Games Like TFM: The First Men

TFM: The First Men

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

★ JUDGMENT: APOCALYPSE SURVIVAL SIMULATION ★ ODD REALM ★ DWARF FORTRESS ★ RIMWORLD ★ AFTER THE COLLAPSE ★ EMBARK ★ SPACE HAVEN ★ FOUNDERS' FORTUNE ★ OCEAN PUNK ★ RATOPIA ★ COLONY SURVIVAL ★ OXYGEN NOT INCLUDED ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Dwarf Fortress

95% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

In this game, you can…

  • …build a coin-launching minecart track that works like a cannon, then use it to train dodging by pelting your own soldiers at high speed.
  • …see a miner dodge a forgotten beast's attacks and crack its skull open with a pickaxe in three hits, then later solo a werebeast too.
  • …have a child punch a giant once, explode its head instantly, get a nickname, and grow into the fortress's most terrifying fighter.
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RimWorld

98% 👍 OF 244K
About This Game

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

In this game, you can…

  • …stockpile hundreds of mortar shells, have one cook off during a raid, and set off a chain reaction that blows half your mountain base apart.
  • …trap an insect infestation in a sealed room, steal the jelly, and keep repeating until the bugs are basically livestock.
  • …recruit a cannibal crime lord, feed him nutrient paste, surgically add retractable claws, and rename him C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.
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After the Collapse

78% 👍 OF 211
About This Game

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

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Space Haven

86% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

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Founders' Fortune

80% 👍 OF 2.2K
About This Game

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

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Ratopia

88% 👍 OF 4.8K
About This Game

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

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Colony Survival

92% 👍 OF 9.0K
About This Game

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

In this game, you can…

  • …make the undead take such a long, winding path to your gate that sunrise kills them before they ever reach you.
  • …use automated builders and excavators to hollow out mountains or raise massive cities without placing every block by hand.
  • …run multiple colonies and outposts in different biomes for rare resources, then connect them with rails or a glider.
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Oxygen Not Included

97% 👍 OF 143K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …see gases behave like real layers, with oxygen drifting, carbon dioxide sinking, and rooms turning into live pressure puzzles.
  • …build a closed-loop bathroom where toilets flush into a tank, sewage gets treated, and the whole colony runs on recycled waste.
  • …turn a steam vent, a cold biome, or a magma lake into an engine: melt ice by accident, boil sewage into steam on purpose, and pull clean water back out.