Colony sims like Shush

Hooked on the mysterious and scary side of Shush? These colony sims could fill that gap nicely.

Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Tense, Dark
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Wasted World
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
59% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$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.
Tense, Dark
65% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea. You build walkways around your starter boat, recycle plastic and driftwood into homes and workshops, desalinate water, catch fish, rescue drifters and animals, and sail on to soaked ruins and islands. Gentle survival, cheerful art, and quirky specialists make it a welcoming pick for colony sim fans.
Atmospheric
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$24.99
MISERY
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.
Mysterious, Scary, Atmospheric
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
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.
Scary, Atmospheric, Tense
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Mysterious, Scary, Atmospheric
78% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
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.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Tense
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
JUNKPUNK
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Atmospheric
59% of 647 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
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.
Mysterious, Dark
62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Oceaneers
Oceaneers is a sci-fi survival colony sim on a flooded world of floating islands. Recruit survivors, farm, cook and craft, haul whole islands home to grow your archipelago, send rafts on expeditions, and dig into bunkers for the secrets of old-world Float-Tech. Calm, charming and full of small problems to solve.
Mysterious, Atmospheric
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
The Survivalists
A castaway survival sandbox where your colony is a troop of trainable monkeys. You chop, mine, craft and build, then teach monkeys to copy you so the camp keeps running while you explore islands, raid temples and hunt for a way home.
Mysterious
76% of 8,133 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99

Cheaper than Shush

Sheltered

Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.

$4.49

Survivalist

One year after the collapse, you crawl out of your bunker hungry and start building a community from strangers.

$4.99

Project Of Cooling The Earth

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers.

$4.99

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

My Shelter

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

$3.99

Outpost Zero

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

$3.99

pyramida

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

$2.99

Welcome to ParadiZe

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

$2.99

Nayati River

A single-player game of adventure and survival, set in a vast region infested with the dead.

$4.99

AstroPlanet

AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere.

$3.99

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

Wastelander

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

$2.49

Hidden gems like Shush

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.

$19.99

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Oceaneers

Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.

$24.99

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

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Flotsam

Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea.

$24.99

BioEden

As a Keeper sent to heal a barren planet, you recycle debris into power and water networks, then raise dozens of animal species inside a dome by…

$21.99

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

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…

Free

MISERY

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

$19.99

Organs Please

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.

$6.99

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