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331 games like RimWorld · 2001 – 2024
Klei Entertainment · Linux, Windows, macOS
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.
77 rating1 list105 h main storyOften paired
Simon Roth · Linux, Windows, macOS
Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety.
50 rating2 listsOften paired
PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Authorised by DOLOS AEC, you will guide the Tiqqun space station onwards in a perilous journey to find a new home for humanity. Station infrastructure, population management, exploration, survival, these responsibilities fall to you. Will y
74 rating3 lists27 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Windows, macOS
Lead your Ant Colony to Dominance! Empires of the Undergrowth is an ant colony management game, in a fast-paced real-time strategy style. The player excavates their nest underground, constructing tunnels and chambers to store food and rais
78 rating2 lists17 h main storyOften paired
Timed Xbox exclusive
PS4, Windows, Xbox One +1
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient colony.
76 rating3 lists9 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Wube software · Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +2
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management sk
86 rating1 list53 h main storyOften paired
Windows
A starship builder perfect for fans of games like FTL, Starsector, SPAZ, Space Engineers, Escape Velocity, Avorion, and more. Design awesome starships using intuitive ship creation tools that are easy to learn but hard to master. Fully cus
72 rating1 list87 h main storyOften paired
Mohawk Games · Windows, macOS
Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not firepower, is the player's weapon. Players lead their developing companies in cutthroat economic warfare against other companies looking to become the dominant econom
79 rating2 lists9 h main storyOften paired
Double Fine · Linux, Windows, macOS
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's d
36 rating1 list6.5 h main storyOften paired
Crytivo Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
The Universim aims to revive the glory days of the god-game genre and bring it into the next generation with fresh ideas and ambitious gameplay. With the powers of a god, you are unleashed upon the universe to begin forging your galactic em
51 rating2 lists15 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Windows, macOS
Achron is the world's first meta-time strategy game, allowing you to dynamically alter your past and future actions, send your units back and forth through time, even engineer temporal paradoxes that work to your advantage. Play through fou
50 rating3 lists70 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusiveWube Software · Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +2
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management sk
86 rating5 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Linux, Switch, Windows +2
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro sci-fi strategy RPG with a unique blend of base building, exploration and deep tactical JRPG style combat system with capital starships and their idiosyncratic officers, all captured in stunningly be
69 rating1 list14 h main storyOften paired
Iceflake Studios · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future - resources are scarce but opportunity calls. Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists and restore civilization to a devastated world. Remember: The end of the world is
55 rating5 lists19 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Haemimont Games · PS4, PS5, Windows +2
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your surv
82 rating3 lists21 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Windows
As an engineer of Dyson Sphere Program, you will go to an alien galaxy building “Dyson Sphere”. Collecting resources, plan and designing production lines, gradually create a full automated factory. Develop your factory from a small workshop
80 rating2 lists68 h main storyAlso in Simulation games
Suncrash · Windows
The Apocalypse is here. Demons all around. Now, it’s time to fight back! Build, manage and defend your base in a post apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
65 rating2 lists39 h main story
Pajama Llama Games · Windows, macOS
The premiere floating garbage town survival game! Scavenge whatever debris you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.
78 rating3 lists19 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Windows
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
1 list12 h main story
Android, iOS
Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a tower defense game released by PopCap Games as a sequel to the award-winning Plants vs. Zombies. This time, players must battle new zombies in a time-travel adventure.
76 rating2 listsOften paired
Eremite Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
A roguelite city builder set in a fantasy world tormented by the everlasting rain. Settle the unknown wilds to discover and rebuild the ruins of a long-forgotten civilization. Develop technologies that will help your citizens tackle destruc
87 rating5 lists6 h main story
Numantian Games · Nintendo Switch 2, PS4, Windows +1
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 t
74 rating5 lists67 h main story
PS4, PS5, Windows +2
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.
