Story-driven colony survival games

Your calls decide who eats, who rests and who is trusted in these settlements, from a cloned crew on a scorched world to survivors at a city gate or a village riding a huge creature.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Quarantine 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…

81% of 12,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 577$19.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Dead 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.

84% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 147$11.99
The Wandering Village

The 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…

91% of 7,826 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 125$29.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.

89% of 9,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,469$24.99
The Alters

The 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.

90% of 15,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$15.74
Regions of Ruin: Runegate

Regions 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…

85% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

77% of 759 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$26.24
Tales of Terrarum

Tales of Terrarum

Inherit a patch of Terrarum as the new mayor and turn it into a working town.

80% of 132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13Free
Survive the Fall

Survive the Fall

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.

65% of 606 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.

63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV

Apocalypse: The Last RV

Reborn seven days before the end of the world, you stockpile supplies and turn an RV into a warm mobile home for a crew of survivors.

67% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Island Notes

Island Notes

Shipwrecked with a handful of fellow survivors, you build shelter, farm, fish, craft weapons and armor, and try to keep everyone fed and friendly.

82% of 908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$12.99
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders puts you in charge of a forest settlement that grows from a few huts into a town.

68% of 1,033 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$3.89
Sinner Maker

Sinner Maker

Make your own sinners, then try to keep them alive together after the Rapture.

90% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$9.66
Winter Burrow

Winter 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.

89% of 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$10.99
Gord

Gord

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates.

53% of 811 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$6.99
RimWorld

RimWorld

Three crash survivors, a patch of wilderness, and an AI that loves ruining your plans.

97% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38,535$34.99
AETHUS

AETHUS

AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.

94% of 2,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$19.99
Diggles: The Myth of Fenris

Diggles: The Myth of Fenris

Odin lost his pet Fenris, the hound of Hell, and drafted your clan of dwarfs to find him.

89% of 620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2 puts you in charge as Steward of a growing city 30 years after the great freeze, balancing coal, oil, food and heat while factions argue…

74% of 21,151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 733$20.24
IXION

IXION

IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting prototype station carrying the last of humanity.

77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 210$34.99
Masters of Albion

Masters of Albion

Shape an Albion town as a god with a giant hand, then drop down and live in it.

65% of 645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
NORSE: Oath of Blood

NORSE: Oath of Blood

A Turn-Based Tactics game set in Viking-Age Norway. Build a settlement, forge alliances, and fight strategic battles.

56% of 2,593 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99

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