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Best Colony Sim Games 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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Mind Over Magic Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Price 22.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2025
My Little Life A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Price -35% 3.82€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Jan 2025
Foundation Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Jan 2025
Exogate Initiative Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Price -61% 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Jan 2025
Settlements Rising Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Jan 2025
Idle Colony A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Price -44% 3.39€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Dec 2024
Railroads Online Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!

Price -91% 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Dec 2024
Catizens Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Nov 2024
Ecosystem Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

Price -61% 7.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Nov 2024
Sengoku Dynasty Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Price -73% 7.48€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Nov 2024
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 -62% 10.06€
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 -71% 11.63€
Rating 7.3
Release 06 Nov 2024
Surviving the Abyss Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 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
Diplomacy is Not an Option Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Price -83% 5.12€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 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 -83% 3.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Oct 2024
Frostpunk 2 Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Price -77% 10.54€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Sep 2024
Fera: The Sundered Tribes Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting survival action RPG with village building and tribe management with groundbreaking aerial traversal and combat mechanics.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Sep 2024
Fantasy Map Simulator Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Sep 2024
Odd Realm Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Price -50% 9.75€
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
Norland Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Price -71% 8.76€
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Jul 2024
The Crust Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Price -76% 7.02€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 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 -60% 7.80€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Jul 2024
ASKA A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Price -43% 14.47€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Jun 2024
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Price -84% 6.78€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Jun 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 -81% 4.76€
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% 14.22€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Jun 2024
Empires of the Undergrowth Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Price -91% 2.77€
Rating 9.2
Release 07 Jun 2024
Reus 2 Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Price -77% 5.67€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 May 2024
Fabledom Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 May 2024
Moose Miners Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.6
Release 10 May 2024
Echoes of the Plum Grove A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Apr 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% 3.19€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Apr 2024
Infection Free Zone Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Apr 2024
The Lost Village Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Price -52% 5.25€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Apr 2024

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