- #1 Never Secure
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Inventory Management 11.2%
- #2 Nederfall
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1Time Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Netherlands has fallen. Lead your survivors on scavenging trips through the ruins, find resources, recruit more survivors, and come home to a camp to take care for. Survivors cook, craft, and train on their own. Every item you bring back makes your camp grow stronger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy RPG 10.7%, Management 9.5%
- #3 From The Bunker
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DEM GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
After a devastating outbreak destroys a quiet southern town, lead a small group of survivors sheltering in an abandoned bunker. Build your refuge, manage relationships and morale, and make difficult choices that determine who lives and who dies.
Why similar: Inventory Management 12.3%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #4 Sheltered 2
96% matchMixed45% of 2,222 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 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.8%
- #5 Breadoria
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Management 11.4%
- #6 SAND CRUISER
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3 Duckz
Windows
Build, crew and command a colossal landcruiser across a dying desert world. By day you scavenge and produce; by night you defend against a swarm from the deep, roused by your own heat and vibration. Stop moving, and you become prey.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
- #7 Survindust
93% 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 15.9%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Inventory Management 13.2%, Strategy 9.7%
- #8 The Blighted Frontier
92% 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 25.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #9 SeaColony
91% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
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 22.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 11.9%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #10 After the Collapse
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 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 20.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 11%
- #11 Stranded: Alien Dawn
90% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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: Base Building 19.3%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 12%, Inventory Management 9%
- #12 Dark Moon
89% matchMixed47% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Resource Management 12%
- #13 Goblin Colony
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 13.1%, Survival 9%
- #14 Forsaken: Year One
87% 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 22%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Management 13.3%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%
- #15 Harrowlands
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.4%, Management 10.7%, Strategy RPG 9.3%
- #16 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
88% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 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 23.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #17 The Understack Society
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
Windows
Stack cards to gather food, craft equipment and build a home for a society of misfits. Trade spare cards for brass and buy mysterious parcels. Recruit unique citizens, keep them fed and defend your growing settlement as the nights grow more dangerous. Something far worse is waiting beyond the gate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11%
- #18 Doomsday Train
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Management 10.8%
- #19 Ecopunk
82% matchVery Positive82% of 136 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 26%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #20 Sheltered
85% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #21 Tree House Colony
82% 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 22.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.3%
- #22 First Feudal
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 20.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 10.2%
- #23 Oxygen: First Breath
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 19.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 11.8%, Management 10.2%
- #24 Underground Nomads
80% matchNo user reviews2026
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 26.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 6.3%
- #25 Rustbound
79% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Wylde Wisp Games
Windows
Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Crafting 17.6%, Management 15%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #26 HullRats
79% 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 23.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 13.1%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%
- #27 Life in Bunker
83% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%
- #28 The Last Haven
81% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #29 Colony of the Forsaken
78% 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 27.9%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy RPG 11.5%, Crafting 6.4%
- #30 LastAlive
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroArs
Windows
LastAlive is an atmospheric 2D survival simulator set in a post-apocalyptic shelter. Explore an abandoned city on dangerous scavenging runs, craft tools at your workbench, upgrade your bunker, and make life-altering decisions in your survivor's journal.
Why similar: Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 17%, Management 16%, Crafting 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%
- #31 Lil Guys
77% 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 24.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 13.3%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #32 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #33 Frontier Roots
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Management 10.8%
- #34 CLOUD DWELLERS
74% matchVery Positive86% of 92 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 26.1%, Base Building 16%, Inventory Management 15.2%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #35 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
75% 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 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Simulation 10.5%
- #36 Under the Rust
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rotten Byte Games
Windows
Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 13.3%, Strategy RPG 12.8%, Resource Management 12.7%
- #37 Galaxy Scavengers
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 14.6%, Management 11.5%
- #38 Avian Colony
73% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 14%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #39 Fallout Shelter
76% matchVery Positive88% of 82,902 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Survival 19%, Management 13.5%, Crafting 7.4%
- #40 Novo: The Colony
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Broken Future Games
Windows
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #41 Wasteland Train: Conductor
72% 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 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 9.3%
- #42 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 19.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%
- #43 EverestBaseCamp
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: darkrio Studio
Windows · Mac
Manage Everest Base Camp, prepare climbers for dangerous expeditions, and guide your team from early route pushes toward an eventual summit attempt.
Why similar: Management 17.2%, Resource Management 16.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 9.8%
- #44 Zombie Motel 96
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OFFtheREAL
Windows
ZOMBIE MOTEL 96 is a tycoon at the end of the world. You check in, ration, quarantine, evict, scavenge and shoot to keep a roadside motel running. Every guest is one more gun on the fence, one more mouth to feed, one more noise the horde can hear. So, manager: how many people, for how many weeks?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Management 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #45 Cosmic Castaway
70% 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 21.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #46 Oxygen Not Included
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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 31%, Base Building 21%, Survival 15.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 8.9%
- #47 The Citadel Must Hold
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klenisho Games
Windows
Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 22.5%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy RPG 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #48 Survival Bunker
70% 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Survival 14.9%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 9.1%
- #49 Rebuilt: Last Settlement
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Night Farm Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage the last farmhouse settlement in a zombie-infested city. Grow food, craft weapons, send teams to scavenge, and defend your settlement every night from relentless zombie hordes until you are strong enough to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #50 Gateworlds
69% 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 22%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 12.7%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #51 Fosoria
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Exploration 7%
- #52 The Undercity: Last Light
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Management 14.5%, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #53 Stranding Echoes
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 9.2%, Management 9%
- #54 Survival Vacancy
71% 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 20.7%, Inventory Management 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 10.7%
- #55 Drownlight
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.3%
- #56 Settletopia
67% 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 23.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #57 Starbound Settlers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bitwright Games
Windows
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.7%, Management 10.6%
- #58 Lead the Living
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Karagoz Studios
Windows
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 23.2%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Management 9.9%
- #59 Earth Elements
69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Jack G
Windows
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Inventory Management 15.7%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 11.2%