Colony Sim Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated colony sim games.

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Ark of Charon Build a mobile fortress on the back of a giant and mysterious walking Tree and embark on a journey in this merge of tower defense and colony simulation.

Price -15% 22.33€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Nov 2024
Empire of the Ants Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.

Price -65% 14.03€
Rating 7.3
Release 06 Nov 2024
Orebound Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Oct 2024
Guardians of the Sanctree You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Price -78% 4.29€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Oct 2024
Odd Realm Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Aug 2024
Rock the Islands Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jul 2024
Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.

Price -59% 8.15€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Jul 2024
Republic of Pirates Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Price -79% 5.46€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Jun 2024
First Dwarf Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.

Price -41% 14.37€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Jun 2024
Diluvian Winds Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Price -79% 3.22€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Apr 2024
From Glory To Goo From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Apr 2024
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.

Price -40% 8.87€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Mar 2024
United Penguin Kingdom A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Price -83% 2.65€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Mar 2024
Primitive Society Simulator A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Feb 2024
Factory Town Idle An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Jan 2024
United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 19 Dec 2023
Love Tavern After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Dec 2023
Dream Town Island A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Price -41% 5.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Nov 2023
Paleon Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Price -86% 1.17€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Oct 2023
Tribe: Primitive Builder Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Price -50% 10.05€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Oct 2023
Black Forest Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?

Price -83% 2.48€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Sep 2023
Highrise City Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Sep 2023
High Sea Saga DX Set sail and join yer crew in search of treasure and glory!

Price 7.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2023
Landnama Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Jul 2023
EarthX EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Price -97% 0.60€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2023
Jumbo Airport Story Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Jun 2023
Dungeon Village 2 Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 May 2023
Oxygen Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Price -83% 2.63€
Rating 7.1
Release 07 Apr 2023
Reshaping Mars 「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Mar 2023
Goblins of Elderstone This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Price -84% 3.18€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Mar 2023
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.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Feb 2023
Farlanders Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Price -80% 2.54€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jan 2023
Rogue AI Simulator Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Price -52% 4.18€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Jan 2023
Lords and Villeins Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Price -99% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Nov 2022
Deisim Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Sep 2022
Autonauts vs Piratebots Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022

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