The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious…
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Colony sims like Buoyancy
Chasing that replayable and dark feeling you got from Buoyancy? These colony sims offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea. You build walkways around your starter boat, recycle plastic and driftwood into homes and workshops, desalinate water, catch fish, rescue drifters and animals, and sail on to soaked ruins and islands. Gentle survival, cheerful art, and quirky specialists make it a welcoming pick for colony sim fans.
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80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$24.99The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
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.
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68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Oceaneers
Oceaneers is a sci-fi survival colony sim on a flooded world of floating islands. Recruit survivors, farm, cook and craft, haul whole islands home to grow your archipelago, send rafts on expeditions, and dig into bunkers for the secrets of old-world Float-Tech. Calm, charming and full of small problems to solve.
Replayable
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99Banished
Banished puts you in charge of exiled travelers starting over with carts of supplies and empty wilderness. Your townspeople age, work, raise families and die, so every house, harvest and trade matters. No money, no skill trees, just hard choices about food, warmth and risk. Slow, stern and oddly tender.
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90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99Settlements Rising
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.
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79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways. You gather scraps, build farms and kitchens, welcome settlers and teach them jobs, then automate the boring work and sail out to new islands, all the way to submarines and a rocket.
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81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99SeaColony
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.
Replayable
60% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Aquatico
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
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67% of 791 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Pirate's Life
Pirate's Life is a 2D strategy game / city builder with an isometric camera where you take on the role of the captain of a crew of pirates that got shipwrecked on a deserted island. You will need to take care of your crews' individual needs (like hunger and drunkeness) in order to prevent a mutiny.
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35% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$4.99ALL WILL FALL
Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching. You stack platforms, homes, and workshops upward, balance weight and materials, feed three factions, and face hard choices when the tide shifts. Worth playing because every extra floor feels earned.
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77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49Poly Towns
Casual town builder that takes place on floating islands in a fantasy world. Grow your town and manage your resources in this challenging builder.
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50% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town. You shape the land, plant crops, hunt, gather, trade, and keep everyone housed, fed, and happy through seasons and disasters.
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85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$19.99
Cheaper than Buoyancy
Pirate's Life
Pirate's Life is a 2D strategy game / city builder with an isometric camera where you take on the role of the captain of a crew of pirates that got…
35% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Poly Towns
Casual town builder that takes place on floating islands in a fantasy world. Grow your town and manage your resources in this challenging builder.
50% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island.
98% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$6.49
Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements.
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Portobugia
Portobugia is a management/survival/inspection game where you manage a port and must supply a city with goods and food.
83% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Ocean Punk
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels.
70% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$6.59
The Final Earth 2
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.
97% of 422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
SugarMill
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation.
47% of 78 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Mistward
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist!
59% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Hidden gems like Buoyancy
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Life Below
Life Below is an underwater colony sim where you rebuild dying coral reefs zone by zone.
80% of 167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
ALL WILL FALL
Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
The Wandering Village
Build a small survivor village on the back of Onbu, a giant wandering creature, and keep both village and host alive in a world poisoned by strange…
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99
Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.
79% of 712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea.
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$24.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Oxygen: First Breath
You build a settlement around the Oxygen Center, assign survivors to jobs, stock food and water, research new buildings, and keep everyone breathing…
88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree
New Cycle
After solar flares knock humanity flat, you raise a settlement from tents to a coal-burning industrial city.
79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$29.99
Exodus Borealis
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists.
91% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest colony sims like Buoyancy
Beyond These Stars
Found a settlement on a living Space Whale and journey across the galaxy together.
65% of 263 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Life Below
Life Below is an underwater colony sim where you rebuild dying coral reefs zone by zone.
80% of 167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
ALL WILL FALL
Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island.
98% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$6.49
Pioneers of Pagonia
Lead your Pagonians across fog-covered isles, raise buzzing settlements with 60+ buildings and 100+ goods, and win over scattered tribes through…
81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea.
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$24.99
Farthest Frontier
Guide a small band of settlers on the edge of the known world and grow their camp into a walled medieval town.
86% of 24,709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
The Wandering Village
Build a small survivor village on the back of Onbu, a giant wandering creature, and keep both village and host alive in a world poisoned by strange…
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99