Survival crafting games like Mountaincore

Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Mountaincore does? These survival crafting games line up well for what comes next.

Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a cheerful fantasy colony sim where a handful of settlers with empty pockets become a village that has to eat, sleep, and survive winter. You gather wood, stone and ore, design houses plank by plank, farm seasonal crops, cook meals, research tech, and hold off Tikigoblins and pirates. Worth playing for the way every villager keeps feelings, friendships, and opinions about the food.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Relaxing, Cute
81% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Hammerting
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
57% of 1,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$24.99
Stonehearth
Stonehearth gives survival crafters a gentler job: keep a handful of settlers fed, housed, and in good spirits in a bright voxel land. You gather, craft tools, raise buildings block by block, and set guards against raiders while your town grows toward an empire, trade city, or quiet monastery.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 10,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$19.99
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress into a generated mountain and try to keep your dwarves fed, watered, and alive. You dig, farm, craft furniture and treasures, and raise taverns and temples while starvation, dragons, and madness circle. Losing is part of the plan, and the next world is always stranger.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro
94% of 29,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$23.99
Embark
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 · Replayable
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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 · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
79% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Craft The World
You command a tribe of dwarves on a random island, dig from sky to lava, gather wood and ore, and turn it into tools, weapons, armor, food, and a walled fortress. Then portals open and monsters come knocking. A warm, funny colony sim for survival crafters who like building first and fighting second.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Cute
88% of 15,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 421$18.99
Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive. You gather wood, clay and stone, raise walls and workshops, plant crops and cook meals, then hold it all against raiders and winter. A slow, hands-on colony sandbox for survival crafting games fans who like building a walled town stone by stone.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
88% of 17,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Gnomoria
Gnomoria puts you in charge of a small band of gnomes with an empty plot and big ambitions. You order them to chop, mine, craft and build until the camp becomes a stocked, walled kingdom. For survival crafters who like the gather-and-build loop managed from above, it is a steady, replayable way to turn dirt into a small empire.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Cute
75% of 2,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Clanfolk
Clanfolk is a colony sim in the Scottish Highlands where you keep one family alive through the seasons. You gather branches, stone and reeds, farm, fish, hunt and cook, then build from dirt floors up to brick houses and barns. Winters are brutal, generations turn over, and survival slowly becomes family history.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
91% of 3,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 240$29.99
Stonedeep
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
41% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$7.99

Hidden gems like Mountaincore

Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers pairs settlement building with dungeon runs: you raise bedrooms, kitchens and forges in barren land, grow crops and cook rations…

$24.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean where you pull wood and scraps from floating debris, feed castaways, and grow a raft town toward…

$19.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

Odd Realm

Pick a race, claim a strange procedurally generated land, and build a kingdom from dirt and stone.

$19.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Wild West Pioneers

Wild West Pioneers is a relaxed frontier city-builder, not a hands-on survival crafter.

$19.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$29.99

Nested Lands

Nested Lands is a dark medieval settlement survival game where you rescue peasants, give them jobs, and grow a plague-ravaged village into something…

$14.99

Orebound

A first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world: mine ore by hand, craft better tools, then build drill rigs, belts, and refineries that…

$24.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down open-world survival crafting sandbox in an infinite procedural world.

$14.99

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?

$14.99

First Dwarf

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm.

$24.99

Newest survival crafting games like Mountaincore

Wild West Pioneers

Wild West Pioneers is a relaxed frontier city-builder, not a hands-on survival crafter.

$19.99

Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers pairs settlement building with dungeon runs: you raise bedrooms, kitchens and forges in barren land, grow crops and cook rations…

$24.99

Settler's Domain

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands.

$12.49

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, craft and build your way from a rough camp to a working Roman settlement…

$13.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$29.99

Nested Lands

Nested Lands is a dark medieval settlement survival game where you rescue peasants, give them jobs, and grow a plague-ravaged village into something…

$14.99

Ecopunk

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

$22.99

Farthest Frontier

Guide a small band of settlers as they turn untamed wilderness into a lived-in medieval town.

$34.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down open-world survival crafting sandbox in an infinite procedural world.

$14.99

Noble Legacy

Rule Greenwood in person in this medieval colony sim: place every building yourself, put villagers to work, run production chains from raw wood to…

$24.99

Ascent of Ashes

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.

$14.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49