Arc of Icarus
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and…
Topic
Colony Sim
A collection of 14 issues
Zenith Expanse
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive…
Timberborn
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…
Space Haven
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter…
The Undergrowth
The Undergrowth is an online multiplayer survival experience where you begin life as a tiny, vulnerable creature in a massive ecosystem filled with danger, opportunity, and other players. Hunt…
Oxygen Not Included
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…
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate…
Clanfolk
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have…
RimWorld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art…
Ant Colony: Wild Forest
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild for
Dungeon Settlers
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Garden of Ants
Become the architect of a thriving ant colony in this real-time simulation. Establish and evolve your ant colony, grow specialized worker castes, cultivate fungus, and explore a living world above and below ground where day and night bring shifting challenges and resources.
StoneEra
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Ostranauts
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-s