
Rebuild a towering citadel, manage your disciples, and slash through waves of enemies in a hand-drawn world that combines roguelike metroidvania gameplay with base-building & colony management.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Management, Strategy.

Rebuild a towering citadel, manage your disciples, and slash through waves of enemies in a hand-drawn world that combines roguelike metroidvania gameplay with base-building & colony management.

CLOUD DWELLERS
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.

Escape the Desert
So you're stuck in a middle of a desert with a single flask of water... how do you escape? Do you stare at the sun long enough for it to stare at you back? Well, that might not be the worst idea. Try it out in Escape the Desert, a strand-type roguelike strategy game!
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 39.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 13%, Management 12.1%, Stylized 5.4%
So you're stuck in a middle of a desert with a single flask of water... how do you escape? Do you stare at the sun long enough for it to stare at you back? Well, that might not be the worst idea. Try it out in Escape the Desert, a strand-type roguelike strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Action Roguelike 15.7%, Dungeon Crawler 12.3%, Roguelike 9.6%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Base Building 26.2%, Building 13.3%, Management 11.9%, Strategy 4.8%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.9%, Base Building 22.3%, Building 9.3%, Management 6.2%, Strategy 4.2%
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 49%, Base Building 26.7%, Building 9.9%, Management 7.5%, Simulation 2.4%
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Management 11.5%, Building 11.4%, Hand-drawn 6.2%
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 44.3%, Base Building 22.4%, Management 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 5.3%
Free stand‑alone Prologue. Shape a grand colony where every life bends to your will. Feel the weight of absolute power as you decree laws, then march into chaos, leading squads in roguelite FPS battles from brutal skirmishes to large-scale battlefields. Play Sector One now & wishlist the full game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Action Roguelike 13.5%, Management 9.1%, Roguelite 8.6%
Card-based survival RTS. Mash cards together, build your cult, craft weapons, recruit followers and discover new rituals. Survive hordes of uncarded heretics and metaprogression.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Management 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
An artsy, text-based, fantasy management game. Not as difficult as it looks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 21.7%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Management 10.8%, Building 8.5%
In a world ruled by sugary tyrants, an unlikely hero rises from the shadows: Pom the Mold. Build your secret guild, gather rogue treats, lead the rebellion and battle through candy-coated chaos to topple the Candy Kingdom. The Sweet Revolution begins—bite back!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Action Roguelike 16%, Management 11.1%, Roguelike 7.9%
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 41.8%, Base Building 22.3%, Management 9.5%, Roguelite 7.6%, Strategy 5.4%
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 47.1%, Base Building 26.1%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 3.2%
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 37.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 12.4%, Roguelite 7.7%, Roguelike 6.3%
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 53.1%, Base Building 21.6%, Building 10.7%, Management 7.1%, Simulation 3.9%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.6%, Dark Fantasy 6%
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 39.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 9.1%, Management 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, Base Building 24.2%, Building 14.1%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 5.3%
Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.4%
A fast-paced 3D survival action roguelite. Upgrade your Bastion, forge shard-powered weapons, and battle through chaotic procedural arenas as an expendable Shardborn. Build, fight, die, and grow stronger each run.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Dungeon Crawler 17.3%, Roguelike 14.4%, Roguelite 9.4%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Roguelike 8.8%, Roguelite 8.4%, Management 7.9%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Base Building 23.4%, Management 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 4.9%
What will you create? The game combines Realism with Fantasy. Craft new territories. Combine magic and earthworms to create minions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Action Roguelike 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Roguelike 8.7%
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 49.7%, Base Building 25.4%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 4.6%, Strategy 4.2%
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 46.8%, Base Building 22.1%, Management 11.4%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 6.7%
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Dungeon Crawler 14.7%, Management 12%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%
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 53.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 5.7%
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 48.2%, Base Building 24.6%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 6.4%
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 45.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 5.3%, Management 4.6%
Kingdom Legends: The fallen kings is a roguelike experience that lets you take control of an adventurer king exploring a long forgone fortress after a disastrously multi nation invasion gone wrong.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Dungeon Crawler 15.8%, Roguelike 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Roguelite 7.7%
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Roguelite 8.9%
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Management 14.5%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%
An incremental roguelite colony sim about bees, mutations, and controlled chaos. Experiment with management, crafting, research, and upgrades. When mutations spiral out of control — collapse the hive, keep progress, and start fresh. Every run unlocks new strategies and a buzz of unpredictable fun.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 21.5%, Roguelite 8.1%, Building 7.2%, Management 5.4%
Enter the post-extinction world of Mycelium. With humans extinct, take control of a new, sentient species of fungi–Spores. Grow your Spore community, grant them powerful abilities, and battle against evolved insects in this Action Roguelite, Pet-Simulator game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.5%, Action Roguelike 24.7%, Roguelike 12.1%, Stylized 4.9%, Action 3.8%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 20%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Dungeon Crawler 11%, Building 9.8%
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Action Roguelike 15.4%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Building 8.7%
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 20.2%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Building 13%, Management 11.9%
Run a business with adorable monster girls using power of desire! Employ girls, build your workplace and grow your business in the magical world. Unleash the charm of your team and watch your business thrive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Cartoon 10.1%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Base Building 20.9%, Management 10.1%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7%, Base Building 23.7%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 5%, Strategy 4.5%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Base Building 24.7%, Management 10.4%, Building 8%, Simulation 3.6%
Defend against relentless monsters, rebuild your home, and unlock powerful abilities in 'Dark Age Asunder.' Your journey to restore peace begins now—will you rise or fall to the darkness?
Why similar: Base Building 34.5%, Action Roguelike 23.9%, Roguelike 11.6%, Building 9.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%
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 38.7%, Base Building 22.8%, Management 12.9%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 5.7%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.9%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Base Building 24.8%, Building 9.5%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 6.5%
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 37.8%, Base Building 23%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 5.5%
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 24.7%, Management 11.2%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 7.9%
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%, Base Building 24.8%, Building 13.2%, Management 6.3%, Strategy 3.6%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%
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 42.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Building 13%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 4.6%
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.5%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 5.2%
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5.9%
Wax Rogue is a 2D roguelike where you must build the tallest tower. Play as a candle that must construct the tallest tower before it burns out. Use a variety of buildings, improve your stats, and customize your playstyle.
Why similar: Building 20.5%, Roguelike 18%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 22.5%, Management 14.3%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 7.5%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 24.8%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.8%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 22.2%, Building 14.4%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 5.5%
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.5%, Base Building 24.4%, Management 9.9%, Hand-drawn 6.2%, Strategy 5.5%