DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Colony sims like Dwarf Core
If Dwarf Core scratched a retro and relaxing itch for you, keep reading. These colony sims are a good place to start.
Dwarfs!?
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Retro, Replayable, Cute
79% of 644 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Hammerting
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Replayable
57% of 1,736 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99Mountaincore
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
66% of 272 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeDwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Retro, Replayable
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99A Game of Dwarves
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
Relaxing, Replayable
64% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Craft The World
Lead a tribe of dwarves on a randomly generated island, from one sleepy dwarf to a busy fortress. You give the orders to dig, build, gather and fight, keep them fed and clothed, and hold the walls when portals spit out zombies, skeletons and goblins.
Retro, Replayable, Cute
88% of 15,161 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 386$18.99Drill Core
Drill Core puts you in charge of a drill platform chewing toward a planet's heart. By day you send miners, carriers and guards down the shaft for minerals and coal; by night alien swarms climb up it and your turrets do the talking. Research, expand, and decide how much crew safety your profit margins can afford.
Replayable
84% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99INCREMINER
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
50% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
Replayable
70% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Dwarves of Glistenveld
The Dwarves of Glistenveld is a Colony Strategy game about clans of dwarves trying to live and expand underground. Help them explore, mine, forage, fight, and build a home in a forgotten underworld! Features a unique blend of traditional RTS and Colony-Sim.
Retro, Replayable
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Orebound
Orebound is a first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world, not a settler colony sim. You mine, craft and automate your way toward the Emberstone, build a fortress and fight what lives below. Worth a look if colony sim fans want a break from managing needs and morale to just dig deep and make machines do the work.
Relaxing, Replayable
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99Dwarf Fortress
Build a mountain fortress for seven dwarves and try to keep them fed, watered with beer, and reasonably sane while history, weather, goblins, dragons and magma do their worst. For colony sim fans who like watching small plans turn into long, strange stories about what went wrong.
Retro, Replayable
94% of 29,462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,006$23.99
Cheaper than Dwarf Core
Scribbleman Army
Explore a dark cave. Craft tons of units to help you collect resources. Create new buildings and unlock new recipes.
59% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
My Shelter
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study.
45% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
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…
87% of 1,508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Space Architect
You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99
TIMBER! Idle Village Builder
Swing your axe, drop the trees, and watch a village rise from the stumps.
49% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
NodeLord
Automate a settlement of alcoholic dwarves, build towers, craft ammunition, and fend off those stupid trolls!
78% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
Strategy Core
Lead your clan from a small settlement all the way to the launch of a colony ship.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Inclement
In this farm-building strategy game set in the harsh environment of Northern Europe, you manage your land from clearing forests and selling grain at…
81% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like Dwarf Core
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$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…
85% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare
Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.
84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$14.99
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% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
Drill Core
Drill Core puts you in charge of a drill platform chewing toward a planet's heart.
84% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99
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
Orebound
Orebound is a first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world, not a settler colony sim.
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
Dungeon Village 2
Recruit adventurers and monsters to build your own RPG town.
86% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$8.99
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
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?
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
First Dwarf
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm.
77% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.
78% of 480 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest colony sims like Dwarf Core
XenoHaven
XenoHaven 1.0 is out now! Recruit familiars to farm, mine, craft, and fight by your side.
75% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
Deep Space Outpost
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
FEED THE QUEEN
You run an ant colony with one goal: keep the Queen fed. Hatch specialized workers, juggle food types with different values and effects, and tune…
68% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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…
85% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare
Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.
84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$14.99
Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs.
70% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Desktop Colony
A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things.
100% of 23 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
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
CrafTAE
Stack cards 🃏 to collect food, craft equipment, build structures and defeat the dungeon ⚔️ in this village builder roguelite.
88% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.19
Drill Core
Drill Core puts you in charge of a drill platform chewing toward a planet's heart.
84% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99