Games like The Colonists
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to The Colonists for fans of strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Colonists also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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.
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The Settlers: New Allies
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.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Second-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!
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Offworld Trading Company
Third-strongest match 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.
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Per Aspera
Ranked #4 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.
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Factory Town
Ranked #5 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!
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Good Company
Ranked #6 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
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Spacebase Startopia
Ranked #7 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
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Timberborn
Ranked #8 for The Colonists fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Colonists
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RimWorld
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.
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Autonauts
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.
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Sky Settlers
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.
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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, Northgard: Definitive Edition, Offworld Trading Company.
- Who developed The Colonists?
- The Colonists was developed by Codebyfire and published by Mode 7.
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