Dark colony survival builders

Lead small groups through hunger, sickness and raids in bleak settlements where every loss hurts. You will assign jobs, stock food and hold the walls when the dark closes in.

Going Medieval

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

88% of 17,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested…

78% of 1,458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$24.99
Space Haven

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile for a ragtag civilian crew searching for a new home, then keep its air, heat, power, food and moods balanced as you…

85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 675$24.99
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

You run the last checkpoint of a collapsing city: inspect survivors for bites, rashes and hidden contraband, then decide who enters, who waits in…

81% of 12,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 577$19.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.

84% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Nested Lands

Nested Lands

A dark medieval settlement RPG where you recruit peasants, give each one a job, and keep the whole village fed, doctored and defended through…

73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$14.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 147$11.99
After Inc: Revival

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, you lead a handful of survivors out of the bunker and try to make a society again.

78% of 1,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119$10.79
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.

89% of 9,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,469$24.99
Ecopunk

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80% of 141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$22.99
Walkers

Walkers

Turn any corner of the wasteland into a survivor outpost, then keep your people fed, hopeful and alive while the hordes close in.

63% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 112$7.99
Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.

76% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
ALL WILL FALL

ALL WILL FALL

Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching.

77% of 1,313 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 93$29.99
ASKA

ASKA

Land on a mythic Viking shore with nothing and raise a working tribe from it.

79% of 10,616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,094$14.99
Pax Autocratica

Pax Autocratica

Pax Autocratica pairs colony management with first-person roguelite battles.

91% of 4,136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 86$29.99
Endzone 2

Endzone 2

A post-apocalyptic colony builder about keeping people alive after the disaster.

65% of 910 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$29.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
Survival Log

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

81% of 3,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 747$10.99
The Alters

The Alters

You crash on a burning planet with a mobile base you cannot run alone, so you grow a crew from your own alternate lives.

90% of 15,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$15.74
Ascent of Ashes

Ascent of Ashes

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.

68% of 275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Infection Free Zone

Infection Free Zone

Pick your own street as the last safe place on Earth, then turn its empty shops and houses into a working settlement.

80% of 16,793 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 595$24.99
Regions of Ruin: Runegate

Regions of Ruin: Runegate

A hack-and-slash RPG with a rebuilding thread for colony sim fans: you play a lone dwarf clearing monster-held lands, rescuing allies, and slowly…

85% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

77% of 759 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$26.24
EverRail

EverRail

EverRail is a frozen-world survival game where your colony is a moving train carrying the last of humanity.

69% of 398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99

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