
Establish and grow a dwarven colony. Mine deep into the rock for precious ores and gems, then craft the finest wares to trade. Attract more dwarves as your renown spreads and your gold hoard increases.
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Establish and grow a dwarven colony. Mine deep into the rock for precious ores and gems, then craft the finest wares to trade. Attract more dwarves as your renown spreads and your gold hoard increases.

Dwarf Fortress
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.

Craft The World
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.
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: Dwarves 32.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 10.9%, City Builder 8.1%, Sandbox 7.6%
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: Dwarves 40% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7%
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: Dwarves 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 6.5%, City Builder 6.3%
Stoneborn is a colony simulation where you lead a group of dwarves in building a thriving settlement in a procedurally generated world. Delve deep for valuable resources, face lurking dangers, and shape your colony’s destiny through research, combat, politics, and diplomacy.
Why similar: Dwarves 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 4.7%
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 25.9%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 10%, Sandbox 9%, Management 7.4%
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 31.4%, Dwarves 19.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
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 30.6%, Dwarves 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 8%, Simulation 5.3%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Dwarves 39.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 6.5%
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 41.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 6.4%
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 34.5%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 7.7%, Management 6.2%, Building 6%
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World Survival Craft 10.9% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, City Builder 10.6%
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 24.5%, Trading 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Trading 12.4%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 30.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.1%
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 40.1%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.3%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%
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 37.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.4%, City Builder 7.3%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Management 7.9%
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Why similar: Dwarves 74.2% ★, Colony Sim 6.5%, Base Building 4%, Simulation 2.9%, Sandbox 2.8%
Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Dungeon Crawler 9.2%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%
Return to Nangrim is a dark first-person fantasy adventure with survival and RPG elements. Craft, explore, and survive an abandoned world. So grab your axe and shield and reclaim the mountains together with your animal companion! The epic world of Nangrim awaits you, also in VR.
Why similar: Dwarves 62.1% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 6.7%, Open World 4.8%
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 34.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Management 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 4.6%
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 37.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.6%, City Builder 6.8%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.6%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 35.8%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
Why similar: Dwarves 56% ★, Colony Sim 36%, Simulation 7.9%
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Why similar: Dwarves 44% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 6.8%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 28.1%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.3%
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 25.3%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 9%, Crafting 8.2%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.7%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 12.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 7.8%
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8%
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, City Builder 8.7%
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 28%, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9%
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 19.7%, Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 8.5%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 8%, Building 6.7%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World Survival Craft 10.3% ★, Crafting 7.5%
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
Why similar: Dwarves 70.9% ★, City Builder 8.5%, Strategy 5.1%, Building 4.8%, Crafting 4.4%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Trading 13.3%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 13.3%, Trading 12.1%, Building 8.2%
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 27.8%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 11.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8%, Simulation 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 27%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.7%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.3%, Management 7.9%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 8.7%
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Why similar: Dwarves 76.8% ★, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 3.4%, Simulation 3.2%, Strategy 2.5%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 13.4% ★, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 35.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Building 10.5%, Management 10.3%, Open World 6.3%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Trading 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 8.9%
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 31.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Management 7.7%
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 40.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 6.4%
Craft your tale in a whimsical fantasy world. Shape a charming city, fulfill Kinlings' needs, and watch their unique stories unfold. Explore, quest, farm, and build. Experience the enchantment of Kinlings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8.4%, Dungeon Crawler 8.3%
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 32.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 7.8%
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 35.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 7.9%, Open World 7.5%
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 31.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 7.6%
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 27.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World Survival Craft 10.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%