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 24.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Space 14.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the premier space-based automation game that mirrors the scale and logistical complexity of building across multiple planets.

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%, Base Building 22.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder offers a similar focus on verticality, conveyor belt logistics, and large-scale industrial 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 21.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Space Sim 11.8%, Space 11.6%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the feeling of managing a living, breathing space station with a focus on crew needs and survival.

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 20.9%, Automation 17.3%, Space 13%, Building 10%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing yet engaging blend of space survival, base-building, and automation as you terraform a desolate world.

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 32.8%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 7.9%, Space 6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intricate colony management with complex gas and liquid automation systems in a challenging space environment.

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 30.1%, Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard of the automation genre, it provides the deep, satisfying production chains that define the core loop of Astro Colony.

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 19.5%, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Space 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a hardcore simulation experience for space base-building, focusing on physics and complex atmospheric systems.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Space 12.3%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-focused colony builder that emphasizes automation and resource extraction on the lunar surface.

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%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based factory builder allows for massive, open-world industrial construction similar to the building style of Astro Colony.

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%, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Space 8.7%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game emphasizes automation and crafting, allowing you to build massive industrial bases on alien planets.

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 23.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Space 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on large-scale space automation and fleet management, perfect for fans of interstellar logistics.

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 19.1%, Space 18.4%, Automation 11.6%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an accessible and visually charming take on space exploration, base-building, and resource gathering.

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 31.7%, Base Building 21.8%, Space 15.5%, Resource Management 6.6%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-builder that tasks you with managing the survival of a space outpost through resource management and strategic planning.

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 30.2%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep resource management and logistical challenges that reward players who enjoy optimizing complex production lines.

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 37.9%, Base Building 28.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.1%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive colony simulation game, offering unparalleled depth in managing colonist needs and base infrastructure.

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 21.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 11.9%, Space Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space colony simulation that focuses on ship management, automation, and surviving the dangers of the void.

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 27.3%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 7.2%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique programming-based automation system that allows you to automate colony tasks through simple logic.

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 24.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent subterranean alien world.

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: Base Building 22%, Automation 21.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that offers a high degree of freedom in how you build and manage your production chains.

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 22%, Base Building 16.9%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 10.1%, Space 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the strategic aspects of building and managing a colony in harsh space environments.

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 22.8%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 8.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused game that lets you design and build functional space stations with a top-down perspective.

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 25.7%, Space 21.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space station management with a narrative-driven survival experience that requires careful resource allocation.

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 18.5%, Space Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Space 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed space colony simulation that emphasizes resource management and city-building mechanics.

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 26.6%, Automation 21%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: While not in space, its focus on water management and complex logistics makes it a strong match for colony-sim enthusiasts.

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 23%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim integrates automation and procedural generation to create unique challenges for your growing settlement.

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 27.8%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It strips away the survival elements to focus entirely on the pure, satisfying logic of factory automation.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Base Building 26%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on automation and base-building by placing your base on a train traveling through an interdimensional void.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A long-standing voxel-based factory builder that excels at massive-scale automation and resource processing.

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: Space Sim 18.7%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%

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 25.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Space 16.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.2%

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 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Space Sim 12.7%, Space 12.6%, Resource Management 7.9%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging colony-builder that requires strict resource management and survival strategies in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 22.3%, Space 14%, Base Building 13.3%, Space Sim 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%

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 16.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 7.9%

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 21.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Space 13.4%, Space Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 10%

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 11%, Building 9.8%

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 18.8%, Base Building 17.6%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.3%

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 25.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 26%, Automation 22%, Base Building 19.3%, Space 9.7%, Crafting 7.9%

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: Base Building 18.6%, Automation 18%, Space 13.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%

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 15.8%, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 12.4%, Space Sim 11.3%, Space 10.6%

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%, Base Building 16%, Space Sim 13.8%, Automation 13%, Space 12.1%

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 17.6%, Space Sim 15.5%, Automation 15.4%, Space 11%, Building 9.4%

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: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 18.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 8%

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 25%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%

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 34.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Sandbox 7%

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 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Space 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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 28.6%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 23.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Space 15.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.4%

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 7.3%

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 14.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Space Sim 12.6%, Space 10%

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%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 8%

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 26.3%, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 16%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 6.8%

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Space Sim 8.6%

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 20%, Space Sim 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 9.5%