Games Like Zomboard

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 38.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Zombies 15%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%

An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 22.6%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Zombies 13.6%, Strategy 7.2%

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 29.8%, Zombies 16%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.5%

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 29.3%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%

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 38.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Zombies 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 49%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 8%, Building 7.1%, Crafting 6%

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 34.9%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 7.3%

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 40.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6.1%

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 41.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%

A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 7%

A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.9%

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 35.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 8%

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 40.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 10%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%

Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Zombies 12.6%, Strategy 7.8%

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 40.1%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.1%, Crafting 6.7%

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 41%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 7%

Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Zombies 18.7%, Outbreak Sim 10.3% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 6.8%

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 36.2%, Tower Defense 25.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 7.4%, Zombies 6.9%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 7.8%

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 45.8%, Base Building 23.5%, Resource Management 8%, Building 7.8%, Survival 6.5%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 7.5%

Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 7.4%, Resource Management 6.7%

STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

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 38.5%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.1%

The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 11%

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: Colony Sim 25.2%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Zombies 13.4%, Outbreak Sim 10.8% ★, Base Building 10.2%

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 27.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Zombies 13.8%, Tower Defense 11%, Building 7.3%

Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Base Building 25.5%, Tower Defense 12.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 4.7%

Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 8.6%

Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Tower Defense 15%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 6.4%

Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 5.3%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 9.5%, Zombies 8.8%, Survival 6.3%

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 48.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.1%

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 35.8%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%

Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 14%, Survival 7.6%

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: Colony Sim 24.4%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Zombies 11.7%, Outbreak Sim 10.1% ★

A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 10%, Strategy 8.5%

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 28.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Zombies 11.9%, Building 7%

Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Base Building 20.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.8%

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 46.9%, Base Building 23.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 6.9%, Simulation 6.5%

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 37.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Zombies 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.2%

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 43.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 7.4%, Crafting 5.9%

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 23.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 9.5%

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 45.3%, Base Building 23.5%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Resource Management 4.7%

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 32.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Zombies 13.8%, Outbreak Sim 12.4% ★, Strategy 7%

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: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Outbreak Sim 14.2% ★, Zombies 13.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 20.5%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 6.9%

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 34.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Resource Management 8%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 4.9%

Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 22.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 10.9%, Zombies 8.7%

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 44.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 7.2%

Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Top-Down 3.7%

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 38.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Resource Management 6.1%

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 50.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Survival 6.4%

Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 10%, Base Building 7.4%

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 44.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Survival 6.2%

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 41.9%, Base Building 25.6%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Resource Management 6.7%