Simulator of construction and production organization, the goal of which is to build a ship and fly away from the planet. Simple graphics, but addictive gameplay. Alternatives to RimWorld exist, although the original is still better.

15 Games Like RimWorld For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

15. Space Colony

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Town Planning
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a redesigned version of the real-time building simulator and strategy game from Firefly Studios, the creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you must colonize to survive, building intergalactic bases to protect and provide your team with everything they need.

Space Colony screenshot

14. Space Haven

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Base Construction
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Gather a team and head out into space in search of a new home. Build spaceships, take care of optimizing the ecosystem, look after your crew's needs and explore the universe in this space colony simulator!

Space Haven screenshot

13. Going Medieval


Build a settlement within the walls of a fortress in the middle of the wilderness and lead it to prosperity. Build the most powerful colony this side of the apocalypse in Going Medieval: a survival strategy game with detailed controls and a sandbox world that supports mods.

Going Medieval screenshot

12. Pioneers of Pagonia

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Early Access
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

In this city-builder simulator, you'll create a thriving community and confront dangers. Lead your people on the road to success in this procedurally generated dynamic world. Create settlements, defend against threats, and manage resources.

Pioneers of Pagonia screenshot

11. Planetbase

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Planetbase screenshot

10. Banished

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 73
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2014
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: City Building
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Banished screenshot

9. Empires of the Undergrowth

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Command an army of ants in battles of previously unseen proportions, combining real-time strategy and base-building. Impregnable nests, tactical use of pheromones and rapid evolution are the keys to survival in a dangerous insect world.

Empires of the Undergrowth screenshot

8. Timberborn

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Town Planning
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Humans are long gone. Who can live in a world plagued by drought and toxic waste? Maybe the lumbering beavers? A building simulator with inventive animals, “vertical” architecture, water physics and terraforming. And lots of wood.

Timberborn screenshot

7. Against the Storm

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 91
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2022
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Revive civilization and save it from the deadly rains in a city-building simulator in a dark fantasy world. As Viceroy Queen, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies and subjugate nature.

Against the Storm screenshot

6. Factorio

similar games to Factorio
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Automation
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Factorio is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures and finally defend yourself against hostile creatures.

Factorio screenshot

5. Oxygen Not Included

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Oxygen Not Included screenshot

4. Project AURA

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Project AURA screenshot

3. The Universim

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Town Planning
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Go directly to control over your own planets; lead a civilization through the ages. Build an unshakable empire in The Universim, a new class of God Simulator game developed by Crytivo.

The Universim screenshot

2. Surviving Mars


Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot

1. Dwarf Fortress

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2006
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world.

Dwarf Fortress screenshot

2 Games Like RimWorld On PlayStation 5

2. Planetbase

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Planetbase screenshot

1. Surviving Mars

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot

2 Games Like RimWorld On Xbox Series X|S

2. Planetbase

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Planetbase screenshot

1. Surviving Mars

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot