- #1 ASV Trident
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GaminsLab
Windows
You are the acting captain of the last war vessel of humanity. Now the ship is your home and refuge. "real-time roguelike spaceship sim"
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 8%
- #2 Deep Rise
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Karnaukh
Windows
Colony management exploration survival game, climb up out of the deep. The surface world ended a thousand years ago, and we hid underground until it forgot us. Now the road up is finally open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, RPG 12.6%, Simulation 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #3 IdleZomb
96% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: STLgame
Windows
IdleZomb: Manage a ruined hospital, create zombies, evolve them, or sacrifice them for DNA. Every decision counts in this post-apocalyptic management game. Early Access focuses on the basics, with content available up to level 20.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Real Time Tactics 21.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #4 Maia
95% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 43.6%, Survival 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%
- #5 夕照原
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: 无栈Stackless
Windows
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Strategy 8.2%, RPG 7.7%
- #6 Project Ark
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lefterov Oleksii PE
Windows
In Project Ark, the land has become uninhabitable after the apocalypse. The sea has become the only habitable place. Transform your ship into a floating city. Build, produce, and collect resources, research technologies, take care of your health, and rescue survivors!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Survival 7.5%, Adventure 6.2%
- #7 Eldoran
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Z-Tech Studio
Windows
Explore an open world in Eldoran, build settlements, rescue survivors, discover new technologies, and battle numerous foes. Your adventure awaits in this unique reality born from the merging of two worlds!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Creature Collector 20.1%, Real Time Tactics 18%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 6.8%
- #8 Ascent of Ashes
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 302 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Party-Based RPG 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.7%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #9 Isolated Island: After the flood
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZHANG FAN
Windows
Survive in a world drowned by disaster. Explore by day, hide by night, fight zombies, scavenge resources, build your shelter, and trade with other factions. Your survival, your strategy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Strategy 8.4%, RPG 8%
- #10 Forsaken: Year One
91% 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 32.8%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, RPG 7.3%
- #11 Ragnorium
90% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Survival 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Character Customization 7.8%
- #12 Paleon
89% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 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 45.7%, Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #13 Outlands
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 6.4%
- #14 Cross The World
88% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Redbeehive Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, gather, craft, fight, and survive the fantasy world with persistent world simulation as an adventurer party. Every part of the world is persistently calculated, environment interacts and changes over time with season and progress. Play alone or play with your friends in multiplayer!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 17.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 14.5%, RPG 14.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #15 Hearthwild
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monke
Windows
Build and manage a wilderness colony where settlers gather resources, construct rooms, farm crops, hunt animals, craft food and supplies, and survive through a job-driven simulation as your settlement grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.1%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #16 Change District
86% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: BrandygangPub: Project Mercury
Windows · Linux
A game where you control a party and try to transform everyone you fight and come across into more like yourself, and avoid losing less that fate befall yourself. Involves corruption, transformation, party building and dungeon exploration as its main gameplay aspects.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.2%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, RPG 8.3%, Simulation 7.2%
- #17 Lunarwardens
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Creedon Games
Windows
Master the arts of Lunar Taming. Build your team of Lunarkin - moonlight creatures - and guide them to victory. Use moon phases, evolve through rituals, join Lunar Houses. Battle rivals, climb ranks, and become Supreme Lunar Tamer in this strategic creature battler.
Why similar: Creature Collector 43.4%, Party-Based RPG 15.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Character Customization 8%, Choices Matter 8%
- #18 Against The Tide
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Two Times Pi
Windows
Against The Tide is a simulation strategy game about restoring a dying coral reef. Build your conservation facility, grow your marine gardens, thwart invasive species, and discover new technologies to save the reef.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Creature Collector 27%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 7%
- #19 From Nothing
84% 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 34.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 15.1%, Exploration 7.8%, Top-Down 7.2%
- #20 Titan Outpost
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: The Boar Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, RPG 14.9%, Simulation 14.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #21 Bore Bore
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YMY Games
Windows · Linux
Descend to the center of the Earth and survive beneath toxic skies. Watch out for the creatures. Manage your air, water, and food. Build vehicles to dig deeper. Grow potatoes, gather resources, and design robots to defend and automate your world — the control is in your hands.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Adventure 8.8%
- #22 Scavenger T.O.M
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Creature Collector 16.1%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #23 Trailblazers: Into the March
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrangersPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #24 Univers 11: Under the Sky
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Under the Sky is a third-person real-time economic strategy game in which the main goal is to create your own settlement and save the survivors
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 10%
- #25 Dwarven Realm
81% matchMixed59% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Real Time Tactics 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%
- #26 Ecopunk
78% matchVery Positive84% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
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 40.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 13.2%, Simulation 8.8%
- #27 Keziah's Realm
78% 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 35%, Survival 17.6%, RPG 12%, Sandbox 9.8%, Exploration 6.9%
- #28 The Land of Babel
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kingrokaPub: Me
