The colony sim catalog
Every base-builder, fortress sim and survival-city game we cover, from genre-defining giants to smaller experimental finds.
RimWorld 10.0
The reference sci-fi colony sim: a small group of crash-landed survivors tries to build a home while an AI storyteller turns logistics into drama.
Dwarf Fortress 9.9
A legendary fortress simulator where a generated world, stubborn dwarves, and one bad tunnel can turn a settlement into history.
Oxygen Not Included 9.8
A sealed asteroid colony sim where oxygen, heat, germs, food, morale, and plumbing all become survival problems.
Going Medieval 9.6
A medieval colony builder about turning a few survivors into a fortified settlement with rooms, food stores, jobs, and defenses.
Clanfolk 9.4
A Scottish Highlands family survival sim where warmth, food, schedules, skills, and winter preparation matter more than combat.
Norland 9.3
A medieval colony sim where noble families, class conflict, religion, plots, work orders, and settlement survival collide.
Stranded: Alien Dawn 9.2
A 3D planet survival sim about guiding a small stranded group through shelter, research, farming, injuries, wildlife, and defenses.
Space Haven 9.1
A spaceship colony sim where a civilian crew builds a tile-by-tile home, manages life support, explores wrecks, and survives in space.
Stardeus 9.0
A broken-starship colony sim where the player is an AI rebuilding the ship with drones while humans sleep in danger.
Ascent of Ashes 8.9
A post-apocalyptic colony sim from RimWorld modding veterans, built around survivors, base defense, factions, stealth, and tactical combat.
Songs of Syx 8.8
A fantasy settlement-to-empire sim that starts small and grows into huge cities, armies, logistics, unrest, and kingdom management.
Timberborn 8.7
A drought-survival settlement builder where vertical beaver cities depend on water physics, reservoirs, food, power, and terrain shaping.
Banished 8.6
A classic survival settlement builder where exiles, food, firewood, disease, aging, and bad stockpiles decide whether the town lives.
Frostpunk 8.5
A society survival city builder about heat, labor, law, morality, and keeping the last city alive in impossible cold.
Against the Storm 8.4
A dark fantasy settlement roguelite where each colony is a compact survival puzzle against weather, orders, species needs, and risk.
The Wandering Village 8.3
A settlement builder on the back of a giant creature, where the colony survives by balancing its own needs with its living host.
Whiskerwood 8.2
A deceptively cute colony builder where a small worker settlement must satisfy food, shelter, production, taxes, and political pressure.
Colony Survival 8.1
A first-person voxel colony game where workers gather, craft, and guard the settlement against nightly monster attacks.
Surviving Mars 8.0
A Mars colony builder about domes, life support, resources, research, colonist comfort, disasters, and long-term expansion.
Aven Colony 7.9
A sci-fi colony builder about founding human cities on an alien planet with harsh biomes, hazards, and infrastructure needs.
IXION 7.8
A space-station survival builder where the last human crew depends on sectors, power, hull integrity, trust, food, and exploration.
Endzone - A World Apart 7.7
A post-apocalyptic settlement builder where survivors rebuild under radiation, drought, toxic rain, scarcity, and expeditions.
Settlement Survival 7.6
A Banished-style settlement survival game about moving a small group into a new home and building a stable town.
Founders' Fortune 7.5
A fantasy village sim focused on colonist wishes, moods, rooms, crafting, farming, equipment, diplomacy, and defense.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator 7.4
A Chinese mythology sect simulator where disciples, rooms, feng shui, cultivation, artifacts, and disasters form a dense colony sim.
Noble Fates 7.3
A 3D fantasy colony and kingdom sim where a small group builds, fights, works, equips itself, and forms opinions.
Odd Realm 7.2
A fantasy settlement sim about rebuilding with different races, digging, crafting, exploring, and surviving a strange world.
Craft The World 7.1
A side-view dwarf colony sandbox about digging, crafting, building a fortress, gearing workers, and surviving monster waves.
