Games like Colony Survival
If Colony Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settletopia, 7 Days to Die and Castle Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless creative building potential, chill and contemplative. 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 →Colony Survival is a first-person voxel colony-building strategy game developed by Pipliz and released in 2017. Players manage workers who handle stations rather than a traditional crafting grid, recruit colonists to fill various roles, and construct production chains across an expanding kingdom. Outpost travel allows expansion across the world while defense towers must be strategically placed to protect against nightly monster hordes. Reviewers highlight that threat levels scale with player progress, and players describe the experience as relaxing and immersive as they balance creative building with survival defense. The game supports online cooperative play and runs on Steam Deck with verified compatibility. Colony Survival is priced at $24.95 USD and holds a 92 percent positive rating from over 5,800 Steam reviews.
About Colony Survival: 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!
Players who liked Colony Survival also play
Steam players who put hours into Colony Survival 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.
Settletopia
WHY THIS
Top pick for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Colony Survival.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Second-strongest match for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Castle Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Ranked #4 for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Colony Survival.
Ranked #5 for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Colony Survival.
Ranked #6 for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Ranked #7 for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Colony Survival.
Ranked #8 for Colony Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Colony Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Colony Survival.
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?
Pixel Piracy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Colony Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Colony Survival.
Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Colony Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Colony Survival.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Reviewers of Colony Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Colony Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Colony Survival.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Colony Survival.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Colony Survival.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Colony Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Colony Survival.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Colony Survival.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
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 with Colony Survival.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
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 Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Colony Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Colony Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Frequently asked about Colony Survival
- Is Colony Survival verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Colony Survival is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Colony Survival cost?
- Colony Survival is listed on Steam at 24.95 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Colony Survival have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Colony Survival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Colony Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Colony Survival are Settletopia, 7 Days to Die, Castle Story.
- Who developed Colony Survival?
- Colony Survival was developed by Pipliz.
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