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Frostpunk 2
Frostpunk 2 pushes the city-survival genre further, casting you as a Steward who must guide a metropolis through one crisis after another in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. The story unfolds three decades after the catastrophic blizzard, with Earth still locked in endless winter and expansion the only path left for humankind. Growth means resources. The city runs on coal and oil while its people demand food and warmth, and balancing that constant cycle of supply and need falls to you. As the population swells, so does the difficulty of keeping everyone content, and a Heat Management system with a detailed temperature overlay helps decide which districts receive precious warmth, backed by new research and heat-focused laws. Politics complicate everything. Each faction inside the Council Hall carries its own ideology and ambitions, united only by a hunger for power, so choosing allies wisely is essential. A multi-chapter campaign carries the weight of leadership across the Steward's life, while the open-ended Utopia Builder sandbox invites unlimited experimentation. The FrostKit modding suite lets players craft their own maps, models and scenarios.
Frostpunk: On the Edge
On The Edge — третье и последнее дополнение к Frostpunk. Вам поручено возглавить новообразованный Outpost, поставленный рядом с армейским складом после Great Storm. Формально вы на поводке у New London: обязаны отправлять все ценные находки в штаб, а в ответ получать скудные пайки и законы, установленные вашим куратором. Баланс хрупкий, и каждое решение рождает новые риски и лишения. Ключевой сюжетный поворот — обнаружение альтернативного источника пищи разведчиками. С этого момента можно всерьёз задуматься о самостоятельной жизни. В Frostland есть другие поселения, готовые к сотрудничеству: вы добиваетесь их лояльности, прокладываете безопасные маршруты, ведёте дипломатию и торговлю, постепенно возвращая себе контроль над Book of Laws — и в конце концов сбрасываете ярмо New London. Контентно дополнение щедрое: новые механики Frostland (Settlements и Safe Routes), новые Relations — Favours, Improvements, Trading, Diplomacy. В город добавляются Construction Team, три новых сооружения и семь технологий, на карте — 16 новых областей и расширенный лор у части старых мест. В бесконечных режимах появляется опция Settlements, а саундтрек подрастает на 25 минут музыки Петра Мусяла. Season Pass теперь полный: покрывает все три расширения, Digital Soundtrack и Digital Artbook.
Stronghold Definitive Edition
Stronghold: Definitive Edition rebuilds the original BAFTA-nominated castle-sim from the source artwork, with returning voice talent and veteran developers from the first entry. The setting is fractured war-torn medieval England, with the King betrayed by treacherous lords. Take control of scattered forces and reunite the kingdom against the monstrous Rat, Pig, Snake, and Wolf across sieges and grand banquets. The Definitive Edition includes two classic campaigns across 26 missions, plus a new 14-mission narrative campaign designed by Firefly founders Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette where players march across the English hinterland in search of Sir Longarm's captured kin. A challenging Castle Trail of 10 unique historical scenarios extends the new content further. Upgrades include remade artwork by the original artists, a higher-fidelity soundtrack with fresh recordings from the maestro Robert L. Euvino, full Steam multiplayer for 8 players, Steam Workshop support, modernised gameplay, improved animations, textures, and lighting. The 20-year legacy remains intact while the rough edges of the original have been softened for modern systems.
Survivalist Invisible Strain
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is an open-world zombie colony sim often compared to State of Decay, Project Zomboid, Rimworld and Kenshi. The setting is ten years into a zombie infection, with long-established settlements collapsing one by one for unknown reasons. Survivors flee to remote areas hoping for safety, and you arrive as another refugee carving out a new life. All living characters have names and personalities. They remember your actions, gossip among themselves, eat, sleep, work and fight independently. Recruit followers by making them like, respect or fear you. Manage their morale and relationships: they get depressed, fight each other, sometimes kiss and make up. Build a settlement around your chosen home with farms, hunting, walls and crafting stations. Combat is hybrid: directly control characters in third-person action view, or assign orders from RTS overhead view. Target enemies' legs to slow them or heads for damage, dodge or block in melee, equip ranged or close weapons depending on situation. The Invisible Strain is the new wrinkle: infected NPCs seem normal as they infiltrate your group and spread the virus before turning. Story mode introduces the world and mechanics with a hand-crafted story; Sandbox mode generates random worlds. Up to 4-player online co-op supported.
Cattails Wildwood Story
Cattails: Wildwood Story — уютная life-sim RPG, где вы играете за кота и ведёте свою колонию в таинственный край Wildwood. По запаху выслеживайте добычу и прыгайте на неё, собирайте травы, добывайте магические артефакты и защищайте новый дом от вторжений. Выберите место для поселения — густой сосновый лес, песчаный пляж, цветущий луг у реки, загадочное болото или даже вулкан — и обустраивайте город, привлекая новых жителей. С взрослыми котами колонии можно дружить, встречаться, жениться и растить помёт котят. Напарник-NPC ходит с вами на вылазки, прокачивает связь и становится сильнее. Над границами нависает угроза жутких Voidling-котов: ваши бойцы встают на защиту, пока вы пытаетесь разгадать тайну их появления. В шахтах добываются руды и самоцветы, в саду выращиваются качественные травы, в Coat Studio можно настраивать внешность, а логово украшается из более чем 180 предметов мебели под оригинальный джазовый саундтрек.
Empires of the Undergrowth
Empires of the Undergrowth is a real-time strategy game and base-builder where the strategy is happening at ant scale. You dig your nest into a hex-based maze of soil and bedrock, expanding storage rooms, nurseries and hallways out from a central chamber that hosts your queen, and the entire colony depends on her staying alive. Above ground, your foragers brave a world full of larger and meaner things — beetles, ladybugs, amphibians, hermit crabs, mantises, rival ant colonies — to bring back the food that sustains everything else. The pheromone system is the game's signature design choice. Instead of selecting individual units, you assign nurseries to pheromone groups and place markers in the world that direct each group's behaviour: scout, gather food, engage in combat, return home. You can specialise groups on the fly, adjust their rules of engagement, and shift strategies mid-battle as the food supply collapses, the surface goes dark, or another colony attacks. Learning to balance fielded soldiers against base maintenance is most of the macro game. Multiple species each fight differently. Trap-jaw ants leap into melee and replenish health on jump-back; leafcutter majors draw aggression onto themselves so allies can flank; wood ants evolve formic acid artillery, fired either as long-range bombardment or as a rapid straight-line spray. Special modes let multiple species coexist in one colony, which radically changes how engagements play. A campaign frames the play as a lab experiment narrated by a documentary filmmaker, with a persistent lab colony of mysterious Formica ereptor gene-thief ants that you upgrade across missions for a slow-burn metagame around what the scientist running the experiment is actually doing.
Pan'orama
Pan'orama is a relaxing puzzle simulation where you create breathtaking landscapes using different tile types. The peaceful music, ambient soundtrack, and self-paced creativity push the game toward unwinding rather than challenging, but plenty of depth waits for players who want to push their scores. The core loop is tile combination. Place tiles to form unique landscapes, complete quests to unlock structures that expand your creative possibilities, and create biomes for bonus points. Each structure carries its own unique abilities: a forester's lodge serenely anchors a forest, geysers transform an ocean, unique buildings populate a bustling city. The variety lets you build everything from a sleepy fishing village to an endless coastline. For the more challenge-minded, beat other players' high scores and create more impressive landscapes against the leaderboard. For breaks, pet the cats and other cute animals roaming around your creations; they would surely love some attention while you plan the next tile.
