Colony sims like KeeperRL

Loved how replayable and retro KeeperRL can get? These colony sims keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Dwelvers
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
64% of 239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
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.
Replayable
73% of 1,318 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Dwarf Fortress
Build a mountain fortress for seven dwarves and try to keep them fed, watered with beer, and reasonably sane while history, weather, goblins, dragons and magma do their worst. For colony sim fans who like watching small plans turn into long, strange stories about what went wrong.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
94% of 29,457 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$23.99
Craft The World
Lead a tribe of dwarves on a randomly generated island, from one sleepy dwarf to a busy fortress. You give the orders to dig, build, gather and fight, keep them fed and clothed, and hold the walls when portals spit out zombies, skeletons and goblins.
Replayable, Retro
88% of 15,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 386$18.99
Dungeon Settlers
Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested, then lead four of them into a shifting dungeon to conquer and destroy it. Death is permanent, so every ration packed and skill picked matters.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
78% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
Underworld Overseer
Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
91% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Dungeon Overseer
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Replayable
56% of 52 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Necesse
Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony. You recruit settlers with particular skills, set them to farm, mine, cook and craft, then leave for dungeons, seas and boss fights while the village keeps running.
Replayable, Retro
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Infested Fortress
Dig into the mountain, collect resources to build your fortress, grow your population and keep them alive (and happy), learn new deadly skills, gather and refine materials to craft powerful items so you can fend off the many dangerous monsters threatening your colony in turn-based tactical combat.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
83% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Soulash 2
Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG where you can found a settlement, attract families, set up workshops and caravans, and grow it into a small power that wages war. Death is permanent, but your world, buildings, and children carry on.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
85% of 2,417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$18.99
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?
Retro
27% of 2,397 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Noble Fates
Noble Fates is a fantasy kingdom sim where you start with a handful of dwarves, elves, orcs, halflings or humans and build them into a lasting kingdom. Your nobles farm, craft, fight and remember everything, so grudges, loyalties and bad wedding feasts shape what happens next.
Replayable
83% of 1,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$19.99

Cheaper than KeeperRL

Dwelvers

Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against…

$14.99

Craft The World

Lead a tribe of dwarves on a randomly generated island, from one sleepy dwarf to a busy fortress.

$18.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.

$14.99

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG where you can found a settlement, attract families, set up workshops and caravans, and grow it into a small…

$18.99

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

Dungeon Village 2

Recruit adventurers and monsters to build your own RPG town.

$8.99

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

Regions Of Ruin

Regions of Ruin is a 2D side-scrolling action RPG where you fight across a ruined continent and rebuild a dwarven town from nothing.

$11.99

Towns

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

$4.99

Edge Islands

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based…

$10.79

Rogue AI Simulator

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!

$11.99

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

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Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

Regions of Ruin: Runegate

A hack-and-slash RPG with a rebuilding thread for colony sim fans: you play a lone dwarf clearing monster-held lands, rescuing allies, and slowly…

$19.99

Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested…

$24.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

Noble Fates

Noble Fates is a fantasy kingdom sim where you start with a handful of dwarves, elves, orcs, halflings or humans and build them into a lasting…

$19.99

dotAGE

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

$17.59

Odd Realm

Pick one of five races, claim a procedurally generated desert, mountain, island or tundra, and build a kingdom in a realm recovering from the…

$19.99

Dungeon Village 2

Recruit adventurers and monsters to build your own RPG town.

$8.99

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG where you can found a settlement, attract families, set up workshops and caravans, and grow it into a small…

$18.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.

$14.99

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

Rogue AI Simulator

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!

$11.99

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