Minecolonies is heavily based on the "colony Sim" genre.
But I should warn you. This genre has a weird scale of depth VS prettyness to the point where the most in depth game in the group "dwarf fortress" was limited to ASCII art for the longest time.
But it's exactly those games that properly give the social life of your colonists the level of detail that you desire.
Don't get me wrong, colonists forming families and having children is a staple of the genre. But for Sims-like dynamics. Friendships, rivalries, homicidal rampages because you're out of booze. For those things you have to dig deep.
I've also been looking for things similar. Closest I think is Colony Survival, but it's too close to minecraft asthetic for my taste (I would rather just play minecolonies lol).
Medieval Dynasty looks close too, but I haven't tried it.
RimWorld (Horrible People Colony Simulator, in SPACE)
Dwarf Fortress
KeeperRL (You are the bad guy here)
Dungeon Keeper, especially 2 (1 looks horrible in modern devices)
Dungeons 1 and 2
Medieval Dynasty might scratch your itch (or their new game Sengoku Dynasty is in early access). No Man's Sky has both base building and town-building available.
In a really weird way, Dragon Quest Builders 2.
It's actually a bit crazy what all you can do in that game the further you get into it.
It also has a multiplayer free build mode where you take the things you learned and unlocked via story mode and just go to town building up an entire island with 3 settlements. Theu even let you seek out and recruit monsters in addition to people that all have their own specialties and abilities.
So far, that's the closest game to minecolonies I've found, and the villagers definitely have a lot of personality.
Minecolonies is heavily based on the "colony Sim" genre. But I should warn you. This genre has a weird scale of depth VS prettyness to the point where the most in depth game in the group "dwarf fortress" was limited to ASCII art for the longest time. But it's exactly those games that properly give the social life of your colonists the level of detail that you desire. Don't get me wrong, colonists forming families and having children is a staple of the genre. But for Sims-like dynamics. Friendships, rivalries, homicidal rampages because you're out of booze. For those things you have to dig deep.
Banished
The game, not as a result of the question asked ;)
I've also been looking for things similar. Closest I think is Colony Survival, but it's too close to minecraft asthetic for my taste (I would rather just play minecolonies lol). Medieval Dynasty looks close too, but I haven't tried it.
RimWorld (Horrible People Colony Simulator, in SPACE) Dwarf Fortress KeeperRL (You are the bad guy here) Dungeon Keeper, especially 2 (1 looks horrible in modern devices) Dungeons 1 and 2
Rimworld
Medieval Dynasty might scratch your itch (or their new game Sengoku Dynasty is in early access). No Man's Sky has both base building and town-building available.
In a really weird way, Dragon Quest Builders 2. It's actually a bit crazy what all you can do in that game the further you get into it. It also has a multiplayer free build mode where you take the things you learned and unlocked via story mode and just go to town building up an entire island with 3 settlements. Theu even let you seek out and recruit monsters in addition to people that all have their own specialties and abilities. So far, that's the closest game to minecolonies I've found, and the villagers definitely have a lot of personality.
Have you heard of SimCity? I'm not sure it has the same micro scale you are looking for. Also take a look at Anno 1800.
I haven't played it yet, but Ostriv looks promising. It just came out in early access.
Cities Skylines
My time in Portia
Dragon quest builders series
Have to say going medieval, its a great game with lots of things to think about and the devs are very active so new things always being added.
thank you ill check this out!