Games like My Little Colony
If My Little Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are otters and stones, Idle Colony and The Manga Works — picked from the ranked list below. 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 My Little Colony: In My Little Colony, you play as an aspiring ant keeper. You will get to choose, build, and expand your colony. But make sure your queen has food and water to keep the colony growing! As players progress food and water will be in more of a demand so spend your coins wisely.
Players who liked My Little Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into My Little 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.
otters and stones
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Top pick for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Build up thriving habitats in this otter kind of clicker.
Idle Colony
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Second-strongest match for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
The Manga Works
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Third-strongest match for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Make history with manga! Turn your work into anime, drama, and even movies!
The Ramen Sensei
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Ranked #4 for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Build the ultimate bowl to leap past your ramen rivals and achieve greatness!
Lakeside Bar
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Ranked #5 for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
A cozy management sim where the jazz is smooth, the cocktails are cooler than the evening breeze, and the lake reflects your perfect escape.
United Penguin Kingdom
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Ranked #6 for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Ropuka's Idle Island
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Ranked #7 for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.
Imagine Earth
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Ranked #8 for My Little Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Little Colony at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~75% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~75% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~88% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~63% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~75% under My Little Colony on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Little 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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Little 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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Manga Works
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Make history with manga! Turn your work into anime, drama, and even movies!
The Ramen Sensei
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Build the ultimate bowl to leap past your ramen rivals and achieve greatness!
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with My Little Colony.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Frequently asked about My Little Colony
- How much does My Little Colony cost?
- My Little Colony is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to My Little Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Little Colony are otters and stones, Idle Colony, The Manga Works.
- Who developed My Little Colony?
- My Little Colony was developed by Andrew Sepulveda.
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 My Little Colony.
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