- #1 Starfall Protocol
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Space Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #2 Titan Outpost
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: The Boar Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: CRPG 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, RPG 14.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #3 POSTERIOR
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: METEHAN SAHIN
Windows · Mac
You are a space trader living inside a capsule in deep space. Supply passing starships, maintain balance in a weight-based physics system, and build your own space colony.
Why similar: Experimental 25% ★, Nonlinear 18%, Time Management 12.2%, Psychological 11.7%, Colony Sim 10.9% ★
- #4 Beneath a Dead City
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 20.6%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Survival 11.9%
- #5 Planet's Edge
77% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: New World ComputingPub: Ziggurat
Windows · Mac
Travel between dozens of stars, harvest resources to repair and upgrade your equipment, meet and negotiate with friendly (and hostile) aliens, and do whatever it takes to stay alive and bring Earth back in this groundbreaking sci-fi RPG.
Why similar: CRPG 27.6%, Space Sim 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 15% ★, Sci-fi 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #6 Starship Colony
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Base Building 20.8%, Space Sim 17.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #7 Stationbreak
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Spaceship
Windows · Linux
A grounded sci-fi station builder where you hold failing systems together while pursued by a relentless, energy-hungry swarm. As a fleet on the run, drop into hostile systems, gather what you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Try to survive long enough to secure a future for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Space Sim 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Sci-fi 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #8 Kill Line
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Underpass GamesPub: Amalgam
Windows
Can you survive below the invisible "Kill Line"? In this narrative survival sim, play as Sam, a veteran scavenging on the streets of Los Angeles. This isn't just survival—it's a final resistance against being erased by the system.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Survival 16%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Life Sim 10.9%, Time Management 10.3%
- #9 Project: Zenith Expanse
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build colonies across the stars in a deep space colony sim. Trade legally or run the underground. Keep your people alive - or don't.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Simulation 7%
- #10 Inter Solar 83
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: First Time Games
Windows
Don your space helmet and fire up your star drive as you blaze a trail across the stars in this 1980s inspired space exploration game.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.8% ★, 1980s 18.2%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #11 Arcbound
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Space Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 7.7%, Simulation 6.7%
- #12 Spirit Messages
71% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Kevin WacknovPub: Mind Body Aware Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Type your question for the Spirit World to answer, then click the start button. Whatever the letters, numbers, and shapes remind you of, is the answer.
Why similar: Experimental 49.2% ★, Choices Matter 17.9%, 1980s 10.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #13 Survival Time
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zzgame
Windows
"Survival Time" is a survival strategy game where you build shelters. You must plan your time, make tough choices, and work with your companions to survive in harsh environments.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Survival 17.8%, Time Management 17.8%, Life Sim 12%, Text-Based 11.7%
- #14 Adaptory
67% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Procedural Generation 17%, Survival 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #15 N+1:New life for unemployed youth!
69% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: 风火轮工作室
Windows
This is an independent game of magical realism that attempts to break the barriers between virtuality and reality and find the meaning of human life in a meaningless, repetitive, boring and obscure life.
Why similar: CRPG 24.2%, Psychological 14.7%, Life Sim 14.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #16 Keziah's Realm
67% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, RPG 13.9%
- #17 Stardeus
68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,526 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Space Sim 17.3% ★, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Survival 10.4%
- #18 Order: The New Dawn
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Space Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 9.2%, Exploration 5.8%
- #19 Mind Over Magic
65% matchVery Positive87% of 4,297 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Nonlinear 20.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Procedural Generation 13%, Survival 11%
- #20 Healing Movement
69% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Kevin WacknovPub: Mind Body Aware Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Gentle stepping and posturing movements are done to help you feel calm and aware of how your body works.
Why similar: Experimental 48% ★, Choices Matter 18.9%, 1980s 13.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Exploration 5.8%
- #21 Exostation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 22.1%, Time Management 14.4%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #22 Oxygen Not Included
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,747 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, Base Building 30.9%, Survival 15.7%, Space Sim 4.9% ★, Sci-fi 3.7%
- #23 SpaceDominator
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BeyondPlanet
Windows
SpaceDominator is strategy fantasy open world where you can discover universe! Contact other civilizations, make friends or enemies, start trading or fighting, expand your own area or help others to expand, increase your intelligence level.. and much more! Follow developing http://discord.gg/cqEZJ5J
Why similar: Space Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #24 The Secret of Darkwoods
66% matchVery Positive89% of 118 reviews2023
Dev: Rap2h
Windows · Mac · Linux
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Why similar: CRPG 29.6%, Text-Based 20.8%, RPG 19.8%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Choices Matter 10%
- #25 Lo-Fi Life
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Garage 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get up? Or stay in your bed just a few more minutes? A peaceful, small-scale life sim. Go through your mornings and forge your fate with the consequences of your everyday choices.
