Games like The Colonists
If The Colonists is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Settlers: New Allies, Factory Town and Northgard: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its automation feels innovative, monthly challenges reinvent gameplay and chill. 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 Colonists: Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Players who liked The Colonists also play
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The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with The Colonists.
Top pick for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource management and a relaxing mood with The Colonists.
Second-strongest match for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a cozy mood with The Colonists.
Third-strongest match for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with The Colonists.
Ranked #4 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
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!
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with The Colonists.
Ranked #5 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Kingdoms Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with The Colonists.
Ranked #6 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Offworld Trading Company
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with The Colonists.
Ranked #7 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Colonists cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
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, medicine, trade, and more.
Sky Settlers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Colonists cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with The Colonists.
Reviewers of The Colonists cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with The Colonists.
Reviewers of The Colonists cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Colonists at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
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 The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
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 The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Colonists on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 The Colonists.
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 The Colonists.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about The Colonists
- Does The Colonists run on Steam Deck?
- The Colonists is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Colonists cost?
- The Colonists is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Colonists have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Colonists supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Colonists?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Colonists are The Settlers: New Allies, Factory Town, Northgard: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed The Colonists?
- The Colonists was developed by Codebyfire and published by Mode 7.
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