60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Management.
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Hiveheart
Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.
Planet Barren Objective
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Side Scroller 15.7%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 9.2%, Exploration 7.9%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Side Scroller 15.2%, Automation 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 8.5%
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Side Scroller 19.9%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Exploration 8.1%
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Mining 15.5% ★, Building 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.1%
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 36.6%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 12%, Automation 9.7%, Exploration 7.7%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Automation 15.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%
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 37.4%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 11%, Mining 10.5% ★, Strategy 8.2%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Mining 16.3% ★, Automation 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.1%
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 15%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.3%
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 36%, Building 16.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Exploration 7.9%
Earth is gone. The fleet is hungry. Drop a Hub on a generated claim, find the seam, and let the robots dig. Every machine you build makes noise — and noise is how the machines that took the planet find you. Hold the line, launch with the take, sell it, and go deeper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 10%, Side Scroller 7.1%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Mining 19.9% ★, Building 13.2%, Automation 12.3%, Base Building 11.4%
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Mining 25.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.9%, Exploration 7.9%
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 24.8%, Mining 18.5% ★, Automation 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.3%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Automation 20.7%, Management 13.7%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 8%
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Automation 10.9%, Mining 9.3% ★, Exploration 7.3%
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 38.1%, Building 17%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 6.3%
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Side Scroller 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 9.4%, Exploration 8.8%
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 29.3%, Mining 13.5% ★, Automation 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Management 9.2%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Automation 13.6%, Mining 13.5% ★, Building 11.6%, Management 10.7%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Mining 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 12.8%, Exploration 7.1%
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Automation 14.7%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Exploration 9.3%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Mining 20.7% ★, Building 12.4%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.9%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 26.2% ★, Automation 19%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.3%
Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Mining 17.1% ★, Side Scroller 16.8%, Management 7.6%, Exploration 7.2%
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Side Scroller 18.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Management 8.8%
Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Nature 13%, Life Sim 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.7%
Build a microscopic empire in this 2D colony sim. Cultivate ecosystems starting from basic stem cells, and evolve your plants and microorganisms into an intricate web of life. Assimilate wildlife, fend off invaders, and establish a cooperative network of colonies to thrive in the primordial soup.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 10%, Nature 9.6%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 14%, Management 13.6%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 23.2%, Management 10.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Nature 9.6%
Against The Tide is a simulation strategy game about restoring a dying coral reef. Build your conservation facility, grow your marine gardens, thwart invasive species, and discover new technologies to save the reef.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Building 12.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Management 9.4%, Nature 9.2%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Mining 16.7% ★, Building 10.6%, Automation 9.1%, Management 8.5%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.1%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 19.3%, Building 17%, Base Building 14.2%, Mining 7.3% ★
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.4%
Every kingdom begins with a letter. A cozy fantasy incremental: the crown asks, and you fill each request by hand — chopping, smelting, building, hiring and carrying every armful yourself. No fail states, no deadlines, nothing ever lost.
Why similar: Side Scroller 25.5%, Automation 19%, Building 16.2%, Management 12.4%, Nature 10%
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 35.3%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Life Sim 11.3%, Management 10.9%
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Building 14.6%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Management 11.4%, Life Sim 8.3%
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Mining 25.1% ★, Building 15.6%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 5.8%
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 13.8%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Automation 19.5%, Management 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 5.8%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.9%, Management 9.5%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Mining 20.3% ★, Automation 12.2%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.3%
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Mining 20.5% ★, Building 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%
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 36.4%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.1%
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 36.9%, Building 17.8%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Exploration 6.7%
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Mining 24.5% ★, Management 10.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 7.3%
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Automation 14.9%, Mining 12.5% ★, Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.4%
A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Life Sim 13.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Mining 23.5% ★, Automation 12.4%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%
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 47.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 3.6%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.6%, Exploration 8.7%
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 42.8%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 14%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 7%
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Building 10.7%, Life Sim 10.7%, Automation 8.7%, Management 8%
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 43.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 7.9%
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 45.5%, Base Building 15%, Management 13.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Strategy 6.6%
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 27.8% ★, Building 14.7%, Automation 13.6%, Side Scroller 13.5%, Base Building 10.9%
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 35.2%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Mining 10.5% ★, Strategy 7.2%
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 40.2%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 9.8%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 10.2%