Rise to Ruins 7.0
A brutal village survival sim that mixes god-game powers, settlement management, logistics, and night defense.
Dawn of Man 6.9
A prehistoric settlement survival game about guiding early humans through hunting, gathering, farming, crafting, and raids.
Necesse 6.8
A survival crafting adventure with recruitable settlers, colony jobs, base building, farming, exploration, bosses, and co-op.
KeeperRL 6.7
A dungeon colony sim where the settlement is a lair: recruit minions, dig rooms, craft gear, train forces, and raid the world.
Kenshi 6.6
A harsh open-world squad sandbox where a wandering group can become traders, outlaws, farmers, slavers, rebels, or base builders.
Ratopia 6.5
A side-view survival city builder where citizens, economy, exploration, production, and defenses shape a growing rat society.
Farthest Frontier 6.4
A frontier settlement survival builder where food, disease, raiders, weather, crops, production, and trade shape the town.
Infection Free Zone 6.3
A survivor-base management game where any real-world region can become the map for scavenging, fortifying, and defending a safe zone.
The Alters 6.2
A sci-fi survival base game where one survivor creates alternate versions of himself to form a strange working crew.
From Glory To Goo 6.1
A sci-fi survival RTS about establishing a colony on an alien world while a spreading hostile force attacks from every direction.
dotAGE 6.0
A turn-based survival village builder where workers, production chains, omens, and disasters drive each compact colony run.
Gnomes 5.9
A turn-based village defense game where gnomes build, farm, expand through biomes, and survive escalating attacks.
After Inc: Revival 5.8
A compact post-zombie survival builder about rebuilding civilization through settlements, resources, society, and hard tradeoffs.
Starmancer 5.7
A space station colony sim where an uploaded AI grows and manages a station full of messy, replaceable human colonists.
Adaptory 5.6
A crash-landed crew survival sim built around complex base systems, outspoken explorers, oxygen, food, stress, and escape planning.
Starship Colony 5.5
An upcoming deep starship colony sim about closed-loop life support, crew psychology, plumbing, wiring, mining, and diplomacy.
Red Dust Colony 5.4
A Mars colony sim about turning a lander into a self-sustaining base while balancing oxygen, CO2, plants, mining, and research.
SpaceSlog 5.3
A spaceship colony sim about building a vessel, keeping simulated ship systems alive, and managing a crew through emergent stories.
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift 5.2
A generation ship simulation where an AI oversees 1,000 sleeping colonists and makes hard decisions across the dark between stars.
Oceaneers 5.1
A flooded-world colony survival game about building a settlement, crafting gear, designing rafts, and managing survivors.
Mars Colony Builder 5.0
An unreleased Mars settlement builder about roads, buildings, safety, and shaping the first human city on the planet.
Ant Colony: Wild Forest 4.9
An upcoming colony strategy game where the player grows a queen-led colony through spawning, upgrades, raids, and underground building.
DarkSwitch 4.8
A vertical survival city builder about building a safe colony on a giant tree while defending it from a hostile fog.
Maia 4.7
A hostile-planet colony builder where off-world settlers must construct a habitat from almost nothing and survive the environment.
Planetbase 4.6
A compact space colony builder about settlers, domes, power, oxygen, food, mining, disasters, and self-sufficiency.
Gnomoria 4.5
A sandbox village management game about guiding a small group into a kingdom by digging, building, crafting, and surviving.
Stonehearth 4.4
A voxel settlement sim about helping a small group build homes, produce food, defend itself, and grow in a warm fantasy world.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation 4.3
A survivor colony sim about building a hidden base, scavenging the world, crafting gear, researching, and surviving supernatural threats.
MewnBase 4.2
A small-scale space survival base builder about scavenging a barren planet, crafting modules, and keeping a growing base alive.
