Games Like Zombie Colony

Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Outbreak Sim 16.8% ★, Zombies 14.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5%

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 30.5%, City Builder 20.4%, Zombies 8.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Outbreak Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Zombies 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%

Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.

Why similar: Zombies 18.5%, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Outbreak Sim 13.5% ★, Strategy 7.2%

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: Zombies 19.6%, City Builder 17.4%, Outbreak Sim 16% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Zombies 14.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%

The theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Zombies 14.3%, Survival 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 35.9%, City Builder 25.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 6.5%

Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Zombies 17.3%, City Builder 16.4%, Strategy 6.1%

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 37.6%, Zombies 23.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9%, Base Building 7.3%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 26.8%, Zombies 11.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Building 6%

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 32.1%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Survival 6.1%

Manage a base of survivors during the zombie apocalypse. Send squads on sorties on a real map of any city in the world, make decisions via radio when they get into trouble and remember: you are powerless outside the radio range. Build modules, defend the perimeter and don't let the base die.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Outbreak Sim 23.8% ★, Zombies 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Strategy 5.9%

Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Zombies 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 17.9%, Zombies 15.4%, Outbreak Sim 10.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%

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 34%, Zombies 18.7%, Outbreak Sim 10.3% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 6.8%

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 31.4%, City Builder 27%, Strategy 8.7%, Base Building 6.6%, Simulation 6.4%

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Outbreak Sim 14.9% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Zombies 15.7%, City Builder 15.2%, Outbreak Sim 15% ★, Post-apocalyptic 5.9%

Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Building 6.1%

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: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 23.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Zombies 9.5%

Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, City Builder 19.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, City Builder 14.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 5%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Zombies 19.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 5.5%

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 36.8%, City Builder 32%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 7.2%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 6.4%, Base Building 5%

A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 26.9%, Strategy 14%, Stylized 8.4%, Top-Down 6%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Survival 6%

Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Strategy 12.4%, Outbreak Sim 11.6% ★, Zombies 11.5%, Simulation 11.1%

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 42.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%

A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Zombies 24.4%, Outbreak Sim 9.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Survival 6.7%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Survival 4.8%, Simulation 4.6%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 27.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Stylized 6.6%, Top-Down 4.7%

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 42.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 6.8%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 5.5%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, City Builder 38%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8%, Indie 1.3%

Lead a train carrying the last survivors of humanity across a frozen world. Manage resources, explore abandoned locations, and make difficult decisions that will determine the future of Convoy 07.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.3% ★, Colony Sim 30.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Management 4.1%

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 24%, Zombies 13.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 6.6%

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 27.2%, City Builder 23.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Survival 6.7%

A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Stylized 8.2%, Simulation 7%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Base Building 5.5%, Post-apocalyptic 5%

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 37.6%, City Builder 31.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Survival 7.8%, Resource Management 4.8%

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 36%, City Builder 24.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Management 6.8%, Survival 6.4%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Survival 7.1%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 8.6%

You're not just surviving — you're leading. An isometric zombie survival and colony sim: scavenge a world where loot never respawns, build a base that holds, and keep a community of survivors alive. The dead are slow, drawn by sound, and they never stop.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Zombies 25.7%, Survival 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Simulation 6.6%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Top-Down 3.8%

Lead a survivor headquarters after the zombie outbreak in this turn-based management strategy game, where each turn represents one day. Allocate scarce people and supplies, restore territories and infrastructure, and expand through research and high-risk external operations.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Zombies 10.6%, Strategy 6.5%, Management 5.5%

Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Survival 6%, Building 5.9%

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 31.7%, City Builder 29.6%, Survival 7.1%, Building 7%, Management 6.7%

Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 6.9%, Simulation 5.9%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, City Builder 37.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 4.7%

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Base Building 4.7%

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 37.6%, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 6.5%

A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 34.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Top-Down 6.2%, Building 4.4%

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Outbreak Sim 20.5% ★, Zombies 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Survival 6.5%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.1%, Management 5.2%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Base Building 7.5%