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Best Colony Sim games on PC

Games focused on building and managing a colony, including its growth, resources, and survival. They commonly combine simulation with strategic planning.

  • Settlement building and expansion
  • Resource management and survival
  • Long-term strategic planning

Related: Base Building, Resource Management, Survival, City Builder

275 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

Farm Together
Casual farming sandbox with real-time growth and cooperative farm building
94% positive 22K reviews
Going Medieval
Medieval colony sim with multilevel building and siege defense
89% positive 21K reviews
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Medieval real-time strategy built around desert castles and sieges
97% positive 21K reviews
Empires of the Undergrowth
Ant colony RTS about building nests and commanding insect swarms
94% positive 19K reviews
Infection Free Zone
Zombie survival city builder set on real-world street maps
81% positive 19K reviews
Dawn of Man
Prehistoric survival city builder spanning the Stone to Iron Age
87% positive 18K reviews
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive 18K reviews
Craft The World
Sandbox colony sim about building and defending a dwarf fortress
88% positive 17K reviews
ISLANDERS
Minimalist city-building puzzle with score-based placement on changing islands
94% positive 17K reviews
Stonehearth
Voxel colony sim about building and defending a settlement
75% positive 13K reviews
Diplomacy is Not an Option
Medieval base-building RTS against relentless hordes of enemies
86% positive 13K reviews
Kingdom: New Lands
Side-scrolling survival strategy across islands threatened by nightly attacks
85% positive 12K reviews
ASKA
Viking survival colony sim built around managing working villagers
80% positive 12K reviews
Captain of Industry
Single-player factory simulation with dynamic terrain and complex logistics
90% positive 12K reviews
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Alien-world colony simulation with survival, base building, and defense
84% positive 11K reviews
Space Haven
Spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile building and crew survival
86% positive 11K reviews
The Universim
God game and city builder from the Stone Age to space
79% positive 11K reviews
Castle Story
Castle-building strategy game with crumbling structures on floating islands
65% positive 11K reviews
Norland
Medieval colony sim about noble families, politics, and survival
82% positive 10K reviews
Planetbase
Single-player space colony sim about building a self-sufficient outpost
80% positive 10K reviews
Stronghold HD (2012)
Medieval strategy game about building castles and surviving sieges
96% positive 10K reviews
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Medieval castle-building RTS balancing settlement economics and siege warfare
87% positive 10K reviews
Endzone - A World Apart
Post-apocalyptic colony builder about surviving radiation and extreme weather
77% positive 10K reviews
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Side-scrolling zombie survival with stealth, scavenging, and shelter management
89% positive 9,836 reviews