60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Colony Sim, Simulation, Singleplayer.
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 23.5%, 3D Platformer 22.2%, Simulation 18.4%, Crafting 10%, Third Person 10%
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 54.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Simulation 7.1%
Build a world that lives. Rebuild its systems, shape its society, and guide a recovering civilization through crisis and change. Decide what kind of world emerges, and what place it will take among worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Political Sim 29.7% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Base Building 3.4%
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 33.8%, 3D Platformer 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Exploration 7.3%
A sci-fi dark fantasy survival roguelike with war and politics. Build up your station, fending off attacks from alien incursions. Take a ship to your enemies, trade, explore and conquer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Political Sim 35.1% ★, Exploration 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Simulation 5.8%
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Political Sim 20.5% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 6.2%
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 39.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Exploration 8.4%, Base Building 7.3%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go it alone in a world where the apex predator is still a distant aspiration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Third Person 7.4%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.8%, Sandbox 22.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Base Building 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 25.9% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 7.7%, Exploration 6.4%
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 28.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Exploration 7.6%, Base Building 7.5%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Exploration 7.7%, Third Person 6.7%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 12.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 5.6%
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 20.4%, Simulation 17.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Nature 8.7%
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 26.3%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Nature 15.2%, Exploration 10.6%, Third Person 8.4%
Team up with friends in this 1-4 player co-op survival game. Build and defend your base, automate your production, haul ore with your truck, and terraform a dead red desert into a lush green world. Craft weapons to survive nightly skeleton attacks and uncover the dark mystery of the lost 14th team.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Nature 8.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Third Person 6.7%
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 51.5%, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 17.5%, Nature 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 44.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Base Building 9%, Nature 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%
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 48.4%, Sandbox 20.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Base Building 6.6%, 3D 4.8%
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 40.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Nature 11.9%, Exploration 8.3%, Third Person 7.7%
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 41.6%, Nature 14.4%, Survival 10%, Exploration 8.8%, Action 5.9%
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 31.9%, Sandbox 22.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Action 12.5%, Crafting 8.9%
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%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 6.8%
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%, Sandbox 13.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 14%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%
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 21.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Nature 11%, Third Person 9.3%, Exploration 8.7%
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 51.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 6%, Simulation 5.9%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.5%, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 17%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 6.5%
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 45.5% ★, Colony Sim 39.3%, Simulation 9%, Base Building 5.8%, Indie 0.2%
Build a life and claim your place in a vast medieval fantasy world where prosperity must be earned, journeys carefully planned, and winters endured. This world is called Eden. But its name is not a promise. It is a secret that may only be uncovered by your descendants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Political Sim 26.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Base Building 6.3%
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 24.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Third Person 9.6%, Survival 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 43.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 7.7%
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 41.5%, 3D Platformer 25.3%, Third Person 9.6%, Adventure 7.3%, Exploration 6%
TimbrianGuard is a voxel-based sandbox colony management sim. Lead colonists to a new home, guide their survival, expand your colony's influence, establish outposts, and attract new settlers as your community grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 7.2%, Simulation 6.4%
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 42.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Nature 10.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
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 39.3%, Sandbox 19%, Simulation 13.3%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 6.8%
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 20.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Third Person 8.4%
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 31.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Exploration 7%
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 50.6%, Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Survival 6.2%
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 28.2%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
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 57.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 4.8%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.1%
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 45.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 7.9%
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 29.7%, Sandbox 25.2%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 8.6%, Action 7.6%
"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 24.2%, 3D Platformer 22.8%, Simulation 18%, Adventure 13.1%, Crafting 9.4%
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 59.5%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 7.5%, Survival 5.7%
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 50.5%, Sandbox 19.6%, 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 58.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 6.8%
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 27.9%, Sandbox 20.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Survival 8.8%, Adventure 6.6%
You're not just surviving — you're leading. An isometric zombie survival and colony sim: scavenge a world where loot never respawns, build a base that holds, and keep a community of survivors alive. The dead are slow, drawn by sound, and they never stop.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%
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 34.7% ★, Sandbox 21.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Adventure 8.4%, Action 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%
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 22.4%, Simulation 18.5%, 3D 4.8%, Indie 0.4%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5%, Sandbox 20.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Base Building 4.9%
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 42.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 9%, Crafting 8.6%
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 34.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Nature 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Crafting 7.8%
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 51.9%, Sandbox 22%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 5.8%, Action 4.7%
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 39.9%, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.4%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Simulation 8.3%
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 31.8%, 3D Platformer 14.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 7.9%