Ragnorium 4.1
A strange planet-colonization sim about growing clone settlements, surviving harsh worlds, and preparing for escalating threats.
The Last Starship 4.0
A 2D starship construction sandbox about designing, upgrading, and operating ships across a growing space economy.
First Feudal 3.9
A medieval village-to-castle management game about peasants, production, walls, traps, raids, and feudal growth.
Ancient Cities 3.8
A realistic ancient survival settlement sim about leading a tribe through food, shelter, resources, migration, and growth.
Surviving the Aftermath 3.7
A post-apocalyptic colony builder about scarce resources, colonist safety, specialists, exploration, and rebuilding civilization.
Frostpunk 2 3.6
A larger society survival sequel about expansion, factions, laws, districts, and political survival after the endless winter.
Of Life and Land 3.5
A settlement builder where villagers, plants, animals, regions, trade, and ecological systems all shape the colony.
TFM: The First Men 3.4
A generation-spanning open-world colony sim about shaping the first people from a tiny origin into a growing society.
Trappist 3.3
A story-driven colony builder about flying an ark through Trappist-1, exploring planets, and establishing new colonies.
Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager 3.2
A solar-system management game about mining asteroids, colonizing planets, terraforming, and leading long-term space expansion.
Stella Nova 3.1
An itch.io space-station builder about modular stations in a procedural solar system.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder 3.0
A space-base colony sim about building on alien planets, managing settlers, mining resources, and escaping harsh environments by spaceship.
Lanternfall 2.9
A browser colony sim about building a home on a strange planet covered in dangerous dark fog.
Exoplanet Outpost 2.8
A sci-fi colony outpost sim about balancing economic growth, tourism, research, and defense against hostile alien forces.
ALL WILL FALL 2.7
A post-apocalyptic ocean colony sim about physics-based 3D construction, supply chains, exploration, and political decisions.
The Crust 2.6
A lunar base builder about mining, automation, research, trade with Earth, and turning a Moon colony into humanity's lifeline.
Per Aspera 2.5
A planetary-scale Mars terraforming sim where an AI oversees infrastructure, colonization, and the transformation of the Red Planet.
The Final Earth 2 2.4
A vertical sci-fi colony builder about creating a new space city after Earth becomes unlivable.
Space Colony: Steam Edition 2.3
A classic space base builder where individual crew members need to stay productive, happy, alive, and defended from alien threats.
Startopia 2.2
A classic space-station management game about rebuilding station decks and attracting alien workers, visitors, and specialists.
Sheltered 2 2.1
A brutal shelter management sim about keeping a faction alive, maintaining a base, scavenging, trading, and fighting after collapse.
Flotsam 2.0
A floating city builder about rescuing survivors, scavenging a flooded world, and keeping a drifting settlement alive.
Havendock 1.9
A cozy ocean colony sim about building a haven for castaways, managing resources, and developing from rafts to tech.
New Cycle 1.8
A survival city builder about rebuilding society after solar flares, from a small settlement to an industrial civilization.
Kubifaktorium 1.7
A colony builder about managing settlers, exploiting biomes, building machinery, and mastering production chains.
Cataclismo 1.6
A brick-by-brick fortress defense game about building settlements that can survive hordes from the Mist.
Laysara: Summit Kingdom 1.5
A mountain settlement builder about production chains, caste needs, weather breakdowns, avalanches, and tight terrain.
Lords and Villeins 1.4
A feudal settlement sim where families own goods, run shops, trade, pay taxes, and form a local economy.
Common'hood 1.3
A community-building management game about scavenging, farming, crafting, researching, and turning a base into a home.
MicroTown 1.2
A relaxing village construction and management sim about building up a small settlement.
Before We Leave 1.1
A cozy civilization rebuilding game about nurturing settlers, expanding to new lands and planets, and managing resources.
Diluvian Winds 1.0
A small hamlet management game about welcoming travelers and expanding a lighthouse settlement across land, sea, and sky.