Colony sims like Exipelago

Still thinking about Exipelago and its replayable and colorful tone? These colony sims are a good place to start.

Exile
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a large island, chopping wood and stone by hand, raising huts and workshops, then assigning villagers to gather, craft and hunt for you. Four lands, a full story and a slow shift from manual work to automation make it a calm, hands-on colony sim.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Relaxing
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Land of the Vikings
Lead a Viking village through seasons, hunger and storms until it grows into a small city. You assign each villager work that fits their traits, stock food and firewood for winter, trade for gold and send crews raiding. A relaxed colony sim with a Norse touch.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
72% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$25.99
My Tribe
Create a prosperous island paradise for your industrious, intelligent tribe with this real-time Brain Teaser! Your tribe will have a mind of its own, learning skills and starting families even when you`re not around, but check back often to keep your island idyllic.
Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
84% of 134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
ASKA
Land on a mythic Viking shore with nothing and raise a working tribe from it. You chop, haul and hammer at first, then summon villagers, give them jobs and watch the settlement carry itself while winter and the Blood Moon test it. Best played slow, with friends if you can.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
79% of 10,644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 955$24.99
Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)
Also in City builder · Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
80% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Of Life and Land
A settlement builder where nature is a full character. Every animal, plant and villager has needs, seasons change the rules, and your choices ripple through the whole ecosystem. Build a village that fits into the wild instead of flattening it, at whatever pace you like.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
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 City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$21.99
Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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 plants. You plan tight production chains, adapt to new biomes, and choose trust or exploitation.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99
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 City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 480 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Exipelago

Exile

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits.

$19.99

Tribe: Primitive Builder

You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a large island, chopping wood and stone by hand, raising huts and workshops, then assigning villagers to…

$19.99

My Tribe

Create a prosperous island paradise for your industrious, intelligent tribe with this real-time Brain Teaser!

$9.99

MicroTown

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

$9.99

Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-

Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry…

$12.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

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

Pixel Colony

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.

$4.99

Seeds of Resilience

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience.

$13.99

Plentiful

Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works.

$7.99

Gnomoria

Lead a handful of gnomes from a patch of dirt to a stocked, walled kingdom in this sandbox colony sim.

$14.99

Settlement Survival

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

$19.99

Hidden gems like Exipelago

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.

$14.99

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

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

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…

$29.99

Pioneers of Pagonia

Lead your Pagonians across fog-covered isles, raise buzzing settlements with 60+ buildings and 100+ goods, and win over scattered tribes through…

$20.99

Flotsam

Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea.

$24.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

Goblin Camp

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern…

$19.99

Tribe: Primitive Builder

You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a large island, chopping wood and stone by hand, raising huts and workshops, then assigning villagers to…

$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

Newest colony sims like Exipelago