
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
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A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Worlds Explorers
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.

Woodland Rebels
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 6.7%
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%
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 25% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.5% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.5%
Take on the role of an underwater reef explorer, find a way to save the corals from extinction. Dive into the colorful waters of Water, explore and admire the local reef, explore the mystery of the island. Gather resources to create your own bases in order your survival.
Why similar: Underwater 27.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.5%
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 38.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8.1%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.2%, Management 6.4%
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 34.8% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.8%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 6.5%
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 25.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Management 8%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.8%
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Underwater 23.3% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Underwater 19.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Underwater 26.3% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%
Anchor is a large-scale underwater multiplayer survival game. Build your base, craft tools and weapons, explore, loot and prepare for battle. Every player is a potential threat in a persistent world where bases can be raided, alliances broken, and the ocean itself hunts you.
Why similar: Underwater 31.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.2%
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.9%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Underwater 26.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.8%
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Underwater 18.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.9%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12%, Base Building 12%, Survival 12%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Building 15.3%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Underwater 18.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.9%
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 24.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.2% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.6%
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 37.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Underwater 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Management 7%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.7%, Building 9.2%, Open World 6%
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.6%
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 34% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.2%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 13% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9%
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 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 10.9%, Management 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Building 11.3%
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.4%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Underwater 22.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9%
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 29% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.6%
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 33.6% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11%, Management 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.2%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.5%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 10.5%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Building 10.6%
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%
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 33.7% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 5.9%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10.4%
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 31.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.8%, Management 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 39.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.3%, Management 5.7%
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.8%
Explore the unknown procedurally-generated world of islands and seas. Fight enemies, farm materials, craft equipment, build your base, slay bosses and level up your character. Conquer the unknown with your friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Underwater 19.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.7%
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 30.9% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.4%, Management 7.7%, Building 7.2%
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 13%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%
A procedural open-world survival craft game for 1-10 players. Explore a primitive but dangerous place with a different evolutionary path; here, wildlife is oversized, Neanderthals still exist, and curses are real.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Underwater 21.9% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.1%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10%, Survival 9.8%, Management 8.2%
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Management 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.6%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.6%
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 27% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11.6%, Management 7.6%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Underwater 26.6% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Management 7.9%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 10.5%, Management 8.7%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.2%
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: Underwater 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.2%
You’ve crash-landed on Earth in 2702. Craft, dig, fight through a vast and colorful post-apocalyptic open world full of wonder, generated cities, dungeons, aliens, mechs, and an underworld. Find love. Or beat the ultimate Underlord!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.8%, Building 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7.8%