
A crafting colony sim that feels like coming home. A warm campfire, the cutest animal villagers, the curiosity of putting two items together and seeing what comes out. Craft, build, automate, and explore the ancient tunnels down below.
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A crafting colony sim that feels like coming home. A warm campfire, the cutest animal villagers, the curiosity of putting two items together and seeing what comes out. Craft, build, automate, and explore the ancient tunnels down below.

Skyberry Garden
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

Dinky Guardians
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Automation 21.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 8.3%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Automation 21.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 9%, Management 8.7%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Automation 19.2%, Crafting 14%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 8.9%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Automation 18.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.3%
For The Crown – Addictive Puzzle-Building Game 🏆 Winner of "Best Game Programming Project SAE 2023"! Build production chains, optimize resources, and grow your castle. Easy to learn, hard to master! 50 handcrafted levels, deep strategy, no idle mechanics—just pure optimization. 👑 Play now!
Why similar: Lemmings 47.8% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Logic 11.6%, Cute 4.2%
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 8.1%, Logic 7.8%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Automation 12.9%, Building 12.1%, Management 9.6%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Automation 27%, Management 12%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 6.2%
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Automation 20.5%, Building 13%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 7.4%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Automation 20.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 8.1%
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game about populating the depths and bringing light into them. Build cozy underground cities and find the perfect place for each Deeplander to live in harmony.
Why similar: Lemmings 33.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Logic 10.6%, Building 9.7%, Funny 6%
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Automation 19.4%, Lemmings 18.3% ★, Building 11.4%, Base Building 8.5%
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 37.9%, Automation 13.5%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 7.6%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.8%, Cooking 10.3%, Management 10.3%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Crafting 16.2%, Automation 15.6%, Building 12.6%, Management 8.8%
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 29.6%, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 25.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 6.6%, Management 6.2%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, Automation 26%, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 4.4%
Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 9.8%, Logic 8.2%, Crafting 6.7%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Automation 20.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10%, Management 8.7%
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10%
Mine, discover, and build to help your newly cloned citizens avoid traps and enemies on their way to the New Earth portal. Create safe pathways through different biomes in this lemmings-like puzzle strategy game, on your way to meeting your Population Goals!
Why similar: Lemmings 62.3% ★, Building 7.6%, Logic 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Management 5.2%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Automation 14.3%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Logic 9.7%
An Iddle game about shopping for little monsters, like ghosts, zombies and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Automation 18.2%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.7%
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Automation 11.9%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%
Corebound combines automation and deckbuilding into a unique strategic experience. Battle mysterious constructs as you build production lines to generate the cards you need. Optimize your decks and factories, expand and fight your way to the mountain’s core.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 20%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.4%
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Automation 15.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Logic 8.6%, Simulation 7.6%
Run a chaotic Christmas gift factory with mischievous gnomes! Get to Work, Gnomes! Christmas Factory is a short management game where you prepare gifts for children before Christmas. Package gifts, build production lines, manage gnomes, and assign tasks to turn a workshop into an efficient factory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Automation 20.3%, Management 16%, Cute 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 9.7%, Automation 9.4%
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Crafting 15%, Building 12%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%
Build a huge factory on a tiny island! Resources are scarce and unique - tweak and optimize everything for peak efficiency. Start with simple painted cubes, unlock tons of upgrades, and scale up to complex production chains. No enemies, just satisfying spaghetti.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Logic 12.7%, Management 7.5%
A contraption building game. Design and build your own machines to combine ingredients to make chocolates. Automate production using simple components to create ingenious contraptions, which are as satisfying to watch as they are to optimise.
Why similar: Lemmings 35.8% ★, Building 17.9%, Automation 16.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 9%
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 42.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 8.7%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Automation 18%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%
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 33.2%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 13%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 9%
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 36.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.1%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Crafting 13.8%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 8.7%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Automation 8.1%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Automation 18.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.9%
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.1%, Logic 8.5%
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 13.8%, Management 11.4%, Logic 8.9%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Automation 23.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.9%
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Building 15%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 9.3%
SwitchTrack is a coordination puzzle game! Time your inputs to control the tracks, and help direct the minecarts safely through each level.
Why similar: Lemmings 49.5% ★, Automation 14.4%, Logic 7.5%, Management 7%, Funny 5.4%
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.8%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Building 14.8%, Management 13.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 6.4%
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 13.5%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 8%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Automation 20.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10%, Base Building 8.4%
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 22.4%, Building 11%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%
Cultivate a fungarium of your very own and grow your collection of semi-sentient shroomies in this charming fantasy colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Lemmings 30.5% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Cute 5.3%
A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Automation 17.6%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Base Building 7%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 6.6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 11.4%, Building 10.2%