Popular hand-drawn colony sims
Stone age camps, ant nests and asteroids all need the same care here: illustrated settlers with hunger, fear and quirks for you to manage. Oxygen Not Included has you digging tunnels and balancing air and food, while The Tribe Must Survive asks you to calm dread and hold the camp together and FEED THE QUEEN turns meals into colony growth. These popular hand-drawn colony sims keep you building, assigning work and fixing the next shortage.
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The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Oxygen 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 136,319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Landnama
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
74% of 439 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99Winter 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 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$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 620 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 589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$7.99Echoes 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$19.99Mudborne: Frog Management Sim
You wake up as a frog in an empty pond, and the fix is breeding: mix genetics, hatch new species, and use them as living keys to reopen the dreaming world. Cozy pixel-art management with puzzles, mushrooms, and frogs in tiny hats.
96% of 1,017 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99Synergy
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 709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99Stacklands
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 29,484 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 220$7.99Ground 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 1,460 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$29.99This 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 89,525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99
