Top rated colony sim games

Small bands of settlers with hunger, feelings and skills connect these top rated colony sim games, from RimWorld and Going Medieval to Oxygen Not Included. You build shelter, assign daily work, grow and store food, and watch over health and morale while raids, illness and harsh weather press in. Every failed harvest or lost colonist turns into a story shaped by your choices.

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1. RimWorld

   

   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%97% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positive38.5KPlayers online now: 38,535$34.99

2. Oxygen 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%96% of 136,265 Steam reviews are positive7.6KPlayers online now: 7,551$24.99

3. Stacklands

   

   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%96% of 29,484 Steam reviews are positive197Players online now: 197$7.99

4. Cult of the Lamb

   

   Start a cult as a lamb who owes a god a favour, then keep your woodland Followers fed, housed, and believing. You build structures, preach sermons, perform rituals, and raid randomly generated regions for resources and recruits to take down four rival leaders. Cute, funny, and a little sinister.

   95%95% of 113,448 Steam reviews are positive2.2KPlayers online now: 2,220$24.99

5. Kenshi

   

   Kenshi is a free-roaming squad RPG where you raise nobodies into survivors, then into a working outpost. Mine, farm, research, craft, and carry your wounded home. For colony sim fans, the draw is watching a fragile group become a self-run desert settlement that keeps moving without you.

   95%95% of 99,448 Steam reviews are positive5.4KPlayers online now: 5,419$29.99

6. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

   

   It fixes bugs, improves the interface, automates chores like tailoring, and lets you plan buildings down to the material. Less wrestling with menus, more time keeping your dwarves fed, housed and alive.

   99%99% of 1,175 Steam reviews are positive105Players online now: 105Free

7. Timberborn

   

   Humans are gone and beavers run the river now. You lead a Folktail or Iron Teeth colony through droughts and toxic tides, stacking dams, lodges and workshops upward while your rodents chop, pump, farm and build. Warm, colorful and easy to lose a night to.

   95%95% of 39,416 Steam reviews are positive$34.99

8. Against the Storm

   

   As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies into a forest ruined by apocalyptic rains. You found short-lived settlements, keep very different needs met, and earn reputation before the storm takes it all. A dark, tense colony sim built for starting over well.

   94%94% of 33,646 Steam reviews are positive1.2KPlayers online now: 1,193$29.99

9. Dwarf 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%94% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positive827Players online now: 827$29.99

10. Cattails: Wildwood Story

    

    Become a cat and lead a small colony into the Wildwood. You found the settlement, recruit new cats, send squads for territory and resources, and defend the borders from Voidling cats while hunting, gardening, and dating your neighbors.

    97%97% of 1,505 Steam reviews are positive45Players online now: 45$3.99

11. From Glory To Goo

    

    A sci-fi colony sim where your crashed survivors must keep shelter, water and power running while alien Goo closes in. You expand street by street, recruit squads, raise walls and call down your ship's cannons. Losing a run still unlocks new ships, captains and biomes, so the next colony starts stronger.

    96%96% of 1,858 Steam reviews are positive88Players online now: 88$7.79

12. Songs of Syx

    

    Songs of Syx is a low fantasy city-builder where you grow an insignificant village into a city-state and empire. Tens of thousands of citizens are simulated one by one, with lives, religions, fears and desires, so every shortage, riot or lost battle feels personal.

    94%94% of 9,159 Steam reviews are positive656Players online now: 656$24.99

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