60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Building, Colony Sim, Base Building, Simulation.
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.
Vilset
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Dwarf Things
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.
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 29.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.5%, Automation 10.9%, Survival 9.7%
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 34.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Dwarves 12.3% ★, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.6%
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 38.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 9.1%
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 36.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.6%
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 26.1%, Dwarves 25% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.9%
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 39%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 12.4%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 32.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%
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 47.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.2%, Simulation 5.7%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Automation 13.7%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 39.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Building 9%, Survival 7.2%, Resource Management 5.7%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
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 31.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Automation 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 28.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Base Building 22.3%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Strategy 5.5%
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 45.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 10.6%, Survival 7.7%, Resource Management 5.3%
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 39.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Survival 7%
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 39.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Survival 8%, Building 7.6%
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 35.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 8.7%
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 38%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 5.3%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.4%, Automation 9.7%, Survival 9.4%
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 28.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 9.6%, Automation 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 46%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 6.1%
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 29.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 12.9%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.3%, Automation 11%, Survival 9.3%
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 34.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Automation 8.4%
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 34.4%, Base Building 17%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 9.1%
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 33.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11%, Survival 8.4%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 31.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.6%, Simulation 7.3%
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 29.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 11%, Building 10.7%, Survival 8.6%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 6.9%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Dwarves 32.2% ★, Colony Sim 31.5%, Building 12.8%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 5.1%
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 29.4%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 11%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
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 33.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.8%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 6.2%
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 32%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.7%, Automation 12.3%, Underground 7.7% ★
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 35.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Resource Management 7.2%
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 32.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 12.8%, Survival 11%, Simulation 6.1%
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 31.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.8%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 34.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 11%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 12.5%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
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 28%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 14.2%, Automation 8.6%, Simulation 8%
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 40.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 6.9%, Strategy 6.9%
Stoneborn is a colony simulation where you lead a group of dwarves in building a thriving settlement in a procedurally generated world. Delve deep for valuable resources, face lurking dangers, and shape your colony’s destiny through research, combat, politics, and diplomacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Dwarves 31.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Dwarves 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.4%, Simulation 5.3%
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 32.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 7.4%
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 27.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 12%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9%
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 7.1%
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 28.8%, Base Building 20%, Automation 14%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.2%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.4%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 7.3%
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 32.6%, Base Building 16%, Building 13.8%, Survival 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.5%
Establish and grow a dwarven colony. Mine deep into the rock for precious ores and gems, then craft the finest wares to trade. Attract more dwarves as your renown spreads and your gold hoard increases.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Dwarves 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 8%, Simulation 5.3%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 13%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 6%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Survival 7.7%
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 38%, Base Building 19%, Building 13.3%, Survival 10%, Simulation 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 33.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.1%
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 39.2%, Base Building 19%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Exploration 5.4%
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 37.2%, Base Building 20.5%, Building 14.9%, Survival 8.5%, Simulation 6.3%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
