60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Survival, Base Building.
Astro World is a side-scrolling co-op game where the players will have to build their colony on a planet full of danger, valuable resources and alien artifacts, using which the player can explore new technologies and equipment to arm their colonists with.
Horizon 1990
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Survival 17.1%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Co-op 13.1%, Space 12.9%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 15.6%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Side Scroller 13.8%, Base Building 8.7%
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 37.2%, Survival 14.5%, Space 13.2%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 9.7%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 14%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Adventure 6.7%
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Survival 13.7%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Strategy 7.2%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 8.4%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Survival 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Survival 12.7%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 9.2%
Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Space 13.2%, Survival 12.3%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Space 13.4%, Survival 9.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Space 23.5%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Base Building 7.5%
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 36.3%, Space 21%, Survival 14%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 7%
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Side Scroller 18.5%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 6.2%
Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Co-op 17.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%
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 41.5%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 8.9%, Management 6.5%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Co-op 12.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Fantasy 7.2%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Tower Defense 22.7%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Base Building 8.1%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Survival 13.2%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Base Building 8.6%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Space 20%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.8%
Rendered in breathtaking cinematic pixel art, MAPS blends the intimate tension of classic survival games with the strategic depth of a sidescrolling colony builder. A deeply diegetic world keeping you immersed in every moment with its tragic beauty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Side Scroller 14.6%, Space 10.1%, Strategy 8.4%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Survival 15.8%, Space 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%
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 26.8%, Space 26.5%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Why similar: Space 39.5%, Survival 20%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Adventure 5.1%
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 39.8%, Survival 17.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 6.9%
What Happens In Space is a multi-player survival game where players are assigned a role the 2 sides being, either crew or alien. The crew need to survive while they find the keys for the escape pod and escape.
Why similar: Space 27.2%, Survival 22.4%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Co-op 10.2%
Stranded on an alien planet, you must defend your Powercore! Use your weapons to fight hordes of alien enemies and strategically use traps in this new FPS tower-defense survival game!
Why similar: Co-op 20.8%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Space 11.8%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Survival 14.9%, Space 14%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 9.1%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Co-op 15.7%, Survival 11.2%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 8.3%
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Survival 12.7%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Base Building 8.3%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Survival 9.7%, Management 8.5%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Survival 15.6%, Space 13.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.1%
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Space 19.8%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.4%
Inspired by viral sensation, Among Us, Space of Retaliation is a unique sci-fi gaming experience, high quality 3D graphics and First & Third-Person viewpoints. Players aim to repair the station with the goal of escaping. However, the only chance of survival in this game is to find the disguised spy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Co-op 16.3%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Survival 18.4%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Co-op 9.9%
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: Space 28%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Management 10.4%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Survival 17.8%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%
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 36%, Survival 20.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
It's the ultimate, strategic SHMUP ReMix! Control TWO combat wings, flick between THREE different formations, and BLAST your way through overwhelming enemy fleets! Liberate planets, build colonies, research tech and skills, craft items, or even play 2p co-op in this unique new indie game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Side Scroller 18%, Space 15.4%, Survival 14.5%, Co-op 8.8%
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 33.8%, Survival 15.9%, Space 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.8%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 7.9%
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 28.7%, Space 18.1%, Survival 14%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%
Build, expand and survive in a magical hand-painted world filled with friends and foes. Grow and manage your settlement in the day, defend it through the night, and rebuild your broken airship to claim your escape!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Side Scroller 18.9%, Tower Defense 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Survival 9.2%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Tower Defense 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Survival 16.3%, Co-op 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 10%
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 28.7%, Space 18.7%, Survival 12.2%, Management 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.6%
Join a co-op team of 4 friends in a first person shooter that sends Pan Galactic Postal Service letter carriers into the locked-down streets of the future! Fight mutated alien horrors as you and your fellow essential workers deliver baubles to hard-to-find destinations! Hey, at least it's a job!
Why similar: Co-op 21.9%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Space 17.3%, Survival 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.8%
A co-op survival game about a tribe of mischievous creatures. Hunt for food, gather resources, upgrade your camp together with your friends... and kick everything and everyone, a lot!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Co-op 17.3%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 11.5%
Alone in a hostile universe, you're the last of your kind. Team up in a crew of up to 4 players, gather vital resources, upgrade your gear, and defend your spacecraft with the help of intelligent robots. But beware, in the dark, something is watching - and it won't stop until it finds you.
Why similar: Space 21.8%, Tower Defense 21%, Co-op 18.8%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 6.8%
Mysticore is a survival strategy game for 1-4 players. Explore the shattered realms, build your base and defend it against massive enemy waves - all while leaving the busywork to your gnomes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 9.4%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 7.9%
Become a crew member on a multiplayer space station and try to survive as long as possible.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Space 20.8%, Co-op 16.5%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 10.2%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 9.7%
