Colony sims like Subsistence

Looking for that same tense and dark spark as Subsistence? These colony sims make natural next picks for you.

Cheaper than Subsistence

Mist Survival

Mist Survival

Mist Survival is a single-player first-person survival sandbox where you build a camp in virus-hit woods and bring immune survivors into it.

75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 99$10.99
The Rule of Land: Pioneers

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
MewnBase

MewnBase

MewnBase is a cute 2D survival and base-building game where you are a space-cat stranded on a barren planet with no snacks.

92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Outpost Zero

Outpost Zero

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

51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

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.

83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
Survivalist

Survivalist

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

80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Fargone

Fargone

Fargone is a first-person survival RPG in a poisoned wasteland called The Barrens.

70% of 545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$11.99
Ice World

Ice World

A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and…

57% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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
pyramida

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
Forsaken Fortress Strategy

Forsaken Fortress Strategy

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

25% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Survival Log

Survival Log

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

82% of 3,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 687$10.99

Hidden gems like Subsistence

The Last Plague: Blight

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
MewnBase

MewnBase

MewnBase is a cute 2D survival and base-building game where you are a space-cat stranded on a barren planet with no snacks.

92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Ecopunk

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
Nested Lands

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
VEIN

VEIN

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…

87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 838$19.99
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based survival sim where every tool, plant, animal and ache is a card to combine.

76% of 1,158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$21.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

77% of 4,973 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

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.

83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
Necesse

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.

92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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
Pathless Woods

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
Polylithic

Polylithic

Polylithic puts you in charge of a Stone Age tribe clawing its way from Paleolithic foraging to Neolithic farming.

70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99

Newest colony sims like Subsistence

Polylithic

Polylithic

Polylithic puts you in charge of a Stone Age tribe clawing its way from Paleolithic foraging to Neolithic farming.

70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99
EverRail

EverRail

EverRail is a frozen-world survival game where your colony is a moving train carrying the last of humanity.

69% of 403 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

77% of 4,973 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Nested Lands

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
Ecopunk

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
VEIN

VEIN

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…

87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 838$19.99
Farthest Frontier

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
MISERY

MISERY

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

85% of 20,803 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
Necesse

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.

92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Island Paradise

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
Ascent of Ashes

Ascent of Ashes

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.

68% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Survive the Fall

Survive the Fall

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.

65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99