Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Colony sims like DarkSwitch
Did DarkSwitch leave you in a dark and atmospheric frame of mind? These colony sims offer a similar pull for your backlog.
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 · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Replayable
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
You house and feed your people, automate production lines, fortify against raids, then lift the whole town and fly on when the attacks get too rough. Good for colony sim fans who like the pack-up-and-move part.
Also in City builder · Dark, Tense, Replayable
72% of 554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99Settlement 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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99Mistward
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Replayable
59% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Against the Storm
As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies into a forest ruined by apocalyptic rains. You found short-lived settlements, keep very different needs met, and earn reputation before the storm takes it all. A dark, tense colony sim built for starting over well.
Also in City builder · Dark, Atmospheric, Replayable
94% of 33,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99New Cycle
After solar flares knock humanity flat, you raise a settlement from tents to a coal-burning industrial city. Keep people fed, watered, clothed and doctored, set their shifts, and push through storms, fires, disease and hard choices to reach the next era.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$29.99ALL 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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49Night is Coming
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Dark, Atmospheric, Scary
59% of 387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze. You build around a coal-burning generator, assign work, gather food and steel, pass laws, and hold hope together as the temperature drops. Cold, hard, and full of choices that follow you.
Also in City builder · Dark, Atmospheric, Scary
92% of 115,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,667$2.99The 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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Also in City builder · Atmospheric, Replayable
79% of 711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99dotAGE
You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse. Each turn you assign workers, grow food, forge tools and upgrade buildings, then pass the turn and face what the Prophecy sends. Merciless, funny and built to be replayed.
Also in City builder · Replayable
95% of 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59
Cheaper than DarkSwitch
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
You house and feed your people, automate production lines, fortify against raids, then lift the whole town and fly on when the attacks get too rough.
72% of 554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town.
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
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
Against the Storm
As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies into a forest ruined by apocalyptic rains.
94% of 33,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99
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: 22$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
Night is Coming
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe.
59% of 387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.
92% of 115,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,667$2.99
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…
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.
79% of 711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
dotAGE
You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.
95% of 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59
Hidden gems like DarkSwitch
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 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99
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 Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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
dotAGE
You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.
95% of 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$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…
88% of 3,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$29.99
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: 123$29.99
Wild West Pioneers
Lead pioneers into the frontier, raise a Town Hall, lay roads and homes, and keep production chains running from timber to tools.
75% of 612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.
79% of 711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Outlanders
Outlanders is a cozy town-builder where you guide stubborn, charming settlers who pick their own jobs and houses.
91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Newest colony sims like DarkSwitch
Wall World Strategy
Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.
71% of 121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$16.99
Wild West Pioneers
Lead pioneers into the frontier, raise a Town Hall, lay roads and homes, and keep production chains running from timber to tools.
75% of 612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
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
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
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 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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
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
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 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99
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 24,705 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: 123$29.99