- #1 Worshippers of Cthulhu
97% matchVery Positive81% of 1,507 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Lovecraftian 21.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9%, Building 8.9%
- #2 Stranded: Alien Dawn
96% matchVery Positive84% of 11,043 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Survival 16%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 Oxygen Not Included
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 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 32.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Building 9.6%
- #4 Frostpunk
95% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Survival 14.3%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.1%
- #5 Aztecs: The Last Sun
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10.2%
- #6 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.8%
- #7 The Last Haven
93% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 25.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #8 IXION
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.2%
- #9 Homeseek
91% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Difficult 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 9.5%
- #10 Gord
91% matchMixed54% of 994 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 13%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #11 The Deadly Path
90% matchMixed47% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: Owlskip EnterprisesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.8%
- #12 Dark Moon
89% matchMixed49% of 154 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
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 25.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, Dark 8.4%
- #13 Surviving the Abyss
89% matchMixed65% of 1,060 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.4%, Difficult 10.6%, Management 10.3%
- #14 Against the Storm
86% matchVery Positive95% of 35,994 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.2%
- #15 Surviving the Aftermath
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 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 29.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 8.5%
- #16 Black Forest
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 410 reviews2023
Dev: Lemuria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #17 Ascent of Ashes
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 298 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
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 25.3%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12%, Management 10.4%
- #18 New Cycle
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,809 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #19 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
85% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 34.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 7.7%
- #20 Oxygen
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #21 Farthest Frontier
81% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Building 15.5%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #22 Endzone 2
82% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #23 Ragnorium
83% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Roguelike 9.8%
- #24 Mind Over Magic
79% matchVery Positive87% of 4,367 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 13.6%, Management 11.3%, Survival 11.2%
- #25 After the Collapse
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 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 31.4%, Base Building 18%, Management 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #26 Ancient Cities
80% matchMixed63% of 2,122 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: Immersive Sim 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.4%
- #27 Maia
82% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 38.7%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #28 Land of the Vikings
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,222 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Management 10.1%
- #29 Planetbase
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 8%, Building 7.2%
- #30 Settlement Survival
77% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Building 16.3%, Management 12.3%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%
- #31 Temporian
77% matchVery Positive83% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: ChallAcc
Windows · Linux
Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?
Why similar: Building 22.4%, Management 18.6%, Survival 18.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #32 Grim Realms
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
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 34.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 13.3%, Management 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
- #33 Stonedeep
78% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
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 23.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #34 Drill Core
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,374 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 15%, Roguelite 12.7%, Roguelike 11.3%, Management 8.6%
- #35 Anoxia Station
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 204 reviews2025
Dev: BonereadersPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
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 23.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Dark 9.7%
- #36 DarkSwitch
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 535 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #37 Landnama
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 470 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Roguelite 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #38 Floodland
76% matchMixed56% of 1,068 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 13.6%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #39 Primitive Society Simulator
73% matchVery Positive83% of 731 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 15.6%, Management 13%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #40 Cataclismo
71% matchVery Positive89% of 4,143 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Difficult 10.8%
- #41 Vilset
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
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 31.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 16.5%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #42 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 198 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 12.2%, Difficult 9.4%
- #43 The Hive
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 426 reviews2016
Dev: Skydome Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Top-Down 8.4%
- #44 The Crust
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 14%, Building 11.7%, Management 9.7%
- #45 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
72% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 35.7%, Base Building 15%, Survival 13.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11%
- #46 As Far As The Eye
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,113 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Management 10.2%
- #47 Sheltered 2
72% matchMixed46% of 2,191 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 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 27.8%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13.1%, Building 9.3%
- #48 Dwarf Fortress
67% matchVery Positive95% of 31,055 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 14.1%, Management 12.2%, Survival 11.4%
- #49 Chromosome Evil 2
69% matchVery Positive88% of 265 reviews2024
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival for a second time. Assemble your strike team and manage your convoy. It's up to you to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Why similar: Survival 21%, Dark 19.6%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Top-Down 15.2%, Strategy 12.5%
- #50 RimWorld
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 239,676 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.8 hrsMean: 262.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 34.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 12.3%, Management 10.3%, Building 9%
- #51 Night is Coming
69% matchMixed65% of 447 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 15.2%, Survival 13.1%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #52 Chromosome Evil
70% matchVery Positive83% of 351 reviews2022
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Why similar: Resource Management 19.6%, Survival 15.5%, Choices Matter 15%, Dark 10.1%, Top-Down 10.1%
- #53 Survive the Blackout
70% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Difficult 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #54 First Feudal
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, Management 8.5%
- #55 dotAGE
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,607 reviews2023
Dev: Michele Pirovano
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Building 11.3%, Roguelite 10.9%, Difficult 10.2%
- #56 Farlanders
66% matchVery Positive91% of 576 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Management 9.7%
- #57 Infection Free Zone
64% matchVery Positive81% of 17,669 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 22%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Management 11.6%, Survival 10.2%
- #58 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 220 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Simulation 27.5%, Strategy 22.8%, Atmospheric 13.7%
- #59 TFM: The First Men
67% matchMixed62% of 406 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 36.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.6%, Survival 7.9%