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Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
If Polylithic left you wanting something colorful and cute, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these survival crafting games.
Guide a small band of ancient humans from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, across more than 10,000 years. You hunt mammoths, gather berries and flint, craft tools and clothing, and slowly turn a camp into a fortified town. Patient planning pays off, and winter always collects its debts.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
Start with nothing and grow a prehistoric tribe into towns and industry. You place every log, assign every job, and unlock new crafts by having your sapiens poke at the world. Slow, cute, and easy to lose an evening to.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Colorful, Replayable
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Colorful, Cute, Replayable
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Also in Colony sim · Cute, Replayable
Ancient Cities puts you in charge of a Stone Age tribe, from Ice Age cold to Neolithic farms. You place huts, assign workgroups, chase food and new knowledge across generations, and trade, raid, or move when the land runs thin. Slow, pretty, and patient: a city builder for survival crafters who like keeping everyone fed.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, knapping stone, and raising huts into four linked villages. With hunger as the main pressure and no enemies hunting you, it is survival crafting kept calm and steady.
Also in Colony sim
Stonies – Secure the survival of your kin! Play the gripping mix of life simulation and tycoon game now and accompany your Stonies through their prehistoric life. Prove your skill as a Stone Age leader in Stonies.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Cute
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Also in Co-op
Humanica starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones, and hungry settlers to feed and clothe. For survival crafters who like the slow climb, it gives you gathering, crafting, farming, and smelting all the way to bronze, iron, and windmills.
Also in Colony sim · Colorful, Cute, Replayable
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Replayable
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op
Lead a small Stone Age tribe into the Bronze Age: craft tools, build houses, hunt, farm, and raise livestock, then test that foundation against rival ancient nations through trade, tribute, or war. Worth playing for how colony care turns into large-scale strategy.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable

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

Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a…

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

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

As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.

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…

Shipwrecked in the 1500s on a Caribbean archipelago, you scrape by on sticks, stones, hunger and thirst, then work up to workshops, crops, and a…

A first-person open-world survival game where you build a base, work up its technology, and try to stay fed through changing seasons.

A scorched procedural wasteland where the sun can kill you faster than bandits.

DeadPoly is a blocky zombie survival sandbox where gathering, crafting, and base building are the way you stay alive.

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

The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.

Humanica starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones, and hungry settlers to feed and clothe.

A slow, strict medieval survival sim in a procedurally generated world sick with the Blight. Best for survival crafters who like realism with teeth.

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

Lead a small Stone Age tribe into the Bronze Age: craft tools, build houses, hunt, farm, and raise livestock, then test that foundation against…

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…

Shipwrecked in the 1500s on a Caribbean archipelago, you scrape by on sticks, stones, hunger and thirst, then work up to workshops, crops, and a…

A cozy open-world survival crafting game set in a land inspired by ancient China.

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

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, knapping stone, and raising huts into four linked villages.

Clanfolk is a colony sim in the Scottish Highlands where you keep one family alive through the seasons.

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.

Survival Craft with PvE, CO-OP, Questline that lasts for several hours. Historic Bronze Age vibes.

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…

Soulmask is a survival crafting game where you wear an ancient mask that lets you possess your own tribespeople.

Humanica starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones, and hungry settlers to feed and clothe.

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

An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration.

Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island".

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.

You return to the island of Aghasba as a junior architect, planting strange forests on barren ground, raising villages for the Shimu, and crafting…

A slow, strict medieval survival sim in a procedurally generated world sick with the Blight. Best for survival crafters who like realism with teeth.

ASKA puts you in charge of a Viking tribe instead of a lonely survivor.

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.