Games like Epoch Cycle

Chasing that replayable and dark feeling you got from Epoch Cycle? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

1. New Cycle

   

   After solar flares end the old world, you lead survivors from a bare settlement to an industrial metropolis. Balance food, water and work through storms, disease and hard choices, then rebuild the machines of the past. A dark, demanding city builder about dragging civilization back from the edge.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   79%79% of 2,618 Steam reviews are positive22Players online now: 22$29.99

2. Endzone - A World Apart

   

   Lead the last survivors back to the surface, 150 years after an ecological disaster ended the world. Build them a settlement in a land of radiation, toxic rain, droughts and raiders, and keep it alive. A harsh, atmospheric colony sim that rewards careful planning and does not forgive much.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   76%76% of 8,355 Steam reviews are positive72Players online now: 72$24.99

3. Surviving the Aftermath

   

   A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you rebuild after the world ends. Raise a settlement from a handful of survivors, send specialists into a hostile wasteland, and brace for disasters that can undo weeks of work. It is difficult, sometimes cruel, and the stories it leaves you with are the kind you retell.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   71%71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$29.99

4. Oxygen: First Breath

   

   Keep the power on through deadly winds, frosts and droughts, scavenge the ruins, and lead your survivors through the first 50 days.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   88%88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree

5. The Universim

   

   A god game city builder where you raise a civilization of little Nuggets from Stone Age caves to space flight. Wield tornadoes, lightning and rain, research hundreds of advancements, and keep your planet's ecosystem alive. Playful, colorful and occasionally mean-spirited, in the fun way.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable

   79%79% of 8,485 Steam reviews are positive135Players online now: 135$29.99

6. Revival: Recolonization

   

   Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

   Replayable

   69%69% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$19.49

7. ALL WILL FALL

   

   Manage water, food and factions, scavenge the receding ocean floor, and grow a shanty town into a megastructure that (hopefully) stays standing.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   77%77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

8. After Inc: Revival

   

   Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain. Build settlements, scavenge ruins, train fighters and make the calls that shape a new society, from food policy to government. A survival colony sim with bite, from the creator of Plague Inc.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   78%78% of 1,541 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

9. Cliff Empire

   

   Earth is under 300 metres of radioactive fog, and humanity's last footholds are three artificial cliffs. Build futuristic cities on their narrow tops, trade between them, survive a hostile climate, and work your way up to an orbital station. A calm but demanding city builder where every metre of space counts.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

   87%87% of 4,204 Steam reviews are positive9Players online now: 9$17.99

10. Against the Storm

    

    A dark fantasy city builder about founding short-lived settlements in endless rain. As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, raise each outpost to reputation, then start over somewhere new with upgrades in hand.

    Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

    94%94% of 33,677 Steam reviews are positive1.2KPlayers online now: 1,193$29.99

11. Floodland

    

    A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

    Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable, Dark

    54%54% of 941 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$19.99

12. Post-Apo Builder

    

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark

    37%37% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Epoch Cycle

Post-Apo Builder

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts!

37%37% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.

92%92% of 115,363 Steam reviews are positive2.5KPlayers online now: 2,526$2.99

Aven Colony

Grow humanity's first settlement from a lonely outpost into a thriving city, one dome at a time.

71%71% of 2,021 Steam reviews are positive18Players online now: 18$5.99

Before We Leave

Lead your Peeps out of the underground and rebuild a peaceful, colorful world, one hexagonal island at a time, all the way into space.

78%78% of 1,281 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$4.99

Earth Simulator

Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.

92%92% of 236 Steam reviews are positive89Players online now: 89$4.99

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

92%92% of 353 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$6.99

The people of Sea, Sun & Salt

Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island.

100%100% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$6.49

My Colony

Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.

89%89% of 276 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$4.99

Wastelander

Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.

88%88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$2.49

Citizens: Far Lands

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds.

73%73% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Babel Legacy

Mine ore, spend it on a cheerful pixel town and let your idle city sprawl at its own relaxed pace.

88%88% of 287 Steam reviews are positive32Players online now: 32$4.99

Unclaimed World

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.

49%49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18

Hidden gems like Epoch Cycle

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

78%78% of 1,541 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Microcivilization

Guide a small settlement from the stone age through fires, plagues and wars, collecting heroes and rebuilding stronger with every run.

78%78% of 1,445 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$17.99

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

77%77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

dotAGE

You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that…

95%95% of 2,579 Steam reviews are positive36Players online now: 36$17.59

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

82%82% of 293 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$12.49

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$22.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

79%79% of 709 Steam reviews are positive7Players online now: 7$24.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

97%97% of 421 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$9.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

87%87% of 209 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2Free

Extinction Day

You are the end of the world. Seed plagues, storms, volcanoes and wars across a 3D globe, feed the destruction back into upgrades, and stack…

73%73% of 229 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$14.99

Oxygen: First Breath

Build a settlement around the Oxygen Center and keep your people breathing through the disasters of a broken world.

88%88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Paleon

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

81%81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Newest games like Epoch Cycle

ENDLESS Legend™ 2

Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.

82%82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positive456Players online now: 456$49.99

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

78%78% of 1,541 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Survival Log

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

82%82% of 3,779 Steam reviews are positive747Players online now: 747$10.99

MEGACITY

Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…

88%88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Generation Exile

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.

65%65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99

Extinction Day

You are the end of the world. Seed plagues, storms, volcanoes and wars across a 3D globe, feed the destruction back into upgrades, and stack…

73%73% of 229 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$14.99

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

77%77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

Microcivilization

Guide a small settlement from the stone age through fires, plagues and wars, collecting heroes and rebuilding stronger with every run.

78%78% of 1,445 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$17.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$22.99

Endzone 2

A post-apocalyptic colony builder where you pick your starting ground with a settlement bus, grow several settlements across the wasteland, and keep…

65%65% of 910 Steam reviews are positive23Players online now: 23$29.99

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%65% of 606 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$24.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

82%82% of 293 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$12.49