I’m looking for a new colony sim on PC. What I’ve played so far are:
- Rimworld
- Oxygen Not Included
- Banished
- Timberworld
- Frostpunk
- Anno 1800
I know some of these might not be strictly colony sims. What I’m really looking forward to is Manor Lords, but we don’t have a definite release date on that.
What are your recommendations?
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I feel like I should recommend Dwarf Fortress but I also feel like I should NOT recommend Dwarf Fortress.
Look, I’ll just leave Dwarf Fortress here in the corner, peering into the room and the rest of us can try to ignore it. But it’s there.
Dwarf Fortress isn’t a colony sim game, though
It’s a tavern corpse clean up sim.
The Steam edition feels a lot more recommendable, though.
I second the recommendation of the steam/itch release of dwarf fortress. Definitely more accessible
I like the idea of DF, but I’m leaning more towards Songs of Syx instead. It’s not on sale so I’m in no hurry but it’s on my shortlist
Rimworld with mods can basically turn in whatever game you want. There is no limit
Dwarf Fortress is great once you get past the steep learning curve.
Dwarf fortress
All the other slim shadys are just imitating.
I’ll second Timberborn, it seems like a simple game but it gets complicated towards the end.
If factory games are your jam then I can’t recommend Captian Of Industry and Dyson Sphere Program enough, both are S tier factory games for me. The Riftbreaker is another interesting combo of colony building and tower defense as well.
How can you even mention factory games without pointing out Factorio.
Oh that’s definitely on the list, I thought I saw someone else mention it facepalm
Satisfactory is another worth including in the factory games list.
Oh absolutely, I’m ashamed I didn’t mention it, I guess my brain was stuck on top down style hah. Satisfactory is incredible, they keep adding awesome stuff to it.
Captain Of Industry is a little daunting because it uses as close to real world processes as possible but Nilaus on YT has excellent videos on it (and many of the others mentioned). This is his playlist for the recent huge Update 1 for the game.
I also forgot to mention how good Cities: Skylines has become and how incredible Cities: Skylines 2 looks. I have learned so much about real cities from playing that and watching City Planner Plays play it and relate it to his real world job as a city planner.
Rimworld, especially once you get the mods going. I have literal hundreds of mods
It’s all about that Rimworld! I always wanted to get in to Dwarf Fortress but I can never make it stick.
Surviving Mars and Per Aspera
Farthest Frontier
It’s still early access and is a little rough around the edges, but very playable and fun. Plus the devs are very responsive to feedback via their discord and have been making really good updates over the last year.
I actually really like They Are Billions. Bit different but it’s survival against zombies. Very difficult in my opinion but I keep going back
Oxygen Not Included :)
SimAnt!!! Although a different kind of colony :p
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/
Ixion comes to mind. You are in charge of managing a space station as you try to navigate the last of humanity to a new planet. Its more directed than most Sims, with a campaign split in to multiple acts but I found it quite challenging and engaging.
You know… I was enjoying playing this until an unfortunate turn of events led to my people going hungry. They then chose to go on strike, but only in the places that produced food… (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Yeah I was in the same boat. Things can go bad very quickly. I think the game expects you to hang out in each chapter for a long time and really optimize your station. It’s HARD.
I heard they improved the difficulty a little with a recent update but I feel like the ship has sailed for me. I may come back to it sometime because I found the story really interesting.
It probably doesn’t strictly count, but… Kenshi.
Kenshin is so weird, I found it pretty late (like last year). If the sequel ever comes out I want to try it again
