Mysterious colony sims with secrets

Your settlements hide questions you have to solve while keeping everyone fed and sheltered, from buried technology to traitors living among your people.

Oceaneers

Oceaneers

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands.

86% of 111 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.

84% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Soulmask

Soulmask

Soulmask is an open-world survival crafting game where you lead a tribe bound to a mysterious mask.

76% of 18,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,551$29.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
The Wandering Village

The Wandering Village

Build a small survivor village on the back of Onbu, a giant wandering creature, and keep both village and host alive in a world poisoned by strange…

91% of 7,826 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99
Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.

76% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Pioneers of Pagonia

Pioneers of Pagonia

Lead your Pagonians across fog-covered isles, raise buzzing settlements with 60+ buildings and 100+ goods, and win over scattered tribes through…

81% of 4,851 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$20.99
The Alters

The Alters

You crash on a burning planet with a mobile base you cannot run alone, so you grow a crew from your own alternate lives.

90% of 15,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$15.74
Regions of Ruin: Runegate

Regions of Ruin: Runegate

A hack-and-slash RPG with a rebuilding thread for colony sim fans: you play a lone dwarf clearing monster-held lands, rescuing allies, and slowly…

85% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

77% of 759 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$34.99
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 606 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Mercury Fallen

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Surviving the Abyss

Surviving the Abyss

Earth, 1976. You run a deep-sea facility built to perfect human cloning, keeping scientists and clones alive on oxygen, power and food while…

64% of 1,052 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Enshrouded

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…

86% of 99,710 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38,494$39.99
The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.

63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
MISERY

MISERY

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

85% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 399$19.99
Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

94% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Island Notes

Island Notes

Shipwrecked with a handful of fellow survivors, you build shelter, farm, fish, craft weapons and armor, and try to keep everyone fed and friendly.

82% of 908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$7.53
Exogate Initiative

Exogate Initiative

Build an underground facility, recruit a team of specialists and explore new worlds through the Exogate.

76% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.24
The Lost Village

The Lost Village

As the son of a fallen sect master, you rebuild a deserted immortal mountain with your disciples.

76% of 6,454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$11.99
Winter Burrow

Winter 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.

89% of 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$10.99
Gord

Gord

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates.

53% of 811 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$6.99
Machine Mind

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

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

AETHUS

AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.

94% of 2,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$19.99

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