- #1 Mars Colonization.Survival Simulator
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GAM33
Windows
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Why similar: Mars 30% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #2 Red Dust Colony
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Mars 23.5% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 10%
- #3 Occupy Mars: The Game
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 29% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #4 Ares Inception
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Spacehabs Studios Inc.
Windows
You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Recruit, train, and assign your crew to an authentic space sim advised by real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways. Every decision is yours.
Why similar: Mars 29.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Life Sim 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #5 Quriocity
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Mars 18% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #6 Home Domes
94% 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: Mars 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Life Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 7.3%
- #7 DeepWork
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CCS
Windows
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Mars 41.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #8 Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Last Qubit
Windows
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Why similar: Mars 31.9% ★, Outbreak Sim 18.2% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #9 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
91% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Bolverk GamesPub: Impact Inked
Windows
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Mars 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #10 Outpost Surge
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thrive Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 38.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 9.4%
- #11 Galaxy Pass Station
89% matchVery Positive86% of 277 reviews2023
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Life Sim 12.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #12 SNOW HELL
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SURVGAME
Windows
The crash is just the beginning. Trapped in the frozen hell of Siberia, you must fight for every single day. Use the wreckage, build shelter, find food, and face deadly threats. Rescue may never come – how long can you survive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Survival 7.3%, Base Building 7%
- #13 30 Days on Ship
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Take on the role of a castaway on a wrecked container ship. Survive for 30 days, battle storms, hunt animals, build shelter, and maintain your mental health, attempting to endure isolation and pirates in the middle of the Pacific. Can you stay alive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26.8% ★, Life Sim 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.9%
- #14 Marscape
87% 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: Mars 34% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Life Sim 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #15 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Life Sim 15.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #16 Mars Colony Simulator
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mars Simulator
Windows
Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Mars 23% ★, Immersive Sim 14%, Simulation 13.7%, Futuristic 8.1%
- #17 Oxygen Not Included
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 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 30.9%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #18 Never Secure
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Resource Management 16.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 14.6%, Outbreak Sim 14% ★
- #19 Outer Space Shack
83% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Open Lowcode SAS
Windows
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Mars 33.9% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 15%, Survival 7.9%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #20 Mars or Die!
84% matchMixed53% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: 34BigThings srl
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Why similar: Mars 35.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.7%, Futuristic 8.4%
- #21 Entropy Department
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollow Art Studios
Windows
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 10.1%
- #22 Above Earth
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 45 reviews2019
Dev: Steven Eric Boyette
Windows
Above Earth is a science fiction survival game. Experience a struggle for life in the fragile artificial environment of a damaged space station.
Why similar: Mars 25.4% ★, Resource Management 15.1%, Survival 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10%, Life Sim 9.9%
- #23 Resilience
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Samskara Games
Windows
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #24 MARS
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyborg Dreams
Windows
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Mars 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 7.8%
- #25 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 823 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Mars 31% ★, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 8%
- #26 Calyx
78% matchVery Positive89% of 367 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Why similar: Mars 28.9% ★, Outbreak Sim 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #27 Galaxy Scavengers
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Resource Management 16.7%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #28 Farlanders
78% matchVery Positive91% of 576 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #29 Warranted Humanity
76% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #30 Colonization Simulator
77% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #31 Mars Colonization
77% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2023
Windows
The time has finally come when we can enjoy a new stage in human development!
Why similar: Mars 38% ★, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Adventure 7.2%
- #32 HAS Galactics
76% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
Why similar: Mars 38.8% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 15.2%, Futuristic 6.9%, Sandbox 6%
- #33 Space Company Simulator
79% matchMostly Negative28% of 179 reviews2019
Dev: IntermarumPub: All in! Games
Windows
Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.