Why similar: Nonlinear 22.3%, Time Management 17.2%, Life Sim 16.8%, Experimental 16.2% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #26 Noir Mafia Simulator: 1960s American Crime
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meraki Tech
Windows
Rise through America’s 1960s criminal underworld in Noir Mafia Simulator. Plan daring heists across banks, museums, and police stations - go in silent or guns blazing. Negotiate hostages, outsmart police waves, and escape before the city locks down.
Why similar: CRPG 26%, Life Sim 17.2%, RPG 15.4%, Time Management 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #27 Halley Mission: 2061
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: PcZ Games
Windows · Mac
Embark on a sci-fi survival adventure on Halley's Comet as a retired astronaut on a top-secret mission. Build, manage limited resources, and survive the desolate space environment to complete your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.4% ★, CRPG 20.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #28 The Tedium and You
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noah Kuhn
Windows
The Tedium and You is an experimental first-person boredom simulator. Getting points is easy: just walk back and forth across a boring hallway. But that likely won't hold your interest. Explore the facility instead to find that the more you see, the less you know.
Why similar: Nonlinear 34.1%, Experimental 22% ★, Procedural Generation 18.7%, Psychological 13.7%, Exploration 7.7%
- #29 Exodus H
67% matchNegative18% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: Silversoft
Windows
Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Life Sim 11.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Survival 9.5%
- #30 BORE DOME
65% matchPositive98% of 47 reviews2022
Dev: Goblin Rage
Windows
In the near future, human life is perfect. BORE DOME is a magical pill solution from the future that lets you experience moments of human imperfection and mediocrity. Equip your senses and get ready to confront all kinds of situations and unhinged characters.
Why similar: Experimental 33.5% ★, Psychological 16%, Time Management 15.9%, Life Sim 15.3%, Simulation 6.5%
- #31 Galactic Pioneers
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Item Games
Windows
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Life Sim 14.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #32 Marscape
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rohn Media GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Space Sim 16.6% ★, Life Sim 11%, Survival 10.7%
- #33 Castaway Coalition
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MehowLipa
Windows · Mac · Linux
Castaway Coalition: Experience an evolving survival simulation on a remote island. You're not just a player, you're part of a living ecosystem. Craft, build, bond & survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Life Sim 14.8%, Survival 11.7%
- #34 Veil of the Volcano
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BefuddleBug
Windows
Create a tribe to survive the natural disasters of the island. Prepare your community for the day the volcano blows. You'll need to survive until the Spring when life returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Life Sim 16.7%, Base Building 16.6%, RPG 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #35 Psychologist Life | The Daily Struggle
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GazobellaGames
Windows
Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.
Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Life Sim 22.5%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Text-Based 11.9%
- #36 Home Domes
64% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: GivenKittens Games
Windows
Explore this life sim on a new planet. Create your new home on the rugged surface of Mars during the early days of colonization inside the safety of your new Dome. Everyday life on a new planet has new challenges and more difficulties of surviving out on the Domestead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Nonlinear 20.3%, Life Sim 16.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 9.3%
- #37 Pseudo World
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Professional Bad Guys
Windows
Roll your own story in Pseudo World, a third-person, endless-world ARPG with procedurally generated quests. Recruit any NPC into your party, for better or worse, and be the "hero" that Lan Redic needs!
Why similar: Nonlinear 33.4%, Procedural Generation 22.2%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Simulation 3.2%
- #38 Master Thief Simulator
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: oIHeRe
Windows
Master Thief Simulator is a stealth-focused crime simulator where every move counts. Plan heists, sneak past security, pick locks, steal valuables, and vanish without a trace. Rise from petty theft to high-risk break-ins and become a true master thief.
