Colony sims like Foundation

Want something that feels relaxing and replayable the way Foundation does? Give these colony sims a try when the craving hits.

Cheaper than Foundation

MicroTown

MicroTown

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

94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Settlements Rising

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
Going Medieval

Going Medieval

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

88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,164$29.99
Founders' Fortune

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.

81% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Kingdoms and Castles

Kingdoms and Castles

Grow a hamlet into a walled medieval city, keep every villager fed, housed, and happy through winter, plague, Vikings, and one fire-prone dragon…

93% of 30,501 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,127$19.99
Settlement Survival

Settlement Survival

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

85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Lords and Villeins

Lords and Villeins

Rule a medieval fief by zoning land and taxing families who live, work, and trade on their own.

75% of 732 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

Grow a medieval village into a metropolis of thousands, keeping every baker, woodcutter and soldier fed, housed and entertained.

79% of 894 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99
Civitatem

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…

59% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Kingdoms Reborn

Kingdoms Reborn

Kingdoms Reborn is a city builder with simulated citizens on a procedurally generated world map.

90% of 8,895 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$19.99
Empires and Tribes

Empires and Tribes

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game.

66% of 392 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Banished

Banished

Banished puts you in charge of exiled travelers starting over with carts of supplies and empty wilderness.

90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99

Hidden gems like Foundation

Humanica

Humanica

Humanica is a relaxed colony sim that walks a small ancient settlement from 10,000 B.C. to the Iron Age.

92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare

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: 28$14.99
ALL WILL FALL

ALL WILL FALL

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

77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Of Life and Land

Of Life and Land

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

82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49
Wild West Pioneers

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.

75% of 612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

97% of 422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Outlanders

Outlanders

Outlanders is a cozy town-builder where you guide stubborn, charming settlers who pick their own jobs and houses.

91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Pioneers of Pagonia

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…

81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Settlements Rising

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
Going Medieval

Going Medieval

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

88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,164$29.99
Chinese Frontiers

Chinese Frontiers

Raise towers, forts, and stretches of wall brick by brick in medieval China, in first person, while your village keeps working behind you.

73% of 532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Farthest Frontier

Farthest Frontier

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

86% of 24,705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99

Newest colony sims like Foundation

Wild West Pioneers

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.

75% of 612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
Folklands

Folklands

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world.

69% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
ALL WILL FALL

ALL WILL FALL

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

77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Going Medieval

Going Medieval

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

88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,164$29.99
Humanica

Humanica

Humanica is a relaxed colony sim that walks a small ancient settlement from 10,000 B.C. to the Iron Age.

92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare

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: 28$14.99
Pioneers of Pagonia

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…

81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.

92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99
Farthest Frontier

Farthest Frontier

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

86% of 24,705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
Noble Legacy

Noble Legacy

Granted stewardship of Greenwood before the Norman Conquest, you build a medieval settlement piece by piece, give every villager a job and a…

70% of 778 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$24.99
Chinese Frontiers

Chinese Frontiers

Raise towers, forts, and stretches of wall brick by brick in medieval China, in first person, while your village keeps working behind you.

73% of 532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Of Life and Land

Of Life and Land

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

82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49