Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$4.49
Colony sims like Mr. Prepper
Still thinking about Mr. Prepper and its dark and tense tone? These colony sims are a good place to start.
Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war. You keep water, food and filters going, send people out to scavenge, and live with the moral calls and trauma that follow. Bleak, tight and personal, it is a colony sim about family first.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$4.49Shelter Manager
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Dark, Replayable, Mysterious
62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Fallout Shelter
Build a Vault-Tec vault deep underground, fill it with dwellers, and keep the lights, food and water flowing. Assign jobs, train skills, send teams into the Wasteland for loot, and defend against raiders and radroaches. Simple, funny and easy to check on in short visits.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
87% of 83,593 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,812FreeThe Last Haven
After the bombs, a handful of survivors look to you. Keep them fed, warm and disciplined as the temperature falls toward nuclear winter, build factories and guns, and hold out until spring. Bleak, demanding and full of hard trade-offs for colony sim fans.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable
60% of 1,456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after. Survival Log is a hoarding survival sim about stripping supermarkets bare, turning your home into a fortified farm-kitchen-power station, and trading by drone with the neighbors you rescue. Death sends you back with your memories intact.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99Survivalist
One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers. You scavenge supplies, plant crops, trade, hand out jobs and orders, and talk your way into trust or war. A dry, scrappy colony sim where every survivor remembers what you did.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Story-driven
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone. You scavenge procedurally generated ruins by day, then expand rooms, grow food, cook, and watch hunger, thirst, radiation, and stress back home. For colony sim fans, it is the keep-everyone-alive loop played first-hand, with friends as your settlers.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99Life in Bunker
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
55% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Survival Vacancy
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
60% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors. Assign jobs, farm, cook, craft, and fight with cards while the wasteland freezes outside. A cozy-cold colony sim for planning types who like being overprepared.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Story-driven
67% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99The Rule of Land: Pioneers
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable
65% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$10.99Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Cheaper than Mr. Prepper
Shelter Manager
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now!
62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Survivalist
One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers.
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Life in Bunker
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the…
55% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.
67% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
The Rule of Land: Pioneers
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground.
65% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.
83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
Mist Survival
Mist Survival is a single-player first-person survival sandbox where you build a camp in virus-hit woods and bring immune survivors into it.
75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 99$10.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.
87% of 4,088 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
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.
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$14.99
This War of Mine
You lead a handful of civilians trapped in a besieged city, not soldiers.
92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,342$1.99
Hidden gems like Mr. Prepper
AETHUS
AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.
94% of 2,101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
The Last Plague: Blight
The Last Plague: Blight is a slow, realistic open-world survival game where you start starving and alone and build a camp from nothing.
88% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$16.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.
87% of 4,088 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.
89% of 9,478 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 858$24.99
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…
73% of 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Aground Zero
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion.
80% of 123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.
83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
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.
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$14.99
Oxygen: First Breath
You build a settlement around the Oxygen Center, assign survivors to jobs, stock food and water, research new buildings, and keep everyone breathing…
88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
Newest colony sims like Mr. Prepper
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.
82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.
67% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
AETHUS
AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.
94% of 2,101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
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…
73% of 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
VEIN
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…
87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 693$19.99
MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone.
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
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.
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$14.99
Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99