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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 84% — of 91 reviews
Released: 2026-01-26
Developer: Stormcloak Games
Publisher: indie.io
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Early Access
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 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 36.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 5.8%

  2. #2 Space Haven
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 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 29.3%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Management 8.2%

  3. #3 Stardeus
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 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 25.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Moddable 12.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 8.6%

  4. #4 Astro Colony
    95% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 6.9%

  5. #5 Stranded: Alien Dawn
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 27%, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.8%

  6. #6 Farlanders
    94% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    92% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 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.

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    93% matchMixed64% of 1,024 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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 34%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.7%

  9. #9 Planetbase
    91% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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  10. #10 Stationeers
    90% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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!

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  11. #11 The Crust
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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.

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  12. #12 Maia
    91% 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.

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  13. #13 New Cycle
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    Windows
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  14. #14 Mercury Fallen
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    77% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
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    Windows
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  34. #34 Astrometica
    74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
    Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

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    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    74% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
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    Windows · Mac
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  37. #37 Prospector
    73% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    71% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
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    Windows
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    75% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
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    Windows
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    Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7%, Resource Management 16.3%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%, Sci-fi 5.7%

  56. #56 Oxygen
    67% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 11.8%, Building 7.8%

  57. #57 MegaFactory Titan
    67% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
    Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

    Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Science 9%

  58. #58 Ascent of Ashes
    65% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 12.8%, Management 10%, Building 9.3%

  59. #59 Surviving the Abyss
    65% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
    Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Base Building 20%, Survival 12.1%, Management 10.3%, Building 10%

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