Games Like RimWorld

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 27.1%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational simulation-heavy colony game offers extraordinarily deep procedural worlds, individual personalities, cascading disasters, and emergent stories.

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 39.2%, Base Building 22%, Survival 12.1%, Building 5.7%, Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces RimWorld's combat focus with intricate gas, temperature, plumbing, and survival systems while retaining deeply hands-on colonist management.

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 24.3%, Moddable 15.9%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval RimWorld-style settlement builder centered on individual villagers, layered base construction, raids, injuries, moods, and seasonal survival.

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 26.1%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 9.1%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a spaceship full of crew members, needs, fires, boarding actions, trade, and expeditions captures RimWorld's interpersonal survival feel in space.

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 29.3%, Base Building 28.8%, Survival 17.7%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest modern alternatives, with small groups of named survivors managing needs, defenses, farming, research, and hostile alien environments.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Moddable 13.8%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony sim has you rebuild and defend a damaged starship while managing fragile human colonists and a complex automated infrastructure.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Moddable 14.4%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a small medieval noble family whose relationships, schemes, mental states, and decisions shape a wider colony and its survival.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its Chinese fantasy setting adds cultivation and sect management, but its need-driven disciples, construction, crises, and dense systemic simulation strongly echo RimWorld.

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 48.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 12.1%, Open World 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A gentler but detailed family-clan simulator where individual people must survive weather, work, relationships, injuries, and generational settlement growth.

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 28.1%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 9%, Survival 8.8%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful voxel colony sim with multiple playable races, individual workers, layered underground construction, survival concerns, and procedural maps.

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 33.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 6.3%, City Builder 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building a fortified cult compound during a demon apocalypse combines survivor needs, research, expeditions, combat, and escalating external threats.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Moddable 11.2%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although its setting is different, its individual-agent simulation, room planning, schedules, needs, security crises, and sandbox management offer a similarly addictive loop.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down zombie survival sandbox combines recruitable survivors with individual skills and personalities, base building, scavenging, and unpredictable social conflict.

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 26.3%, Moddable 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the colony formula to city scale while preserving simulated citizens, logistics, political pressures, resource chains, and emergent disasters.

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 25.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Moddable 13.1%, Survival 8.7%, City Builder 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic colony management emphasizes scavenging, crafting, defenses, faction threats, and keeping a small population alive under pressure.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Moddable 14.9%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite settlement structure delivers constant pressure from hostile environments, scarce resources, diverse colonists, and difficult survival trade-offs.

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 28.6%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 10%, Survival 9.7%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view colony sim mixes worker assignments, survival, construction, economics, and social class systems in a highly systems-driven settlement.

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 39.8%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 10.9%, Survival 7.2%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A compact colony sim with individually skilled settlers, mood management, training, research, raids, and a strong focus on building a self-sufficient settlement.

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 44.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 5.9%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving seasonal survival, limited resources, labor assignment, and population management make it a classic colony-sim counterpart to RimWorld.

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 30.2%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades interpersonal drama for excellent survival infrastructure, but its colony growth, resource chains, droughts, and water engineering create similarly satisfying management challenges.

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 27.2%, Moddable 17.1%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 8.5%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarf settlement builder focused on digging, production chains, workers, defense, and the complications of a growing underground colony.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended sandbox supports recruiting a battered squad, constructing a base, surviving raids, and creating player-driven stories in an unforgiving world.

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 30.8%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 15.5%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A demanding medieval survival city builder where disease, food, weather, production chains, raids, and population welfare all require careful planning.

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 35.2%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Survival 9.6%, Management 4%

Why You'll Like It: This compact sci-fi colony builder is focused on keeping a remote planetary population supplied with oxygen, food, power, workers, and protection.

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 41.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-building and villager survival with direct defensive strategy against recurring waves of dangerous night creatures.

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 43.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 11%, Building 10.8%, City Builder 7%

Why You'll Like It: This dwarf colony game blends digging, crafting, defense, worker management, and monster raids in a more accessible side-view format.

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 33.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal survival scenarios make every law, resource allocation, and workforce choice feel consequential for the future of a desperate settlement.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Moddable 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, Management 7.3%

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 37.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Rather than assigning every task directly, you manage a medieval settlement through family households, production, taxation, and social relationships.

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Moddable 28.3%, Procedural Generation 18.8%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic settlement builder built around radiation, droughts, expeditions, scarce supplies, and maintaining a resilient survivor community.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Moddable 15.5%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 9.3%, Survival 8%

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: Moddable 23.1%, Sandbox 20.6%, Sci-fi 16.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Management 9.7%

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 30.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 8.1%, Management 7.9%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Moddable 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 7.5%

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.7%, Tactical RPG 10.4%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 43.2%, Moddable 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 8.6%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Moddable 14.3%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.7%

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 36.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.8%

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 42.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.1%

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.1%, Survival 20.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Simulation 7.4%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 13%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8.5%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 16.6%, Moddable 12.5%, Survival 9.1%, Procedural Generation 6.6%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.5%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 14.9%, Moddable 13.4%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 7.5%

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.3%

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 26.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Moddable 12.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 24.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Moddable 12.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Survival 7.9%

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 31.1%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 7.2%, Management 6.9%

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 33.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 6.3%, Tactical RPG 6%, Sandbox 6%

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 28.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.1%, City Builder 7.1%

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 40%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.1%, Management 8.3%, Sci-fi 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 40%, Base Building 17%, Survival 7.2%, Sandbox 6.4%, Moddable 6.3%

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 14%, Moddable 13.8%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 31.8%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 32.8%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, Management 7.7%

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 23.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Moddable 12.9%, City Builder 10.3%, Survival 7.3%

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 34.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.6%