- #1 Oreborn
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gurbdev
Windows · Mac
Explore, mine, and fight your way through the galaxy in this 2D space mining adventure! Unearth the relics of ancient civilizations and face the horrors that linger beneath alien worlds.
Why similar: Mining 21.2% ★, Perma Death 16.2%, Roguelite 12.4%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #2 Keziah's Realm
96% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Survival 14.2%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%, RPG 8.8%
- #3 Earth Elements
96% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Jack G
Windows
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Mining 23.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Perma Death 9.5%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #4 Odd Realm
95% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Mining 17.6% ★, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #5 Afterdepth
94% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: DANIEL QUEIROZ DE PONTES TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA (DBA Dannark Studios)Pub: Dannark Studios
Windows · Mac
Explore, build, and survive in the depths of a forgotten world. Manage oxygen, power, and resources as you uncover the secrets buried beneath the surface.
Why similar: Mining 30.3% ★, Roguelite 14.9%, Survival 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%
- #6 Dungeon D14
94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Mining 26.5% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #7 PlaneWorld
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: La Maison du Nourson
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D pixel art survival sandbox where you mine, build, craft and explore procedurally generated worlds. Fight 5 epic bosses, farm, enchant your gear and survive. From casual to hardcore permadeath!
Why similar: Mining 15.1% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Perma Death 9%
- #8 Too Far Too Late
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fly Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Mining 17.6% ★, Perma Death 13.2%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #9 Beneath a Dead City
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Survival 15.6%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Exploration 5.7%
- #10 Duck the Miner
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Atlas Brightway
Windows
Your ultimate goal was to achieve the dream of living on Mars, but the journey didn't go as planned. After a rough ride that left your engine destroyed, you are now stranded on space and must mine asteroids to repair your ship to try finish the voyage.
Why similar: Mining 39.6% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Survival 5.8%
- #11 Gateworlds
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #12 Cube Universe
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Beosar
Windows
Cube Universe is a first-person voxel RPG. Visit many different, procedurally generated planets. Team up with your friends to fight against fierce enemies in dungeons. Do quests to save the world from the forces of evil - or throw it into chaos.
Why similar: Mining 20.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, RPG 14.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #13 FarHearth
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: matchaserf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Survival 14.4%, Perma Death 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Roguelite 8.9%
- #14 Survival Vacancy
89% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Mining 16.5% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #15 Children of Mare
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starfall Games
Windows
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Survival 14.7%, Roguelite 13%, Mining 12% ★, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #16 Never Secure
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Survival 18.8%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 7%
- #17 SuperColony
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Survival 15.4%, Roguelite 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #18 TFM: The First Men
85% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%
- #19 Dwarf Things
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 7.2%
- #20 Minable & Create / ミナクリ
84% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: technopixel
Windows
World-building RPG "Minable & Create" is an easy-to-understand 2D screen sandbox game. Basically anything can be dug and you can create your own base with the acquired materials. Find and collect the people who were attacked by the Demon King and scattered, and save the world.
Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 17%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Roguelite 11.9%
- #21 Hammerting
83% matchMixed57% of 2,582 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Mining 24% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #22 DuneHaven
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LokaFab
Windows
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 9.5%, RPG 8.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #23 Gnomoria
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 5.3%
- #24 Settletopia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #25 Drilling
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HONGS
Windows · Mac
"DRILLING" is a relaxing game focusing on the pure joy of digging and moving forward. You play as "Mr. Drill," who has awakened deep underground, and begin an expedition toward the surface. Mine 9 kind of ores found across various layers, and use the resources you gather to upgrade your modules.
Why similar: Mining 49.7% ★, Crafting 22.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, Simulation 5.5%
- #26 Vilset
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
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 39.1%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #27 BLASTRONAUT
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Mining 30.8% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #28 Rock Digger
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rockin' Games
Windows
Start as a humble rock and evolve into a rock-digging rock star! Dig for resources, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets after crash-landing on an alien planet. Unearth countless upgrades and gain powerful abilities. Explore mysterious new worlds. Reach the core. Ascend to Rock God!
Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 11%, Exploration 6.9%
- #29 Mad Miner
77% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Mercimek Games
Windows · Linux
Mad Miner is a mining game where you try to survive in a new order where world life is trapped underground.
Why similar: Mining 30.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Roguelite 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #30 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
78% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 5%
- #31 DiDiDiG
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ISIT Studio
Windows · Linux
Mine ore on the Moon, send it back to Earth to earn money, and buy Skill Cores to upgrade your abilities. Use a variety of helpful equipment on your expedition — and yes, there’s a dog! Uncover the secrets hidden beneath the lunar surface.
Why similar: Mining 36.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #32 Rock the Islands
75% matchVery Positive90% of 312 reviews2024
Dev: HYPE GAME LLC
Windows
Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.4%
- #33 Bee-z Factory
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Felipe Tonkiel
Windows
Bee-z Factory is a farm-colony simulation game, where you provide guidance to a species of highly temperamental plant-like space colonizers called sproutlings, that are now stranded on a foreign planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Perma Death 22.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Procedural Generation 10%, Exploration 7.1%
- #34 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
76% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival 18%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #35 Echo of the Wilds
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 195 reviews2014
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds. Gather resources to build gear and sustain yourself, learning new skills, lore and the intertwining interactions between the various areas, seasons, and weather.
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 20.1%, Roguelite 18.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Exploration 7%
- #36 Casualties: Unknown
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OrsoniksPub: Oro Interactive
Windows
Casualties: Unknown is an unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator. Your captors have tasked you with retrieving lost cargo on a foreign planet, explore its 11 layers and do your best to survive diverse hostile environments. You are just one of the thousands of test subjects sent to die.
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Perma Death 21.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #37 Paleon
72% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 54%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #38 Forsaken: Year One
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kymera Games
Windows
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Survival 15.3%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #39 Sphere - Flying Cities
73% matchMixed50% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Mining 24.5% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #40 Oxygen Not Included
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 51.7%, Survival 19.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 7.6%, Simulation 3%
- #41 Embark
74% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 57.7%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #42 Endless Vine
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Circuit Root
Windows
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #43 Void Harvest
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LoneBit
Windows
Condemned to work in an endless void, you must mine ore from asteroids, search wrecks and upgrade your ship to survive. Explore vast spaces, unlock upgrades, manage your crew and avoid constantly changing threats. Can you survive your sentence?
Why similar: Mining 26% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Roguelite 15.9%, Survival 15.5%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #44 Orc Colony
73% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.3%, Survival 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 8%
- #45 Mind Over Magic
69% matchVery Positive87% of 4,367 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 30.7%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #46 After the Collapse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #47 Stardeus
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,534 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #48 CitaDrill
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio MokaPub: CobraTekku Games
Windows
Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.
Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.4%, Roguelite 12.7%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #49 Another Game About Digging A Hole
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: myownyose
Windows
A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet. Collect resources, sell them and upgrade your equipment - discover all available resources!
Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Exploration 7.3%
- #50 Cavern Adventurers
69% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Mining 14.9% ★, Survival 12%, Simulation 7.2%, Exploration 6.9%
- #51 Spiritura
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spiritura Works
Windows · Mac
Spiritura is an open-world survival craft game with action combat and exploration. Follow the story to uncover the mysteries of the land as you forge your own path through survival, building, and discovery.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #52 Forsaken Isle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Crafting 26.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 11%, RPG 10.3%
- #53 Arrow & Fang
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrew "VAGRIENT" BrayPub: Andrew VAGRIENT Bray
Windows
Take on the role of Lena Morwyn and play her story in this survival game.
Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Survival 18.8%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #54 Restart
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 49Wares
Windows
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Procedural Generation 5.9%
- #55 Pawnholm
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #56 Arc of Icarus
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #57 Dynamine
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HexagonNico
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dynamine is an incremental mining game based on Minesweeper. Dig for ores while avoiding explosives, sell what you found, buy better tools to dig more efficiently, then rinse and repeat!
Why similar: Mining 21.2% ★, Roguelite 16.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #58 Desktop Ant Farm Simulator
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Beef Cat
Windows
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
- #59 Starfall Protocol
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Mining 6.8% ★