
Build, crew and command a colossal landcruiser across a dying desert world. By day you scavenge and produce; by night you defend against a swarm from the deep, roused by your own heat and vibration. Stop moving, and you become prey.
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Build, crew and command a colossal landcruiser across a dying desert world. By day you scavenge and produce; by night you defend against a swarm from the deep, roused by your own heat and vibration. Stop moving, and you become prey.

TFM: The First Men
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?

Wasteland Train: Conductor
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
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 34.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 7.7%, Survival 7%, Management 5.6%
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Vehicular Combat 16%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.8%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Inventory Management 8%
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 30.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
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 38.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 5.2%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 12.3%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Your base is on the move. Your crew is at the breaking point. Manage priorities, automate repairs, and keep everyone alive as your fortress crosses a hostile wasteland. Survive the attacks. Adapt to the chaos. Keep moving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Vehicular Combat 19.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
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 42.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 6%, Crafting 5.9%
You're not just surviving — you're leading. An isometric zombie survival and colony sim: scavenge a world where loot never respawns, build a base that holds, and keep a community of survivors alive. The dead are slow, drawn by sound, and they never stop.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Resource Management 6.7%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 11.3%, Management 8.2%, Crafting 6.6%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Management 8%
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 9%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.9%
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 35.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.6%, Management 8.5%
Night Frontier is a survival-management game about building a camp, preparing squads, and sending them into a dangerous and cursed wasteland. Gather resources, craft equipment, manage injuries and disease, and decide how much risk your people can survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 8.5%, Management 7.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 29.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Management 7.9%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 8.4%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 23.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Resource Management 6%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 8%, Management 6.9%
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Vehicular Combat 19.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.4%
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Choices Matter 7%
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 7.6%, Inventory Management 6.6%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 6.7%
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Management 8.9%
Lead a group of survivors through a dry and desolate wasteland in this turn-based card game. Outfit your survivors with vehicles to fend off metal beasts at night, scavenge for resources, and uncover the path to your next homestead. Can you outwit the dangers of this harsh new world?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Vehicular Combat 22%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.2%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 15%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 26.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 37.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Simulation 5.4%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.4%
The Netherlands has fallen. Lead your survivors on scavenging trips through the ruins, find resources, recruit more survivors, and come home to a camp to take care for. Survivors cook, craft, and train on their own. Every item you bring back makes your camp grow stronger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 10.2%
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 31.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 8.9%
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 42.3%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 5.9%
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.4%
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 36.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 10%, Inventory Management 9.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 9.9%, Inventory Management 8.8%, Survival 8.7%
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Survival 14%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 6.1%
You are the acting captain of the last war vessel of humanity. Now the ship is your home and refuge. "real-time roguelike spaceship sim"
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 8.6%, Management 7.6%
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 40.7%, Base Building 20%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Exploration 5.8%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 17%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 8.2%
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 11%, Crafting 7.2%, Simulation 6.9%
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 28.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Survival 7.3%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 11.4%, Colony Sim 10%, Strategy 8%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 11%, Management 6.6%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Resource Management 7.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
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 44.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 6%, Resource Management 5.8%
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Base Building 21.7%, Survival 14.9%, Management 6.6%, Simulation 5.2%
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 38.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.3%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 11.9%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 40.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 14.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 7.9%
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 37%, Base Building 23.3%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Open World 5.7%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%