Top rated chaotic colony sim games
These top rated chaotic colony sim games give you fragile groups to feed, house and keep calm while systems break around you. RimWorld, Oxygen Not Included and Dwarf Fortress ask you to dig, grow food, fix pipes and treat wounds as raids, shortages and odd accidents turn careful plans into rescue work.
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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% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21,279$34.99Oxygen 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 136,314 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Dwarf 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% of 29,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$23.99Zompiercer
Zompiercer gives colony sim fans a base with wheels: a train you turn into a small rolling home, with workbenches, storage and decoration, then drive through handcrafted zombie country to strip for resources, craft gear and fight on. It is solo survival with base-tending rather than managing settlers.
88% of 4,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$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$9.99MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone. You scavenge procedurally generated ruins by day, then expand rooms, grow food, cook, and watch hunger, thirst, radiation, and stress back home. For colony sim fans, it is the keep-everyone-alive loop played first-hand, with friends as your settlers.
85% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99Stranded: Alien Dawn
Stranded: Alien Dawn strands a small group of survivors on a living alien world and hands you their food, health and morale. You build from a basic camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost, research new technology and hold off alien attacks, with every playthrough shaped by random events and hard choices.
83% of 9,921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99DYSPLACED
DYSPLACED is a top-down survival action-RPG where you play a summoned Guardian clearing corruption, smashing nearly everything for materials, and building outposts across a dying fantasy realm. For colony sim fans, the draw is the outpost network rather than managing settlers.
87% of 309 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99Plentiful
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.
90% of 87 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99AColony
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Gridworld
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
85% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99Galaxy Pass Station
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
84% of 244 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
