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 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.5%, Automation 13.5%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the exact premise of building a town on the ocean using salvaged trash and resources.

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 19.8%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 16%, Open World 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Havendock, this game centers on building and expanding a base on the open ocean while managing resources to survive.

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 17.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 13.9%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim features a heavy emphasis on water management and engineering, mirroring the environmental challenges of an ocean settlement.

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 19.6%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Farming Sim 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Agriculture 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The focus on programming cute robots to automate tasks is a perfect match for players who enjoy the automation mechanics of Havendock.

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 34.4% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 9.5%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep automation and complex resource management systems that will appeal to players who enjoy the technical progression in Havendock.

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 17.4% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Farming Sim 11%, Automation 10.3%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This cozy city-builder features a unique, mobile base-building mechanic that requires careful management and resource balancing.

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 29.6% ★, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony simulators, it provides the deep management and emergent storytelling that makes building a settlement so compelling.

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 19.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, fairy-tale city-builder that focuses on the growth and happiness of your colony rather than just survival.

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 19.6% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, Life Sim 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game nails the cozy, low-stress base-building vibe while you scavenge and automate your way through a post-apocalyptic 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 20.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Agriculture 10.6% ★, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the addictive, cozy loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a charming, bite-sized format.

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 20.1%, Agriculture 12.7% ★, Building 10.6%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a classic city-building experience with deep resource management and survival elements that challenge your planning skills.

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 18.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the colony-sim genre to space, focusing on automation and base expansion in a way that feels very similar to Havendock.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Management 22.5%, Building 22.4%, Farming Sim 19.8%, Crafting 16.1%, Relaxing 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a beautiful, cozy, and emotional experience centered on managing a vessel on the ocean while caring for its inhabitants.

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 31.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on the needs and personalities of your settlers, making the building process feel personal and rewarding.

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 25.4%, Agriculture 19% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, polished farming and life-sim experience that focuses on community and environmental restoration.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Base Building 16%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes collaborative resource management and building, requiring players to balance their impact on the environment as they progress.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person builder excels at the satisfying progression of automating complex factories and expanding your base infrastructure.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grand-scale automation experience that rewards players for optimizing their production chains across a vast space setting.

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 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game features a unique setting where you must manage a settlement while dealing with constant environmental threats.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: For those who love the high-tech automation aspect of Havendock, this game offers deep, complex systems for managing power, atmosphere, and production.

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 19.4%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cozy life-sim elements with satisfying crafting and community-building mechanics in a charming desert setting.

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 19.1% ★, Automation 16%, City Builder 15.7%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that focuses heavily on creating automated supply chains using cute robots.

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 18.6% ★, Automation 16.8%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with automation, allowing you to build complex production lines in a colorful, voxel-based 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: Agriculture 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily lives and needs of your settlers in a harsh, realistic environment.

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 17.8% ★, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on the automation and colony-building genre that is perfect for short, satisfying play sessions.

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 10.9% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This grid-less city-builder allows for organic growth and focuses on the social and economic needs of your medieval population.

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% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed colony-sim experience where you must manage a ship's crew and systems while exploring the stars.

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 23.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.4%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, underground city-builder that balances resource management with exploration and expansion in a unique steampunk setting.

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 14.6%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim focuses on the delicate balance between your settlement and the local ecosystem, rewarding careful planning.

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 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes survival and resource management in a harsh, alien environment.

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 15.5%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.4%

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 19.2% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Life Sim 10.8%, Building 7.1%

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 16.7% ★, Automation 13.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%

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 23.6% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 21.3% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.2%, Resource Management 10%

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 18.1% ★, Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 14%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, City Builder 9.5%

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 23.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 13%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, City Builder 8.5%

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% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Time Management 10%, Management 9.2%

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 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%

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 18.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Farming Sim 17.6%, Agriculture 17.2% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Life Sim 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 22.9% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.6%

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 22% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 8.7%

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 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Farming Sim 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%

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 19.1% ★, Automation 18%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%

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 16.9%, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 11.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

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 16.4% ★, Farming Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.3%, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%

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 16.4% ★, Automation 14.1%, Farming Sim 13.9%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 10%

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 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 16.6% ★, Farming Sim 12.5%, Automation 11.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%

The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Agriculture 15.7% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, Resource Management 10.8%

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 17.8%, Automation 16.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Management 16.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 7.1%

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 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.3%

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 18.3% ★, Agriculture 16.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Life Sim 9.9%, Base Building 8.3%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Life Sim 14.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 11.5%

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 17.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Time Management 10.7%, Resource Management 8.4%