Captain of Industry
Captain of Industry opens with a small crew of workers and a ship full of supplies on an otherwise empty island. The endpoint, several research trees and many in-game years later, is full self-sufficiency — launching rockets, building a space station, and mining asteroids for the rare resources that make your colony permanently independent. The path between those two states is a deep factory-and-society simulation that doesn't artificially separate the engineering from the city-building. The terrain itself is the headline feature. Every mountain can be flattened, every valley filled, every coastline extended into the ocean — the entire landscape is fully dynamic, and excavators reshaping the ground are core mid-game infrastructure. Open-pit mines reach deep ore deposits. Excess rock dumped into the sea expands your shoreline. Ramps and slopes let vehicles reach any elevation you build for them. Logistics scale across the same gradient as production. Trucks handle general delivery automatically, routing products to wherever they're most needed. Conveyor belts and pipes provide high-throughput direct connections between specific machines. A rail network moves bulk cargo across long distances when scale demands it. Amphibious vehicles and bridges let you expand onto adjacent islands. Each transport tier has its costs and its scenarios. Around the industry sits a real population: workers who need housing, clean water, electricity, healthcare and household goods. Keep them content and they reward you with Unity, a resource that speeds construction, enables powerful edicts, and lets you claim resources on the world map. Neglect waste management and pollution and disease spread instead. Exploration sends your ship out to discover other islands, trade with allied settlements, rescue refugees, and gradually weave a network of imports and exports — until the rockets are ready and the asteroids beckon.
Pharaoh: A New Era
Погрузитесь в историю Древнего Египта с 50 миссиями Pharaoh: A New Era — ремейка Pharaoh и дополнения Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile, одного из лучших градостроителей золотой эпохи Sierra Entertainment. Камень за камнем возводите город и управляйте всеми аспектами его развития, чтобы он процветал, а вы стали могущественным и почитаемым фараоном. Развивайте город, возделывая плодородные земли вдоль долины Нила. Возводите культовые монументы: пирамиды, Сфинкса, Александрийский маяк. Стройте храмы и мавзолеи, управляйте здоровьем, культурой и политеистической религией того времени. Готовьтесь к экономическим и политическим кризисам, нападениям врагов — фараон заботится о народе и стремится к благосклонности богов. Ремейк к 20-летию франшизы: 50+ миссий и 100+ часов геймплея. Режим «Кампания» учит основам и погружает в уникальную историю. Современные игровые механики, переработанный саундтрек и великолепная изометрическая 2D-графика возвращают классику к жизни. Новые индикаторы — например, Нилометр для разливов Нила и инструменты мониторинга настроения населения. Ключевое: ремейк 4000 лет истории в HD; богатый и сложный опыт с торговлей, стихиями, войнами, гневом богов и казнями египетскими; 50+ миссий и 100+ часов кампании, режим Sandbox; живописный, полностью перерисованный арт; оркестровый саундтрек с традиционными восточными инструментами; сотни улучшений геймплея — переработанный UI, Workers Tooltip, Fixed Worker Ratio, Global Labor Pool, копирование зданий и отключение хищников.
Going Medieval
Going Medieval is a medieval colony management sim from Foxy Voxel, in the lineage of Rimworld and the deeper end of the colony-sim genre. The setting is a depopulated Europe 50 years after a plague wiped out 95% of humanity, and you're guiding survivors as they rebuild civilisation from three lost travellers up. The core feature distinguishing it from Rimworld is the full 3D voxel terrain system. You can dig underground caverns, build sprawling multi-storey forts, and shape the landscape itself. Buildings stack vertically and connect through stairs, ladders, and floors, so a castle isn't a single-floor footprint but a tower with hallways, kitchens, chapels, and dungeons. Settlers are characters with individual skills, personality traits, religious beliefs, and preferences. A Swineherd named Grimbold might have unmatched Animal Handling and a Savage personality that makes him a strong Brawler. Keeping settlers happy through food, clothing, faith, and decoration is the throughline. Research unlocks medieval tech — better weapons, armour, siege defenses, and crafting equipment. Bandit raids and beast attacks force defensive planning, with research-gated traps and walls allowing castle-tier fortifications. Random map generation and full mod support extend the long-tail. Soundtrack and atmosphere lean into the dark, hard-edged Dark Age tone.
