Games Like Astrobase Command

You are a space trader living inside a capsule in deep space. Supply passing starships, maintain balance in a weight-based physics system, and build your own space colony.

Why similar: Experimental 25.6%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Time Management 14.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.6%

Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.

Why similar: Experimental 26.2%, Psychological 13.4%, Philosophical 12.8%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Emotional 11%

Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Time Management 19.1%, Philosophical 18.5%, Psychological 16.9%, Management 11%

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 29.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Nonlinear 12%, Management 11.5%

Get up? Or stay in your bed just a few more minutes? A peaceful, small-scale life sim. Go through your mornings and forge your fate with the consequences of your everyday choices.

Why similar: Time Management 19.3%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Life Sim 16.9%, Experimental 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Experience the thrill of managing your own grocery store, from stocking shelves to handling customers, and transforming a small shop into a thriving supermarket. Control prices, Order goods, Hire Staff, Fight with Thieves and much more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Time Management 20%, Life Sim 19.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 8%

My Music Label is a music management and simulation game where you take full control of your label. Discover young talents, manage legendary artists, and shape the evolution of the music industry. Every decision influences careers and the history of music.

Why similar: Time Management 22.5%, Life Sim 20.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10.6%

选择注定和失去相伴——那失去之后，还剩下什么？规划每周时间，在事件抉择中经历一段关于选择与和解的人生。

Why similar: Life Sim 21.1%, Psychological 19.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Time Management 15.9%, Text-Based 10.3%

Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 11%, Exploration 7%

Text-based 4X focused on turf war, victory conditions and resource management. Roots of Harmony is a strategy game where you have to lead your colony through puzzling challenges, while managing your doctrines and disciples. 100% gameplay, ASCII graphics only!

Why similar: Nonlinear 15.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Procedural Generation 14%, Resource Management 12.6%, Base Building 12%

In the near future, human life is perfect. BORE DOME is a magical pill solution from the future that lets you experience moments of human imperfection and mediocrity. Equip your senses and get ready to confront all kinds of situations and unhinged characters.

Why similar: Experimental 32%, Time Management 17.5%, Psychological 15.7%, Life Sim 15.1%, Simulation 6.3%

Become the Governor of people trapped in a concrete coffin. Manage resources and citizens, make cold decisions, and try to survive inside the shelter.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Resource Management 18.3%, Psychological 13.8%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%

The Tedium and You is an experimental first-person boredom simulator. Getting points is easy: just walk back and forth across a boring hallway. But that likely won't hold your interest. Explore the facility instead to find that the more you see, the less you know.

Why similar: Nonlinear 25.9%, Experimental 20.8%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Philosophical 14.9%, Psychological 13.3%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sci-fi 7.3%

A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Time Management 15.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 12%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.

Why similar: Life Sim 20.6%, Emotional 17.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Philosophical 10.9%, Text-Based 10.1%

Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Life Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, Management 9.2%

A game that combines elements of strategy, colony simulation, base defense, exploration, and hidden object exploration. All in a roguelike style with meta-progression. Procedurally generated maps and endless replayability.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Time Management 11.4%

Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 26.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 11.4%, Exploration 6.3%

Castaway Coalition: Experience an evolving survival simulation on a remote island. You're not just a player, you're part of a living ecosystem. Craft, build, bond & survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Life Sim 14.8%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Resource Management 11.4%

You're the only one on shift at the observatory. Monitor signals, fix system failures, handle multiple alerts as things begin to spiral out of control. Come for the absurd cows, stay for the soundtrack. Each shift lasts 15 minutes and is designed to complete in a single intense session (30-60min).

Why similar: Psychological 26%, Time Management 23.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

"Survival Time" is a survival strategy game where you build shelters. You must plan your time, make tough choices, and work with your companions to survive in harsh environments.

