-scarce environment.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 34.3%, Sandbox 23.3%, Management 19.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Singleplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The cozy aesthetic combined with resource management and automation of creature-based production makes it a perfect thematic match.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 15.6%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the addictive, fast-paced crafting and expansion loops that make Havendock so hard to put down.

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 23.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Colony Sim 10%, City Builder 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the logistics and automation side of Havendock, this game offers deep, rewarding industrial management.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, Building 10.7%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic colony-sim experience with a strong focus on resource management and population growth.

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 34.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 9.6%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more complex, it is the gold standard for colony simulation involving intricate automation and resource management.

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 31.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that balances building and resource management with the individual needs of your settlers.

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 19%, City Builder 14.6%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim adds a layer of personality and management to the building process, similar to caring for castaways.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This stylized city-builder focuses on survival and resource economy in a harsh, alien environment.

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Agriculture 18.9% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, island-themed life simulation with plenty of building and community-focused activities.

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 19.2%, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features cute robots and a focus on building automated transport systems to support your growing settlement.

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 23.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the management of individual inhabitants and their roles within your growing settlement.

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on surviving environmental challenges while building a settlement makes it a strong thematic match.

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Automation 13.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique hex-grid approach to resource management and base expansion that feels fresh yet familiar.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Agriculture 29.1% ★, Farming Sim 17.5%, Life Sim 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: This island-based life and building sim offers a similar sense of freedom and progression in a tropical setting.

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Automation 15.9%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on the colony-building genre that focuses on efficient supply chains and expansion.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 6.1%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic base-building game where you manage a small colony in a hostile environment, requiring careful resource balancing.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.3%, Life Sim 19.2%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: The heavy focus on crafting, community building, and fulfilling orders makes it a great choice for fans of Havendock's progression.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Agriculture 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Life Sim 12.1%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the cozy, low-pressure building and community-management aspects of the Havendock experience.

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 18.8%, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the automation and crafting aspects that are central to the late-game experience in Havendock.

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 13.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.4%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8%

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Life Sim 10.7%, Building 7.1%

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: Automation 13.8%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Agriculture 11.6% ★, Colony Sim 11.5%, City Builder 9.6%

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 28.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.8%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%

Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.

Why similar: Agriculture 16.1% ★, Farming Sim 15.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Time Management 9.9%, Management 9.1%

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: Agriculture 17.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.6%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%

Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.

Why similar: Agriculture 17.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 8.2%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%

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 18.3%, Automation 15.1%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.5%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Farming Sim 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%

Reap the joys of country life and cultivate your farm and fame!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Farming Sim 17.6%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Life Sim 10.1%

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 23%, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 11%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.9%

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 21.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 18.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5%, Farming Sim 13.9%, Automation 13.9%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 10%

MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Automation 15%, Resource Management 8.1%

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 16.5%, Farming Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%

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 16.7%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Automation 11.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%

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 16.7%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Management 16.4%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 7.2%

Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!

Why similar: Farming Sim 17.9%, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9%

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Agriculture 16.9% ★, Farming Sim 16.7%, Life Sim 9.8%, Base Building 8.3%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Automation 17.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Farming Sim 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.7%