Newest scary colony sim games
The newest scary colony sims leave you guarding a fragile group when the dark turns hostile. Dead Night Highway keeps you moving survivors between short-lived camps, Colonies of The Remnant centers on running a camp while the dead press in, and Stoneguard revolves around holding a walled home through attacks after dark. You gather food, raise shelter and hand out jobs while hunger, cold and monsters test morale.
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Walkers
An open-world zombie survival sandbox where any safe spot on the map becomes your outpost. Scavenge, craft and loot the wasteland, recruit survivors with their own skills, and assign them as workers, guards or companions. Keep them fed, keep their morale up, and keep the hordes out. Death has consequences.
66% of 132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 112$7.99A Dark Cave
You wake with no memory outside a cave, one small fire between you and the dark. A Dark Cave is a text-based colony sim where you raise a village, put villagers to work, and push deeper underground toward an old, unpleasant truth. Slow, tense, and full of hard calls.
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$6.79THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
24% of 603 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$22.50Enshrouded
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 100,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28,819$39.99Last Light: Survival
A first-person survival game where you command the dead — because you are one of them. Build, craft, and survive while uncovering a truth buried in your own memories: you were the monster all along.
18% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after. Survival Log is a hoarding survival sim about stripping supermarkets bare, turning your home into a fortified farm-kitchen-power station, and trading by drone with the neighbors you rescue. Death sends you back with your memories intact.
82% of 3,779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 747$10.99The Carcass
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy. Negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
22% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Stoneguard
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement. Lead your fellow survivors into battle against waves of nocturnal monsters who wish to take this precious Lifestone from your world.
74% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$6.99EverRail
EverRail is a frozen-world survival game where your colony is a moving train carrying the last of humanity. You rescue scattered passengers, add wagons, and keep the battery alive by never standing still for long. Worth trying for the pressure of keeping a fragile train-society rolling.
69% of 400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99Colonies of The Remnant
In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.
6% of 78 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Dead Night Highway
Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