Craft The World
Craft The World mixes the colony-management depth of Dwarf Fortress with the 2D digging and crafting of Terraria and the indirect command of Dungeon Keeper, and finds a coherent identity inside the overlap. You command a tribe of dwarves — not directly, but by issuing orders to dig in specific places, attack particular targets, or construct specific buildings. They handle execution while you handle priorities, supplied with food, clothing, and the occasional magical assist when combat goes bad. Each map is procedurally generated as an island bordered by ocean, lava beneath, and sky above, with many layers of earth between the surface and the volcanic deeps. Day-night cycles and changing weather affect what happens above ground, and worlds vary in size, humidity, temperature, terrain, flora and fauna. Hidden somewhere in each island are abandoned halls and treasure rooms — incentive to dig methodically rather than just down. The recipe system is unusually organized for the genre: dozens of buildable items from house blocks and furniture to weapons, armor, ammunition and dwarf food are arranged into clear, accessible recipe trees. The threat layer is what keeps the fortress-building honest. Surface creatures — zombies, skeletons, goblins, beholders, ghosts, giant spiders — patrol around your settlement and occasionally form serious raid parties. Worse, monster waves periodically appear from portals, demanding strong walls, trapdoors, defensive cells, firing towers and secret passageways well in advance. As a divine being above the dwarves, you can cast spells to speed up movement, illuminate dark caves, hurl fireballs, find resources or even open small portals — a god's-eye power layer sitting on top of the day-to-day fortress work.
Space Haven
Space Haven puts you in command of a ragtag civilian crew searching for a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, manage every aspect of their lives, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore a procedurally generated galaxy. The result is a deeply detailed spaceship colony sim. The isometric tile-based system simulates oxygen, CO2, hazardous gases, temperature, comfort, and power across your ship. Build life support, scrubbers, thermal regulators, power nodes; design symmetric and streamlined or asymmetric whimsical layouts. Crew members each carry skills, traits, moods, and conditions, develop relationships, and can suffer mental breaks when stress overwhelms them. Some vent themselves out the airlock; others start fights. Away missions equip your crew with space suits and weapons to explore derelicts and stations. Ship-to-ship combat unfolds as crew take battle stations, load turrets, patch hull breaches, and repair vital systems mid-explosion. Aliens capture and cocoon your crew in their lairs; you choose whether to rescue them. Cryopods preserve injured or diseased crew. The galaxy generates fresh each playthrough with pirates, slavers, merchants, cultists, androids, and more, all developing their own relationships with you.
Against the Storm
Against the Storm — это инновационный взгляд на жанр градостроительства. Вы играете за Наместника Опаленной Королевы, которому поручено отвоевать дикие земли и построить сеть поселений в суровом мире, где никогда не прекращается губительная Гнилая Буря. Вместо того чтобы строить один бесконечный город, вы раз за разом основываете новые аванпосты. Каждое поселение — это отдельная roguelite-сессия с процедурно генерируемыми ресурсами, чертежами и вызовами. Управляйте людьми, бобрами, ящерами, гарпиями и лисами, удовлетворяя их нужды. Постоянная борьба с непогодой, враждебным лесом и растущим нетерпением Королевы делает игровой процесс напряженным и невероятно увлекательным. Собранные ресурсы помогут улучшить Тлеющий город и получить перманентные бонусы для будущих экспедиций.
Kingdom Classic
Мудрые правители знают, что их королевство падёт. Отважные правители не впадают в отчаяние. Великие правители знают, что их богатство может править, и тратят каждую монету с осторожностью. В Kingdom каждая потраченная монета может склонить чашу между процветанием и упадком. Следите за границами, отправляйтесь в дикие окрестности, чтобы открывать чудеса и угрозы. Подчиняйте землю, стройте оборону, а когда приходит тьма — стойте со своим народом, с короной на голове, до самого конца. Kingdom — 2D-стратегия с горизонтальной прокруткой, сочетающая элементы стратегии и управления ресурсами в минималистичной манере и с красивой современной пиксель-арт эстетикой. Вы играете короля или королеву верхом на коне и попадаете в процедурно генерируемое королевство, готовое принять новое правительство. Бросайте золото крестьянам, превращая их в своих верных подданных, и помогайте королевству процветать. Защищайте свои земли ночью от жадных существ, стремящихся украсть ваши монеты и корону, и исследуйте ближайшие таинственные леса, чтобы находить необычные артефакты, помогающие вашему королевству. Минимализм механики при этом скрывает глубокую стратегическую игру, в которой каждая монета и каждый работник имеют значение.
