Most played chaotic colony sims

Settlements that refuse to stay calm connect these colony sims, and you keep small groups fed, housed and working while accidents pile up. RimWorld leaves survivors dealing with injuries and raids, Oxygen Not Included asks you to manage air and water inside an asteroid, and Dwarf Fortress lets fortresses slide into strange trouble. These most played chaotic colony sim games are busy with repairs, shortages and sudden threats.

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1. RimWorld

   

   Three crash survivors, a patch of wilderness, and an AI that loves ruining your plans. RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim where moods, wounds, love affairs and raids pile up into stories you will retell for years. Build, farm, trade, patch people up with peg legs and bionics, and watch it all go sideways in the best way.

   97%97% of 211,533 Steam reviews are positive21.5KPlayers online now: 21,466$34.99

2. Oxygen Not Included

   

   Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim where three Duplicants wake up inside an asteroid and immediately start using up the air. You dig, pipe, wire, farm and recycle to keep them breathing, and the systems fight back in funny ways. A great pick for colony sim fans who like solving one crisis after another.

   96%96% of 136,319 Steam reviews are positive7.6KPlayers online now: 7,551$24.99

3. Dwarf Fortress

   

   Build a mountain fortress for seven dwarves and try to keep them fed, watered with beer, and reasonably sane while history, weather, goblins, dragons and magma do their worst. For colony sim fans who like watching small plans turn into long, strange stories about what went wrong.

   94%94% of 29,434 Steam reviews are positive702Players online now: 702$23.99

4. 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.

   83%83% of 9,921 Steam reviews are positive563Players online now: 563$34.99

5. 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.

   85%85% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positive258Players online now: 258$19.99

6. ALL WILL FALL

   

   Grow a small band of survivors into a tall ocean city where gravity is always watching. You stack platforms, homes, and workshops upward, balance weight and materials, feed three factions, and face hard choices when the tide shifts. Worth playing because every extra floor feels earned.

   77%77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

7. Castle Story

   

   Castle Story is a voxel strategy game about leading a crew of small yellow Bricktrons on floating islands. You send them to dig, gather and haul, then lay out a castle brick by brick and hold it against waves of Corruptrons. For colony sim fans, the pull is watching your plan turn into their work.

   67%67% of 9,304 Steam reviews are positive46Players online now: 46$9.99

8. Zompiercer

   

   Zompiercer gives colony sim fans a base with wheels: a train you turn into a small rolling home, with workbenches, storage and decoration, then drive through handcrafted zombie country to strip for resources, craft gear and fight on. It is solo survival with base-tending rather than managing settlers.

   88%88% of 4,694 Steam reviews are positive27Players online now: 27$19.99

9. Diggles: The Myth of Fenris

   

   Odin lost his pet Fenris, the hound of Hell, and drafted your clan of dwarfs to find him. You dig tunnels, build workshops, feed your Diggles and keep them entertained, or they go on strike instead of working. Slow, funny and oddly sweet, it is a colony sim for patient builders.

   89%89% of 620 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$9.99

10. DYSPLACED

    

    DYSPLACED is a top-down survival action-RPG where you play a summoned Guardian clearing corruption, smashing nearly everything for materials, and building outposts across a dying fantasy realm. For colony sim fans, the draw is the outpost network rather than managing settlers.

    87%87% of 310 Steam reviews are positive15Players online now: 15$24.99

11. Machine Mind

    

    Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

    71%71% of 587 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

12. First Dwarf

    

    Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.

    77%77% of 320 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$24.99

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