DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Colony sims like INCREMINER
If INCREMINER scratched a replayable and relaxing itch for you, keep reading. These colony sims are a good place to start.
Desktop Colony
A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things. Mine asteroids, build ships, expand the colony, research technology, uncover mysteries and explore the universe.
Relaxing, Minimalist
100% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$5.99DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Replayable, Retro
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Hammerting
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Replayable
57% of 1,736 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$24.99Orebound
Orebound is a first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world, not a settler colony sim. You mine, craft and automate your way toward the Emberstone, build a fortress and fight what lives below. Worth a look if colony sim fans want a break from managing needs and morale to just dig deep and make machines do the work.
Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Replayable, Relaxing, Retro
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFreeTerminal Colony Deep Core
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Replayable, Relaxing, Retro
29% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Colony Survival
Colony Survival puts you inside your own colony sim: you walk its walls in first person while farmers, miners and guards do the jobs you assign. Every night monsters come, and the bigger your colony grows, the bigger the horde. Slow planning, blocky building and last-stand defense in one loop.
Replayable, Relaxing
92% of 8,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$24.95My Colony
A sci-fi colony sim that starts with one lander and a rover and ends wherever your ambition does. Pick a faction, grow an outpost into an empire, trade on a player-run market, or share a region with friends. It runs on almost anything and never asks you to wait for a timer.
Replayable, Relaxing
88% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99Dwarf Core
Dwarf Core is an idle-management game about a small colony of dwarves who love to mine. Send them to the mine to gather resources, gain experience, upgrade their stats and craft new pickaxes. Looking for more active gameplay than idle? Take control of one of the dwarves and help them mine!
Replayable, Relaxing, Retro
50% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Pixel 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!
Replayable, Relaxing, Retro
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive. You mine regolith, lay conveyors and drones, hire experts with useful traits, and trade with Earth factions through a story campaign with multiple endings.
Replayable, Relaxing
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Relaxing
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than INCREMINER
Scribbleman Army
Explore a dark cave. Craft tons of units to help you collect resources. Create new buildings and unlock new recipes.
59% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Space Architect
You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
ExoColony: Planet Survival
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply.
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.49
My Shelter
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study.
45% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
AUTARKIS
Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!
93% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Seedling
A cozy first-person colony game. Land on a planet you bought on credit (yours, mostly), chop, fish and farm with your own hands, then grow a town of…
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Inclement
In this farm-building strategy game set in the harsh environment of Northern Europe, you manage your land from clearing forests and selling grain at…
81% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Sapiens Craft
Begin as a small stone age tribe. End as a global super power in a future age. Craft and research your way through history!
77% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Fungal Colony Simulator
You are but a humble Mushroom farmer. You feel the need to farm mushrooms.
67% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like INCREMINER
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.
92% of 3,649 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99
Microtopia
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony. You lay pheromone trails that tell ants where to haul, build and craft, then watch the lines come alive…
87% of 897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
Drill Core
Drill Core puts you in charge of a drill platform chewing toward a planet's heart.
84% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
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
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Orebound
Orebound is a first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world, not a settler colony sim.
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99
FEED THE QUEEN
You run an ant colony with one goal: keep the Queen fed. Hatch specialized workers, juggle food types with different values and effects, and tune…
68% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99
Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Space Architect
You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dawn Apart
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments.
67% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest colony sims like INCREMINER
Wall World Strategy
Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.
73% of 92 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667
A Dark Cave
You wake with no memory outside a cave, one small fire between you and the dark.
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$7.99
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Union Of Rivals
A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West.
66% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$25.49
Swarmdustry
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs.
86% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Deep Space Outpost
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Icaria
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed.
74% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
FEED THE QUEEN
You run an ant colony with one goal: keep the Queen fed. Hatch specialized workers, juggle food types with different values and effects, and tune…
68% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99
Space Drilling Station
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet.
89% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs.
70% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$14.99