AColony
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge. Build them a base, keep them fed and sane, and hold the walls when the local wildlife comes knocking. Every run plays out differently, and every decision costs something. A colony sim where the planet is actively trying to ruin your day.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
83% of 9,927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99AColony
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.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Funny
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a colorful village builder where every settler has a name, a mood and opinions about their bedroom. Design houses wall by wall, farm through the seasons, trade with travelers, and defend your little town from goblins and pirates. Gentle pace, plenty of charm, and a lot of small people to keep happy.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Funny
81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Dark
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18Stardeus
A deep colony sim on a broken starship. You are the ship's immortal AI: send drones to patch the hull, balance oxygen, heat and power, wake your human crew, and decide whether to protect them or exploit them. Then fly your rebuilt ship into a procedurally generated universe full of pirates, traders and worse.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
87% of 1,466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99After the Collapse
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Dark
77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Story-driven
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim about keeping cheerful clones alive inside an asteroid. You dig tunnels, pipe oxygen and water, wire up power, and fight heat, hunger, and stress. Systems collide in clever ways, failure is funny, and a working base feels earned.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark, Funny
96% of 136,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99
Cheaper than RimWorld
Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Founders' Fortune
Build houses wall by wall, farm the seasons and keep every settler happy, with the occasional goblin raid to deal with.
81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet.
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Stardeus
As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.
87% of 1,466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims.
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
After the Collapse
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors.
77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Oxygen Not Included
Dig into an asteroid, wire up power and plumbing, and keep a colony of cheerful clones fed, cool and sane. ===
96% of 136,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress into a generated mountain and try to keep your dwarves fed, watered, and mostly sane.
94% of 29,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$23.99
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Astrobuilder
An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time.
88% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.
92% of 3,649 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
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% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Recruit strangers, build a camp and hold it together while an infected survivor hides in plain sight.
87% of 4,087 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
Going Medieval
Raise three plague survivors into a walled medieval town in a wilderness reclaimed by nature.
88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Stardeus
As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.
87% of 1,466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
A turn-based, party-based RPG set aboard a generation ship that never stops and never arrives.
87% of 4,277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$39.99
Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
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Astrobuilder
An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time.
88% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.
84% of 225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.
69% of 48 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Generation Exile
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.
65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
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% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Going Medieval
Raise three plague survivors into a walled medieval town in a wilderness reclaimed by nature.
88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Solargene
Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system.
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.
92% of 3,649 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 859$29.99