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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 ★ PLANETBASE ★ SETTLEMENT SURVIVAL ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Frostpunk

93% 👍 OF 135K
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?

In this game, 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 1.2K
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.

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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?

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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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El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue

71% 👍 OF 235
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 513
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.

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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.

In this game, 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

68% 👍 OF 1.0K
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.

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Settlement Survival

85% 👍 OF 8.0K
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.