Games like Mermaid Colony
If Mermaid Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, Endzone - A World Apart and Against the Storm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its strategic resource balancing, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Mermaid Colony: Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.
Players who liked Mermaid Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Mermaid Colony also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Top pick for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
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 simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Second-strongest match for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Third-strongest match for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Ranked #4 for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Ranked #5 for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares resource allocation and a relaxing mood with Mermaid Colony.
Ranked #6 for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
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.
MachiaVillain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mermaid Colony.
Ranked #7 for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mermaid Colony.
Ranked #8 for Mermaid Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mermaid Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mermaid Colony.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mermaid Colony.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mermaid Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mermaid Colony.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from M. Hanka
Other recommendable Steam games by M. Hanka, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Cat Games
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mermaid Colony.
Another title from M. Hanka, the studio behind Mermaid Colony. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Do you like cats? Then this is the purrfect game for you!
Voodoo Garden
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mermaid Colony.
Another title from M. Hanka, the studio behind Mermaid Colony. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.
Hieroglyphika
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mermaid Colony.
Another title from M. Hanka, the studio behind Mermaid Colony. Shares Strategy with Mermaid Colony.
Open the gate to the egyptian underworld! Hieroglyphika is a roguelike game completely without text but with pictograms.
Puzzle Dating
WHY THIS
Another title from M. Hanka, the studio behind Mermaid Colony. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mermaid Colony.
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Frequently asked about Mermaid Colony
- How much does Mermaid Colony cost?
- Mermaid Colony is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mermaid Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mermaid Colony are Dwarf Fortress, Endzone - A World Apart, Against the Storm.
- Who developed Mermaid Colony?
- Mermaid Colony was developed by M. Hanka and published by Liu Lidan.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Mermaid Colony.
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