Games Like Odd Realm

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational inspiration for the genre, offering unparalleled depth in simulation and procedural world-building.

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 28.1%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 8.9%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony simulator that shares the deep management, storytelling, and survival mechanics found in Odd Realm.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that mirrors the building style and medieval survival atmosphere of Odd Realm.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar voxel aesthetic and focus on building a thriving settlement in a dangerous, fantasy-inspired world.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features massive-scale settlement management and fantasy elements that capture the grand ambition of building a kingdom.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Automation 15.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down colony management with survival and exploration, offering a similar progression loop to Odd Realm.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily struggles and family dynamics of settlers in a harsh environment.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based colony builder that heavily influenced the mechanics of modern titles like Odd Realm.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex water physics and vertical building, providing a unique twist on the traditional colony-sim formula.

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 33%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 10.2%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly complex management experience where survival depends on mastering intricate environmental systems.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep medieval survival mechanics with a strong emphasis on resource management and town defense.

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling colony simulator that focuses on economic management and survival in a unique underground setting.

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 21.9%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Transfers the colony-sim experience to space, focusing on ship-building and survival in a procedurally generated galaxy.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Management 10%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval management sim that focuses on the social hierarchy and production chains of your settlement.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of god-game and colony simulator that emphasizes tower defense and environmental survival.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, City Builder 24.7%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 6.2%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder that challenges players to manage resources carefully to survive harsh winters.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim that puts a heavy emphasis on character relationships and the consequences of your leadership decisions.

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 32.3%, Base Building 16%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.6%, City Builder 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel colony builder that allows you to manage a large population and defend your settlement from waves of monsters.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Mining 14.2% ★, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarven mining colony sim that emphasizes vertical expansion and complex crafting systems.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.7%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based mining and base-building mechanics that feel very similar to the core loop of Odd Realm.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that balances settlement growth with the need to defend against dragons and invading armies.

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 21.1%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that allows you to manage your villagers and build a kingdom from the ground up.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.6%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical and survival aspects of managing a growing population in a medieval setting.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and resource production chains within a colorful, voxel-based world.

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 31.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes character needs and building a thriving community in a fantasy setting.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 22%, Resource Management 13.9%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game that forces players to make difficult moral choices to keep their colony alive.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 8.1%, Resource Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony sim where you must manage oxygen, water, and food to keep your settlers alive.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that requires careful management of radiation and limited resources.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: A crafting and survival game that starts small and expands into complex colony management and exploration.

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 28.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.6%

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 27.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.5%, City Builder 6.8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 12.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 22.3%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 12.2%, Resource Management 8.8%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.6%, Management 6.8%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.2%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 8.8%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 11%, Management 9.2%, Building 7.8%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 16%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 7.5%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.1%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.8%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Survival 10.8%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.1%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 11.9%

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 26.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 10.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 9.1%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Mining 12.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.4%, Automation 10.2%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, City Builder 8.3%, Building 8.1%

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%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Simulation 6.5%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Automation 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 29.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9%

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 29.8%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 12%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 15.9%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.1%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Automation 10.3%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.7%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.3%