Oxygen Not Included: Spaced Out!
Spaced Out! — крупнейшее дополнение к Oxygen Not Included, превращающее одну колонию в межпланетную мегакорпорацию. Дупликанты садятся в собственные ракеты и летят обустраивать сразу несколько планетоидов — каждый со своими ресурсами, биомами и проблемами. Ваша задача — не просто поддерживать базу, а грамотно перекачивать ресурсы между мирами и не давать дуппам помереть от очередной утечки CO₂. Множественная игра на нескольких мирах — действительно новый режим менеджмента. Вы переключаетесь между планетами в реальном времени, одновременно балансируете кислород, еду и настроение Дупликантов в нескольких колониях и гоняете ценные материалы туда, где их не хватает. Ракеты теперь модульные: конструктор позволяет собирать корабли под разные задачи, а переработанная Starmap и расширенное древо исследований открывают дополнительные опции миттейма. Отдельным направлением идёт радиация и ядерная энергетика. Радиоактивные элементы выпускаются в природных биомах, их можно запитывать в ядерные установки и использовать окружающую радиацию как источник энергии, если заранее натянуть свинцовые костюмы. К этому прилагаются новые критеры, новые биомы, новые ресурсы и десятки технологий, которые ощутимо меняют привычный late-game серию.
Startopia
Startopia drops you into a galaxy of derelict stations left over after an apocalypse and asks you to bring them back to life. You rebuild each station to a standard that attracts different alien races, harness their expertise, and research new technologies in a battle of wits and cunning that the script keeps deliberately funny. A fully functioning alien society develops inside each station, with rivalries and friendships, crime and punishment, leisure and entertainment, and a working economy underpinning all of it. The 'Torus' play area presents a viewpoint never seen in a game before or since, with 16 habitable subsections spanning three decks per station. The Bio-deck adds an editable landscape and managed ecosystem, giving you complete control over terra-forming whatever fits inside that ring. Up to three other stationmasters can join via multiplayer, and play modes range from sandbox down to full-detail micromanagement.
Factory Town Idle
Factory Town Idle is a town builder that runs entirely through a simple but powerful set of menus, an entire economy condensed into what feels like a living spreadsheet. At the start you click to harvest resources, raise housing and production buildings, and assign workers to craft items, deciding which goods to sell at market and which to refine into better ones. As you gain experience, you unlock tools that automatically manage your growing town, which becomes essential as its demands keep climbing. You make gourmet food, machinery, fine clothing, books, potions and enchanted jewelry, discover new recipes as your production skills improve, and use aqueducts, water wheels, steam power, electricity, trains and research labs to boost output. Earnings have to be reinvested into research and upgrades to keep the coins growing. Eventually you expand into exotic biomes, each with unique resources, recipes, advantages and weaknesses, and exchange goods between multiple towns to make the most of local specialties. Detailed production stats reveal bottlenecks, while production limits and priorities let you allocate resources precisely. While you are away, the game earns Time Tokens you can spend to fast-forward the simulation when you return.
Farm Together
Farm Together is a relaxed cooperative farming sim by Milkstone Studios, designed for sessions that can be five minutes long or stretch into hours without changing tone. You start with a small plot, work your way up to a farm that genuinely outpaces what the camera can show, and along the way unlock hundreds of crops, trees, animals, buildings and decorative items as your experience level grows. The tractor is fast, the to-do list is gentle, and running out of fuel is the worst thing likely to happen on a routine day. The central design choice is that time advances even when you're not playing. Crops mature, animals produce, trees fruit while you're at work or asleep, so coming back to the game is usually about catching up on accumulated yield rather than starting from where you left off. Sessions are open-ended; there's no win state, just steady expansion and customisation. The economy stays gentle on purpose — the difficulty curve is whether you want to optimise or just decorate. Multiplayer is the title's signature feature. You can keep the farm private, restrict access to friends, or open it to the public with a permission system that limits what strangers can do — so visitors can help without the risk of vandalism. Customisation extends to fences, paths, building facades, your avatar's wardrobe, the tractor itself, and the interior of your house, where you can cook recipes, paint or compose music when you want a break from the fields. A pet — cat or dog, customised to taste — follows you around as a constant low-stakes companion.
