
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.
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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.

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A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Kopno: Blightfall
Play as an Orc—or choose one of six unique races—and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build your own settlement. Shape your path through moral choices and explore dangerous lands in the cursed continent of Kopno.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 21.3%, Sandbox 19.6%, Survival 14.9%, RPG 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
Play as an Orc—or choose one of six unique races—and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build your own settlement. Shape your path through moral choices and explore dangerous lands in the cursed continent of Kopno.
Why similar: Open World 17.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, RPG 10.9%
Explore an endless open world — vast in width, length, and depth — filled with mysteries to uncover. Join up to 8 friends to survive, farm, mine, build, and fight together in a living world with day-night cycles, seasons, and dynamic weather.
Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Survival 15.4%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 13.2%
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 20.6% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.3%
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 33.9% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.6%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Open World 19.1%, Building 14.6%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%
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 22.3% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 11.4%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.6%
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 24.1% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.6%, Open World 9.2%
Peasant Simulator is an open-world medieval sandbox. As serf or liege, smith, trade, farm, build, or conquer your way to fortune, glory, and a thriving medieval kingdom. Use your skills in construction, warfare, and crafting to build great towns and castles, then defend them from your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Management 10%
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 21.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Open World 10.2%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 7.2%
"No More Heroes" is a 2.5D survival-exploration game. You find yourself in a world of unknown Yin-Yang and Five Elements forces. Gather food and materials, construct buildings and tools, forge weapons, combat dangerous entities, and confront unexpected events. Do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 11.9%, RPG 8.4%
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Action RPG 10.2%, Management 9.7%
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Why similar: Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.4%
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 29.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.4%, Open World 10.1%
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 22.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 10.4%
Survive a brutal three-day expedition to the North Pole. Gather wood, build shelters, manage cold, and make hard choices. Every decision matters in this intense, minimalist survival journey to the literal edge of the world.
Why similar: Survival 22.4%, RPG 15.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Open World 8.6%
You are a young scientist whose experiment turned into a disaster. When you wake up in the heart of a creepy forest, where every whisper of the wind hides a threat, you realize: there are no rules here. There is only hunger, fear, and shadows hungry for your flesh.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 16.2%, Simulation 5.8%
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 30.8% ★, Sandbox 15%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 7.5%
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: Open World 15.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 13.7%, Building 10.5%
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 24.8% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, Management 10.1%, Crafting 9%
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 23.7% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12%, Management 11.7%
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 18.4% ★, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 12.6%, Management 10.8%
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 31.5% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 15.7%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%
Adventure in a world where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! In this ever-evolving sandbox, creativity meets chaos, and the only limit is your imagination!
Why similar: Open World 20.6%, Sandbox 19.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 15.8%, Action RPG 8.2%
A Singleplayer Guild Battle RPG where you are a guildmaster. Recruit and manage NPC guild members, construct and defend your guild base, and attack other guilds' bases. Expand your resources through trading and completing guild quests. Defeat all the other guilds and become the top guild!
Why similar: Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy RPG 12.5%, Management 12.3%, Action RPG 10.3%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 13%
A story-driven, first person perspective, post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in the rough winter climates of last century’s Russia.
Why similar: Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11.5%
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Strategy RPG 12.2%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11%
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 29.6% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.4%
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Action RPG 11.8%, Crafting 11%
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 22.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Survival 14.9%, RPG 12.2%, Building 11.7%
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 27.3% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12.2%, Management 11%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 7.9%
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Open World 10.2%
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 29.1% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 12.6%, RPG 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
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 18.1% ★, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11.4%
Early development open world sandbox survival game with a focus on detail and granularity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Action RPG 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%
A survival exploration game where you can explore islands, challenge various monsters and defeat powerful Bosses. Craft various weapons and items, place items, grow vegetables and fruits, and trade with merchants. Set sail in the harbor, encounter pirates, monsters and random events in the sea.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Action RPG 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
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 31.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.2%, Management 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
Azure Archipelago is a survival game with 2 core modes, story and sandbox. In sandbox play with modulators, mods, and or friends on servers or local multiplayer. If that doesn't interest you tackle the campaign in story mode to save your friends and company from a frosty fate.
Why similar: Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.5%, Open World 10.8%
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 23% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%
An open world, free roaming, medieval fantasy realm. Survive and expand your own settlements amidst warring factions, dangerous monsters, and diverse characters. Choose your path: thief, trader, farmer, assassin, or colony builder!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.8%
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 22.3% ★, Management 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.6%
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 22.5% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.8%
Deep Despair 3 is an open-world survival action-adventure with RPG elements! Fight, survive, dig, build, explore vast worlds, engage in farming, breed animals, gather resources, and level up to the max!
Why similar: Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.4%
A vast 6 handred-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 15.4%, Open World 12.5%, RPG 10.5%
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 25.8% ★, Management 14.9%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.8%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.8%
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Crafting 17.5%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 14.1%, Action RPG 8.4%
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 23.4% ★, Building 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.5%
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Management 13%, Building 12%, Action RPG 9.6%, Open World 8.8%
An open-world sandbox RPG where every weapon transforms how you fight. Hunt monsters, craft gear from their materials, and shape your build through stats, scrolls, spells, and pets. Explore freely, challenge bosses at your own pace, and carve your own path through a world of magic and discovery.
Why similar: Crafting 24.8%, Sandbox 23.3%, Open World 22.4%, RPG 10%, Exploration 7.6%
Cursed Core is a small, hardcore survival sandbox set in an open, randomly generated world.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 12.2%, Simulation 10.4%
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 35% ★, Survival 15.2%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.3%
A game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Action RPG 9.8%