Colony sims like Sheltered

Looking for that same dark and retro spark as Sheltered? These colony sims could fill that gap nicely.

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! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Dark, Replayable
62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Fallout 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 83,594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,812Free
Mr. Prepper
Mr. Prepper is a solo survival crafting game about building a secret bunker under your house while pretending to be a model citizen. You dig rooms, add farms and workbenches, and work toward an escape vehicle under the eyes of the secret police. A steady pick for colony sim fans who like the building and stockpiling side more than managing settlers.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Retro, Tense
81% of 4,869 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 103$19.99
Survival 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$10.99
Survivalist
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, Retro, Tense
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape. For colony sim fans, this is shelter life under pressure — upgrade barricades, cook food, craft weapons, treat hunger, exhaustion, injuries and despair, and keep moving when the horde closes in.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
89% of 9,478 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 858$24.99
Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. 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
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
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. 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, Replayable
68% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$4.99
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Stranded: Alien Dawn strands a small group of survivors on a living alien world and hands you their food, health and morale. You build from a basic camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost, research new technology and hold off alien attacks, with every playthrough shaped by random events and hard choices.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 537$34.99
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Guide a small band of survivors in a valley hideout after demons overrun the world. Gather food, craft gear, research tech and occult rituals, and hold the walls in pausable tactical fights while you work to send hell back.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
The 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$10.99
Surviving the Aftermath
Raise a disaster-proof colony after the world ends: 130+ buildings, crops, power, and walls against storms, radiation, bandits and wildlife, while 80-odd specialists scout a procedural wasteland. Slow, stern, and hard to quit once the storerooms fill.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable
71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$29.99

Cheaper than Sheltered

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

My Shelter

A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study.

$3.99

Grim Nights

Your village has 13 days against the undead. Put villagers to work by their random talents, gather wood, stone, gold and food, dig underground for…

$2.99

Welcome to ParadiZe

ParadiZe is overrun, but the zombies can be hacked and put to work.

$2.99

Wastelander

Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.

$2.49

Outpost Zero

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.

$3.99

Moonlit Nights

Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world.

$2.99

Farworld Pioneers

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.

$3.74

Community Inc

As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit.

$2.99

Risen Kingdom

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

$2.99

Sol 0: Mars Colonization

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Sheltered

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.

$10.79

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

$10.99

Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.

$19.99

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

$11.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.

$24.99

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.

$7.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

MISERY

MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone.

$19.99

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.

$4.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

Settlement Survival

Lead a band of survivors to a new home and turn it into a bustling town.

$19.99

Colony sims like Sheltered

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