Colony sims like Frontera

If Frontera left you wanting something retro and colorful, you have options. You might settle into these colony sims easily.

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.
Also in City builder
86% of 24,705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Also in City builder · Retro, Colorful
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare
Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands. You hand out jobs for gathering, fishing, hunting, farming, mining and crafting, then residents get on with it while you trade, stockpile and send them against monsters and hostile forces.
Also in City builder · Retro
84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$11.99
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.
Also in City builder · Colorful
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
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 trade and quests. Made for colony sim fans who like slow logistics, visible production chains, and watching a thousand carriers keep it all moving.
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81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Border Pioneer
Border Pioneer is a pixel-art town builder with tower defense and deckbuilding. You raise a frontier settlement from bare ground, manage food and resources, and hold the walls when enemies attack at the end of each month. With over 200 cards to shape each run, it is a light, replayable take on build-and-survive for colony sim fans who like the growing-town part best.
Also in City builder · Retro, Colorful
86% of 1,701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$14.99
Fantasy Village Simulator
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Retro, Colorful
65% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Also in City builder · Retro, Colorful
94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Monstergirl Hunters
A citybuilder where you collect your citizens. Capture monstergirls, craft their gear, and enact laws to turn them into compliant workers or fighters. Grow your colonies across 12 islands to fulfill the unique needs of your monstergirls. Or turn them all into unpaid interns and go humanity first.
Also in City builder · Colorful
92% of 71 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
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 City builder · Colorful
81% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Folklands
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Also in City builder · Retro, Colorful
69% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a low fantasy city-builder where you grow an insignificant village into a city-state and empire. Tens of thousands of citizens are simulated one by one, with lives, religions, fears and desires, so every shortage, riot or lost battle feels personal.
Also in City builder · Retro
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 656$24.99

Cheaper than Frontera

Pixel Colony

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

$4.99

Fantasy Village Simulator

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world!

$6.99

Folklands

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

$8.99

Amber Trail

Amber trail is a pixel art 2D side scrolling real time strategy mixed with hack'n slash action.

$4.99

Dungeon Village 2

Recruit adventurers and monsters to build your own RPG town.

$8.99

SugarMill

SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation.

$7.99

The Promised Land

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation!

$6.99

My Colony

Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.

$4.99

拓荒纪元 Age of Frontier

A text-driven, click-based game focused on automated production and idle management.

$4.99

Faun Town

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated…

$7.14

pyramida

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

$2.99

MiniMap Kingdom

Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!

$2.99

Hidden gems like Frontera

Whiskerwood

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

$29.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

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

$11.99

Border Pioneer

Border Pioneer is a pixel-art town builder with tower defense and deckbuilding.

$14.99

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

Border Town

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm.

$14.99

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

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