Games Like White Signal

A thought-provoking exploration survival game. You must endure a frozen wilderness threatened by both brutal natural forces and demonic creatures. Starting with nothing, you will fight the cold, manage resources, maintain body temperature, and gradually take in survivors to build a home together.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Emotional 4.4%

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 77%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10.3%

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 36.6%, Survival 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Snow 8.7% ★

Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!

Why similar: Colony Sim 73.3%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Casual 5.5%

Between a child's first cry and someone's final breath, a tribe's history takes shape. Place its people in buildings, answer unexpected events, and lead the tribe for as long as it can endure in this turn-based tribal survival rogue-lite.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Simulation 18.5%, Survival 16%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Strategy 11.5%

Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 6.3%, Exploration 5.2%

Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.

Why similar: Colony Sim 82.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Indie 2.1%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 63.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 7.6%, Indie 0.8%

A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Exploration 5.5%

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 75.1%, Strategy 10%, Casual 6.2%, Simulation 5.5%, Atmospheric 2.1%

A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.2%, Survival 13.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8%, Exploration 3.9%

Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!

Why similar: Colony Sim 84.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 6%, Indie 1.3%

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 62.2%, Survival 15.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%

Simulate how fish thrive in the open ocean.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.9%, Immersive Sim 16.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Casual 6.1%, Exploration 5.9%

The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 11.1%, Casual 7%

A cozy resource management game where you play as the Queen Bee. Good decisions for your loyal subjects will go a long way, as well as taking the time to know each and every one! Build cute new rooms and boost your honey production for a healthy hive. Will you be the next Queen?

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.2%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Casual 6.8%

A fantasy colony simulator built in a living world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.8%, Immersive Sim 23%, Simulation 18.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Survival 13.6%, Exploration 6.6%, Simulation 4.9%

An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.5%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, 2D 1.6%

In Hotel Simulator, you become the new owner of an old and neglected hotel. Bring back its splendor by cleaning, renovation, and interior design. Hire the crew, manage your business, and make it known as the fanciest hotel in the city!

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.3%, Immersive Sim 30.2%, Simulation 15%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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 62.5%, Survival 14.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9%, Indie 1.6%

Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 7%, Simulation 5.8%

Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.3%, Immersive Sim 22.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Stack Epoch is a settlement-building card game. Stack cards to gather resources, construct buildings, and battle various creatures. Stack character cards on trees to get wood. Combine wood with other cards to craft huts and expand your territory!

Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, Survival 15.5%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Exploration 5.7%

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 50%, Immersive Sim 20.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 6.2%

A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...

Why similar: Colony Sim 62.4%, Survival 13.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Casual 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 4%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 61.1%, Survival 16.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Atmospheric 2%

Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 61.6%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 16%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Bird Game: Tokyo is a fast-paced multiplayer flight game where you soar above sprawling cityscapes, weave between buildings, compete with other birds. Choose your bird, use its unique strengths, manage your energy, and outfly your opponents. Bird Game: Tokyo is a game about birds... in Tokyo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.2%, Immersive Sim 26.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Exploration 8.8%

Build and manage a wilderness colony where settlers gather resources, construct rooms, farm crops, hunt animals, craft food and supplies, and survive through a job-driven simulation as your settlement grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 5.7%, Choices Matter 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 71.1%, Survival 10.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Indie 1.5%

On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 62.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Survival 9.2%, Exploration 7.6%, Atmospheric 3.1%

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 57.8%, Survival 14.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 6.4%, Exploration 5.8%

At a station on the boundary between worlds, you work as an attendant: maintaining order and guiding departing souls to their trains. Each day has a clear start and end; your completed duties and results expand and improve the station, and small changes on the platform mark its progress.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.3%

A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.5%, Immersive Sim 19%, Survival 12.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 5.6%

From zero to legend — write your own epic comeback. Play as a fallen soul, build your team with loyal companions, overcome impossible odds, and reclaim your glory to rise to the top again.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Immersive Sim 17%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.4%

Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.1%, Survival 14.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Immersive Sim 4.5%

HonorOfLord is a UE5 colony sim driven by the Heart of Lord. Build a faithful empire, command multi-race followers, and conquer a vast world under the Abyss' shadow — your will is law.

Why similar: Colony Sim 71.4%, Simulation 17.4%, RPG 7.2%, Casual 2.2%, Indie 1%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 63.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Casual 5.2%, Atmospheric 1.2%

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.9%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.5%, Choices Matter 6.4%

A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.8%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 13%, Survival 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.

Why similar: Colony Sim 59.4%, Simulation 16.6%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Indie 0.8%

A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 64%, Survival 17.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60.5%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Casual 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%

MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Survival 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Simulation 5.1%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 50.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Survival 6.5%, Exploration 6.1%

Torp is a viking age colony simulator where you guide a group of norsemen in their quest to build a peaceful and thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Survival 6.7%, Choices Matter 5.3%

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 44.8%, Survival 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%

An incremental roguelike tower defense colony sim where you command your colonist to farm, craft, mine and defend waves of the undead. Progressing towards your skill tree after each run to survive further and further!

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.9%, Survival 15%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Choices Matter 3.5%

Manage a bunker. Protect survivors. Outsmart a rogue AI. Bunker 1024 is a first person survival management game where you craft tech, maintain critical systems, and deliver aid as time grows thin - all while Lumina 6.0 studies your patterns and actively works against your routines.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Survival 12.9%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Emotional 8.8%

Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 67.6%, Strategy 18.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 36.4%, Immersive Sim 23.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Simulation 7.3%

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 53.4%, Survival 18.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Atmospheric 3.5%

A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.2%, Survival 13%, Strategy 10.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Simulation 6.1%

Shape life from the very first cell and forge your destiny across the stars in this expansive evolution adventure. From microscopic beginnings to commanding a galactic empire, design, adapt, build, conquer, explore, colonize, and rule in a universe shaped entirely by your creations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2%, Immersive Sim 23.7%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Simulation 5.2%, Survival 3.7%

Survive inside a secret SCP facility. Explore dark corridors, avoid or confront anomalous entities, manage limited resources, and outsmart unpredictable AI to stay alive in a world where containment can fail at any moment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Emotional 7.2%