Colony sims like Forebearers

Looking for that same dark spark as Forebearers? You will find a few strong contenders among these colony sims.

Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town. You shape the land, plant crops, hunt, gather, trade, and keep everyone housed, fed, and happy through seasons and disasters.
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85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$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. You place homes and fields, plan harvests and crafts, treat disease, and hold off raiders. Slow, detailed, and demanding, it rewards colony sim fans who like watching every loaf and log find its way.
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86% of 24,709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Lead a handful of refugees on a harsh medieval island and turn them into a living village. You shape the land, plant crops, raise animals, and try to keep everyone fed, warm, and healthy through winter, disease, and the occasional tornado. Slow, simple, and easy to lose an evening to.
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65% of 5,246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$24.99
Banished
Banished puts you in charge of exiled travelers starting over with carts of supplies and empty wilderness. Your townspeople age, work, raise families and die, so every house, harvest and trade matters. No money, no skill trees, just hard choices about food, warmth and risk. Slow, stern and oddly tender.
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90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
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79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
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.
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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.
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72% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$25.99
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.
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82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
Villagers
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
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47% of 300 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$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. You design the buildings, keep moods and bellies full, and hold off Tikigoblins and pirates through winter. Cute, colorful and full of small disasters.
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81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$21.99
The 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.
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68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Make Your Kingdom
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
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55% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Forebearers

Settlements Rising

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

$18.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious…

$11.99

Villagers

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources…

$14.99

Make Your Kingdom

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre.

$14.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

Civitatem

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and…

$12.99

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…

$14.99

Seeds of Resilience

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

$13.99

Bastide

Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town.

$12.99

MicroTown

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

$9.99

Settler's Domain

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands.

$12.49

Hidden gems like Forebearers

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

ALL WILL FALL

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

$22.49

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

Wild West Pioneers

Lead pioneers into the frontier, raise a Town Hall, lay roads and homes, and keep production chains running from timber to tools.

$19.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

$24.99

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

Settlements Rising

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

$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…

$14.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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

$9.99

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

New Cycle

After solar flares knock humanity flat, you raise a settlement from tents to a coal-burning industrial city.

$29.99

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