- #1 Kopno: Blightfall
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Urar Studio
Windows
Explore the cursed continent of Kopno and shape your path through moral choices. Choose one of six unique races and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build a thriving fantasy settlement worthy of leading your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #2 TFM: The First Men
96% matchMixed61% of 412 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 37.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
- #3 Keziah's Realm
95% 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 31.7%, Procedural Generation 12%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #4 Embark
96% matchMixed60% of 389 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 45.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #5 Settletopia
94% 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 31%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.6%
- #6 Starfall Protocol
94% 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 30.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
- #7 From Nothing
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.2%
- #8 Gateworlds
92% 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 33%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #9 Nyric
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #10 Colony Survival
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,916 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 8.9%
- #11 DuneHaven
90% 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 39.3%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 5.2%
- #12 Kingdom of Fallen: The Last Stand
89% matchMixed45% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: DigitalSouls
Windows
This is a game inspired by survival and souls-like games. You need to gather clues of your missing daughter, using your own way to defeat fearsome bosses, fighting to survive, crafting to weaponize, building for your future, to reveal the secrets, and get out of this cursed kingdom.
Why similar: Souls-like 14.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%
- #13 Project Adaloria
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GraySlug Games
Windows
An open world, free roaming, medieval fantasy realm. Survive and expand your own settlements amidst warring factions, dangerous monsters, and diverse characters. Choose your path: thief, trader, farmer, assassin, or colony builder!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%
- #14 Worlds Explorers
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #15 Vilset
88% 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 35.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.2%
- #16 Mars Colony Builder
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #17 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,342 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
- #18 Wisplight
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BlackCitadel Studios
Windows
Be the monster and defend your land against human invaders and settlers. Amass your forces, fortify your base, raid human enemy settlements, unlock multiple transformations, and engage in a compelling story with multiple endings. All these, and more, in Wisplight!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Dark Fantasy 16.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 9.4%, Realistic 6.3%
- #19 HullRats
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 12%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #20 SuperColony
83% 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 37.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #21 Surviving Ceres
82% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9.5%
- #22 99 Nights
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ammonite Design Studios
Windows
Chop down trees, gather fuel & scrap, search abandoned structures, and build a base camp strong enough to withstand what comes after the sun sets. The wilderness grows more dangerous with every passing night, and something is always watching from beyond the firelight. Survive all 99 Nights.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.7%
- #23 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
82% matchVery Positive81% of 2,258 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 38%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.1%
- #24 Oxygen Not Included
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 142,307 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.4 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 46.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.6%
- #25 Edge Islands
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #26 Waystone
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reiver Studios
Windows
Master magic, craft, and explore shifting dimensions in Waystone, a dark fantasy open-world RPG where you unravel a universe of unfolding lore, solo or with friends.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Open World 15.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Souls-like 14%, Crafting 12.3%
- #27 Founders' Fortune
80% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 48.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.9%, Survival 5.9%
- #28 Endless Vine
78% 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 36.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #29 The Black Bahr
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zeynova Production
Windows
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Open World 16.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 12%, Survival 8.8%
- #30 Dwarf Things
77% 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 42.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 7.7%
- #31 Noble Legacy
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 731 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 12%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%
- #32 Don't get lost
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
Windows · Linux
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%
- #33 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 14.4%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%
- #34 GNOPE - Gnome Owner Simulator
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moodneys
Windows · Linux
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.9%
- #35 Project-Starbound
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spaced Out Studios
Windows
Project Starbound is a single-player space exploration game built in Unreal Engine 5. After a habitable moon is discovered, players explore the solar system, take on missions, build bases, and navigate faction conflicts in a story-driven, low-poly universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 10.3%
- #36 Enshrouded
73% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #37 Highreach
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VestGames
Windows · Linux
When calamity struck, the world of Highreach was shattered. In this open-world survival game, build encampments, rescue survivors, and soar across the skies on your airship to explore a lost world and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #38 RimWorld
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 242,338 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.7 hrsMean: 264.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 39.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #39 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 30.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8%
- #40 Bonfire Kingdom
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bonfire Forged Games
Windows
Bonfire Kingdom is a survival city builder mixed with RPG elements in a dark medieval fantasy world - like a hauntingly beautiful German fairy tale. Superior enemies are creeping out of the darkness. Protect your village by leading your band of loyal knights into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Survival 7.6%, Hack and Slash 7.2%
- #41 Aground Zero
72% matchVery Positive83% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 11%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.6%
- #42 Forsaken: Year One
71% 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 37%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #43 Outland Kingdoms
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #44 Final Frost
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #45 Rocks Tools Hordes
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neural Monkeys
Windows · Mac
Rocks, Tools, Hordes is a survival crafting game where a brave little girl explores vast caves, builds her base, and battles endless zombie waves. Play the Demo! Add to Wishlist! Mine resources, craft gear, and pilot powerful robots to withstand the horde. Robots, rocks, and really rude zombies.
Why similar: Open World 19.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%
- #46 Luminids
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luminids Studios
Windows
Start and evolve a colony of Luminids, little creatures with personalities and needs of their own. Shape the land and watch them gather, build, and grow across forests, mountains, deserts, and frozen lands. Plan from above then step into first person to explore the world you built together.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.4%
- #47 Drake Hollow
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,799 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Open World 17.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.8%
- #48 Exodus H
72% matchNegative18% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: Silversoft
Windows
Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 8.6%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
- #49 Oceaneers
67% matchVery Positive90% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #50 Sunny Shores
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mungbungo
Windows · Linux
Sunny Shores is software for casual and retired gamers who have prematurely reached unc-status in their careers. It features cozy lo-fi fishing mechanics, block-building and an open-world sandbox. Play with friends or play with yourself.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.3%
- #51 Medieval Frontiers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #52 Grim Realms
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
- #53 AstroPuffs
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gareth Greyson
Windows
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Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #54 Colony of the Forsaken
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tazdingol
Windows · Mac
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.5%, RPG 6.1%
- #55 Polylithic
68% matchMixed68% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%
- #56 Galaxy Scavengers
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 21.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.9%
- #57 Everlost
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #58 Anno Dominis
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Estoc
Windows
"Awakened One, you who behold the two flames, must rouse the king of these lands from his slumber, or the shade of the crumbling world will once again dim your light."
Why similar: Souls-like 19.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 13%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #59 It Takes a Village
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hoftware.io
Windows
It Takes a Village is a city-building RPG taking inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. Venture into a procedurally generated world filled with monsters, dungeons, and more as you collect resources to build up your village to push back the evil that infests your world.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Procedural Generation 10.8%