Games Like One Hour One Life

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Building 25.7%, Crafting 24.8%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 18.7%, Simulation 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a shared world where players must collaborate to build a civilization and manage resources to prevent global catastrophe.

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 20.9%, Agriculture 19.3% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on generational survival and family management in a harsh environment, mirroring the legacy-building aspect of the seed game.

A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Agriculture 17.2% ★, Perma Death 14.7%, Cooking 13.9%, Crafting 13%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore social survival game where players must build a life in a persistent world while interacting with other settlers.

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Life Sim 15.9%, Cooking 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy life-sim that features a generational system where your character ages, dies, and is succeeded by their descendants.

A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 49.6%, Building 18.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox world where players work together to terraform the land and build complex structures from scratch.

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34.5%, Crafting 19.5%, Open World 16.1%, Building 14.9%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based MMO where players connect different worlds to build massive settlements and trade resources.

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Agriculture 21.5% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.3%, Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes base-building and technological progression in a shared, persistent world.

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 45.7%, Building 16.9%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-builder that focuses on managing the needs and growth of a small community in a sandbox environment.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Life Sim 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Survival 12%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of human civilization, requiring players to manage their tribe's survival and technological growth.

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 51.9%, Survival 20.9%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 4.9%, Open World 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: While single-player, it captures the intense resource management and colony-building challenges found in civilization-building games.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.6%, Survival 21.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Open World 6.8%, Choices Matter 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to guide a settlement through the ages, focusing on the generational survival of your people from the Stone Age onwards.

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 42.4%, Survival 17.1%, Building 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep story-driven experience where managing the lives and legacies of your colonists is central to the gameplay.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, Survival 13%, Building 12.2%, Open World 7.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that requires careful management of your villagers' needs and survival through changing seasons.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Open World 23.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly detailed survival simulation that thrives on community servers and long-term base building.

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: Crafting 26.6%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 22.4%, Building 19.9%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox game that supports multiplayer cooperation for building settlements and managing complex production chains.

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 38.8%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 8.3%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with survival mechanics as you manage a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Crafting 24.7%, Building 23%, Open World 22.3%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative survival and building with a focus on exploring a vast, shared world with friends.

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 42.5%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that emphasizes the generational growth and development of your people through unique traits and life paths.

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.2%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 16.4%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox survival game where you can build and interact with unique creatures in a shared world.

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Crafting 23.3%, Open World 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A social survival game that focuses on the harsh realities of life and the necessity of community interaction to survive.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Crafting 22.3%, Open World 22.2%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes building and resource gathering in a hostile, immersive environment.

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Agriculture 19.4% ★, Life Sim 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building a life on a new planet, emphasizing farming and community development.

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 38.6%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 11.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the social hierarchy and generational growth of a medieval village.

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Building 14.8%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building survival game that supports online cooperative play for managing a growing settlement.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 34.3%, Crafting 26.8%, Open World 18.8%, Building 16.5%, Simulation 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes social survival game where building and maintaining a base with others is essential for long-term success.

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Life Sim 23.1%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Funny 8%

An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!

Why similar: Crafting 18.9%, Cooking 18%, Life Sim 15.6%, Survival 14.9%, Building 13.8%

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

Why similar: Life Sim 38.8%, Building 25.4%, Open World 16%, Simulation 13.3%, Indie 3.9%

Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Survival 39.9%, Simulation 20.6%, Funny 18.3%, Cute 12.1%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique simulation that focuses on the evolution and survival of life forms in a challenging environment.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Agriculture 23.5% ★, Crafting 17%, Building 14.8%, Survival 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex, technical approach to survival and base-building that rewards collaborative engineering efforts.

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 30.3%, Crafting 18.3%, Survival 15.7%, Building 15.4%, Open World 12%

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14%, Building 14%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Open World 31.7%, Life Sim 20.8%, Funny 18.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Cute 6.2%

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

Why similar: Agriculture 23.3% ★, Crafting 21.4%, Open World 17.2%, Building 17.1%, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Survival 21.1%, Open World 20.4%, Building 18.1%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%

Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.

Why similar: Crafting 41.5%, Open World 30.5%, Procedural Generation 28%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 14.7%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 14.2%

In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

Why similar: Life Sim 39.1%, Building 27%, Simulation 15%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, 2D 4.2%

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 40.9%, Building 20.1%, Survival 18.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Procedural Generation 3.6%

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

Why similar: Crafting 25.2%, Survival 21.4%, Building 19.9%, Open World 18%, Simulation 10.8%

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Crafting 25.1%, Open World 24%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Simulation 9.8%

Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Open World 25.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 6.3%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Agriculture 26% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Building 10.3%, Open World 8.3%

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 35.4%, Building 18.3%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Survival 16%, Simulation 6.7%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%

A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth. The game is set 1000 years into the future where you rebuild society. Grow your town, trade with other players, face challenges and discover the rich history of this suspiciously empty planet.

Why similar: Building 25.4%, Hand-drawn 24.7%, Massively Multiplayer 19.5%, Open World 15.3%, Procedural Generation 14.3%

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 43.9%, Survival 18.2%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%

Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!

Why similar: Crafting 27.8%, Building 24.9%, Life Sim 24.1%, Procedural Generation 13%, Simulation 7%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 35.1%, Survival 26.2%, Open World 22%, Crafting 10.3%, Choices Matter 3.3%

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Life Sim 49.3%, Funny 20.5%, Simulation 17.5%, Indie 7.3%, Open World 5.4%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.5%, Simulation 21.8%, Crafting 19.8%, Indie 2.9%

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 41.1%, Building 18.8%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 13.7%, Simulation 10%

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 32.3%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 13.3%, Life Sim 13.1%

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 50.5%, Survival 20.2%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Indie 1.9%

Run a diner on the last island in the world after the destruction of humankind! For the cute animals and robots that survived, cook delicious food, run a farm, explore the forest, and create the best diner!

Why similar: Agriculture 23.9% ★, Cooking 22.7%, Life Sim 18.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Simulation 8.2%