Why similar: CRPG 26.9%, Life Sim 19.7%, RPG 17.6%, Time Management 14.1%, Simulation 10.2%
- #39 RimWorld
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,937 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 26.7%, Survival 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #40 Worlds Explorers
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Space Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 13.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
- #41 Titan: The Ascension
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildercroft Studio
Windows
Embark on an exciting mission to establish a colony on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon. Following Earth's collapse, humanity's fate rests in your hands. Gather essential resources, excel in trading, and combat ancient technology to secure our future on Titan's harsh frontier. Will you prevail?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 22.8%, Space Sim 20.4% ★, Sci-fi 9.7%, Life Sim 7.8%
- #42 Grocery Simulator
63% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Roman Savenok
Windows
Experience the thrill of managing your own grocery store, from stocking shelves to handling customers, and transforming a small shop into a thriving supermarket. Control prices, Order goods, Hire Staff, Fight with Thieves and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Life Sim 21.7%, Time Management 19.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Exploration 7.9%
- #43 Space Wreck
62% matchVery Positive88% of 187 reviews2023
Dev: Pahris Entertainment SIA
Windows
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability. Inch wide, miles deep - intentionally short yet surprisingly deep.
Why similar: CRPG 27.5%, Nonlinear 20%, Space Sim 18.9% ★, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 8.8%
- #44 VUP-Simulator
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LB Game
Windows
The VUP-Simulator is a game that allows you to experience the career of a virtual anchor. Here you can make videos and get fans' attention, or interact with the audience in live. Upgrade your device (PC/microphone/camera, etc.) and you (technology/sketch/L2D, etc.) to improve the audience experience
Why similar: CRPG 29.8%, Time Management 22.1%, Life Sim 20%, Simulation 12%, RPG 8.7%
- #45 Elysian Eclipse
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seven Ducks Studios
Windows
Elysian Eclipse is a Sandbox Evolution Simulator, letting you evolve from an amoeba into a space traveling sentient being. Create your own creatures, buildings and vehicles to conquer procedural planets. Turn the galaxy into your personal playground!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Space Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 11%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #46 Astro Mining
63% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Snarkle Studios
Windows
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Space Sim 25.9% ★, Time Management 19.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #47 Being Mindful
64% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Kevin WacknovPub: Mind Body Aware Games LLC
Windows · Mac
In this awareness game you try to maintain awareness of aspects of your body for as long as you can. Body awareness is practiced sitting, standing, doing yoga, simple tai chi and other exercises.
Why similar: Experimental 48.4% ★, Choices Matter 17.2%, 1980s 13%, Simulation 9.4%, Exploration 8.9%
- #48 Terraformental
59% matchVery Positive98% of 243 reviews2026
Dev: Shady Games
Windows · Mac
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Nonlinear 32.8%, Time Management 23.4%, Text-Based 20.5%, Sci-fi 9%, Exploration 8.8%
- #49 Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,154 reviews2022
Dev: Huw Millward
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Procedural Generation 19.4%, Experimental 14.1% ★, RPG 13.4%, Simulation 8.8%
- #50 Generation Exile
60% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Survival 10.9%
- #51 The Home County
60% matchVery Positive94% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Swanworth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Life Sim 16.2%, Time Management 15.1%, Procedural Generation 12.3%
- #52 Maia
64% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Simulation 7.8%
- #53 Space Haven
62% matchVery Positive86% of 9,707 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Space Sim 20% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sci-fi 9%
- #54 TFM: The First Men
61% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 31.1%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 4.4%
- #55 Weird Simulator
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: boötes devPub: boötes voїd
Windows
The game doesn't copy real life, it surpasses real life. Player is free to do whatever he wants: play on the stock exchange, get an academic degree, blogger, musician, traveler, boxing champion, create a business, find love, make real friends, or get a job for a five-day week, drink and sleep.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.3%, Time Management 24.6%, RPG 15.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Survival 12.4%
- #56 Hearthkeeper
61% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Prancing Death Studios
Windows
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Nonlinear 21.1%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, Survival 14.4%, RPG 9.2%
- #57 WormWorld
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyjmo
Windows
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Space Sim 21.6% ★, Nonlinear 19%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Survival 12.4%
- #58 Space Sprouts
59% matchVery Positive100% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Schleuder Games
Windows · Mac
Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?
Why similar: Space Sim 24.3% ★, Nonlinear 22.5%, Time Management 16.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #59 ROVA
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FreeRangeDevs
Windows
ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about discovery and exploration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Space Sim 26.4% ★, Nonlinear 21.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Simulation 4.8%
- #60 Surviving Ceres
58% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 23.2%, Survival 15.6%, RPG 8.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%