Games like Scorchlands
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Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
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-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Resource Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$19.99Factory Town
Nov 17 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Sandbox
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxSimulationCraftingManagementCity BuilderColony SimEconomy👍 4,143
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingBuildingGrand StrategyManagementResource ManagementHistoricalColony Sim👍 33,296
$14.99Farlanders
Jan 17 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Resource Management
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.
Turn-Based StrategyPixel GraphicsColony SimCity BuilderResource ManagementProcedural GenerationPuzzleStrategyBase BuildingSandbox👍 510
$15.99Plan B: Terraform
Aug 29 · Gaddy Games
Both: Resource Management · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
AutomationResource ManagementSimulationTransportationColony SimSandboxTrainsBase BuildingColorfulHex Grid👍 3,528
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,899
$29.99Industries of Titan
Jan 31 · Brace Yourself Games
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
City BuilderResource ManagementStrategySimulation4XColony SimPost-apocalypticCyberpunkReal-Time with PauseBase Building👍 1,553
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,708
$24.99Oxygen Not Included
Jul 30 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Resource Management
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalResource ManagementBuildingSingleplayerManagement2DSandboxSimulation👍 135,357
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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 apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Colony Sim
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.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
-80%$5.99Frostpunk
Apr 24 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
City BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementStrategyPost-apocalypticSteampunkColony SimBuildingBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 114,413
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Management
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.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
$14.99Oxygen
Apr 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Resource Management
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!
StrategyCity BuilderBase BuildingSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimSandbox3DRealistic👍 830
$14.99Planetbase
Oct 15 · Madruga Works
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Colony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingSpaceStrategySurvivalSimulationResource ManagementSci-fiSingleplayer👍 9,562
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: Stylized · City Builder · Colony Sim
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
StylizedCity BuilderEconomyColony SimStrategyResource ManagementIsometricColorfulBuildingNature👍 694
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
StrategyCity BuilderResource ManagementColony SimBuildingReal-Time with PauseBase BuildingManagementSimulationImmersive Sim👍 1,425
$34.99Captain of Industry
May 31 · MaFi Games
Both: Resource Management · Base Building · Management
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
AutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSimulationStrategyEconomyManagementBuildingCity BuilderEarly Access👍 11,035
-80%$4.99As Far As The Eye
Sep 10 · Unexpected
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox
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?
StrategyBuildingColony SimCity BuilderTurn-Based StrategyTabletopSandboxSingleplayerSurvivalHex Grid👍 1,642
-50%$22.49Frostpunk 2
Sep 20 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Management
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.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementPost-apocalypticSimulationSingleplayerSteampunkManagementBase Building👍 20,886
$24.99Songs of Syx
Sep 21 · Gamatron AB
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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.
Early AccessCity BuilderColony SimStrategySandboxGrand StrategyBase Building4XBuildingSingleplayer👍 8,852
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
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.
Early AccessCity BuilderStrategySimulationHistoricalColony SimManagementBuildingBase BuildingResource Management👍 6,874
$34.99IXION
Dec 7 · Bulwark Studios
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Colony Sim
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
SpaceCity BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSimulationExploration👍 15,288
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
-50%$7.99Hearthlands
Apr 28 · Four White Cats
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
City BuilderStrategySimulationIndieColony SimManagementMedievalSingleplayerRTSFantasy👍 306
-60%$4.79Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
City BuilderBase BuildingColony SimResource ManagementStrategySimulationBuildingSurvivalMarsSpace👍 744
$24.99One Military Camp
Jul 20 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: Management · Base Building · City Builder
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
SingleplayerManagementBase BuildingCity BuilderResource ManagementSimulationSandboxEconomyBuildingStrategy👍 684
$13.99Landnama
Jul 30 · Sonderland
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
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.
RogueliteSurvivalPuzzleCity BuilderStrategyColony SimBase BuildingHex GridHistoricalExploration👍 439
$35.00Factorio
Aug 14 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Sandbox
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxCraftingStrategyMultiplayerSurvivalManagementOpen World👍 195,659
$17.99Cliff Empire
Aug 6 · Lion's Shade
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Resource Management
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!
City BuilderStrategySimulationFuturisticSci-fiEconomySingleplayerColony SimResource ManagementManagement👍 4,195
$24.99The Colonists
Oct 24 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
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.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052
Surviving Mars
Mar 15 · Haemimont Games, Abstraction
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySpaceSurvivalBase BuildingMarsSimulationSci-fiResource Management👍 17,245
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSandboxAgricultureBuildingWargameDiplomacyManagementHistorical👍 647
-90%$1.99Floodland
Nov 15 · Vile Monarch
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Resource Management
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 your people into a new era of humanity?
StrategyPost-apocalypticColony SimSurvivalCity BuilderExplorationResource ManagementChoices MatterPolitical SimCrafting👍 922
$29.99Surviving the Aftermath
Nov 16 · Iceflake Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
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.
StrategySimulationPost-apocalypticCity BuilderSurvivalColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 3,145
$19.99Havendock
Apr 22 · YYZ Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
SingleplayerStrategyCity BuilderColony SimSandboxAgricultureAutomationBuildingCraftingBase Building👍 1,504
$19.99Nova Lands
Jun 22 · BEHEMUTT
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Resource Management
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
AutomationBase BuildingSandboxAdventureOpen World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsResource ManagementSurvivalRobotsOpen World👍 2,512
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxManagementResource ManagementBuildingRelaxingEconomy👍 23,045
-75%$4.99Before We Leave
May 13 · Balancing Monkey Games
Both: City Builder · Hex Grid · Resource Management
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
City BuilderCasualEconomyRelaxingHex GridFamily FriendlyResource ManagementAtmosphericBuildingSingleplayer👍 1,278
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Resource Management · Base Building · City Builder
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Sandbox
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Management · Resource Management · City Builder
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
ManagementEconomyBuildingResource ManagementCity BuilderSimulationIsometricReal-Time with PauseStrategyProcedural Generation👍 472
FreeOxygen: First Breath
Oct 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Resource Management
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBuildingEconomyManagement
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Base BuildingAutomationSpaceResource ManagementColony SimSimulationMultiplayerStrategyBuildingIndie👍 2,397
$19.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Feb 26 · HandyGames
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Resource Management
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.
StrategySimulationCasualColony SimCity BuilderMedievalBuildingEconomyResource ManagementSandbox👍 865
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Sandbox
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$24.99Sapiens
Jul 26 · Majic Jungle
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderGod GameBase BuildingBuildingSurvivalCraftingManagementLife Sim👍 2,054

