Colony sims like Deeper Underground

Remember how funny and hand-drawn Deeper Underground felt at its best? These colony sims are a good place to start.

1. Sheltered

   

   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.

   Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark

   82%82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positive35Players online now: 35$4.49

2. Surviving the Aftermath

   

   Raise a disaster-proof colony after the world ends: 130+ buildings, crops, power, and walls against storms, radiation, bandits and wildlife, while 80-odd specialists scout a procedural wasteland. Slow, stern, and hard to quit once the storerooms fill.

   Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark

   71%71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positive104Players online now: 104$29.99

3. Shelter Manager

   

   We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

   Replayable, Dark

   62%62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

4. Survival Vacancy

   

   In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

   Also in Survival crafting · Replayable

   60%60% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

5. Fallout Shelter

   

   Build a Vault-Tec vault deep underground, fill it with dwellers, and keep the lights, food and water flowing. Assign jobs, train skills, send teams into the Wasteland for loot, and defend against raiders and radroaches. Simple, funny and easy to check on in short visits.

   Also in Survival crafting · Funny, Replayable, Dark

   87%87% of 83,594 Steam reviews are positive1.8KPlayers online now: 1,812Free

6. Mr. Prepper

   

   Mr. Prepper is a solo survival crafting game about building a secret bunker under your house while pretending to be a model citizen. You dig rooms, add farms and workbenches, and work toward an escape vehicle under the eyes of the secret police. A steady pick for colony sim fans who like the building and stockpiling side more than managing settlers.

   Also in Survival crafting · Funny, Replayable, Story-driven

   81%81% of 4,869 Steam reviews are positive103Players online now: 103$19.99

7. Judgment: 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.

   Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark

   80%80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positive13Players online now: 13$19.99

8. After the Collapse

   

   ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

   Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark

   77%77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

9. Anoxia Station

   

   Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.

   Replayable, Story-driven, Dark

   76%76% of 184 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

10. 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.

    Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Story-driven, Dark

    80%80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$4.99

11. Life in Bunker

    

    You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

    Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark

    55%55% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$15.99

12. Project Apocalypse

    

    Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.

    Also in Survival crafting · Dark

    71%71% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Hidden gems like Deeper Underground

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%78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

82%82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positive687Players online now: 687$10.99

ALL WILL FALL

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

77%77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

87%87% of 4,087 Steam reviews are positive139Players online now: 139$11.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$22.99

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%88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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

76%76% of 213 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$9.99

Anoxia Station

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements.

76%76% of 184 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

78%78% of 259 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$24.99

Wall World Strategy

Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.

70%70% of 150 Steam reviews are positive667Players online now: 667$16.99

Settlement Survival

Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town.

85%85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positive190Players online now: 190$19.99

Project Of Cooling The Earth

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers.

72%72% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Newest colony sims like Deeper Underground

Wall World Strategy

Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.

70%70% of 150 Steam reviews are positive667Players online now: 667$16.99

Deadlight: A Zombie Chronicle

Keep a handful of strangers alive in a boarded-up house at the end of the world.

100%100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$7.19

A Dark Cave

You wake with no memory outside a cave, one small fire between you and the dark.

91%91% of 33 Steam reviews are positive24Players online now: 24$7.99

Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested…

78%78% of 1,470 Steam reviews are positive49Players online now: 49$24.99

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%78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

82%82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positive687Players online now: 687$10.99

TownsFolk

A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny.

84%84% of 25 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$11.99

Generation Exile

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

65%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%77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

Adaptory

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

76%76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Epoch Cycle

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.

69%69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$22.99