Games like Empires of the Undergrowth
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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.
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$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
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.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingSandbox👍 8,912
$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
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Building
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
$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
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Grand Strategy
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
$9.99Buggos
Mar 17 · Intrepid Marmot
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingManagementBuildingGrand StrategySingleplayerRTSWargame👍 1,204
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Grand Strategy
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
$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
$21.99Founders' Fortune
Dec 18 · Dionic Software
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationBuildingStrategySurvivalSandboxIndieManagement👍 1,862
$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
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Building
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
$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
$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 · Colony Sim · City Builder
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
$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
$24.99Oxygen Not Included
Jul 30 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Building
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
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
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
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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
$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
$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
-80%$4.99As Far As The Eye
Sep 10 · Unexpected
Both: Building · Colony Sim · City Builder
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
$39.99Empire of the Ants
Nov 6 · Tower Five
Both: Sandbox · Grand Strategy
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.
WargameReal Time TacticsSandboxPvEPvPRTSGrand StrategyStrategyThird Person3D👍 931
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$16.99Another Brick in The Mall
Apr 30 · The Quadsphere
Both: Management · Building · City Builder
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
ManagementAutomationSimulationBuildingShop KeeperCity BuilderEconomyBase BuildingColony SimCapitalism👍 2,340
$19.99Factory Town
Nov 17 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Management
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
$29.99They Are Billions
Jun 18 · Numantian Games
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · City Builder
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?
Base BuildingColony SimStrategyZombiesSurvivalRTSTower DefenseCity BuilderSteampunkBuilding👍 46,229
$14.99Farlanders
Jan 17 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
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
$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
$9.99Jurassic Clans
Oct 21 · GoldenGod Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
Tactical RPGTurn-Based TacticsCity BuilderColony SimSandboxBuildingDinosaursManagementSurvivalBase Building
-50%$9.99Microtopia
Feb 18 · Cordyceps Collective
Both: Colony Sim · Sandbox · Base Building
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Colony SimAutomationProcedural GenerationResource ManagementSandboxSci-fiRobotsFuturisticBase BuildingCity Builder👍 881
$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
$34.99Captain of Industry
May 31 · MaFi Games
Both: Base Building · Management · Building
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
$9.99Bee Island
Aug 25 · Lemma Arts
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Building
Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Tower DefenseStrategyCity BuilderMinimalistAction RTSBase BuildingBuildingAction3DColorful👍 1,615
$19.99One More Island
May 16 · Berg Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
ExplorationCity BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalEconomyManagementTradingBase Building2D👍 195
$11.99Scorchlands
Jul 25 · Ringlab
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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.
Hex GridResource ManagementStylizedSingleplayerCity BuilderColony SimSandboxManagementBase BuildingStrategy👍 115
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Historical
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.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,093