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Surviving the Abyss

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

★ FROSTPUNK ★ DEPRAVED ★ IXION ★ MAKE YOUR KINGDOM ★ PATRON ★ KINGDOMS REBORN ★ EL DORADO: THE GOLDEN CITY BUILDER - PROLOGUE ★ COLONIZE PROLOGUE ★ BANISHED ★ ENDZONE 2 ★ SETTLEMENT SURVIVAL ★ PLANETBASE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Frostpunk

93% 👍 OF 137K
About This Game

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …replace whole work crews with automatons that work all night and don't care about the cold.
  • …sign laws that let you put children to work in mines, kitchens, and coal piles to keep the city alive.
  • …build watchtowers, propaganda centers, and prisons, then run the city on fear when hope and warmth stop working.
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Depraved

61% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Remote Outposts
  • …Balance Settler Needs
  • …Trade Between Towns
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IXION

79% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Inside a Starship
  • …Balance Six Sectors
  • …Explore Anomalous Worlds
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Make Your Kingdom

58% 👍 OF 197
About This Game

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

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Patron

72% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Social Policies
  • …Prepare for Winter
  • …Build Production Chains
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Kingdoms Reborn

90% 👍 OF 9.7K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Draft Building Cards
  • …Claim New Provinces
  • …Adapt to Biomes
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El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue

72% 👍 OF 236
About This Game

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.

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Colonize Prologue

64% 👍 OF 514
About This Game

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Plymouth
  • …Outlast Hunger
  • …Trade With The King
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Banished

90% 👍 OF 43K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …accept nomads into a town hall and watch your food reserves collapse overnight.
  • …run out of tools and have your economy grind to a halt within a year.
  • …have a lone 22-year-old woman become the foundation of a town for 60 years.
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Endzone 2

67% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Ruined Sites
  • …Build Linked Settlements
  • …Drive the Settlement Bus
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Settlement Survival

85% 👍 OF 8.1K
About This Game

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reshape Rivers and Lakes
  • …Build Long Production Chains
  • …Trade for Rare Blueprints
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Planetbase

80% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Life Support
  • …Grow Hydroponic Food
  • …Build Production Chains