Popular dark colony sim games
Keeping a few people alive is grim work in these popular dark colony sims, and you feel every shortage. RimWorld leaves you patching injuries and settling quarrels between crash survivors, Nested Lands has you handing out work in a medieval village worn down by sickness and raids, and Grim Realms forces hard calls as the dead press closer. Expect to build shelter, ration food and hold together through cold, hunger and fear.
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Going 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$29.99Dungeon Settlers
Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested, then lead four of them into a shifting dungeon to conquer and destroy it. Death is permanent, so every ration packed and skill picked matters.
78% of 1,458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$24.99Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile for a ragtag civilian crew searching for a new home, then keep its air, heat, power, food and moods balanced as you mine, salvage derelicts, trade and fight across a procedurally generated galaxy.
85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
You run the last checkpoint of a collapsing city: inspect survivors for bites, rashes and hidden contraband, then decide who enters, who waits in quarantine, and who never leaves. Between shifts you feed your camp, keep the lights on, and fly drones when the fence fails. A grim, funny routine where one sloppy check can doom everyone.
81% of 12,620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 577$19.99Dead 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. Every decision is defensible in the moment. The horror is retroactive. Land what is left and build a colony, alone or with up to three friends.
84% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Nested Lands
A dark medieval settlement RPG where you recruit peasants, give each one a job, and keep the whole village fed, doctored and defended through plague, winter and bandit raids, solo or in online co-op.
73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$14.99Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you. Recruit anyone, feed them, house them and keep their morale steady while zombies, raiders and hunger press in. The catch is trust: carriers of the Invisible Strain look normal until they turn.
87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99After Inc: Revival
Decades after the Necroa Virus, you lead a handful of survivors out of the bunker and try to make a society again. Raise firepits, kitchens and workshops, keep needs and morale steady, clear zombie nests, and found new settlements across a green, ruined United Kingdom.
78% of 1,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119$10.79Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape. For colony sim fans, this is shelter life under pressure — upgrade barricades, cook food, craft weapons, treat hunger, exhaustion, injuries and despair, and keep moving when the horde closes in.
89% of 9,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,001$24.99Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$22.99Frozen 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.
76% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Walkers
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.
64% of 109 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 112$7.99
