- #1 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
97% 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 36.7%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 7.1%
- #2 Dwarf Things
96% 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 34.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.2%
- #3 Oxygen Not Included
96% 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 39.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 15.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 4.1%
- #4 Sheltered 2
95% matchMixed46% of 2,191 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 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 30.3%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #5 Warranted Humanity
94% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Outbreak Sim 14.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
94% 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 33%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #7 The Blighted Frontier
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #8 Zomboard
92% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 8%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 7.9%
- #10 Embark
91% 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 46.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 10.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #11 Stranded: Alien Dawn
90% matchVery Positive84% of 11,043 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 18%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 8.1%
- #12 Lil Guys
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 7.8%
- #13 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Simulation 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%
- #14 Underground Nomads
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 8.7%
- #15 Galaxy Scavengers
87% 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 22.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 9.8%
- #16 Tree House Colony
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 8.8%
- #17 Oxygen
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 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 26.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 12.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #18 Red Dust Colony
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Base Building 17%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 10.7%
- #19 Vilset
86% 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 33.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #20 SeaColony
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #21 Survival Vacancy
83% 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 28.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Inventory Management 10.9%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #22 Maia
84% 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 44.1%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.3%
- #23 Founders' Fortune
82% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 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 44.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 7.4%, Simulation 7%
- #24 Survindust
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Inventory Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%
- #25 TFM: The First Men
81% 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 40.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #26 Rise Against the Invaders
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.9%
- #27 Orc Colony
80% 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 47.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #28 Arcbound
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 17.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 6.1%
- #29 Phoenix Hope
79% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.8%
- #30 CLOUD DWELLERS
76% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 16.3%, Inventory Management 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #31 First Feudal
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%
- #32 Lost Heaven Station
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #33 Ecopunk
75% matchVery Positive85% of 126 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 39.1%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #34 Until We Die
77% matchMixed64% of 4,594 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Survival 17.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%
- #35 Windowed Realms
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #36 SuperColony
74% 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 37.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #37 Compact Colonies
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Resource Management 16.4%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #38 Settletopia
73% 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 33.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 8.8%
- #39 HullRats
73% 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 35.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%
- #40 The Last Haven
73% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Colony Sim 10.6%
- #41 Cosmic Castaway
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #42 Children of Mare
71% 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 33.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%
- #43 Survival Bunker
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #44 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 32.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
- #45 Gnome Glen
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Inventory Management 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #46 Gateworlds
70% 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 35.3%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 6.7%
- #47 Buoyancy
72% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #48 Dystopians
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #49 Space Haven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 29.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 6.9%
- #50 Sky Base Venus
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Simulation 9.6%
- #51 Kingdom: Classic
70% matchVery Positive91% of 22,597 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 13.3%, Simulation 12.3%
- #52 Surviving the Aftermath
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Survival 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 11.2%
- #53 Starship Colony
67% 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 34.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 7.9%
- #54 Forsaken: Year One
67% 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 35.3%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #55 Odd Realm
66% 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 29.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 7.5%
- #56 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
67% matchVery Positive86% of 194 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Survival 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #57 Frostpunk: 1886
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #58 Endzone 2
65% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #59 Hello World
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Linux
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%