Colony sims like Hell Architect

Hooked on the funny and dark side of Hell Architect? Browse these colony sims for your next favorite.

Ruinarch
Ruinarch flips colony sims upside down: instead of keeping villagers alive, you ruin them. Watch procedurally generated fantasy villages eat, work, feud and fall in love, then meddle with curses, gossip, monsters and plagues until the whole soap opera collapses.
Also in City builder · Funny, Dark, Brutal
62% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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, Dark, Replayable
90% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$9.66
MachiaVillain
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Dark, Brutal
64% of 724 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Honey, I Joined a Cult
Build a compound, recruit followers and turn them into loyal cultists in this funny management sim. You set schedules, assign jobs, keep everyone fed and rested, and spend faith and funds on stranger rooms, all in bright pixel art with funky music.
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Dark, Replayable
73% of 1,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$21.99
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 City builder · Dark, Replayable
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
Run the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk as Reivax, the sorcerer Zangdar's long-suffering steward. Build a wobbly tower floor by floor, hire goblins, elves and dwarves, keep them fed, paid and un-striked, and fend off adventurers. A funny, colorful management sim where evil is mostly paperwork.
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Replayable
73% of 1,318 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
The Deadly Path
Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.
Dark, Replayable
39% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Cult of the Lamb
Start a cult as a lamb who owes a god a favour, then keep your woodland Followers fed, housed, and believing. You build structures, preach sermons, perform rituals, and raid randomly generated regions for resources and recruits to take down four rival leaders. Cute, funny, and a little sinister.
Funny, Replayable, Surreal
95% of 113,536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,220$24.99
Rise to Ruins
Rise to Ruins is a pixel-art godlike village sim where you build by day and hold the walls by night. Raise houses, farms and workshops for your villagers, then maze walls, towers, guards and golems to meet the monster waves. You will lose villages. That is the point: each ruin teaches a better layout for the next try.
Also in City builder · Dark, Replayable, Retro
87% of 7,243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
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.
Also in City builder · Replayable
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
KeeperRL
KeeperRL puts you in charge as an evil keeper digging a dungeon under a mountain. You carve rooms, set traps, recruit goblins, undead and worse, then train them up and lead raids against the forces of good. If your keeper falls, the run ends.
Dark, Replayable, Retro
83% of 1,691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
Towns
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Also in City builder · Retro
27% of 2,397 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than Hell Architect

Sinner Maker

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

$9.66

MachiaVillain

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés!

$19.99

Honey, I Joined a Cult

Build a compound, recruit followers and turn them into loyal cultists in this funny management sim.

$21.99

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

Guide a small band of survivors in a valley hideout after demons overrun the world.

$19.99

The Deadly Path

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension.

$12.99

Rise to Ruins

Rise to Ruins is a pixel-art godlike village sim where you build by day and hold the walls by night.

$14.99

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

KeeperRL

KeeperRL puts you in charge as an evil keeper digging a dungeon under a mountain.

$19.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

Towns

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features.

$4.99

dotAGE

You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.

$17.59

Underworld Overseer

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

$19.99

Hidden gems like Hell Architect

Sinner Maker

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

$9.66

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

$34.99

ALL WILL FALL

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

$22.49

dotAGE

You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.

$17.59

Worshippers of Cthulhu

Lead the Cult of Cthulhu as its patient middle manager. House your followers, feed them, put them to work or to ritual use, and grow island cities…

$24.99

Cataclismo

Cataclismo is a fortress-builder for colony sim fans who like the building half best: house citizens, gather wood, stone and minerals, research new…

$29.99

Outlanders

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

$9.99

KeeperRL

KeeperRL puts you in charge as an evil keeper digging a dungeon under a mountain.

$19.99

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

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

Newest colony sims like Hell Architect