Colony Sim
20 games reviewed, ranked by score.
RimWorld
Your colonists keep writing stories you couldn't invent
Oxygen Not Included
A Thermodynamics PhD Wearing a Colony Sim
Against the Storm
Settlements built to be abandoned, and you keep founding more
Frostpunk
Survival City-Building Where Every Law Costs You Something
Heart of the Machine
Branching AI timelines with consequences that stick, past a brutal first hour
Timberborn
Beaver Hydraulics That Run Out of Floods to Fight
Corsair Cove
Cliffside hideouts that route beautifully, combat left to the dice
Pax Autocratica
A tyrant loop that clicks, if the workers keep working
The Crust
Its lunar market is a brilliant twist, its finish is not.
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Oxygen-gauge dread worth the plunge, if crashes spare your haul
Nova Roma
Aqueduct planning charms early, then the tech tree runs dry
Going Medieval
Build a castle in three dimensions, then hit the wall
Prison Architect
The prison sim that built its own genre, then got abandoned
Airborne Empire
Balancing a flying city charms, the combat and crashes drag it down
Anomaly President
Campaign by day, brawl by night, restart from scratch
Soulmask
Possess a tribe and automate it, once the menus relent
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Building up a cliff shines, until the save bug bites
Eden Crafters
A warming planet, undone by belts that won't snap
Astro Colony
The conveyor loop satisfies, the controls fight every cable
Space Haven
A Gorgeous Space Sim That Optimises Itself Into a Box