Colony sims like Darfall

Chasing that retro and replayable feeling you got from Darfall? These colony sims offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a fortress-builder for colony sim fans who like the building half best: house citizens, gather wood, stone and minerals, research new tech, then hold your brick-by-brick walls through nightly waves of Horrors.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Tense
88% of 3,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$29.99
Diplomacy is Not an Option
A medieval fantasy RTS where you build a walled town, feed its people, and hold off hordes of thousands. You manage food, wood, stone, iron and gold while peasants farm, soldiers starve, and the dead need burying. Worth playing for colony sim fans who want their settlement under real siege pressure.
Retro, Replayable, Tense
85% of 11,070 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 577$11.99
Grim Nights
Your village has 13 days against the undead. Put villagers to work by their random talents, gather wood, stone, gold and food, dig underground for riches, and train soldiers and walls for each night's attack. Hard, tense and built for retrying until the plan holds.
Retro, Replayable, Tense
87% of 1,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99
Gods of the Fallen Land
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Retro, Replayable, Tense
80% of 115 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Risen Kingdom
Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.
Retro
78% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
A medieval keep under siege, and you are not the soldiers on the walls but the civilians keeping them standing. By day you build, craft and ration food in your camp; by night you sneak through the occupied city for supplies and recruits. Tense, grim and full of hard choices about who eats and who gets armed.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Tense
80% of 1,380 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$24.99
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Also in City builder · Retro, Replayable
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Rise to Ruins
Rise to Ruins is a pixel-art godlike village sim where you build by day and hold the walls by night. Raise houses, farms and workshops for your villagers, then maze walls, towers, guards and golems to meet the monster waves. You will lose villages. That is the point: each ruin teaches a better layout for the next try.
Also in City builder · Retro, Replayable, Tense
87% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
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 dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Towns
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Also in City builder · Retro
27% of 2,397 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Decision: 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.
Retro, Replayable, Tense
74% of 861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$3.99

Cheaper than Darfall

Diplomacy is Not an Option

A medieval fantasy RTS where you build a walled town, feed its people, and hold off hordes of thousands.

$11.99

Grim Nights

Your village has 13 days against the undead. Put villagers to work by their random talents, gather wood, stone, gold and food, dig underground for…

$2.99

Gods of the Fallen Land

Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management.

$4.99

Risen Kingdom

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

$2.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

Rise to Ruins

Rise to Ruins is a pixel-art godlike village sim where you build by day and hold the walls by night.

$14.99

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…

$11.99

Towns

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features.

$4.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

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.

$3.99

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

$13.99

Edge Islands

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based…

$10.79

Hidden gems like Darfall

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.

$6.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

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…

$19.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

$34.99

ALL WILL FALL

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

$22.49

dotAGE

You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.

$17.59

Cataclismo

Cataclismo is a fortress-builder for colony sim fans who like the building half best: house citizens, gather wood, stone and minerals, research new…

$29.99

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…

$14.99

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

$13.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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

$9.99

Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?

$14.99

Newest colony sims like Darfall