Games Like Settlement Survival

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: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Building 12.8%, Agriculture 10.3% ★, Medieval 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, modern take on the medieval survival city-builder with complex farming systems and intense environmental threats.

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: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 30.7%, Survival 8%, Medieval 6.2%, Sandbox 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the foundational title that established the survival-focused city-builder genre and shares the exact core loop of managing resources to survive harsh winters.

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: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder introduces a unique, fast-paced approach to survival management that keeps the gameplay loop fresh and challenging.

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: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.5%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a unique verticality and water management mechanic to the survival city-builder genre, requiring clever engineering to survive droughts.

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: City Builder 28.1%, Medieval 15.2%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed medieval city-building experience with a focus on organic growth and realistic resource chains.

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: City Builder 40%, Colony Sim 32.9%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 4.2%, Strategy 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Players guide a group of humans through different eras of prehistory, focusing on survival and technological progression in a harsh environment.

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 34.1%, Medieval 11.8%, Colony Sim 10%, Building 7.7%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game prioritizes organic city growth and grid-less building, allowing for a more natural and aesthetic town-planning experience.

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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Survival 12.1%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the ultimate survival city-builder, forcing players to make difficult moral choices while managing heat and resources in a frozen apocalypse.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17%, Building 8.5%, Management 7%, Agriculture 6.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on deep historical simulation and realistic building mechanics, perfect for players who enjoy the slower, methodical pace of Settlement Survival.

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%, City Builder 22.5%, Management 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that allows for complex multi-story building and defense against raids in a post-plague medieval world.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Survival 9.1%, Medieval 8%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the mechanics of Settlement Survival closely, focusing on social dynamics and resource management within a medieval setting.

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 36.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes radiation management and survival against extreme weather conditions.

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: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Medieval 10%, Management 7.9%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible city-builder that still incorporates essential survival elements like food management and defense against invaders.

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 31.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, it is the gold standard for colony management and survival, offering unparalleled depth in individual character needs and emergent storytelling.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 7.2%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines traditional city-building with exploration and survival elements in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 7.5%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game introduces a unique survival mechanic where you build your settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Management 8.1%, Medieval 7.6%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar management experience to Settlement Survival with the added bonus of multiplayer functionality.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 9.3%, Survival 7.9%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that tasks you with leading a Viking clan while managing resources and defending against raids.

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: City Builder 32%, Colony Sim 30.6%, Medieval 8.6%, Building 7.3%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same DNA as Settlement Survival, focusing on managing a small village through seasons and resource scarcity.

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: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Building 10.8%, Management 8.9%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the logistics and complex production chains of Settlement Survival, this offers the most detailed management experience available.

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 29.3%, Agriculture 19.2% ★, Medieval 17.5%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on managing family needs and preparing for the harsh winter.

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 28.7%, Survival 19.3%, Base Building 17%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D survival colony sim that focuses on crafting, research, and defending your survivors on an alien planet.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 22%, Building 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must manage resources and technology to rebuild society.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 20%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city-builder that emphasizes exploration and complex production chains in a vibrant fantasy world.

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: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Medieval 9%, Building 8.6%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features very similar mechanics to the seed game, focusing on town management, trade, and survival in a medieval setting.

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 18.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval kingdom sim that focuses on managing the complex social lives and survival of your noble family and subjects.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Building 10.9%, Economy 8.5%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city-builder that focuses on balancing the needs of your population with the fragile ecosystem of an alien planet.

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: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Medieval 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a deep ecosystem simulation where your building choices directly impact the local environment and wildlife.

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 23.9%, City Builder 21.7%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 10%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy colony sim where you oversee the lives of peasant families and their contributions to your medieval estate.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that requires strict resource management and moral decision-making to keep your station population alive.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 17.9%, Medieval 9.8%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.7%

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 20.3%, City Builder 20%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.5%, Survival 7.3%

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 22.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 12.3%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8.3%

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 30.7%, City Builder 20%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 6%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Building 11%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 7%

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 32.2%, City Builder 30%, Building 12.7%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 23%, Building 11%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Building 14.9%, Management 10.1%, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 18%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.6%

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 25.4%, City Builder 24.2%, Building 11%, Management 8.3%, Survival 8.2%

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 26.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 12.1%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8%

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 30%, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9%, Building 6%

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Economy 7.8%, Management 7.4%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Agriculture 12.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Management 8.5%

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 20.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, Building 10.7%, Management 8.6%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.6%, Base Building 7.4%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.2%, Medieval 8.1%

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 22.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 9%, Survival 8.6%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Medieval 11.7%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Base Building 7.4%

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: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Building 14.5%, Agriculture 12.2% ★, Management 11.5%, Economy 8.6%

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 22.8%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, City Builder 35.4%, Base Building 7.1%, Simulation 4.3%, Strategy 4.1%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Medieval 14.1%, Economy 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Agriculture 14.4% ★, Building 12.4%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 22%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.6%, Economy 7.8%

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: City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 10.7%

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 22.7%, City Builder 21.4%, Medieval 10%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.2%