Colony sims like Unrect

If Unrect scratched a minimalist and replayable itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these colony sims easily.

Colony Survival
Colony Survival puts you inside your own colony sim: you walk its walls in first person while farmers, miners and guards do the jobs you assign. Every night monsters come, and the bigger your colony grows, the bigger the horde. Slow planning, blocky building and last-stand defense in one loop.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
92% of 8,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$24.95
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Survival crafting · Minimalist, Replayable
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Wall World Strategy
A colony sim on a sheer vertical cliff of stone and metal. Build your base, mine the Wall's depths, keep your people fed and calm, and hold off the zyrexes that keep coming. Every choice matters, and the ground is literal vertical.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
71% of 121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$16.99
AColony
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Cute, Colorful
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Colony Simulator
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Also in Survival crafting
66% of 422 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Colonists
Build a new home for self-replicating robots who escaped Earth to live like humans. You lay roads, boat routes and train lines, harvest resources, farm food and research tech across three ages. Relaxing, cute and full of routing puzzles, with peaceful building or races against AI colonies.
Replayable, Cute, Colorful
85% of 1,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99
Exodus Borealis
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Replayable
91% of 243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
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. You recruit settlers with particular skills, set them to farm, mine, cook and craft, then leave for dungeons, seas and boss fights while the village keeps running.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Colorful
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 532$14.99
Guardians of the Sanctree
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Cute, Colorful
72% of 288 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a fantasy colony sim where a few settlers with clothes on their backs become a village with houses, farms, families and opinions. You design the buildings, keep moods and bellies full, and hold off Tikigoblins and pirates through winter. Cute, colorful and full of small disasters.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Cute, Colorful
81% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Scorchlands
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Replayable, Colorful
88% of 115 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Planetbase
Guide a handful of space settlers as they turn a bare landing site into a self-sufficient planetbase. You place the domes, mines, and farms, balance oxygen, water, food, and power, and keep everyone alive through meteors, sandstorms, and solar flares. Simple to start, strict about mistakes.
Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99

Cheaper than Unrect

Wastelander

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

$2.49

Scribbleman Army

Explore a dark cave. Craft tons of units to help you collect resources. Create new buildings and unlock new recipes.

$1.99

Grandiose

Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy.

$1.99

AUTARKIS

Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!

$2.49

Sol 0: Mars Colonization

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

$0.99

Space Architect

You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…

$1.79

Strategy Core

Lead your clan from a small settlement all the way to the launch of a colony ship.

$0.69

Lunara: Planet IX

Build and explore in Planet IX, a vibrant 2D pixel art simulation game where you create a colony on a mysterious planet, face monsters, and uncover…

$0.99

Bronze Age - HD Edition

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?

$0.80

Valley of Kings

An empire once sprawling with life, destroyed by the dragon's flames Venture into a ravaged world overtaken by wild beasts and bloodthirsty bandits.

$0.99

Inclement

In this farm-building strategy game set in the harsh environment of Northern Europe, you manage your land from clearing forests and selling grain at…

$0.99

Park Life - Circuit of Happiness -

Be the Jissouseki in the Park!! Survive in the Park and make your own Family.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Unrect

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

Astro Colony

Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.

$19.99

Surviving Ceres

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.

$9.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.

$19.99

Cataclismo

Cataclismo is a fortress-builder for colony sim fans who like the building half best: house citizens, gather wood, stone and minerals, research new…

$29.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

$9.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

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.

$14.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

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

$9.99

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

Newest colony sims like Unrect