60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Building, Survival, Colony Sim, Base Building.
Rebuild a long abandoned dwarven home and grow your clan. Progress from basic tools and weak summoned ale, to the finest equipment and tasty powerful brews. Build, explore and trade to thrive.
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: Dwarf 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 7%, Management 6.7%
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: Dwarf 38% ★, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.8%
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: Dwarf 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 6.4%, Management 6.3%
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: Dwarf 36.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 13.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 6.6%
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 32.5% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Dwarf 13.5% ★, Building 7.7%, Survival 7.7%
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 41.2% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 7%, Crafting 6.5%, Survival 5.7%
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: Dwarf 63.6% ★, Colony Sim 8.9% ★, Base Building 5.5%, Simulation 3.8%, Sandbox 3.3%
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 35.3% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 6.8%, Management 6.2%, Building 5.6%
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 28.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.8%, Crafting 6.7%
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: Dwarf 57.3% ★, Base Building 8%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Survival 5.1%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.2%
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
Why similar: Dwarf 51.6% ★, Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Simulation 7.6%, RPG 5.1%
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 22.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 13.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.7%
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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World Survival Craft 8.2% ★, Survival 8%
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 31.5% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.2%
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 33.1% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.2%, Management 7.2%
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.3%
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.6% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 7.9%
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 40.5% ★, Base Building 22%, Survival 9.8%, Building 6.7%, Management 5.9%
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 26.3% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Trading 14.5% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 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 37.5% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World Survival Craft 9.9% ★, Management 8%
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 23.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 28.7% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.1%, 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: Dwarf 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Management 7%, Sandbox 5.9%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 9%, Management 8.9%, Crafting 7.5%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Trading 13.6% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.6%
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 43.6% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Survival 6%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.6%, Survival 8.6%
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.9%
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 35.5% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Management 10%, Building 9.7%, Exploration 5.8%
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Why similar: Dwarf 76.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Base Building 3.6%, Simulation 3.3%, Strategy 2.4%
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 36.5% ★, Base Building 18%, Management 10.7%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 4.8%
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 43.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Management 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 7.1%
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 24.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Management 11.4%, Survival 9.5%, Exploration 6%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.2% ★, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 6.3%
Dig, discover, and survive! In Dwarf Digger, you build your own underground empire, unearth precious treasures, battle hidden dangers, and trade with fellow dwarves. Will you carve your legend deep beneath the earth?
Why similar: Dwarf 35.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%
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 35.7% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 7.1%
Explore the 8-Biomes of Arxox. Live the life of a Dwarf, Elf, or Human folk hero. Hunt. Fish. Master spell runes of the ancients and defeat a powerful Arch Villain.
Why similar: Dwarf 68% ★, Sandbox 7.5%, Survival 7.1%, Simulation 6.5%, Open World 6.3%
Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.
Why similar: Dwarf 40.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Dungeon Crawler 8%, Building 6.6%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 6.7%
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 10%, Open World 9.2%
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Management 9.9%, Building 8.1%, Crafting 7%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.1%
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.7%
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 33% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 30.6% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.2%
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 33.9% ★, Base Building 18%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.9%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Base Building 18%, Survival 8%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 32.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9%
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 29.6% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 36.3% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 8%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.5%
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Survival 7.5%
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Trading 13.3% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.2%
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.8%
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Trading 13.4% ★, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 7%