Windows · Linux
Build and nurture the universe of your dreams with Land of Babel; an expansive simulation city builder. Construct and manage powerful empires, establish intricate and detailed economies, explore unknown lands, embark on captivating quests, and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Real Time Tactics 17.7%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #29 Orc Colony
80% matchMixed60% of 43 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 50%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #30 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% 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 38.2%, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 6%
- #31 Re/terra
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TW
Windows
Journey across a post-apocalpytic world as you race to find the key to the future before the food runs out
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #32 Irondrive
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Alessandro Le Mura
Windows
Your base is moving. Your crew is exhausted. Manage task priorities, automate critical repairs, and keep your colonists alive as your fortress drives through hell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
- #33 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #34 After the Collapse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 211 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 33.6%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Strategy 7.3%
- #35 The Black Bahr
74% 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 25.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%
- #36 Kingdom of Bees
75% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: HronPub: Lezy Bee
Windows
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Real Time Tactics 29.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #37 Three Kingdoms Shelter
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: McCay Games
Windows
A strategy/castle builder. Create a character, build your palace, build up your defenses, craft, adventure and conquer all ancient China. Recruit legendary Heroes to lead into battle and command and fight real-time battles against waves of enemy forces out for your blood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.9%, Exploration 7%
- #38 Worlds Explorers
73% 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 35.5%, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Sci-fi 10%, Strategy 8.5%
- #39 Sheltered 2
73% matchMixed45% of 2,203 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Character Customization 7.5%
- #40 MeadowMeld
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeldFire
Windows
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Creature Collector 28%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.1%
- #41 Athenian Rhapsody
70% matchVery Positive90% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
Why similar: Creature Collector 26.8%, Party-Based RPG 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Character Customization 8.9%, RPG 7.8%
- #42 绛河之上 Under Supernova
72% match9 user reviews80% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: UnderSupernovaGroup
Windows
An instant strategy science fiction simulation survival sandbox game. Players can control individuals, teams, and manage multiple bases. Players can farm, build, excavate, fight, produce, graze, explore, trade, record and pass on knowledge, and can also fly a spaceship to explore the starry sky.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Sci-fi 11.5%, RPG 8.1%
- #43 Grind and Dine
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozeby
Windows
You've lost everything and returned to your hometown, forced to start over to survive. This city is filled with both opportunities and dangers. Can you carve out a new life in this unforgiving environment?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 18.2%, Character Customization 10.5%, Exploration 9.6%
- #44 Embark
73% 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 53.2%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #45 Wasteland Train: Conductor
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jinye
Windows
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%
- #46 MonCraft 199X
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lowe Bros. Studios
Windows
Explore a retro-inspired open-world sandbox adventure set in a post-Y2K alternate reality. As an aspiring Mon trainer you'll battle opponents, rescue lost souls, rebuild towns, and research mysterious monsters across a wild world. Can you conquer the chaos and restore a thriving community?
Why similar: Creature Collector 29.2%, Party-Based RPG 25.6%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, RPG 8%
- #47 Nettle
69% matchMixed66% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: 2xN StudiosPub: theepiccoder
Windows
A single-player survival RTS game about exploring the vast cosmos, the many planets inhabiting it and their countless secrets. You'll need to explore, gather resources and research new technologies in order to survive, thrive, and eventually build a colony on a bizarre, foreign world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Real Time Tactics 17.8%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #48 SacriFrogos
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uóki Games
Windows
A roguelike strategy and survival game where ever-growing sacrifices are required to keep the mysterious Eternal Flame alive. Build a colony of Frogos and create unique builds every run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Creature Collector 19.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.9%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #49 Starship Colony
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #50 Ocean Punk
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 169 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #51 Cloud Exiles
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Survival 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #52 What a Wonderful Venom World
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: radiuthree
Windows · Mac
"What a Wonderful Venom World" is a difficult survival sim. All food is poisoned, and you must find an antidote through endless trial and error. Face countless deaths and share info with other players to speed up your research. This game is for players who enjoy a serious challenge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Real Time Tactics 22.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Survival 9.1%, Exploration 6.5%
- #53 Red Frontier
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DW
Windows
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Adventure 8%
- #54 SkillGrid
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Real Time Tactics 24.3%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 15.3%, 2D 2.4%
- #55 Survive the Blackout
68% matchMixed65% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.9%
- #56 Space One - Electron
68% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Character Customization 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Top-Down 7.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #57 Castaway Trails
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Edudelm
Windows
Recruit companions, survive together, and watch friendships, romances, and rivalries emerge. No two adventures are the same.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 12.1%, RPG 7.5%
- #58 Another Dead World
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another Dead World
Windows
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Sandbox 19%, Strategy 17.1%, Survival 11%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #59 Space Haven
62% matchVery Positive86% of 10,886 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 31.5%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.6%