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DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

★ FROSTPUNK ★ IXION ★ SETTLEMENTS RISING ★ SURVIVING THE ABYSS ★ DIPLOMACY IS NOT AN OPTION: SHAREWARE ★ FINAL OUTPOST: DEFINITIVE EDITION ★ PATRON ★ MAKE YOUR KINGDOM ★ ENDZONE - A WORLD APART ★ DEPRAVED ★ SETTLEMENT SURVIVAL ★ SURVIVING THE AFTERMATH ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Frostpunk

93% 👍 OF 136K
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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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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Settlements Rising

81% 👍 OF 429
About This Game

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

92% 👍 OF 735
About This Game

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

In this game, you can…

  • …face 25,000 enemies hitting your castle walls at once.
  • …freeze time mid-siege to breathe, reposition, and issue orders before unpausing into the chaos again.
  • …harvest soul crystals from the dead, build magical monuments, then fire beam spells and summon Dark Knights to clean up survivors.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

78% 👍 OF 199
About This Game

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

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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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Endzone - A World Apart

77% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

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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.

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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.