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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Simulation, Survival.

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Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: Zhukovsky Games
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: IdyllWorks
    Windows

    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 41.9%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 7.8%, Strategy 5.5%

  2. #2 Sheltered 2
    96% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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 33.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%

  3. #3 Dwellers of Terra
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: McJz
    Windows

    A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

  4. #4 Rows Of Earth
    95% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Glasworks Studios
    Windows

    A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 6%

  5. #5 The Five Monks
    94% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Mad GoblinsPub: team BLACKCODE Inc.
    Windows

    A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 6.1%, Top-Down 4.5%

  6. #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 37.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 5.5%

  7. #7 Never Secure
    93% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Blank Page Games
    Windows

    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 36.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

  8. #8 Oxygen Not Included
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 46%, Base Building 24.2%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 2.7%

  9. #9 Breadoria
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Breadpan
    Windows

    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 42.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Resource Management 5.4%

  10. #10 After the Collapse
    91% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    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 33.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Procedural Generation 8%

  11. #11 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
    Windows

    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 45.4%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Strategy 5.7%

  12. #12 Fosoria
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Decoy Duck
    Windows

    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 45.1%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 7.9%, Top-Down 5.9%, Strategy 5.1%

  13. #13 Beneath a Dead City
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonroof Studios
    Windows

    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 40%, Base Building 20%, Survival 12.4%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

  14. #14 Buoyancy
    89% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 51.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.4%

  15. #15 Dinky Guardians
    87% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
    Dev: Endless Loop Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Co-op 14.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

  16. #16 Dwarf Things
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alex Makes Games
    Windows

    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 42.7%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%

  17. #17 SuperColony
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Antic Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    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 40%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 11.7%, Procedural Generation 7%, Strategy 6.9%

  18. #18 The Blighted Frontier
    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sly Game Studios
    Windows

    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 43%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Resource Management 6.7%

  19. #19 Starbound Settlers
    84% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Bitwright Games
    Windows

    A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Top-Down 7.4%

  20. #20 Oxytopia
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: iida-lab
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A co-op colony sandbox where temperature and fluids run on a living cellular-automaton simulation. Terraform a dead world with friends, build a base that runs itself… then watch one leak bring it all down.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.2%

  21. #21 Nyric
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Lovelace Studio
    Windows

    Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Co-op 12.9%, Survival 11.4%

  22. #22 Children of Mare
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Starfall Games
    Windows

    Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.4%, Procedural Generation 7.4%, Resource Management 6.1%

  23. #23 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: afterglow games
    Windows

    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 38.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Base Building 15%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 7.7%

  24. #24 Stranding Echoes
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Mend Games
    Windows

    STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%

  25. #25 Forsaken: Year One
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kymera Games
    Windows

    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 37.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.4%

  26. #26 Underground Nomads
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Funzen Games
    Windows

    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 44.6%, Base Building 21.7%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 4.9%

  27. #27 Ecopunk
    78% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
    Dev: Zerone Games
    Windows

    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 43.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 7.4%

  28. #28 Order: The New Dawn
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Outer Space Workshop
    Windows

    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 36.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Survival 8.5%

  29. #29 TFM: The First Men
    79% matchMixed59% of 413 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    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 46.3%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7.1%, Resource Management 6%

  30. #30 Rise Against the Invaders
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Base Building 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 6.7%

  31. #31 Goblin Colony
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Quench Forge
    Windows

    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 45.3%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.4%

  32. #32 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    78% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    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 46.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 5.6%

  33. #33 Pioneers of Pagonia
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
    Dev: Envision Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 28.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Co-op 11%, Resource Management 8.6%

  34. #34 CircuitVeil
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
    Windows · Linux

    CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%

  35. #35 Harrowlands
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
    Windows

    Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 11.4%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7%

  36. #36 The Last Few
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: DroniX Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Manage a base of survivors during the zombie apocalypse. Send squads on sorties on a real map of any city in the world, make decisions via radio when they get into trouble and remember: you are powerless outside the radio range. Build modules, defend the perimeter and don't let the base die.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Procedural Generation 7.3%, Top-Down 6.1%

  37. #37 Novo: The Colony
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Broken Future Games
    Windows

    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 47.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

  38. #38 Echo Harvest
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: SchismProducts
    Windows

    Build settlements, command the Echoes of former lives, and race against a corruption consuming the world. Echo Harvest is a colony roguelite where every failed timeline becomes part of the history that shapes the next.

    Why similar: Base Building 29.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

  39. #39 SeaColony
    71% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
    Dev: Emindev
    Windows

    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 40.2%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Top-Down 5.9%

  40. #40 Embark
    76% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
    Dev: Overly Complicated Games
    Windows

    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 56.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4%

  41. #41 Starship Colony
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

    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 38%, Base Building 20.1%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 8.1%, Procedural Generation 6%

  42. #42 Lead the Living
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Karagoz Studios
    Windows

    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 37.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 7.1%

  43. #43 The Undercity: Last Light
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
    Windows · Mac

    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 44%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%

  44. #44 Settletopia
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    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 37.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 9%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Resource Management 7.2%

  45. #45 Oxygen: First Breath
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    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 33.4%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

  46. #46 Founders' Fortune
    72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    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 52.8%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 5.7%, Strategy 4.6%

  47. #47 Surviving the Aftermath
    72% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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: Colony Sim 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13%, Strategy 8.1%

  48. #48 The Citadel Must Hold
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Klenisho Games
    Windows

    Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9%, Base Building 28.9%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.1%, Resource Management 4.2%

  49. #49 Malignus
    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Mossbomb
    Windows

    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 45.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Top-Down 6.2%

  50. #50 Lost Heaven Station
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Varnonsoft
    Windows

    Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%

  51. #51 Odd Realm
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 18%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8.7%

  52. #52 Zomboard
    68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
    Dev: Tania Felidea
    Windows

    Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.2%, Survival 5.9%

  53. #53 Colony of the Forsaken
    67% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Tazdingol
    Windows · Mac

    Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Top-Down 5.8%

  54. #54 Red Dust Colony
    67% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
    Windows · Mac

    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 47.5%, Base Building 23.4%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 5.6%

  55. #55 Neighbor Craft
    67% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: FortL
    Windows

    Neighbor Craft is a survival card game where you build a civilization by placing cards next to one another. Decide what to place where, then gather resources, craft, fight, trade, and discover new cards as your civilization evolves.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 21.7%, Cozy 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%

  56. #56 Astro World
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 3Block
    Windows

    Astro World is a side-scrolling co-op game where the players will have to build their colony on a planet full of danger, valuable resources and alien artifacts, using which the player can explore new technologies and equipment to arm their colonists with.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Co-op 16.1%, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Base Building 10%

  57. #57 The Last Haven
    68% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
    Dev: Thunder Devs.
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 11%

  58. #58 Dust Dwellers
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Crimson Stone Games
    Windows

    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 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 8.5%

  59. #59 Adaptory
    64% matchMostly Positive79% of 112 reviews2026
    Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac

    Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Resource Management 9.9%

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