Popular chaotic colony sim games
Small settlements that refuse to stay calm bring these popular chaotic colony sims together. In RimWorld, Oxygen Not Included and Dwarf Fortress you house a handful of settlers, give them work, stretch food and air, and deal with breakdowns, raids and system failures that snowball fast. Expect repairs, improvising and laughing when your careful layout falls apart.
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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% of 1,315 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$29.99Stranded: 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% of 9,921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99Dwarf 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% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$29.99MISERY
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% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99Oxygen 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$24.99Diggles: 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 620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99RimWorld
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$34.99Machine 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% of 587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99DYSPLACED
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% of 309 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99First 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% of 320 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99Garbage
Garbage puts you in charge of a homeless camp where your bums need food, showers, sleep and warmth. You build shelters, put them to work begging and scavenging, train them, then send them into automatic street fights across five grim districts. It is scrappy, darkly funny colony sim management where survival always comes first.
66% of 1,008 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99Goblins of Elderstone
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
69% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
