Top rated hand-drawn colony sims

Sketched lines and painted colors soften the hard work of keeping small groups alive, and these top rated picks show that mix well. In Oxygen Not Included you dig tunnels and balance air and food for fragile settlers, while Stacklands turns village life into small cards you combine moon by moon and Cult of the Lamb has you feed and guide followers between dungeon runs. You still manage needs, jobs and shelter, just wrapped in art that looks drawn by hand.

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1. 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 136,320 Steam reviews are positive7.6KPlayers online now: 7,551$24.99

2. 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 29,494 Steam reviews are positive220Players online now: 220$7.99

3. 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 113,536 Steam reviews are positive2.2KPlayers online now: 2,220$24.99

4. This 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%92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positive1.2KPlayers online now: 1,213$1.99

5. Mudborne: 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%96% of 1,018 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$7.99

6. 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. 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%89% of 3,010 Steam reviews are positive121Players online now: 121$19.99

7. Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

   

   A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.

   96%96% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

8. Echoes 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%87% of 2,689 Steam reviews are positive55Players online now: 55$19.99

9. Diggles: 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%89% of 620 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$9.99

10. Virtual Villagers: A New Home

    

    Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and make decisions about unpredictable 'island events'! Guide their day-to-day lives and help them explore and restore their new home.

    89%89% of 186 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$9.99

11. Cat Colony Crisis

    

    You are tasked with helping a colony ship full of space-faring cats deal with a mysterious disease outbreak! Will you act fast and stop the spread of this disease or will it spread unchecked and ravage your Cat Colony.

    93%93% of 59 Steam reviews are positiveFree

12. Ground 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%84% of 1,463 Steam reviews are positive43Players online now: 43$29.99

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