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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Per Aspera Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Price -86% 4.26€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Dec 2020
Amazing Cultivation Simulator Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Price -68% 6.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Nov 2020
Marble Age: Remastered Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Nov 2020
Kingdoms Reborn A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Nov 2020
Drake Hollow Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Price -96% 1.18€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Oct 2020
Songs of Syx Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Sep 2020
As Far As The Eye Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Price -99% 0.40€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Sep 2020
The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 21 Aug 2020
pyramida A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Aug 2020
Desktop Farm Relaxing game where you can build your farm on your desktop. Your farm will be your interactive live wallpaper. Perfect to play in the background doing other things.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 31 Jul 2020
Anno 1404 - History Edition Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Jun 2020
Space Haven Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Price -77% 5.20€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 May 2020
Ostriv Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Mar 2020
Risen Kingdom Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Feb 2020
Bunny Park Manage your own bunny park! Give snacks and toys to your bunnies. Improve and decorate your park to increase its popularity and collect all the bunnies!

Price -80% 1.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Jan 2020
Mad Tower Tycoon Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Jan 2020
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Rise to Ruins A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Price -60% 5.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Oct 2019
MicroTown Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2019
Cliff Empire After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Aug 2019
Oxygen Not Included Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jul 2019
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Price -86% 1.37€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Jul 2019
They Are Billions They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Price -16% 25.29€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Jun 2019
Seeds of Resilience Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jun 2019
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.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.0
Release 18 Apr 2019
ISLANDERS ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Price -58% 2.10€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Apr 2019
Ymir Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Mar 2019
Dawn of Man Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Price -63% 9.30€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Mar 2019
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Price -95% 1.17€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Feb 2019
SERIES MAKERS TYCOON Series Makers makes your dreams come true. Produce your own TV series and build your own TV studio with your team. Dominate the TV landscape and fight your way up for worldwide success!

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Feb 2019
The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Jan 2019
Kingdom Two Crowns Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Price -88% 2.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Dec 2018
Reignfall Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Dec 2018
One Hour One Life A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Nov 2018
The Colonists Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Price -90% 2.33€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2018
RimWorld A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Price -54% 14.98€
Rating 9.7
Release 17 Oct 2018

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