71 rating3 lists18 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Xbox console exclusive
The Molasses Flood · Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Welcome to The Hollow, a blighted and dying place, and home to the Drakes. Drakes are the friendly vegetable folk native to these parts, and they need your help. They’re hungry, thirsty, and need a place to sleep. They can - quite literall
52 rating1 list13 h main story
Windows
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalyps
67 rating2 lists21 h main story
Mothership Entertainment LLC · PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Aven Colony is a city-building and management sim that tells the story of humanity’s first settlement of an extrasolar world. Land on exotic Aven Prime, where you must construct and maintain the infrastructure and ensure the well-being of y
68 rating4 lists26 h main storyDescribed alike
Firefly Studios · Windows, macOS
Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew pr
71 rating4 lists36 h main storyDescribed alike
Vile Monarch · Windows
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead yo
78 rating3 lists18 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Android, Linux, Windows +1
Kingdom is a 2D side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
70 rating1 list1 h main story
Raymond Doerr · Linux, Windows, macOS
A challenging godlike village simulator designed to bridge the gap between the complexities of village simulation with the simplicity of classic 90s real-time strategy. Inspired by games like Towns, Gnomoria, Warcraft, Banished and Dwarf Fo
79 rating2 lists12 h main story
Tomas Sala · PS4, PS5, Windows +2
A new city-building game set in the oceanic world of The Great Ursee, by BAFTA-nominated developer Tomas Sala. Design, develop and defend your Bulwark, manage resources and make choices to create unique fortress settlements in a world reeli
85 rating2 lists17 h main story
Introversion Software · Android, Linux, Switch +6
The game is a top-down 2D construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison. The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building cells and facilities
78 rating10 lists17 h main storyAlso in Simulation games
Windows
Ragnorium is a planet recolonization simulator where players are tasked with leading clone colonists in a self-sustainable settlement while attempting to survive the oncoming Holy Crusade.
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Grenaa Games · Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Once upon a Village.. Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is the ideal laid back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, trade and use diplomacy to ally or challenge your neighbors, and most importantly, find yourself a
76 rating1 list13 h main story
Windows
Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is opti
62 rating1 list19 h main story
Windows
StarDrive sets a new benchmark for the ‘4X Space Strategy’ genre. Starting with a single planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you must venture forth into the galaxy, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very
63 rating1 list19 h main story
Haemimont Games · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony. Build domes and infrastructure, research n
72 rating1 list23 h main story
11 Bit Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series +1
Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to the highly acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated society survival game. The age of steam has passed and now, oil leads the way as humanity’s newest salvation. However, with new threats on the horizon, the future of the cit
81 rating6 lists12 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Jutsu Games · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected! Play
3 lists8.5 h main storyAlso in Survival games
Ironhide Game Studio · Android, Linux, Windows +2
An RTS game on a Sci-Fi setting made by the same crazy guys behind the Kingdom Rush saga. Players will command several squads of units ranging from specialized soldiers, unstoppable mechas and of course, Hero units both human and extraterr
70 rating2 lists9.5 h main story
Dapper Penguin Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and ada
65 rating6 lists19 h main story
Mechanistry · Windows, macOS
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? Timberborn is a sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming.
83 rating2 lists23 h main story
SomaSim · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Project Highrise is a Tower Building Business Management Simulator. Managing your sky-scraping empire will be no easy task – growth will require a mastery of the various interlocking systems that are required for each type of establishment
74 rating3 lists10 h main story
Mucky Foot Productions · Windows
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepte
90 rating2 lists17 h main story
Development Studio · Linux, PS4, PS5 +4
Stellaris is a real-time 4X grand strategy game set in a procedurally generated galaxy. Players control an interstellar civilization, exploring star systems connected by hyperlane networks, colonizing habitable worlds, and managing their em
78 rating8 lists32 h main story
Windows
Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in humanity’s not-so-distant future. What it means to be human has changed with the coming of the singularity. In the post-human economy, sentience is now the most valuable commodit
70 rating2 lists
Realmforge Studios · Linux, Windows
MUD TV is your ticket to the weird wild world of television. Once you take control of your own station it's up to you to determine the line-up, hire actors and directors, produce your own shows, series and movies and to grab those lucrative
40 rating1 list
DR Studios · Windows
Develop a state-of-the art Las Vegas resort complex, using all the money and management skill you can. Customers on the living, breathing Las Vegas boulevard are Notoriously hard to satisfy - can you win the hearts and wallets of Vegas?
60 rating1 list6 h main story