Colony sims like Microtopia

Miss the colorful and replayable pull of Microtopia? Start with these colony sims when you are ready.

Swarmdustry
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Replayable
86% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords. Assign mice to jobs, feed and house them, build production chains, and pay the cats their due while keeping morale up. Cute on the surface, strict underneath.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Cute
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 819$29.99
Kubifaktorium
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
79% of 728 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Colonists
Build a new home for self-replicating robots who escaped Earth to live like humans. You lay roads, boat routes and train lines, harvest resources, farm food and research tech across three ages. Relaxing, cute and full of routing puzzles, with peaceful building or races against AI colonies.
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
85% of 1,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$24.99
Autonauts
You land on an empty planet with sticks, stones, and big plans. In Autonauts you build workerbots, teach them every job by showing them what to do, and watch them farm, cook, fish, and craft while your colonists settle in. It is a colony sim for colony sim fans who like slow, cheerful automation.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
89% of 3,611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$19.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets. You dock voxel worlds, lay conveyor belts and pipes, research over 100 technologies, and keep recruited astronauts fed and housed while your industrial hub drifts onward.
Replayable, Relaxing
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$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 production until the whole nest hums. Cute, hand-drawn, and built around finding combos that snowball.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
68% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99
Dawn Apart
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Colorful, Replayable
67% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
One More Island
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
69% of 197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Ant War: Domination
Emerge from the ant hill with a handful of ants and a dream... to conquer the world. Train your ants, manage their daily workload, and travel across the town in search of new land. Sharpen your pincers and be ready to fight everyone from beetles and slugs, to the town police and the army!
Colorful, Cute
60% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The 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.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19

Cheaper than Microtopia

MicroTown

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

$9.99

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…

$7.99

Ant War: Domination

Emerge from the ant hill with a handful of ants and a dream... to conquer the world.

$4.99

The Crust

Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.

$19.19

My Colony

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

$4.99

Aven Colony

Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first settlement on Aven Prime, growing small outposts into sprawling cities across deserts, tundras…

$5.99

Wall World Strategy

Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.

$16.99

Pixel Colony

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

$4.99

Planetbase

Guide a handful of space settlers as they turn a bare landing site into a self-sufficient planetbase.

$14.99

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…

$9.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

Proto Garden

Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem…

$14.99

Hidden gems like Microtopia

Whiskerwood

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

$29.99

Astro Colony

Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.

$19.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.

$19.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

Ratopia

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

$22

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

$24.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Free

The Crust

Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.

$19.19

Timberborn

Humans are gone and beavers run the river now. You lead a Folktail or Iron Teeth colony through droughts and toxic tides, stacking dams, lodges and…

$34.99

Lifecraft

Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its…

$22.99

Paleon

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

$9.99

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