- #1 Factor Y
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 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 23% ★, Automation 22%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #2 Stellar Shipyard
96% 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 20.9% ★, Mining 18.6% ★, Automation 16%, Diplomacy 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #3 Dawn Apart
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 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% ★, Automation 26.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #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 26.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Mining 14.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.1%
- #5 Common'hood
94% matchMixed51% of 338 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 25.9% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Economy 10.3%
- #6 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 33.3% ★, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.8%
- #7 Hammerting
93% matchMixed57% of 2,576 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% ★, Mining 20.7% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 10.8%
- #8 Captain of Industry
92% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 32.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Economy 12.6%, Mining 10.1% ★
- #9 Space Architect
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 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 27.1% ★, Automation 20.2%, Mining 14.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #10 Manufactur’ inc.
91% 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: Automation 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Mining 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #11 Astro Colony
90% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 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 27.2% ★, Automation 25.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #12 Reclaim Earth
89% 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.6%, Automation 8.7%
- #13 Dinky Guardians
89% 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 30.2% ★, Automation 27.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #14 Underground Nomads
88% 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 39.7% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16.4%, Survival 12.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #15 Hard landing: Arrival
87% 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% ★, Automation 23.8%, Survival 12.8%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #16 Polylithic
86% matchMixed69% of 163 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 27.2% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.9%
- #17 Death By FrostByte
86% 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 27.1% ★, Mining 22.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Automation 9.5%
- #18 Kastle Kraft
84% 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 25.7% ★, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Economy 12%
- #19 Illuminaria
85% 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 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 11.3%
- #20 AstroPuffs
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Magic
Windows
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Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Economy 10.4%
- #21 World Turned Stone: Apocalypse
83% 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 27.4% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.4%
- #22 The Gears: Factory
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 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 25.9% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #23 Robot Beekeeper
82% 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 34.8% ★, Automation 26.5%, Creature Collector 16%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%
- #24 World Turned Stone
81% 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 27.5% ★, Automation 23.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.5%
- #25 Moose Miners
81% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Automation 18.4%, Economy 12%, Base Building 10.3%
- #26 Civilio
79% 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 26.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #27 Cosmic Castaway
78% 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 31.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Automation 10.7%
- #28 EvoCell BioClicker
78% 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 29.2% ★, Automation 21%, Mining 19.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 10.2%
- #29 Embark
80% matchMixed61% of 386 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 52.7% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #30 Colony Survival
79% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 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 43.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%
- #31 Hydroneer
77% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 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 30.5% ★, Automation 26.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #32 Dig a Little Deeper
76% 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 33.3% ★, Mining 21% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #33 Nymar Arisen
75% 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 36.9%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 15.6%, First-Person 13.4%, Casual 9.1%
- #34 Steam & Stones
76% 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 27.7% ★, Automation 22.2%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.4%
- #35 Dystopians
75% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 17%, Automation 14%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 8.7%
- #36 The Colonists
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.7% ★, Automation 24%, Economy 14%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.3%
- #37 Tribe: Primitive Builder
74% matchVery Positive81% of 760 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 25.9% ★, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #38 Ecliptica
73% 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 26.1% ★, Automation 20.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Economy 12%, Base Building 11.4%
- #39 Rise Under the Warstorm
73% matchNo user reviews
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 31.2%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #40 Pax Autocratica: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive80% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Multiverse
Windows
Free stand‑alone Prologue. Shape a grand colony where every life bends to your will. Feel the weight of absolute power as you decree laws, then march into chaos, leading squads in roguelite FPS battles from brutal skirmishes to large-scale battlefields. Play Sector One now & wishlist the full game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9% ★, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 14.5%, First-Person 4.9%
- #41 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
72% 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 33.9% ★, Automation 25.4%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 7.8%
- #42 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
73% matchMixed69% of 841 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 24.7% ★, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.2%
- #43 EarthX 2
72% 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 24.2% ★, Mining 24% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 5.6%
- #44 LithoBreak
74% match6 user reviews83% of 6 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 24.5%, Mining 22.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 9%
- #45 Deep Space Directive
71% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Automation 31%, Base Building 17.5%, Economy 12%, Strategy 6.8%
- #46 Truck City
70% 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 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Mining 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 11%
- #47 Microtopia: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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 28.9% ★, Automation 24%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 8.4%
- #48 Kingdom Workshop
70% 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 25.8% ★, Automation 19.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Economy 14.6%, Base Building 14.2%
- #49 Lumber Valley
69% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Dairycow22
Windows
Lumber Valley is a logging simulation game where you build and grow a logging business. Cut wood, process materials, and complete contracts to expand your operations. Unlock upgrades, automate production, and explore a quarry to uncover valuable resources while overcoming various challenges.
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Automation 30.3%, Crafting 16%, First-Person 10.5%, 3D 5.1%
- #50 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 23.2% ★, Mining 20.3% ★, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%
- #51 Scavenger T.O.M
69% 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.4%, Creature Collector 9.2%
- #52 Red Dust Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 13.5%, Automation 13.2%, Crafting 6.2%
- #53 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
67% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Strategy 10.1%
- #54 Factory Town 2: Paradise
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Economy 13.7%
- #55 FortressCraft : Phoenix
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DjArcasPub: ProjectorGames
Windows
The third iteration of the game that invented the Factory genre, FortressCraft :Phoenix takes the over-the-top base building and survival gameplay and cranks it up a hundred times. Build your mining base with hundreds of thousands of machines in it, explore alien landscape, heading deep underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Automation 16.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 9.2%, First-Person 7.7%
- #56 Terra Taker
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 12.2%
- #57 Earth Elements
69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Jack G
Windows
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Mining 29.3% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 7.9%
- #58 Hold The Roost
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 8.3%
- #59 Mercury Fallen
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Mining 21.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #60 StarRupture
64% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.8%