Why similar: Mars 35.3% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Futuristic 9.1%
- #34 Too Far Too Late
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fly Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Mars 32.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #35 Utopia Colony
73% matchMixed67% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: GridSky Software
Windows
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Why similar: Mars 40.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Futuristic 7.5%
- #36 Reshaping Mars
75% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Mars 31.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Futuristic 8.3%
- #37 Outpost Simulator
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mental DreamsPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Build a safety base for survivors, serve their needs, and earn money to expand your outpost. Manage resources, find supplies, and protect your people in a challenging survival world. A unique mix of customer simulator, base building, and first-person open-world survival game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Life Sim 15.5%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Survival 11.3%
- #38 Farlanders: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive93% of 288 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #39 Quarantine Zombies
72% matchMixed57% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Stones Games
Windows
A first-person shooter meets quarantine inspection in post-apocalyptic Chicago. You’ve got 30 days until the army arrives. Hold out, fix your car, and fight your way through Chicago to the main checkpoint to save your little brother.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.4% ★, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Life Sim 11.8%, Simulation 6.2%
- #40 Volcano Watch
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Meneztan Games
Windows
Build a scientific station on a remote volcanic island. Fund it through research, farming, or off-the-book channels. Then survive the eruptions: helicopter evacuations, lava flows to hold back, decisions made under pressure. The volcano always comes back.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 36.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Survival 10.9%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
- #41 Tree House Colony
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 18.1%, Life Sim 16.8%, Survival 12.9%
- #42 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
70% matchMixed53% of 1,989 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 30.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Why similar: Mars 37.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #43 Greenfeet Haven
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Life Sim 15.9%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11%
- #44 Cutthroat Cove
73% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Wicked Games
Windows
Welcome to Cutthroat Cove. Get ready to pillage and plunder, or be prepared to walk the plank. In this open world pirate thriller you can craft, engage in combat with the nasty locals, and follow clues to unlock the secrets of the Old World.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Life Sim 14.7%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #45 I Am Zombie
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.6% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Exploration 6.4%, Survival 5.8%
- #46 Resort Island Simulator: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Tenjin GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A world filled with tricksters, pirates, zealots, and treasures. An ocean full of danger and prize. Face dilemmas and encounters. Manage a resort in this wild world and build a thriving business. An Explorer, a Survivor a Resorter or a Trader? Forge your own path to wealth. Make Resort Prosper!
Why similar: Life Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Immersive Sim 14%, Adventure 6.6%
- #47 Barricade Protocol
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Analiz Games
Windows
Barricade Protocol: Survive in the world's last bastion, the Vera Hospital. Farm on the rooftops, generate power on balconies, and transform patient rooms into shops to build your own vertical city within the hospital corridors.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Life Sim 10.4%, Simulation 8.2%
- #48 Last Generation: Survival
72% matchMixed48% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Furious DogsPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Last Generation: Survival is a survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where robots have conquered the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 28% ★, Life Sim 12.2%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Futuristic 8.5%
- #49 Plan B: Terraform
67% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Mars 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #50 Tales of Tomorrow: Experiment
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Duality Games
Windows
ToT: Experiment is a sci-fi short story game set on a remote ship wandering through space. Without any memories or recollection of his past our hero is tasked by the ship AI - AR.I.A. to perform daily tasks, that will help to maintain the ship.
Why similar: Mars 36.1% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Futuristic 10.1%, Survival 10%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #51 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Mars 41.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Sci-fi 6.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #52 Mars Training Camp
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Christopher ShovePub: Simwerx LLC
Windows
Mars Training Camp is a simulation to build the human first base on Mars based on NASA and SpaceX science and plans. You must find ice and build critical facilities of green houses, O2 & H gas plant, launch pads and a habitat, and react just in time to emergencies of fire and low oxygen supply.
Why similar: Mars 49.5% ★, Base Building 18%, Simulation 13.1%, Futuristic 8.9%, First-Person 4%
- #53 Shelter X
67% matchPositive80% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Inspite
Windows
Shelter X is a management game where you recruit residents, assign them to rooms, and let them work. As time passes, photo and video content unlocks, which you can watch later in your private room.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Life Sim 18.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Futuristic 6.7%
- #54 Starship Colony
68% 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 26.5%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #55 Embers of the Night
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 巨浪游戏
Windows
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.2% ★, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 13.4%, Exploration 6.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #56 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
67% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #57 Terrestrial planet
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: glacier Studio
Windows
On a planet with a biome climate similar to Earth, manage your residents from basic construction and planting, develop and research various cutting-edge technologies, recruit soldiers to form troops, resist foreign enemies or actively conquer other countries, and unify this distant planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #58 Supermarket Surviving Simulator
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melancholic Games
Windows
Want to relax after a tough day? Probably not going to happen. In this hardcore and immersive simulator, you’ll experience all the pain of managing your own store. Start with just one dollar in your account and bankrupt your competitors.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.4%, Life Sim 17.6%, Survival 16.7%, Simulation 15.1%, Sandbox 14.6%
- #59 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Mars 27.4% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%