Colony sims that break hearts

These colonies test you with hunger, grief and hard calls, where survivors remember what you ask of them and every loss changes the group.

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
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: 145$11.99
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
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$34.99
Clanfolk

Clanfolk

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands where you lead one family across generations.

91% of 3,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 240$29.99
Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game where a mouse returns home to rebuild a ruined childhood burrow and find a missing aunt.

89% of 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$10.99
RimWorld

RimWorld

Three crash survivors, a patch of wilderness, and an AI that loves ruining your plans.

97% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32,923$34.99
AETHUS

AETHUS

AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.

94% of 2,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$19.99
IXION

IXION

IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting prototype station carrying the last of humanity.

77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
Echoes of the Plum Grove

Echoes of the Plum Grove

Washed ashore in Honeywood with a humble plot, you build a farm meant to outlive you.

87% of 2,689 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$19.99
Sheltered

Sheltered

Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.

82% of 5,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$4.49
Last Train Home

Last Train Home

Command a trainload of Czechoslovak soldiers crossing Siberia after World War I, caught between Red and White armies.

86% of 4,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$39.99
Cattails: Wildwood Story

Cattails: Wildwood Story

Become a cat and lead a small colony into the Wildwood. You found the settlement, recruit new cats, send squads for territory and resources, and…

97% of 1,505 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 80$19.99
This War of Mine

This War of Mine

You lead a handful of civilians trapped in a besieged city, not soldiers.

92% of 89,525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99
Frostpunk

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.

92% of 115,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99
One Hour One Life

One Hour One Life

Born as someone's baby, dead within the hour. In between you farm, cook, smith and build so the next generation inherits a little more than…

76% of 4,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival RPG set in the cold city of Praslav, where winter keeps getting closer.

84% of 8,757 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
Kenshi

Kenshi

Kenshi is a free-roaming squad RPG where you raise nobodies into survivors, then into a working outpost.

95% of 99,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,067$29.99
The Succession of Changing Kings

The Succession of Changing Kings

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony?

85% of 495 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Purgatory Dungeoneer

Purgatory Dungeoneer

Purgatory Dungeoneer is a townbuilding roguelite RPG about plundering a psychic hellmaw for personal closure, and the resources to build a village…

87% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Generation Exile

Generation Exile

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.

65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Cradle of the Dark Brood

Cradle of the Dark Brood

A dark fantasy incremental breeding game where you cultivate a monstrous brood, inherit stronger traits, unlock mutations and automation, then send…

80% of 41 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Heard of the Story?

Heard of the Story?

Forge a medieval community with intelligent and quirky villagers.

97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

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