
You wake inside a dead god. Darkness. Decay. No way out. Build your colony among rotting organs and forgotten chambers. Ancient parasites stir. Your species must adapt or join the rot. No two playthroughs tell the same story.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Management, Singleplayer, Simulation.

You wake inside a dead god. Darkness. Decay. No way out. Build your colony among rotting organs and forgotten chambers. Ancient parasites stir. Your species must adapt or join the rot. No two playthroughs tell the same story.

The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Anoxia Station
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Lovecraftian 19.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Roguelike 9.1%, Management 8.2%
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.7%, Roguelike 8.4%
Sclera is a Lovecraftian turn-based strategy roguelike set in a dying, near-futuristic world. Through menu-style combat, text exploration and skill-check events, maintain your sanity and manage resources as you gather a dark essence needed to survive the inescapable eldritch horror now hunting you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Text-Based 18%, Roguelike 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%
An artsy, text-based, fantasy management game. Not as difficult as it looks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4% ★, Text-Based 22.3%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 7.8%
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 40.1% ★, Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 12.9%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.4%
Project Viper is a point-and-click RPG. The key to mastery is the items you use and how you use them. Find a variety of unique items to exploit your enemies with. Progression is key to finding out who you truly are...
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Procedural Generation 19.2%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, RPG 9.7%
A Sci-Fi turn based resource management game where you mine, craft and ship resources across the galaxy while trading, spying and battling NPCs along the way.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Text-Based 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 9.8%
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9%
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 38.8% ★, Procedural Generation 11%, Survival 10.7%, Roguelike 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Text-Based 14%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, Diplomacy 21.7% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Management 8.7%
Set in the world of Cultist Simulator, haunt mortals and escape divine punishment in this unique relationship and resource management game. Strike Faustian pacts, manipulate mortals, and forsake your immortal life. Developed by Common Logic via Weather Factory's Sixth History License.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Management 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Choices Matter 9%, Strategy 8.6%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 6.6%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4% ★, Resource Management 15.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 9.7%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
You are the acting captain of the last war vessel of humanity. Now the ship is your home and refuge. "real-time roguelike spaceship sim"
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Roguelike 14.5%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
Survive the horrors of the unknown as you expand your lands to keep from being dragged into the darkness; and devoured by that which lurks inside. Every time you make an action, the world around moves forward too. So be strategic in your choices, and be sure they are worth it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Lovecraftian 22.4%, Roguelike 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Management 8.3%
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Roguelike 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.1%
Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
Why similar: Text-Based 50.6%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, RPG 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Roguelike 7.2%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 80.1% ★, Resource Management 6.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Management 6.1%
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 46.6% ★, Procedural Generation 17.2%, Management 15.4%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 7.6%
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 42.8% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.5%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Procedural Generation 19%, Survival 13.4%, Roguelike 11.9%, RPG 11.9%
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Management 14%, Resource Management 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Survival 8.5%
Be king is a decision taking game, and you can loose if you take the wrong decisions! Taking and making the right decisions is what you need to ensure you keep increasing your empire in size, and in power!
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.1% ★, Text-Based 21.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 13%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, Management 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
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 56.5% ★, Resource Management 15.6%, Survival 13.8%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 4.2%
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 58.1% ★, Management 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 3.1%
Create your own cult, perform forbidden rituals, and crusade against the filthy non-believers. It's time to play god. CultGame is a retro cult simulator RPG where you start your own cult in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world with haunting ASCII art.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Management 12.4%, RPG 9.3%, Strategy 8.9%
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6% ★, Resource Management 15.8%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Survival 11.1%, Management 8.7%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 72.9% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 5%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4% ★, Resource Management 16.9%, Roguelike 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 9.2%
The dark lord has tasked you to decide which heroes pass and which heroes do not. There are becoming too many papers and to top it off the camp with the other goblins will not last long without you. Decide who passes through during the day and manage the camp at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.3% ★, Resource Management 18.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Strategy 7.9%, RPG 7.1%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.4% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Resource Management 16.3%, Survival 13.2%
Miskatonic is a text-based strategy game where players take the role of an ancient god, determined to harvest fear for power. Incept your victims through dialogues with their psyche, study the limits of their mind by unlocking their stories, and manipulate the maze with powerful abilities.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.1%, Text-Based 27.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Strategy 9%, Choices Matter 4.9%
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 47.8% ★, Survival 12%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 10.3%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 42% ★, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Management 12.6%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 7.6%
Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 10%, Survival 9.2%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5% ★, Management 21.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Rise of the Insurged is a dark fantasy strategy/management game where you lead a company of adventurers. Recruit, train, and send your mercenaries on choice-driven missions, fight in the arena, and master craftable elemental magic to overthrow the Queen.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40% ★, RPG 14.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Management 8.2%
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Lovecraftian 17.1%, Management 10.4%, Horror 9.5%, Survival 7.7%
The Earth is dead. Take control of the ARC-7 terminal and manage the fate of 5,000 souls. Balance energy and credits, make moral choices, gamble, and survive the Loan Shark. Every keystroke has a price in this 100-day dystopian text-based simulation. Your shift begins now, Operator.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 20.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Lead the first settlement on Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa! What alien life lurks beneath the ice? Who is sabotaging your mission? Who can you trust?
Why similar: Diplomacy 29% ★, Text-Based 27.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Management 10.6%
Play as a fictional US president in this satirical narrative strategy! Lead Democrats or Republicans to make America great again. Again.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Diplomacy 21% ★, Management 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Strategy 10%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Diplomacy 22.9% ★, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10%
Nothing is greater than Aquasplendere, and we hear his voices. His blood flows through our world. Embody the descendants of the Great Deaf bloodline and lead the epic journey of our civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.3%
Uncover ancient cults, battle horrific monsters and thwart the rise of unfathomable Ancient Ones in a 1920s-themed adventure. In this faithful adaptation of the classic board game, you must race against time to save humanity from ancient powers and dark secrets before all is lost.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40%, Roguelike 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Horror 11.1%, Resource Management 8.1%
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelike 11.2%
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 55% ★, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
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 45.8% ★, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Survival 12.3%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
A roguelike strategy and survival game where ever-growing sacrifices are required to keep the mysterious Eternal Flame alive. Build a colony of Frogos and create unique builds every run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Roguelike 13.2%, Management 12.3%, Survival 10.5%
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 47.7% ★, Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Dark 5.8%
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 13.9%, Roguelike 10%, Survival 9.5%
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Diplomacy 22.4% ★, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Imago is a rogue-like 3D platformer. You are caught is a vicious blizzard. To escape, you must harness the power of bugs. Temporarily forfeit their power and you will be rewarded with stronger bugs. The levels grow more treacherous. Survey your path and plan ahead. Time is precious. Spend it wisely.
Why similar: Roguelike 25.2%, Procedural Generation 20.7%, Dark 12.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 10%
A text-based, choice-driven adventure. Intrigue, trust, loyalty, luck, reflex... How high a position can you achieve in this medieval world?
Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, RPG 10.4%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 86% ★, Strategy 14%
CEO Sim: Cyberpunk is an economic strategy about corporation management in the world of cyberpunk. Become the CEO of Virtual Dreams company and, under the control of the board of directors, try to maintain your power in the face of a brewing corporational war.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 8.5%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Diplomacy 27.8% ★, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 9.2%
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 44.9% ★, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
The Last Cargo is a dark survival horror - where your road to independence leads through the hell of imprisonment.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.2%, Roguelike 12.8%, Horror 10.8%, Survival 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%