Games Like Aven Colony

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 37.2%, City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Space 5.9%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Planetbase mirrors Aven Colony's core loop of establishing a self-sustaining sci-fi base on a hostile planet while managing life support and resources.

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: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 9%, Space 8.4%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: IXION provides a heavy sci-fi city-building and resource management experience with a deep emphasis on survival and infrastructure expansion.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that tests your ability to protect citizens from environmental threats, much like dealing with Aven Colony's atmospheric disasters.

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 31.8%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This planetary terraforming simulator shares Aven Colony's sci-fi setting and the immense challenge of making a dead world habitable for humanity.

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 56.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 5.1%, Strategy 3.8%, Resource Management 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Aven Colony, it challenges you to manage life support systems and resource chains for a colony trying to survive in a hostile environment.

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 33.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Space 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Building and maintaining a pressurized spaceship colony mirrors the modular, life-support-driven base construction seen in Aven Colony.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Colony Sim 33.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony survival and city building with managing unique societal hazards and expanding a settlement in a harsh world.

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 41.1%, Base Building 22.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Set on an alien world, it focuses on survival and base-building mechanics that appeal to players who enjoy managing colonists in unfamiliar territory.

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 34.6%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Space 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Set on the Moon, this industrial base-building game captures the isolation and resource logistics of settling an extraterrestrial body.

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 32.2%, City Builder 31.2%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges players to build futuristic cities on narrow plateaus while managing tight space, power grids, and harsh planetary conditions.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Colony Sim 28%, Sci-fi 8%, Base Building 7.9%, Space 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet strategic city-builder focused on rebuilding society across multiple planets and managing inter-planetary trade.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 31.8%, Space 5%, Strategy 4.7%, Sci-fi 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a planet-wide god game, it allows you to guide a civilization from primitive times to a space-faring era with sci-fi city-building elements.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 54.9%, Strategy 12%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Space 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This futuristic city-builder shares Aven Colony's aesthetic and expands logistics to extreme environments, including the Moon and polar regions.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 32.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Building a sprawling underwater city echoes the dome-based and specialized structural layout required to survive on Aven Prime.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based colony sim focused on Martian colonization, matching Aven Colony's resource management and rugged landscape challenges.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, City Builder 36.5%, Base Building 6.4%, Simulation 4.3%, Survival 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on micro-managing production chains and keeping a fragile settlement alive against disasters and harsh weather.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 29.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city builder where managing infrastructure and population morale is crucial for weathering environmental disasters.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, City Builder 41.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Survival 3.6%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in prehistoric times, it shares a very similar survival-oriented settlement building and population management structure.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Colony Sim 34.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Base Building 6.1%, Survival 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate survival city-builder that tests your ability to keep a population alive against extreme cold and infrastructure failures.

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 39.5%, City Builder 31.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.1%, Survival 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers structured colony-building and resource automation mechanics that appeal to fans of logistical optimization in city-builders.

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 32.2%, City Builder 24.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi economic strategy game set on Mars that shares Aven Colony's corporate and planetary colonization backdrop.

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 43.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of colony survival sims, offering deep management of colonists trying to survive on a distant, untamed world.

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: Base Building 36.6%, City Builder 23.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more automation-focused, it shares the satisfying experience of expanding an industrial base on an alien planet filled with hostile wildlife.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 10%, Sci-fi 7%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features futuristic city-building and industrial design on Saturn's moon, matching Aven Colony's sci-fi corporate expansion themes.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 47%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 5.4%, Survival 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survivor management with defending your settlement from external threats on a ruined world.

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 37.2%, Base Building 6%, Simulation 5.5%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love Aven Colony's grid-based city layout, labor management, and disaster prevention mechanics in a classic setting.

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: Indie 59%, Singleplayer 41%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a retro-futuristic sci-fi world with thematic elements that resonate with players who appreciate Aven Colony's futuristic presentation.

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 37.2%, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 5%, Space 5%

Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing

Why similar: Base Building 61.3%, Sandbox 19.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes building a safe haven and managing resources in deep space isolation.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 41.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 1.2%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Strategy 6.4%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.3%, City Builder 36.1%, Strategy 5.7%, Survival 3.4%, Simulation 3.1%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, City Builder 32.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5.1%

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 36%, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 5.9%, Space 5%

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 51.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6.5%

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 34.4%, City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 4.3%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, City Builder 37.8%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 4.5%, Survival 3.1%

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 36.5%, City Builder 30.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Space 5.6%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Space 10%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.4%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 37.6%, Simulation 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Indie 0.7%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%, Space 6.2%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Base Building 5.5%

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: City Builder 43.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Space 9.7%, Simulation 6.1%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7%, City Builder 38.4%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 3.4%, Resource Management 2.7%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 33%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Survival 4.1%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Space 6.7%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.6%, City Builder 23.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Management 4.5%

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 34.7%, City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 5.9%, Sci-fi 5.1%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, City Builder 32.3%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 7.1%, Management 2.9%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 5.4%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, City Builder 31%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 4.7%, Simulation 3.8%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 31%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.7%

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: Colony Sim 50.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.6%

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.4%, Space 20.6%, Simulation 19.7%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 9.8%

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7%

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, City Builder 29.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 5.8%, Strategy 4.9%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 65.6%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Resource Management 3.1%

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Why similar: Strategy 36.2%, Sci-fi 35.6%, Space 22.1%, Simulation 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%