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 1,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99
Colony sims like Emberwake
Miss the retro and tense pull of Emberwake? Give these colony sims a try when the craving hits.
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
Retro, Tense, Dark
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Grim 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, Tense, Dark
87% of 1,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99pyramida
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 . . .
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84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$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 · Replayable
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Night 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 · Tense, Dark, Replayable
59% of 387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99Dawnfolk
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$9.74Grim 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.
Retro, Tense, Dark
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Black Forest
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Also in City builder · Tense, Dark, Replayable
33% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$9.99MIGLORN
Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night
Also in City builder · Retro, Tense, Replayable
70% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Phoenix Hope
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Retro, Tense, Dark
59% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Rise 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, Tense, Dark
87% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99Nested 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 plague, winter and bandit raids, solo or in online co-op.
Also in City builder · Tense, Dark, Replayable
73% of 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Cheaper than Emberwake
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
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Stoneguard
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement.
74% of 74 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Embers of the Night
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence.
73% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Risen Kingdom
Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.
78% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
A Dark Cave
You wake with no memory outside a cave, one small fire between you and the dark.
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$7.99
Witch Way
Assemble your army, build your village, manage your villagers, and survive the night's monster attacks until dawn.
80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Call of Krul'ar
Survive the horrors of the unknown as you expand your lands to keep from being dragged into the darkness; and devoured by that which lurks inside.
84% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
BEACONFALL
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management.
80% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
Gods of the Fallen Land
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management.
80% of 115 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Zombie Graveyard Simulator
Run a peaceful graveyard business, then grab a gun when the freshly buried claw their way back out after dark.
88% of 843 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$7.19
Hidden gems like Emberwake
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
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
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
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
DarkSwitch
Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.
78% of 769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99
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
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
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
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$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?
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Ark of Charon
Build a mobile fortress on the back of a giant and mysterious walking Tree and embark on a journey in this merge of tower defense and colony…
75% of 392 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Exodus Borealis
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists.
91% of 243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Newest colony sims like Emberwake
A Dark Cave
You wake with no memory outside a cave, one small fire between you and the dark.
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers 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% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
Rekindling
Rekindling is a settlement building and management game. You are tasked with rebuilding society after the ZTD virus has taken over and turned the…
80% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Stoneguard
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement.
74% of 74 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
BEACONFALL
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management.
80% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
TownsFolk
A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny.
84% of 25 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
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
DarkSwitch
Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.
78% of 769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99
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…
73% of 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Embers of the Night
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence.
73% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Witch Way
Assemble your army, build your village, manage your villagers, and survive the night's monster attacks until dawn.
80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$2.99