- #1 Stellar Shipyard
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Mining 18.4% ★, Automation 15.7%, Diplomacy 11.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%
- #2 Factor Y
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 21.7%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.7%
- #3 Dawn Apart
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 250 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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 34.3%, Automation 26.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #4 Survival Vacancy
96% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Automation 18.4%, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.2%
- #5 Common'hood
94% matchMixed52% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 15%, Automation 14.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Economy 10.1%
- #6 Terra Crafter
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Greenway Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space themed open world crafting and base-building game where you terraform a planet by scaling up a colony of autonomous robots. Provide shelter, gather resources, and manage your bots to keep work moving across the base. Create a new atmosphere and make the planet inhabitable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #7 Vilset
94% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Automation 22.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12%
- #8 Skyberry Garden
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Automation 26.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #9 Odd Realm
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,005 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Mining 18.5% ★, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #10 Space Architect
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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 27.4%, Automation 19.8%, Mining 14.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.7%
- #11 Hammerting
91% matchMixed57% of 2,585 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Mining 20.6% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 10.6%
- #12 Astro Colony
88% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27.4%, Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #13 Captain of Industry
89% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 33.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Economy 12.8%, Mining 10.1% ★
- #14 Paystreak
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northwright Games
Windows
A gold mining tycoon built on real operations. Clear overburden, Dig, haul, wash, and pan your way from hand tools to a living operation. Manage wages, fuel, repairs, landlord cuts, and loans, time your sales to a living gold market, and survive season after season.
Why similar: Mining 33.8% ★, Automation 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Economy 14.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #15 Reclaim Earth
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 8.5%
- #16 Dinky Guardians
86% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Automation 26.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #17 Manufactur’ inc.
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 21%, Mining 19.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%
- #18 Hard landing: Arrival
86% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Sergey JakovlevPub: TAC Games
Windows
An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Automation 23.3%, Survival 13%, Economy 9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #19 Industronaut
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Mining 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #20 Polylithic
83% matchMixed68% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12%
- #21 AstroPuffs
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gareth Greyson
Windows
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Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Diplomacy 14% ★, Survival 11.4%, Economy 10.1%
- #22 Death By FrostByte
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Mining 22.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11%, Automation 9.3%
- #23 Kastle Kraft
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite and Unbound Studios
Windows
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Mining 25.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Economy 11.9%
- #24 Illuminaria
82% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 11.4%
- #25 World Turned Stone: Apocalypse
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.5%
- #26 The Gears: Factory
80% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 23.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 8.8%
- #27 Robot Beekeeper
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anxious Echidnas
Windows · Linux
A sci-fi game where you help restore collapsed ecosystems on an alien planet. Raise and breed bees, grow native plants from bee produce and automate production as you stabilise the planet's ecosystems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Automation 25.9%, Creature Collector 16.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #28 World Turned Stone
78% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 11.7%
- #29 Underground Nomads
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #30 Gridmax
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Automation 25.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #31 Cosmic Castaway
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.6%, Automation 10.4%
- #32 Embark
79% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 52.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 10%, Crafting 10%, Strategy 7.7%
- #33 Civilio
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Aranyhal Studio
Windows
The Civiliuses dropped into unknown, but familiar planet have to rebuild infrastructure from the ground up. Build, fight, craft and explore your area, in a race against your foes or other Civiliuses to become powerfull. Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #34 Wall World Strategy
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Mining 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12%, Survival 11.1%
- #35 Colony Survival
77% matchVery Positive92% of 8,892 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 43.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 8%
- #36 EvoCell BioClicker
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: furiousDevPhoenix
Windows
Evo-Cell is the next level of an organic cell automaton simulator, inspired by the classic 'Game of Life' by Conway. Embark on an incremental ‘Idle’ adventure where the goal is to colonize and evolve a new species.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Automation 20.7%, Mining 19.5% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Economy 10%
- #37 Virum:Colony
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Economy 12.9%, Survival 9.7%, Automation 9.3%
- #38 Dig a Little Deeper
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Mining 20.8% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #39 HavenCraft
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, Automation 24.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Economy 7.7%
- #40 Hydroneer
74% matchVery Positive86% of 28,029 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 30.2% ★, Automation 26.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 7.4%
- #41 Dystopians
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Automation 13.6%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #42 Steam & Stones
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 21.8%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 9.2%
- #43 Cobalt Miner
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Automation 25.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #44 Nymar Arisen
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Roger Pellicano
Windows
Nymar Arisen is a survival/automation game where you take command of a race of antmen. They can mine for you, build for you, and even fight for you. But beware, for demons will do whatever they can to destroy everything you've built. You must fight them off before they destroy the world again.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 15.8%, First-Person 13.5%, Casual 9.2%
- #45 Tribe: Primitive Builder
71% matchVery Positive81% of 787 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 23%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #46 Idyll
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdyllWorks
Windows
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 46.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #47 The Colonists
72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,228 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30%, Automation 23.6%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.5%
- #48 Ecliptica
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QuasarApp Group
Windows · Linux
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Automation 19.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%
- #49 Rise Under the Warstorm
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #50 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 9,070 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 23.4%, Mining 20.1% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.2%
- #51 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Automation 25.2%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #52 Microtopia: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 29.1%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #53 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
69% matchMixed69% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.3%
- #54 EarthX 2
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
Windows · Mac
Grow your rocket startup from a humble launchpad to sprawling colonies on Mars and beyond! Secure government contracts, launch massive satellite constellations, build space stations, terraform Mars with nuclear blasts, and mine vital resources to fuel your expansion!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Mining 23.8% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #55 Planet Gemini
66% matchPositive88% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Mining 24.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.2%
- #56 Truck City
66% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Economy 10.9%
- #57 Scavenger T.O.M
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.5%, Creature Collector 9.2%
- #58 LithoBreak
70% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is a survival factory-builder grounded in real physics and engineering. Build and automate a lunar colony, explore in first-person, and survive constant orbital threats – all while you Play with Science
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Mining 22.1% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13%, Survival 9.1%
- #59 Kingdom Workshop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 19.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 14.4%
- #60 Red Dust Colony
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
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 44.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Survival 13.8%, Automation 12.7%, Crafting 6.1%