
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Colony Sim, Base Building, Survival.

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.

Sheltered 2
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.

The Blighted Frontier
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.
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 37.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%
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 43.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 6.8%, Resource Management 6.3%
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 44.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 7.5%
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 44.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Strategy 13%, Time Management 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Management 8.5%
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 40%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 7.8%
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 42.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 7.8%, Resource Management 7.3%
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 40%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.1%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 5.1%
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 56.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 10%, Survival 4.9%, Crafting 4.8%
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 36.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 6.7%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Survival 6.5%, Resource Management 6.4%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Story Rich 7.4%, Survival 6.8%
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 52.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 7.8%, Survival 7%
It is the year 2072. Recent research has revealed how to locate an Earth-like exoplanet. You were shipped there. Your mission is to repair the spaceship, keep people in hibernation pods alive, and prepare the exoplanet for their arrival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Story Rich 7.1%, Resource Management 6.7%
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 39.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 8%
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 42.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 7.2%
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 46.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 5%
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: Colony Sim 24.2%, Strategy 16%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Time Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 7.5%
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 36.7%, Time Management 12.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 6.9%
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 50.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 9%, Survival 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%
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 47.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 6.9%
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 35.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Choices Matter 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%, Management 6.3%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 76.4%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 6.7%
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 34.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 7.7%, Base Building 7.1%
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 49.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.8%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Survival 8%, Management 5.8%
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 36.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Time Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 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 40.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Management 7%
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 55.5%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 5.5%, Survival 4.8%
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 57.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%, Resource Management 5.6%
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 47.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Survival 6%, Simulation 5.8%
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 37.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Choices Matter 7%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 68%, Strategy 15%, Time Management 5.3%, Resource Management 4.7%, Management 3.4%
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 45.3%, Strategy 17.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Management 6.1%
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 51.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
Between a child's first cry and someone's final breath, a tribe's history takes shape. Place its people in buildings, answer unexpected events, and lead the tribe for as long as it can endure in this turn-based tribal survival rogue-lite.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Strategy 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Survival 8.9%
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 50.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 6%, Management 5.8%
Run a war hospital where every choice means someone dies. War Angels is a narrative-driven hospital management game inspired by real-world conflicts, where you must treat patients, manage limited resources, and make difficult moral decisions. There are no good choices, only consequences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Time Management 8.5%
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 35.5%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 6.6%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 78.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 4.9%, Simulation 3.8%, Management 3.8%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 7.7%, Story Rich 7.4%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 6.3%, Management 5.6%
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 49.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5%
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 37.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 7.8%
Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Time Management 17.5%, Strategy 16%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 9.5%
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 51.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 5.9%, Management 4.2%
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 12.4%, Time Management 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
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 48.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 7%, Crafting 5.3%
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 44.8%, Strategy 19.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 6.4%
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Time Management 8.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
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 39.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 12%, Management 8.3%, Dystopian 7.1%
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 49.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
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 50.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 7%, Management 6.1%
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 31.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 6.7%