Games like Paleon

If Paleon left you wanting something retro and minimalist, you have options. These games could fill that gap nicely.

Sapiens
Sapiens is a prehistoric colony sim where you start with nothing and guide a small tribe across thousands of years of discoveries, on a procedurally generated planet bigger than Earth. Build towns piece by piece, research by poking the world itself, and play alone or build sprawling cities with friends.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Relaxing, Replayable
79% of 2,080 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$24.99
Humanica
Humanica is a settlement builder that starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones and a handful of hungry settlers, then walks you all the way to iron tools and windmills. Explore a hexagonal world, shape the land itself, and grow a village that looks as cheerful as it is hard-won.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Relaxing, Cute, Replayable
92% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
Dawn of Man
Lead a band of Stone Age humans through 10,000 years of prehistory: hunt mammoths, stockpile food for winter, raise megaliths and research your way to the Iron Age. A slow, satisfying survival colony sim where each settlement tells its own story.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Relaxing, Replayable
86% of 17,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 310$24.99
Ancient Cities
Ancient Cities is a survival city builder set in the European Stone Age. Pick any time and place, from the end of the Ice Age to the late Neolithic, and guide a tribe through generations: gather, hunt, build, and watch your people live and work on their own in a fully simulated world. Slow, detailed and surprisingly peaceful for a game about not starving.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Relaxing, Replayable
64% of 1,927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$29.99
City idle
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Relaxing, Cute
71% of 233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, crafting axes and spears, and raising shelters, kitchens and workshops by hand. Villagers take over the hauling and crafting once you set them to it, and rituals unlock grander blueprints across four lands. Gentle, low-pressure survival with a story to follow.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Relaxing
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
The Promised Land
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Retro, Relaxing, Cute
86% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Also in Survival crafting
69% of 809 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Cute, Replayable
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and raise a town from nothing: shape the land itself, plant crops, survive winters and disasters, and grow a settlement worth moving to. A colorful, low-pressure survival city builder where every map is new and every town plays out differently.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Colony Simulator
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Also in Colony sim and City builder
66% of 422 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree

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The Promised Land

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation!

$6.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

Evolution of Ages: Settlements

Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world.

$8.99

The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets…

$7.99

Unclaimed World

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

$1.18

Colonize

Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or…

$6.99

Pixel Survivors

Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled.

$3.99

Green Project

Wake from cryosleep to a fungus-choked Earth, then farm, craft and plant trees at your own pace until the world around you visibly turns green again.

$5.99

Bronze Age - HD Edition

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?

$0.80

PostCollapse

PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization.

$7.99

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.

$7.99

Suncraft

Gather, craft and automate your way through villager quests to revive a faded village and find out why the sun went dark.

$6.99

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Humanica

Guide a small band of settlers through the ages, shaping a colorful hexagonal world into a thriving village at your own pace.

$14.99

Havendock

Turn a lonely raft into a cozy ocean colony, fishing debris from the waves and automating your way up to submarines and a rocket.

$19.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

$19.99

Pioneers of Pagonia

Settle the foggy isles of Pagonia, befriend its tribes and piece together what broke the world, alone or with friends.

$20.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

Primitive Society Simulator

Guide a Stone Age tribe through farming, crafting and trade while rival nations watch your borders, all in runs that unfold differently every time.

$19.99

Going Medieval

Raise three plague survivors into a walled medieval town in a wilderness reclaimed by nature.

$29.99

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

$13.99

Polylithic

Gather, craft and build a Stone Age settlement, alone or with up to 9 friends, in a bright open world that fights back.

$14.99

Tribe: Primitive Builder

You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, crafting axes and spears, and raising shelters, kitchens and workshops…

$19.99

Farthest Frontier

Grow a handful of settlers into a walled medieval town at the edge of the map.

$34.99

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