Most played hand-drawn colony sims
Settlers with hunger, nerves and odd habits keep you busy across these sketched and painted colonies. In Oxygen Not Included you dig tunnels and balance air, food and waste for fragile duplicates, while Cult of the Lamb mixes dungeon runs with feeding and guiding followers, and Stacklands turns an entire village into stacks of cards to feed and grow. Expect chores, shortages and small disasters drawn with charm.
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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% of 136,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Cult 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.
95% of 113,549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,220$24.99This 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 89,576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99Stacklands
Stacklands turns village-building into stacking cards: drop a villager on a berry bush for food, sell spare cards for coins, buy packs to grow. Every moon your people need feeding, and goblins, rats and bears wander in. Cute, hand-drawn and easy to start, with 200+ cards, ideas and quests to work through.
96% of 29,496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 220$7.99Winter Burrow
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game where a mouse returns home to rebuild a ruined childhood burrow and find a missing aunt. You gather resources in the frozen wilds, craft tools, knit sweaters, bake pies, decorate your home, and befriend the locals, all at your own pace.
89% of 3,018 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$19.99Echoes of the Plum Grove
Washed ashore in Honeywood with a humble plot, you build a farm meant to outlive you. Plant for the season, stock food for winter, cook and craft, befriend or annoy the townsfolk, and when your character dies, carry on as your heir while the island keeps its secrets.
87% of 2,689 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$19.99Ground of Aces – The World War II Airbase Builder
Run a remote World War II airfield where every pilot and mechanic has a name, a personality, and an empty stomach. You place every wall, grow food, house Hurricanes and Spitfires, and send crews on risky sorties while keeping morale up for the next air raid.
84% of 1,464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$29.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Grow a medieval village into a metropolis of thousands, keeping every baker, woodcutter and soldier fed, housed and entertained. With long production chains, seasons, plagues and bandit raids, it is a relaxed but busy city builder for colony sim fans who like watching small routines add up to a large town.
79% of 894 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99Diggles: 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% of 621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99FEED THE QUEEN
You run an ant colony with one goal: keep the Queen fed. Hatch specialized workers, juggle food types with different values and effects, and tune production until the whole nest hums. Cute, hand-drawn, and built around finding combos that snowball.
68% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99One 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.
76% of 4,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99Synergy
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
79% of 712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
