Colony sims like Sinner Maker

Remember how replayable and dark Sinner Maker felt at its best? These colony sims make natural next picks for you.

Ruinarch
Ruinarch flips colony sims upside down: instead of keeping villagers alive, you ruin them. Watch procedurally generated fantasy villages eat, work, feud and fall in love, then meddle with curses, gossip, monsters and plagues until the whole soap opera collapses.
Replayable, Dark, Funny
62% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Honey, I Joined a Cult
Build a compound, recruit followers and turn them into loyal cultists in this funny management sim. You set schedules, assign jobs, keep everyone fed and rested, and spend faith and funds on stranger rooms, all in bright pixel art with funky music.
Replayable, Dark, Funny
73% of 1,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$21.99
Genesis of a Small God
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Replayable
78% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Cult of the Lamb
Start a cult as a lamb who owes a god a favour, then keep your woodland Followers fed, housed, and believing. You build structures, preach sermons, perform rituals, and raid randomly generated regions for resources and recruits to take down four rival leaders. Cute, funny, and a little sinister.
Replayable, Funny, Surreal
95% of 113,549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,110$24.99
A Game of Humans
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Replayable
63% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
One Hour One Life
Born as someone's baby, dead within the hour. In between you farm, cook, smith and build so the next generation inherits a little more than wilderness. A strange, tender colony sim where your settlers are other players.
Replayable, Dark, Surreal
76% of 4,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Fata Deum - The God Sim
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Replayable, Dark
59% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Hell Architect
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Replayable, Dark, Funny
64% of 359 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
SAELIG
SAELIG is a Dark Ages life and business sim where you grow a household into a dynasty. You work, trade, build and hire in living towns in Wessex, marry and raise children to carry on, and ride out seasons, disease and Viking raids across generations.
Replayable
86% of 1,148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
AI Society
Build a town or run a game studio, both staffed by AI characters with real personalities. Watch townsfolk work, argue, fight, and raid dungeons. Or play the RPG your own AI dev team designs, builds, and ships while you run the company. Runs 100% locally on your machine.
Replayable, Story-driven
62% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Replayable, Dark
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Soulash 2
Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG where you can found a settlement, attract families, set up workshops and caravans, and grow it into a small power that wages war. Death is permanent, but your world, buildings, and children carry on.
Replayable, Dark
85% of 2,417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$18.99

Cheaper than Sinner Maker

pyramida

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

$2.99

Community Inc

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

$2.99

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.

$2.99

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

Survivalist

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

$4.99

Evolution of Ages: Settlements

Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world.

$8.99

Towns

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features.

$4.99

The Promised Land

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation!

$6.99

Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival RPG set in the cold city of Praslav, where winter keeps getting closer.

$7.49

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

Sheltered

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

$4.49

Organs Please

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

$6.99

Hidden gems like Sinner Maker

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

Noble Fates

Noble Fates is a fantasy kingdom sim where you start with a handful of dwarves, elves, orcs, halflings or humans and build them into a lasting…

$19.99

dotAGE

You are the Elder leading a handful of Pips into an empty valley before the foretold apocalypse.

$17.59

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.

$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…

$14.99

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG where you can found a settlement, attract families, set up workshops and caravans, and grow it into a small…

$18.99

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

Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?

$14.99

Rogue AI Simulator

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!

$11.99

City 20

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and…

$19.99

Sapiens

Start with nothing and grow a prehistoric tribe into towns with farms, workshops and new technology.

$24.99

Masters of Albion

Shape an Albion town as a god with a giant hand, then drop down and live in it.

$24.99

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