Most played dark colony sim games
Survival gets grim in these most played dark colony sim games, where small groups depend on you for food, shelter and steady nerves. RimWorld throws stranded survivors into injuries, quarrels and attacks, while State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition and Sheltered ask you to defend a base, stretch supplies and send people out for provisions. Expect hunger, sickness, cold and hard choices about who eats and who risks the next run.
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Enshrouded
Enshrouded is a survival action RPG with a settlement at its heart: you rescue survivors from the fog, bring them home, and watch a lonely hut turn into a working town of crafters who unlock new recipes and gear. Worth playing for colony sim fans who like the building-up part more than managing hunger bars.
86% of 99,710 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26,616$39.99RimWorld
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% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24,947$34.99Oxygen 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% of 136,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Kenshi
Kenshi is a free-roaming squad RPG where you raise nobodies into survivors, then into a working outpost. Mine, farm, research, craft, and carry your wounded home. For colony sim fans, the draw is watching a fragile group become a self-run desert settlement that keeps moving without you.
95% of 99,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,067$29.99Manor Lords
Grow a small medieval village into a busy town where every worker counts. You place homes, assign families to farms, hunts and workshops, and stretch food and fuel through winter, then watch your militia leave work to fight. Slow, seasonal and hands-on.
84% of 78,294 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,087$39.99Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze. You build around a coal-burning generator, assign work, gather food and steel, pass laws, and hold hope together as the temperature drops. Cold, hard, and full of choices that follow you.
92% of 115,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99Fallout Shelter
Build a Vault-Tec vault deep underground, fill it with dwellers, and keep the lights, food and water flowing. Assign jobs, train skills, send teams into the Wasteland for loot, and defend against raiders and radroaches. Simple, funny and easy to check on in short visits.
87% of 83,520 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,926FreeFrostpunk 2
Frostpunk 2 puts you in charge as Steward of a growing city 30 years after the great freeze, balancing coal, oil, food and heat while factions argue in the Council Hall. For colony sim fans it offers survival pressure at city scale, with districts, laws and supply lines instead of individual settlers.
74% of 21,151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,362$20.24This War of Mine
You lead a handful of civilians trapped in a besieged city, not soldiers. By day you patch up the shelter and ration food and medicine, by night you send one of them out to scavenge. Every run is randomized, and every choice about who eats, who risks the dark, and who you steal from sticks.
92% of 89,525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive. Going Medieval is a colony sim about turning wilderness into a walled settlement: feed, clothe and house settlers with their own skills and moods, raise multi-storey forts, and hold the gates when raiders come.
88% of 17,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99Against the Storm
As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies into a forest ruined by apocalyptic rains. You found short-lived settlements, keep very different needs met, and earn reputation before the storm takes it all. A dark, tense colony sim built for starting over well.
94% of 33,646 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,193$29.99Bellwright
Framed for murder and on the run, you build a rebellion from a rough camp into fortified towns.
80% of 20,459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,181$29.99
