Games Like Space Haven

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 28.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features complex gas and liquid management systems that will feel instantly familiar to players who enjoy the atmospheric simulation of Space Haven.

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 26.2%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 9%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive colony-simulation experience that shares the same emergent storytelling and character-driven management found in Space Haven.

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 19%, Space Sim 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Space 8.7%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual cousin that focuses on managing a spaceship colony with deep automation and survival mechanics.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the high-stakes pressure of managing a space station and its crew while navigating a dying universe.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Space 14.8%, Building 14%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed ship-building system that emphasizes structural integrity and tactical combat, mirroring the design aspects of Space Haven.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 9.8%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-builder that focuses on resource management and survival in harsh, isolated environments.

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Space 17.5%, Survival 12.2%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated spaceship colony simulator that focuses heavily on ship design and crew survival in deep space.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Survival 15.6%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D survival colony-sim offers deep crafting and base-building mechanics that feel like a natural evolution of the genre.

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, Space Sim 16.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Space 10.1%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creators of Prison Architect, this game focuses on the granular details of building and operating a functional spacecraft.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 37.5%, Management 22.1%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it provides the same claustrophobic crew management and ship maintenance experience as Space Haven.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Space Sim 11.7%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy colony simulator that encourages building interconnected space stations to survive in the void.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Space 9.2%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with managing a space station and its inhabitants, blending colony-sim elements with a unique pixel-art aesthetic.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.4%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on lunar base building and resource automation, providing a similar sense of scale and logistical challenge.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space Sim 20.1%, Space 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines ship building, base construction, and survival exploration across a vast, procedurally generated galaxy.

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Space Sim 24%, Space 16.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 11.2%, Open World 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeper look at space economy and fleet management for players who want to expand their influence beyond a single ship.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Space Sim 19.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want to take ship construction to the next level with physics-based engineering and sandbox exploration.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that incorporates colony management and planetary development, offering a broader scope for expansion.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Space 10.4%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep simulation of atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems for those who love the technical side of Space Haven.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony builder that tests your ability to manage resources and keep your population alive under pressure.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set in the past, its tile-based building and colony management systems are very similar to Space Haven's core loop.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.9%, Space 16.9%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore space-salvage simulator that emphasizes the gritty, realistic maintenance of a ship and its crew.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Space Sim 14.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony simulator that emphasizes the challenges of building and maintaining a base in a realistic solar system.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.2%, Space 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural ship building and exploration, perfect for players who want to customize their vessel down to the last block.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Space 13.4%, Building 9.7%, City Builder 9%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it captures the grand scale of space-faring logistics and base construction.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Space Sim 12.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with tactical combat and resource management in a unique, stylized sci-fi setting.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 10.6%, Management 9%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A robust city-builder that focuses on the survival of your population through harsh seasons and limited resources.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival builder that requires careful management of radiation and water, similar to the environmental hazards in Space Haven.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to rebuild society after a global catastrophe.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, City Builder 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on survival and base-building against supernatural threats, sharing the same management-heavy gameplay loop.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 22%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 8.7%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Space 5.7%

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: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.8%, Space 9.4%, Building 8.3%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.2%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 8.3%, Building 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Space Sim 10%, Resource Management 7.9%

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 31.2%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.5%, Management 9.2%, Space 7.8%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Space Sim 14%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 8.4%, Building 8.3%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 10.7%

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 11.2%

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Space 18.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%

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: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Space 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.1%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, Space Sim 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 10.1%, Space 9.5%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.4%, Management 8.3%

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.6%, Space 17%, Management 15.3%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.3%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Space Sim 12.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Space 8.7%, City Builder 8.1%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 7.9%, Building 7.7%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Space Sim 16.3%, Space 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 11.2%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10%, Management 7.9%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 8.4%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.6%

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Space 12.2%, Management 11.3%, Colony Sim 9.3%, Building 8.9%

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Space 14%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 10.6%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Space 9.6%, Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%