Buggos
Buggos is an RTS auto-battler that pairs strategy with bug-fueled chaos. You guide a growing hive mind in a battle for dominance, breaking free of your overbearing parent hive to conquer a fresh planet, unfortunately infested with pesky humans. The humans will fight back and gain new technology of their own, but they are no match for your adaptability and your willingness to send wave after wave of Buggos to their deaths. With more than 120 unique evolutions, victory comes down to customizing your swarm, sharpening Swarmers, arming Warriors, and supercharging Builder Bugs. A campaign carries you through nine diverse environments across 54 missions as human resistance escalates. An in-game level editor lets you design and share maps, while a Survival mode pits your swarm against relentless waves of human forces. Lighthearted yet challenging, the auto-battler is easy to pick up but difficult to master.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third release in the award-winning Civilization IV line and a fresh take on the Colonization game Sid Meier first created in 1994. It rebuilds the Civilization IV engine entirely into a game about guiding a European nation as it settles and prospers in the New World. You lead your people away from an oppressive motherland, discover new lands, then negotiate, trade, and fight your way toward power and, ultimately, freedom. Playing as the English, Spanish, French, or Dutch, you handle advanced diplomacy with natives, rival colonists, and a hostile homeland, trading resources, gold, and land to build a self-sufficient colony. Founding fathers such as John Smith, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams join your cause and shape play around your style. A redesigned interface welcomes newcomers and veterans alike, multiplayer spans Internet, Play by Email, Hotseat, and LAN, and modding tools, including an XML and Python map editor, ship with the game.
About Colony Sim
Colony Sim — поджанр симуляторов про управление колонией: маленькой группой выживших, которые строят дома, добывают еду, отбиваются от угроз и постепенно превращают пустошь в работающее поселение. Жанр заложен Dwarf Fortress в 2006-м и переоформлен RimWorld в 2013-м для широкой аудитории. Сегодня живёт в десятке направлений — средневековых, пост-апокалиптических, фантастических.
Главный конфликт colony sim — <b>между ростом и поддержанием жизни</b>. Каждый новый житель — это плюс к рабочей силе и минус к запасам еды, а каждый кризис (зима, нападение, эпидемия) проверяет, насколько колония способна выжить без внешней помощи. Из этого вытекает архитектура: игрок не управляет персонажами напрямую (они работают по приоритетам), а строит инфраструктуру и расставляет правила, по которым колония живёт сама. Поверх этого работает системность — пожар может остановить кухню, остановившаяся кухня заморит голодом, голодные жители уходят в депрессию и не работают. Цепочки последствий длинные, и хорошая colony sim проявляет это во всём.
Frostpunk и Frostpunk 2 от 11 bit studios — самые известные тайтлы жанра: пост-апокалиптический Лондон в вечной зиме, в котором город существует вокруг гигантского угольного генератора, а игрок-мэр выбирает между гуманностью и выживанием. Going Medieval переводит формулу в средневековый сеттинг с многоэтажными замками и климатическими сезонами. Against the Storm выкручивает темп — короткие забеги на 4–8 часов с roguelike-структурой, в которых колония каждый раз начинается с нуля под другим биомом. Captain of Industry уходит в индустриальный масштаб: тысячи рабочих, нефтяные платформы и танкеры, конвейеры через всю карту. Empires of the Undergrowth делает колонию муравьиной — игрок управляет колонией муравьёв с реалистичной биологией. Space Haven переносит жанр в космос: корабль-колония летит между звёздами, и кризисы случаются и снаружи, и внутри.
Прямой родственник colony sim — City Builder: соседний жанр про строительство, но без выживания и без отдельных персонажей с потребностями. В city builder плотность населения исчисляется тысячами, в colony sim — десятками. Survival как родительская категория роднит colony sim с одиночными survival-играми, в которых выживает один персонаж, а не группа.