Colony sims like Embark

If the replayable rhythm of Embark stuck with you, this helps. Browse these colony sims for your next favorite.

Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Mountaincore
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!
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
65% of 273 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Dwarf 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.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
94% of 29,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$23.99
Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Stonehearth
Stonehearth gives colony sim fans a cute voxel settlement to raise from tents to town. You feed a small band of settlers, keep their moods up, hand out RPG-style jobs, and defend them from raiders while you shape every building block by block.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
76% of 10,668 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$19.99
Ascent of Ashes
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
68% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a fantasy colony sim where a few settlers with clothes on their backs become a village with houses, farms, families and opinions. You design the buildings, keep moods and bellies full, and hold off Tikigoblins and pirates through winter. Cute, colorful and full of small disasters.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Colony Survival
Colony Survival puts you inside your own colony sim: you walk its walls in first person while farmers, miners and guards do the jobs you assign. Every night monsters come, and the bigger your colony grows, the bigger the horde. Slow planning, blocky building and last-stand defense in one loop.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
92% of 8,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$24.95
DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Replayable
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
AColony
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Embark

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

Dwarf Fortress

Build a mountain fortress for seven dwarves and try to keep them fed, watered with beer, and reasonably sane while history, weather, goblins…

$23.99

Stonehearth

Stonehearth gives colony sim fans a cute voxel settlement to raise from tents to town.

$19.99

Ascent of Ashes

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.

$14.99

Founders' Fortune

Founders' Fortune is a fantasy colony sim where a few settlers with clothes on their backs become a village with houses, farms, families and opinions.

$21.99

Colony Survival

Colony Survival puts you inside your own colony sim: you walk its walls in first person while farmers, miners and guards do the jobs you assign.

$24.95

AColony

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

$19.99

DwarfCorp

Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.

$2.99

Farworld Pioneers

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.

$3.74

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.

$19.99

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

Dawn Apart

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments.

$19.99

Hidden gems like Embark

Oceaneers

Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.

$24.99

ALL WILL FALL

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

$22.49

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.

$19.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$29.99

The Crust

Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.

$19.19

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

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.

$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?

$14.99

AColony

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

$19.99

Farthest Frontier

Guide a small band of settlers on the edge of the known world and grow their camp into a walled medieval town.

$34.99

Clanfolk

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands where you lead one family across generations.

$29.99

Newest colony sims like Embark