60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Singleplayer, Colony Sim, Simulation.
A survival platformer where you, a young warrior monk from the tribe of the mouse people, must ensure the prosperity of your home village and its inhabitants. Explore the forest, collect resources, fight monsters and uncover the secrets of the ancient civilization that came before.
FossilFrontier
This game is about exploring the desert, digging up fossils, and reconstructing them.
Embark
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.
This game is about exploring the desert, digging up fossils, and reconstructing them.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.8%, 3D Platformer 21.8%, Simulation 18.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Third Person 9.8%
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 54.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Simulation 7.2%
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, 3D Platformer 16.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Exploration 7.3%
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 33.2%, Political Sim 26.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 7.7%, Exploration 6.2%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Third Person 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%
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 29.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Exploration 7.6%, Simulation 7.5%
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Nature 8.7%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 5.6%
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 44.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Base Building 9%, Nature 8.7%, Simulation 8.5%
Lead your growing colony of mushkin as you explore the Forest Floor! Defeat dangerous wildlife, gather vital resources, and discover symbiotic allies that unlock new abilities.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 26%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Nature 15.3%, Exploration 10.7%, Third Person 8.3%
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 51.6%, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 17.6%, Nature 9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about discovery and exploration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Sandbox 18.2%, Nature 11.8%, Exploration 8.2%, Third Person 7.5%
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5%, Sandbox 20.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Base Building 6.5%, 3D 4.8%
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 51.2%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 6.9%
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 49.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Simulation 12%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
A low-fantasy kingdom sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Why similar: Political Sim 45.9% ★, Colony Sim 39%, Simulation 9%, Base Building 5.8%, Indie 0.2%
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 42.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Exploration 7.5%, Survival 7.4%
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Nature 14.3%, Survival 9.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Crafting 5.9%
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 33.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 8%, Third Person 7.8%
LostData is an action game set in space. To defend themselves, the player must: gather resources and information to customize their equipment, mechanics, and environment, and develop their skills as an interstellar farmer, if they want to survive and understand!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Sandbox 22.9%, Simulation 16.7%, Action 12.2%, Crafting 9.1%
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 52%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 6%, Simulation 6%
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 42.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Nature 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
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 43.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%
Orbisia is an open-world survival crafting game. You have to work with your team members to explore and survive the wide and beautiful world. Enjoy a free world by gathering and hunting for survival!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 21.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Nature 11.1%, Third Person 9.2%, Exploration 8.8%
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 50.7%, Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Survival 6.1%
Help Terry and his dog survive on their adventure across a charming world of floating islands. Gather, Craft, Build and Battle in a classic RPG adventure to piece together the mystery of how their world fell apart.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Third Person 9.5%, Survival 7.9%
Discover a strange world inhabited by living lights. Liturnian is a 3D-Metroidvania with fluid movement, fights against strange creatures and exciting puzzles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, 3D Platformer 25.3%, Third Person 9.6%, Adventure 7.2%, Exploration 6.1%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Exploration 7%
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 20.7%, Sandbox 19%, Crafting 10.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Third Person 8.3%
Age After Age. Build a thriving settlement, shape society across multiple eras, and dominate a living world economy. Choose your path - classic history, Steampunk, Gothic, and more in a deep city-building strategy with evolving logistics, citizen classes, diplomacy, and research.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Political Sim 33% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Third Person 6.1%, 3D 3.5%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Simulation 4.9%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 7.5%, Survival 5.4%
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.6%, Sandbox 22.3%, Simulation 18.7%, 3D 4.8%, Indie 0.4%
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.3%, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Survival 6.8%, Base Building 5.3%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 6.8%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 82.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 8%, Indie 0.4%
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Sandbox 19%, Crafting 13%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8%
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 45.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 7.8%
Play as Kim Jong Un and gain (or lose) the approval of your citizens in this reactive open world sandbox set in a satirized Pyongyang, North Korea circa 2011.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.5% ★, Sandbox 21.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Adventure 8%, Action 7.6%
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 42.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8.6%
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 50.8%, Sandbox 25.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Action 7.4%, Survival 4.1%
A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Adventure 9.9%, Crafting 6.9%
Baugarten is a new kind of empire-builder. Baugarten plays like a traditional empire builder - but those interested can push the limit by leveraging their math and science skills to optimise everything further and get ahead faster.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Nature 9.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
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 28.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Exploration 8.9%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 6.5%
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 40.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.3%
"Firefly Forge: Autumn Bastion" is a survival adventure game that allows for free exploration, construction, and interaction. Witnessing the transformation of the Shangri La by hand gradually forming a unique ecological cycle, allowing players to find their own rhythm of life in this breathing land.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.5%, 3D Platformer 22.4%, Simulation 18.4%, Adventure 12.7%, Crafting 9.5%
2D action sandbox about exploring an underground world, crafting and tactically defending alien stations. Build turrets, combine modules and repel enemy waves to unlock powerful upgrades that radically change your playstyle.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Sandbox 25.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Action 7.4%
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, 3D Platformer 13.9%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 8%
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 44.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Exploration 8.2%
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%
Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.
Why similar: Colony Sim 83.3%, Simulation 16%, Indie 0.7%
Above The Horizon is terraformation survival crafting game where you crash landed above the planet "Lunaris". The rest of your colonization team landed safely on the planet... so it's up to you to get back to the planet and terraform it along the way!
Why similar: Sandbox 31%, Adventure 14.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Action 11.6%
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Political Sim 27.5% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 79.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Adventure 8.3%
A sandbox survival craft game set in a vast world. Explore the wilderness, defeat monsters, gather materials, and conquer colossal bosses.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.2%, Crafting 18.9%, Exploration 15.9%, Action 13.8%, Survival 10.1%
An ideology is torn by civil war. Beyond its borders, new revolutions rise. Grid on your weapon, down your equipment, summon your followers and ride forth to win glory on the revolution fields of Soviet. The soviets maintain their stranglehold on the world.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.2%, Exploration 7%, Survival 7%, Simulation 5.2%
WilderLands is a prototype for a planet-scale sandbox showing the custom isocahedral/tetrahedral terrain engine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 4.9%
Archipelago Dreams is a dual city builder and adventure game with simple city building mechanics and free roaming first person view mode. Build cities on islands then freely walk and jetpack around the entire scene. Includes different times of day.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 12.3%, 3D Platformer 12.2%, Adventure 9.1%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Nature 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%
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 62.6%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 12%, Survival 9.9%, Indie 0.2%
