Colony sims like Garbage

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

Hobo: Tough Life
Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival RPG set in the cold city of Praslav, where winter keeps getting closer. For colony sim fans, the draw is building a shared shanty hideout with up to three others, stocking it from dumpsters and odd jobs while hunger, cold, dirt and illness pile on.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
84% of 8,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$7.49
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after. Survival Log is a hoarding survival sim about stripping supermarkets bare, turning your home into a fortified farm-kitchen-power station, and trading by drone with the neighbors you rescue. Death sends you back with your memories intact.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
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.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war. You keep water, food and filters going, send people out to scavenge, and live with the moral calls and trauma that follow. Bleak, tight and personal, it is a colony sim about family first.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$4.49
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea. You build walkways around your starter boat, recycle plastic and driftwood into homes and workshops, desalinate water, catch fish, rescue drifters and animals, and sail on to soaked ruins and islands. Gentle survival, cheerful art, and quirky specialists make it a welcoming pick for colony sim fans.
Also in Survival crafting
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$24.99
Survivalist
One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers. You scavenge supplies, plant crops, trade, hand out jobs and orders, and talk your way into trust or war. A dry, scrappy colony sim where every survivor remembers what you did.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape. For colony sim fans, this is shelter life under pressure — upgrade barricades, cook food, craft weapons, treat hunger, exhaustion, injuries and despair, and keep moving when the horde closes in.
Replayable, Dark
89% of 9,478 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,001$24.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Sinner Maker
Make your own sinners, then try to keep them alive together after the Rapture. You build homes, feed them, manage resources and sort out their friendships, romances and feuds, all to survive 33 days and earn a way to Heaven. Cute and strange in equal measure, with a sandbox mode for your own stories.
Funny, Replayable, Dark
90% of 708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$9.66
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Rebuild a ruined city one block at a time, deciding who scavenges, who farms, and who holds the wall when zombies and rival gangs close in. Survivors have skills, perks, and messy relationships, and the writing is darkly funny about sending them to their deaths for the greater good.
Replayable, Dark
86% of 1,493 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$14.99
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Guide a small band of survivors in a valley hideout after demons overrun the world. Gather food, craft gear, research tech and occult rituals, and hold the walls in pausable tactical fights while you work to send hell back.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
pyramida
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 . . .
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than Garbage

Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival RPG set in the cold city of Praslav, where winter keeps getting closer.

$7.49

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

$10.99

Sheltered

Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.

$4.49

Survivalist

One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers.

$4.99

Apocalypse: The Last RV

Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.

$4.99

Organs Please

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.

$6.99

The Rule of Land: Pioneers

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground.

$10.99

Sinner Maker

Make your own sinners, then try to keep them alive together after the Rapture.

$9.66

pyramida

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

$2.99

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…

$11.99

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

$11.99

This War of Mine

You lead a handful of civilians trapped in a besieged city, not soldiers.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Garbage

Sinner Maker

Make your own sinners, then try to keep them alive together after the Rapture.

$9.66

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

$10.99

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

$11.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$22.99

Ratopia

Ratopia is a cute but strict colony sim where you rebuild a rat kingdom and every ratizen has its own wallet.

$22

Outlanders

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

$9.99

Flotsam

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

$24.99

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.

$24.99

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

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?

$14.99

Organs Please

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.

$6.99

Newest colony sims like Garbage