Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town.
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Colony sims like Ratopia
Want something that feels cute and colorful the way Ratopia does? These colony sims could fill that gap nicely.
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 · Cute, Replayable
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town. You shape the land, plant crops, hunt, gather, trade, and keep everyone housed, fed, and happy through seasons and disasters.
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Also in City builder · Colorful, Replayable
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Also in City builder · Cute, Colorful, Replayable
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Banished
Banished puts you in charge of exiled travelers starting over with carts of supplies and empty wilderness. Your townspeople age, work, raise families and die, so every house, harvest and trade matters. No money, no skill trees, just hard choices about food, warmth and risk. Slow, stern and oddly tender.
Also in City builder · Replayable
90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99Against the Storm
As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies into a forest ruined by apocalyptic rains. You found short-lived settlements, keep very different needs met, and earn reputation before the storm takes it all. A dark, tense colony sim built for starting over well.
Also in City builder · Replayable
94% of 33,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a low fantasy city-builder where you grow an insignificant village into a city-state and empire. Tens of thousands of citizens are simulated one by one, with lives, religions, fears and desires, so every shortage, riot or lost battle feels personal.
Also in City builder · Replayable
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 656$24.99Patron
Patron is a medieval survival builder where your settlers have opinions about everything you do, from taxes to immigration to religion. You gather wood and food, raise houses and workshops, and steer people into jobs while keeping rival social groups calm. Good for colony sim fans who want moody villagers instead of obedient workers.
Also in City builder · Replayable
72% of 2,896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?
Also in City builder · Replayable
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99City idle
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Cute, Colorful
71% of 233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3FreeTownsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Grow a medieval village into a metropolis of thousands, keeping every baker, woodcutter and soldier fed, housed and entertained. With long production chains, seasons, plagues and bandit raids, it is a relaxed but busy city builder for colony sim fans who like watching small routines add up to a large town.
Also in City builder · Cute, Colorful, Replayable
79% of 894 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99One 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
69% of 197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Cheaper than Ratopia
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Banished
Banished puts you in charge of exiled travelers starting over with carts of supplies and empty wilderness.
90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99
Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements.
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Patron
Patron is a medieval survival builder where your settlers have opinions about everything you do, from taxes to immigration to religion.
72% of 2,896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Grow a medieval village into a metropolis of thousands, keeping every baker, woodcutter and soldier fed, housed and entertained.
79% of 894 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99
One More Island
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name.
69% of 197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49
Outlanders
Outlanders is a cozy town-builder where you guide stubborn, charming settlers who pick their own jobs and houses.
91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Block'hood
Block'hood is a neighborhood builder about ecology, not expansion.
73% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Make Your Kingdom
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre.
55% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hidden gems like Ratopia
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$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.
84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
After Inc: Revival
Decades after the Necroa Virus, you lead a handful of survivors out of the bunker and try to make a society again.
78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$10.79
ALL WILL FALL
Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49
Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.
79% of 711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Outlanders
Outlanders is a cozy town-builder where you guide stubborn, charming settlers who pick their own jobs and houses.
91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
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 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Catizens
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as…
80% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$9.77
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
Newest colony sims like Ratopia
After Inc: Revival
Decades after the Necroa Virus, you lead a handful of survivors out of the bunker and try to make a society again.
78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$10.79
ALL WILL FALL
Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Nova Roma
Lead a small band of Romans from a humble village to a metropolis.
93% of 2,339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 164$29.99
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…
95% of 39,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,262$34.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare
Territory: Farming and Warfare starts you with a dozen villagers and lets you grow them into a kingdom of thousands.
84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
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 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$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.
86% of 24,705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
Found a Roman frontier town and keep its people fed, housed, and alive.
83% of 757 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
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
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99