Colony sims like Mountaincore

Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Mountaincore does? These colony sims line up well for what comes next.

DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Replayable, Retro
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a fantasy colony sim where a few settlers with clothes on their backs become a village with houses, farms, families and opinions. You design the buildings, keep moods and bellies full, and hold off Tikigoblins and pirates through winter. Cute, colorful and full of small disasters.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing, Cute
81% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro
94% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$29.99
Hammerting
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.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
57% of 1,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$4.99
Stonehearth
Stonehearth gives colony sim fans a cute voxel settlement to raise from tents to town. You feed a small band of settlers, keep their moods up, hand out RPG-style jobs, and defend them from raiders while you shape every building block by block.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 10,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$19.99
Don'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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro
79% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
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.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Cute
88% of 15,157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 421$18.99
Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive. Going Medieval is a colony sim about turning wilderness into a walled settlement: feed, clothe and house settlers with their own skills and moods, raise multi-storey forts, and hold the gates when raiders come.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable
88% of 17,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Clanfolk
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands where you lead one family across generations. You house them, feed them, marry them off and keep them alive through brutal winters, and the slow shift from bare survival to a working homestead with its own history is worth the trouble.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
91% of 3,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 240$29.99
Gnomoria
Lead a handful of gnomes from a patch of dirt to a stocked, walled kingdom in this sandbox colony sim. Dig, chop and rebuild everything you see, set workshops humming, and grow rich enough to tempt new gnomads over, and raiders too.
Also in City builder and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Cute
75% of 2,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99

Hidden gems like Mountaincore

Whiskerwood

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

$29.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.

$11.99

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

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

Wild West Pioneers

Lead pioneers into the frontier, raise a Town Hall, lay roads and homes, and keep production chains running from timber to tools.

$19.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$29.99

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

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

First Dwarf

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm.

$24.99

Newest colony sims like Mountaincore

Wild West Pioneers

Lead pioneers into the frontier, raise a Town Hall, lay roads and homes, and keep production chains running from timber to tools.

$19.99

Folklands

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world.

$8.99

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

Settler's Domain

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands.

$12.49

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

$13.99

CLOUD DWELLERS

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.

$9.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$29.99

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

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.

$11.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Whiskerwood

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

$29.99

Farthest Frontier

Guide a small band of settlers on the edge of the known world and grow their camp into a walled medieval town.

$34.99