Why similar: Time Management 21.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Life Sim 12.7%, Emotional 9%

Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Time Management 16.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Life Sim 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Time Management 18.1%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Management 10.2%

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.8%, Emotional 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%

Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12%, Management 9.4%

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 39.9%, Base Building 27%, Resource Management 16.1%, Management 7.1%, Sci-fi 3.4%

Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Resource Management 16.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Life Sim 15%, Management 10.2%

"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.

Why similar: Psychological 25%, Life Sim 24.7%, Philosophical 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Text-Based 12.1%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.8%

Manage a bunker. Protect survivors. Outsmart a rogue AI. Bunker 1024 is a first person survival management game where you craft tech, maintain critical systems, and deliver aid as time grows thin - all while Lumina 6.0 studies your patterns and actively works against your routines.

Why similar: Time Management 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Resource Management 15.5%, Emotional 13.7%, Choices Matter 10%

SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Time Management 17.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 10.9%

Fractal Evolution is a 2D space exploration RPG with life simulation elements inspired by Conway's Game of Life.

Why similar: Experimental 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Philosophical 13.2%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Nonlinear 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%

The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 8.1%

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Base Building 26%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.1%

Commander! Manage your shelter with survivors in a abandoned nuclear power plant. Search resources to make different types of boxes, send expeditions, repair work areas, face enemies to defend your facilities, deploy drones and rc cars, prepare for special events and more. All in real-time.

Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Life Sim 22.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

Explore the town of Porthaven and brew your way out of crippling debt. Build up your brewery from a run-down store front into a bustling large scale operation.

Why similar: Time Management 32.3%, Life Sim 23.4%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 8%, Management 7.8%

Three Interwoven tales ruminating on beginning and end and everything in-between.

Why similar: Experimental 56.3%, Philosophical 25.7%, RPG 16.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 12%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

Why similar: Experimental 31.5%, Colony Sim 23%, Time Management 15.7%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 6.8%

Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.

Why similar: Psychological 25.2%, Life Sim 23.2%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Simulation 12.2%

Take on the challenge of managing these Little Renters and their needs. Keep them happy with the right decoration and set your rent prices to maximize profits! Stay alert as Thieves, Squatters, Fires, Sick Renters and Broken Decorations can cause you to Fail!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Time Management 23.1%, Life Sim 14.5%, Management 10%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.

Why similar: Experimental 30%, Philosophical 22.5%, Psychological 22.3%, Life Sim 18.1%, 3D 3.4%

Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Time Management 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 8.1%

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 30.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Time Management 26.1%, Nonlinear 25.2%, Text-Based 21.8%, Exploration 8.2%, Sci-fi 8%

An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 11%, Text-Based 9.1%, Simulation 9.1%

You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Resource Management 17%, Base Building 16.3%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Management 8.7%

Can you survive below the invisible "Kill Line"? In this narrative survival sim, play as Sam, a veteran scavenging on the streets of Los Angeles. This isn't just survival—it's a final resistance against being erased by the system.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Time Management 14.1%, Life Sim 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, RPG 9.7%

Take charge of airport operations. Manage aircraft maintenance, ground support, equipment, and taxiway movements, then leave the office to inspect aircraft, investigate damage, clear FOD, respond to emergencies, and keep flights moving safely and on schedule.

Why similar: Time Management 27%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 15.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Life Sim 13%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 13.4%, Time Management 13.3%, Psychological 11.8%

Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Life Sim 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Sci-fi 9%

In a world ruled by sugary tyrants, an unlikely hero rises from the shadows: Pom the Mold. Build your secret guild, gather rogue treats, lead the rebellion and battle through candy-coated chaos to topple the Candy Kingdom. The Sweet Revolution begins—bite back!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Nonlinear 15.6%, Time Management 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 16%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%

Roll your own story in Pseudo World, a third-person, endless-world ARPG with procedurally generated quests. Recruit any NPC into your party, for better or worse, and be the "hero" that Lan Redic needs!

Why similar: Nonlinear 27.5%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Procedural Generation 19.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 8.7%

Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.9%

You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 15.9%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%

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 31.4%, Base Building 21.1%, Management 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%