
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…
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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…

Astro Colony
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.

Stationeers
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!
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 25% ★, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Space 9.1%, Crafting 7.7%
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 26.6% ★, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Space 8.4%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 29.2%, Crafting 14%, Strategy 6.8%, Destruction 6.2%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Voxel 22.5% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13%, Strategy 5.1%
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 38.5%, Base Building 24.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Resource Management 7.2%, Strategy 5.3%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Base Building 23.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 5.7%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Automation 25.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Space 10%, Resource Management 4.7%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Space 12.4%, Strategy 4.9%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 41%, Base Building 26.9%, Space 15.2%, Resource Management 5.6%, Sandbox 3.8%
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 40.2% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Space 11.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 5.5%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Space 11%, Strategy 5.7%
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 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 4%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Automation 24%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.5%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 19.3%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Space 7.6%
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 45.1% ★, Base Building 23.7%, Space 12.7%, Strategy 6%, Resource Management 3.2%
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 45.9% ★, Base Building 22.7%, Voxel 8.8% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Strategy 4.7%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 5%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 38%, Base Building 29%, Crafting 15.7%, Resource Management 5.2%, Sandbox 4%
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 31% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Space 6.6%, Strategy 5.1%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 20%, Space 11.5%, Strategy 6.2%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 5.4%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 33%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Space 9.5%, Resource Management 5.7%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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 30.5% ★, Automation 25.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 4.8%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Space 22.2%, Crafting 20.3%, Destruction 16.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Base Building 27%, Strategy 8.1%, Resource Management 6.2%, Sandbox 6%
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Voxel 13.1% ★, Space 6.3%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Voxel 20.9% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 4%
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 33.6% ★, Voxel 22.2% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%
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 33.9% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Automation 17.6%, Space 8.3%, Strategy 5.4%
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 49.3% ★, Base Building 27.4%, Resource Management 5.7%, Space 5.2%, Survival 3.3%
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 37.8% ★, Automation 25%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 5%, Simulation 4.4%
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 31.6% ★, Automation 24.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Strategy 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 29% ★, Automation 28%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 5.2%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Space 11.7%, Resource Management 6.2%
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 51.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Space 8.9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 5.2%
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 28.9% ★, Automation 24.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Space 8.4%, Strategy 5.2%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Automation 21.9%, Voxel 16.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Base Building 24.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 7.2%
Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.
Why similar: Space 47.4%, Physics 15.3%, Automation 11.7%, Top-Down 11.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 73.3% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 4.5%, Survival 4.5%, Sandbox 3.7%
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 44.5% ★, Base Building 25.5%, Space 10.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Strategy 5.8%
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Voxel 21% ★, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 4.2%
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: Automation 41.7%, Base Building 26.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 6.3%, Sandbox 4.3%
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 53.1% ★, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 3.6%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 42%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15%, Strategy 6.7%, Sandbox 5.6%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.1% ★, Base Building 24%, Strategy 9.7%, Space 8.2%, Sandbox 4.2%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Simulation 4.5%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 26.5%, Crafting 17.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 7.2%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Voxel 16.4% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 5.3%
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 42%, Base Building 27.7%, Space 12.8%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 5.4%
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: Colony Sim 48.9% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Survival 4.5%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7% ★, Base Building 23%, Crafting 19.1%, Simulation 5.6%, Strategy 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: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 6.5%
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 23.6%, Voxel 19.3% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 5.2%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Voxel 23.9% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 5.4%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Sandbox 5.1%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Space 18.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Resource Management 7%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Strategy 8.5%, Space 6.9%, Simulation 4.5%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 25.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 5.8%
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 15.7%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 4.7%