60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Strategy, Simulation.
Start as a single dwarf with limited tools. Craft, explore, build and trade as you recruit more dwarves and rebuild a lost colony. Tunnel deep in to the rock, building a network of rail to bring your goods to the surface. Progress from basic goods to the finest ales, wood, metal and stone works.
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 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 10.9%, City Builder 8.2%, 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 39.3% ★, Colony Sim 22.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, 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% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 6.5%, City Builder 6.4%
Stoneborn combines classic colony simulation with a vibrant dwarven culture. Your dwarves celebrate weddings, hold grudges, and fight to survive. Build a multi-level fortress and shape the story of your colony in a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Dwarves 39.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 3.9%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 12%, Dwarves 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
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 30.7%, Dwarves 20.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%
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 25.5%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 7.1%
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 27.2%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World Survival Craft 9% ★, Management 8.5%
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 38.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17% ★, Base Building 13.8%, 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 40.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 6.3%
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 34.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 6.1%, Management 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 22.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World Survival Craft 11.1% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, City Builder 10.6%
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 33.6%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Management 8.6%, Building 6.1%
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 24.3%, Trading 14%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Trading 11%, Base Building 10.4%
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Trading 11.9%, City Builder 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Dwarves 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Trading 10.4%, Base Building 10%, City Builder 7.4%
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 29.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.3%, City Builder 7.8%
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 34.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Dwarves 14.7% ★, Building 9%, Simulation 5.9%
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 33.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Simulation 7.8%
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 39.5%, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.3%
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 36.7%, Base Building 18.8%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, City Builder 7.4%
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 26.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Management 7.6%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Dwarves 21.5% ★, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 5.6%
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 26%, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 26.5%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, 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 28.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 11%
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 33.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 5.1%
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 35.2%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%
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 73.7% ★, Colony Sim 6.5%, Base Building 4%, Simulation 2.8%, Sandbox 2.8%
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 26.8%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9%
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 36.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.6%, City Builder 6.8%
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 27.7%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.1%
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%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 12%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%
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 26.5%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 9%, Sandbox 9%
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 27.9%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 10.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%
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 21.9%, Base Building 21.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%
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 35.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.6%
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 27.1%, Open World Survival Craft 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8%
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.2%
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 27.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%
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 30.9%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 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 43.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 6.6%, Sandbox 6.4%
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
Why similar: Dwarves 55.9% ★, Colony Sim 36.2%, Simulation 7.9%
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 8.8%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Dwarves 52.5% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 5.9%
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 22.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%, City Builder 8.8%
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 29.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Trading 12.8%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 69.6% ★, City Builder 8.6%, Strategy 6.4%, Building 4.8%, Crafting 4.4%
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 28.4%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Trading 11.7%, Building 8.3%
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 34.1%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 7.9%, Strategy 6.6%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 10.2%
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 26.6%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 13.3%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 34.6%, Base Building 22.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 6.4%
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 21.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World Survival Craft 13.6% ★, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 32.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.8%
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 29.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 10.4%, City Builder 10.4%, Building 8.7%
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 37%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 9%, Simulation 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 27.4%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 7.5%
