Games like The Colony Experiment
If The Colony Experiment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gateworlds, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Dwarf Fortress — 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 The Colony Experiment: The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Players who liked The Colony Experiment also play
Steam players who put hours into The Colony Experiment 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.
Gateworlds
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Top pick for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Second-strongest match for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Dwarf Fortress
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Third-strongest match for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
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.
The Universim
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Ranked #4 for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
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Ranked #5 for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Gnomoria
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Ranked #6 for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Founders' Fortune
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Ranked #7 for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
First Feudal
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Ranked #8 for The Colony Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
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 Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
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. Shares Indie with The Colony Experiment.
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 Indie and Simulation with The Colony Experiment.
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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More from Bilboldev
Other recommendable Steam games by Bilboldev, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Survivor Joe Lost Island
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Another title from Bilboldev, the studio behind The Colony Experiment. Shares Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Fight, explore, and survive a strange island in this 2D action-platformer, building your character with weapons and perks while tackling a story campaign or diving into a replayable roguelike temple mode.
Skillful Pixel Dungeon
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Another title from Bilboldev, the studio behind The Colony Experiment. Shares Indie with The Colony Experiment.
A roguelike RPG refined over 10 years with nearly 1M mobile downloads. Choose from 4 unique classes, explore procedural dungeons, and defeat epic bosses. Every run is different.
Pixel Dungeon Platformer
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Another title from Bilboldev, the studio behind The Colony Experiment. Shares Indie with The Colony Experiment.
Skillful Pixel Dungeon made real-time.
Frequently asked about The Colony Experiment
- What games are most similar to The Colony Experiment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Colony Experiment are Gateworlds, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Dwarf Fortress.
- Who developed The Colony Experiment?
- The Colony Experiment was developed by Bilboldev.
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 The Colony Experiment.
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