Popular mysterious colony sims
Small settlements with hidden pasts tie these colony sims together, and you stay in charge of food, shelter and daily jobs while digging into what remains unexplained. In Oceaneers you keep survivors afloat and search old ruins for forgotten technology, in Soulmask you guide a tribe led by a strange mask, and in Survivalist: Invisible Strain you watch for infection among newcomers you shelter.
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Oceaneers
Oceaneers is a sci-fi survival colony sim on a flooded world of floating islands. Recruit survivors, farm, cook and craft, haul whole islands home to grow your archipelago, send rafts on expeditions, and dig into bunkers for the secrets of old-world Float-Tech. Calm, charming and full of small problems to solve.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99Dead 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 225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Soulmask
Soulmask is an open-world survival crafting game where you lead a tribe bound to a mysterious mask. Recruit barbarians with their own talents, possess any of them as your avatar, and set the rest to farming, crafting, and hauling so your thatch camp grows into an automated city.
76% of 18,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,551$29.99Survivalist: 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 4,087 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99The 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 plants. You plan tight production chains, adapt to new biomes, and choose trust or exploitation.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99Frozen 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: 6$19.99The 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. Feed them, house them, give them work, and talk them down when your other selves start fighting. A colony sim where every colonist is you.
90% of 15,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 408$15.74DarkSwitch
Build a city up the trunk and boughs of a 200-meter tree, manage eleven resources under shrinking light, and hold the fog at bay with flame and zip lines. A dark fantasy survival builder with a 20-hour branching story and a soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. The Tree Prevails, if you can pull it off.
78% of 766 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99Regions 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 turning a ruined camp into a working haven that gathers resources while you are away.
85% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99Anoxia Station
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
76% of 184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
