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!
81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Colony sims like Polylithic
If Polylithic left you wanting something colorful and cute, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these colony sims.
Dawn of Man
Lead a handful of Stone Age humans through 10,000 years to the Iron Age. Hunt mammoths, gather berries, survive winter, research tools, build walls against raiders, and watch your settlement grow one hard season at a time.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
86% of 17,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 310$24.99Sapiens
Start with nothing and grow a prehistoric tribe into towns with farms, workshops and new technology. You place every wall and log, assign jobs, and watch your sapiens learn skills and raise families. A calm, hands-on colony sim for builders who like starting from sticks and stones.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Replayable
79% of 2,080 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$24.99Re.poly
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Cute, Replayable
91% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Paleon
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Also in Survival crafting · Cute, Replayable
81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Ancient Cities
Guide a Stone Age tribe across generations, from Ice Age camps to Neolithic villages. Assign work, find food, learn new tools and houses, and trade, raid or move on when land runs thin. Slow, careful and easy to watch, for colony sim fans who like starting small and thinking long term.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
64% of 1,927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$29.99Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a large island, chopping wood and stone by hand, raising huts and workshops, then assigning villagers to gather, craft and hunt for you. Four lands, a full story and a slow shift from manual work to automation make it a calm, hands-on colony sim.
Also in Survival crafting
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Stonies
Stonies – Secure the survival of your kin! Play the gripping mix of life simulation and tycoon game now and accompany your Stonies through their prehistoric life. Prove your skill as a Stone Age leader in Stonies.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Cute
53% of 453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5FreeHumanica
Humanica is a relaxed colony sim that walks a small ancient settlement from 10,000 B.C. to the Iron Age. You feed and clothe settlers, assign their daily work, research a large tech tree, and slowly trade sticks and stones for bronze tools, farms, and windmills.
Also in Survival crafting · Colorful, Cute, Replayable
92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99In Next Life
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
66% of 156 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3FreePrimitive Society Simulator
Lead a small Stone Age tribe and guide it toward bronze, one house, field, and work crew at a time. You assign jobs, raise crops and animals, research tools, and face rival ancient nations across Asia. Worth playing for colony sim fans who like slow growth that turns into trade, tribute, and war.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
83% of 657 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Journey Of Life
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op
55% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Colony 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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
92% of 8,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$24.95
Cheaper than Polylithic
Evolution of Ages: Settlements
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world.
85% of 279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$8.99
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
Romestead
Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.
77% of 4,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Viking Frontiers
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory.
49% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.39
Subsistence
Subsistence is not a colony sim with settlers to order around.
72% of 12,693 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 386$13.99
Fera: The Sundered Tribes
Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting survival action RPG with village building and tribe management with…
57% of 395 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Bronze Age - HD Edition
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?
77% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.80
Caveman Craig
A strategy/survival game set in a prehistoric world of dinosaurs and cavemen.
86% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Seeds of Resilience
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience.
66% of 257 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
SkyPrimal
From a lone castaway with bare hands to the chief of a tribe. Primal tribes share this land.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
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
Hidden gems like Polylithic
Humanica
Humanica is a relaxed colony sim that walks a small ancient settlement from 10,000 B.C. to the Iron Age.
92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
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
Primitive Society Simulator
Lead a small Stone Age tribe and guide it toward bronze, one house, field, and work crew at a time.
83% of 657 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.
88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$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…
73% of 531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Romestead
Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.
77% of 4,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Pathless Woods
Pathless Woods is a cute open-world survival game set in a land inspired by ancient China, where you gather, farm, cook, and build a home worth…
79% of 966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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!
81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
AColony
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a large island, chopping wood and stone by hand, raising huts and workshops, then assigning villagers to…
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Clanfolk
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands where you lead one family across generations.
91% of 3,821 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 240$29.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest colony sims like Polylithic
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.
75% of 612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
Lugal: Bronze Age Survival Game
Survival Craft with PvE, CO-OP, Questline that lasts for several hours. Historic Bronze Age vibes.
74% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Stoneguard
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement.
74% of 74 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Romestead
Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.
77% of 4,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Soulmask
Soulmask is an open-world survival crafting game where you lead a tribe bound to a mysterious mask.
76% of 18,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,551$29.99
Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.
88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Humanica
Humanica is a relaxed colony sim that walks a small ancient settlement from 10,000 B.C. to the Iron Age.
92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
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
In Next Life
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration.
66% of 156 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Pioneers of Pagonia
Lead your Pagonians across fog-covered isles, raise buzzing settlements with 60+ buildings and 100+ goods, and win over scattered tribes through…
81% of 4,859 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
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
Island Paradise
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to…
76% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$14.99