Survivalist
One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers.
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Colony sims like Burden
Miss the dark and tense pull of Burden? You will find a few strong contenders among these colony sims.
Survivalist
One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers. You scavenge supplies, plant crops, trade, hand out jobs and orders, and talk your way into trust or war. A dry, scrappy colony sim where every survivor remembers what you did.
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80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99The Last Plague: Blight
The Last Plague: Blight is a slow, realistic open-world survival game where you start starving and alone and build a camp from nothing. For colony sim fans, the pull is the settlement loop: cook, farm, craft, raise walls and a roof, and keep yourself alive while the Blight spreads. Punishing, detailed, and best taken one chore at a time.
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88% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$16.99Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war. You keep water, food and filters going, send people out to scavenge, and live with the moral calls and trauma that follow. Bleak, tight and personal, it is a colony sim about family first.
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82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49Fargone
Fargone is a first-person survival RPG in a poisoned wasteland called The Barrens. You scavenge ruined towns and bunkers, build a powered refuge, and navigate roaming factions to earn trust or make enemies. For colony sim fans, the draw is the homestead fantasy: one survivor keeping the lights on while the world presses in.
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70% of 546 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$11.99Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Guide a small band of survivors in a valley hideout after demons overrun the world. Gather food, craft gear, research tech and occult rituals, and hold the walls in pausable tactical fights while you work to send hell back.
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80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
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65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99The Rule of Land: Pioneers
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
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65% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$10.99Decision: Red Daze
An isometric action RPG where survival and tower defense share one wasteland. Explore a Dust Bowl gone wrong, claim abandoned buildings, turn them into fortified settlements, and level up any survivor you rescue. It is a grind toward safety in a world that keeps pushing back.
Dark, Tense, Scary
74% of 861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$3.99Pandemic Train
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Dark, Tense, Scary
57% of 239 Steam reviews are positive$16.99MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone. You scavenge procedurally generated ruins by day, then expand rooms, grow food, cook, and watch hunger, thirst, radiation, and stress back home. For colony sim fans, it is the keep-everyone-alive loop played first-hand, with friends as your settlers.
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85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after. Survival Log is a hoarding survival sim about stripping supermarkets bare, turning your home into a fortified farm-kitchen-power station, and trading by drone with the neighbors you rescue. Death sends you back with your memories intact.
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82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99Mist Survival
Mist Survival is a single-player first-person survival sandbox where you build a camp in virus-hit woods and bring immune survivors into it. You hoard food, raise walls, wire up generators, and decide when to sneak past bandits, infected, and the mist. Worth a look for colony sim fans who like a small, hands-on camp over a big management screen.
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75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$10.99
Cheaper than Burden
Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
Decision: Red Daze
Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.
74% of 861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$3.99
This War of Mine
You lead a handful of civilians trapped in a besieged city, not soldiers.
92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,342$19.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.
68% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
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 8,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$7.49
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.
83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 100$7.99
Project Of Cooling The Earth
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers.
72% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Phoenix Initiative
Play as one of the last surviving humans on a post-apocalyptic Earth, where resources are scarce and danger lurks around every corner.
64% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Post-Apo Builder
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts!
37% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
92% of 352 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Dead Engine
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack.
69% of 203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Hidden gems like Burden
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 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$10.79
The Last Plague: Blight
The Last Plague: Blight is a slow, realistic open-world survival game where you start starving and alone and build a camp from nothing.
88% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$16.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
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 4,088 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 139$11.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.
89% of 9,478 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 858$24.99
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…
74% of 535 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
VEIN
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…
87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 693$19.99
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
MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone.
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.
68% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
City 20
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and…
73% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest colony sims like Burden
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 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$10.79
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.
68% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
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 Dead Await
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.
66% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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…
74% of 535 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
VEIN
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…
87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 693$19.99
MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone.
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
Necesse
Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$14.99
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 positive$14.99
Warranted Humanity
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter.
86% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$11.99