A colony simulator is a game about a small settlement and its inhabitants. Each colonist has skills, personalities, and needs: they get tired, quarrel, get sick, and rejoice. You assign work, build housing and workshops, stockpile food, and prepare for disaster. This creates memorable stories. The benchmarks of the genre include RimWorld, Oxygen Not Included, and Frostpunk.
In a city planner, residents are faceless statistics, but here, every settler is an individual who needs to be looked after. The scale is smaller, but the stories are more complex.
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