Games Like Astro Colony

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: Automation 25%, Base Building 19.5%, Space 14.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale of space-based automation and logistics that perfectly mirrors the ambition of Astro Colony.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for first-person factory building and complex conveyor belt automation in a beautiful alien world.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Automation 18.3%, Space 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the rewarding process of terraforming a planet through automation and base expansion.

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 21.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Space Sim 11.6%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the intimate, high-stakes management of a spaceship colony where every crew member's needs must be met.

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 32.9%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 7.9%, Space 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the complex colony management and survival mechanics required to keep a space station functioning under pressure.

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 19.4%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore, physics-based approach to space station construction and atmospheric management.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 23.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive automation game, it provides the deep logistical challenges and resource management loops that define the genre.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based factory builder provides a similar sense of scale and freedom in building massive automated structures.

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 20.4%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 17%, Space 11.9%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on lunar colonization and automation, emphasizing the resource management aspects of space survival.

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: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 16.6%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex supply chain management and industrial automation that will satisfy players who enjoy optimizing production lines.

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: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a detailed look at surviving and building a base on Mars with a strong focus on technical resource management.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Space 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space exploration with massive-scale automation, allowing players to build factories that span entire solar systems.

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 38.3%, Base Building 28.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.1%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on storytelling, its deep colony simulation and survival mechanics are essential for any fan of the genre.

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 32%, Base Building 21.9%, Space 15.4%, Resource Management 6.9%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic colony-building experience where you must manage resources and oxygen to survive on harsh alien planets.

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 21.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Space 11.8%, Space Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space colony simulation that emphasizes automation and the management of a complex, procedurally generated spaceship.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Space 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the survival and automation aspects of terraforming, making it a great companion to Astro Colony.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Space 18.3%, Automation 12.2%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique, colorful approach to space exploration and base building with a focus on modular construction.

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Space Sim 18.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 12.5%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and exploration aspects of space, providing a more grounded experience for base builders.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 28%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Crafting 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique programming-based automation system that allows you to build a self-sustaining colony.

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with automation, requiring players to extract resources and build efficient production chains.

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 26.2%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, its focus on water management and vertical colony automation provides a similar satisfaction to space-based builders.

Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 22%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for significant freedom in how you construct your production facilities.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines open-world survival with base building and automation in a hostile, resource-rich environment.

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 21.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Space 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated space colony builder that challenges players to manage resources and expand their base on various planets.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 22.6%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based game focuses on managing a growing colony of NPCs while defending against nightly threats.

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 22.7%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Space 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the structural and management challenges of building a functional space station.

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 24.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Space Sim 15.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Space 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive space-sim experience where you manage a colony across multiple planets with complex resource needs.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the logic of factory design.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a charming, relaxing take on colony management and automation in a unique ocean-based setting.

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Space Sim 12.5%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 8.3%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 21%, Space 15.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 8%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Space 13.1%, Space Sim 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed automation game that focuses on building efficient supply routes between different celestial bodies.

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Space 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Space Sim 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%

Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Automation 16.1%, Space Sim 15.3%, Space 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 17.8%, Base Building 16%, Automation 13.8%, Space Sim 13.7%, Space 12%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.3%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 7.7%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 8.4%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Space 11.1%, Building 9.2%

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 19.6%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%

Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 12.3%, Space Sim 11.1%, Space 10.4%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 12.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 7.9%

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: Automation 23%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 7.2%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%

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: Base Building 22%, Automation 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Space 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 21.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Space 11.6%, Building 10.4%

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 19.9%, Space Sim 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 9.3%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Space 11.4%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 14.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.2%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 19.3%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Space Sim 12.4%, Space 9.8%

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 20.9%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 8.2%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Space 24.9%, Building 18.2%, Space Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%

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 21.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 14.8%, Space Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 10.9%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space 24.6%, Space Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 13%, Building 8.6%