- #1 Generation Ship
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scifan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Space Sim 21.2% ★, Resource Management 7.9%, Flight 6.5%
- #2 PoliPlanet
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.9% ★, Automation 12.5%, Colony Sim 10.9% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #3 Venusville - Prologue
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Flight 12.8%, Exploration 4.3%
- #4 Space Haven
95% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Space Sim 23% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8%
- #5 Terraspace
94% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Black Apple
Windows
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Adventure 5.5%
- #6 Starship Colony
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Space Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%
- #7 Launch Window
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gumptiongames
Windows
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using Newtonian orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Flight 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Automation 10%
- #8 Trappist
92% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Space Sim 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Automation 8.5%
- #9 Hexfactory
91% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Automation 9.1%, Building 4.6%
- #10 Exostation
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 4.8%
- #11 Solargene
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 8%
- #12 Resort Galactica
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 20%, Space Sim 19.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 9.5%
- #13 Facteroids
89% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
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: City Builder 17.8%, Space Sim 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #14 KOV
88% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: FriyingPan
Windows
¿Podrás encontrar la manera de alimentar a los planetas vivientes y evitar su destrucción inminente? Enfréntate a los furtivos, sortea la vigilancia de la policía y desata el potencial de tu nave mientras te sumerges en una narrativa épica y te llevará más allá de las fronteras de lo conocido.
Why similar: Space Sim 49.8% ★, Flight 21%, Adventure 14.1%, Exploration 7.4%, Colorful 3.8%
- #15 Wreckborn
86% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6% ★, Flight 15.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 7.8%
- #16 The Spatials: Galactology
87% matchMixed69% of 258 reviews2018
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Space Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #17 Astro Colony
86% 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 21.9% ★, Space Sim 20.3% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #18 Red Frontier
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DW
Windows
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.9% ★, Colony Sim 26% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Inventory Management 5.3%
- #19 Possible One: Lunar Industries
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 6.9%, Base Building 6%
- #20 Cosmic colonists
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chewy bytes studio
Windows
Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.6% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Colony Sim 8.4% ★, Base Building 5%
- #21 Gnome Glen
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 23%, Sandbox 11.4%, Inventory Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #22 Order: The New Dawn
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Space Sim 34% ★, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #23 Spaceflight Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #24 Cat Island
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple X Studios
Windows
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Inventory Management 8.4%
- #25 Arcbound
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3% ★, Colony Sim 33% ★, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 7.5%, Building 6.5%
- #26 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22.6% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Space Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #27 AstroCore Mining
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gamegine
Windows
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Space Sim 33.4% ★, Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 5.2%, Exploration 5.1%
- #28 Planetbase
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.7% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Space Sim 8.6% ★, Resource Management 5.1%
- #29 Starfall Protocol
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Space Sim 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 6.1%
- #30 Space Colony: Steam Edition
79% matchVery Positive80% of 657 reviews2015
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 7.5%
- #31 Drill Core
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 26.2% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Roguelike 12.9%, Roguelite 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #32 Kingdoms and Castles
77% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 6.3%, Base Building 5.8%
- #33 The Final Earth 2
76% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
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: Space Sim 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 8.3%
- #34 LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cubic PiePub: Cubic Pie Live
Windows
LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! - A space roguelite game about adventures, loyal crews and a multitude of amazing stories in the depths of the galaxy. Sources of inspiration for this game: The sense of freedom and adventure from Pirates! by Sid Meier, crazy stories from Rimworld...
Why similar: Space Sim 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Flight 13.7%, Roguelike 12.2%, Roguelite 7.2%
- #35 Rise - The Vieneo Province
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Unistellar Industries, LLC
Windows
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Why similar: Space Sim 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Flight 14.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #36 Roving Rovers - Australian Rover Challenge 2025
73% match3 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Mini Mammoth Games
Windows
Ensure the moon is safe for man's inevitable lunar habitat. Drive and interact as a Lunar Rover with crashed ships, the natural resources and explore the nearby landscape to determine the suitability!
Why similar: Space Sim 41.9% ★, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Exploration 5.1%, Building 4.6%
- #37 Comet Tycoon
73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Space Sim 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.9%
- #38 Tidal Expanse
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.7% ★, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 4.8%, Base Building 4%
- #39 Citizens: On Mars
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! 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: Space Sim 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 8%
- #40 Ship Regulus
73% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: cuidong
Windows
In the first year of the ephemeris, the warp engine was invented. Due to the initial engine being too large, it was installed on the space city Regulus. During engine testing, the jump signal attracted an alien fleet, and the Ship Regulus embarked on a flight path.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 25%, Roguelike 12.7%, Adventure 7%, Roguelite 6.9%
- #41 ROVA
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FreeRangeDevs
Windows
ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about discovery and exploration.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Sandbox 15%, Exploration 6.4%, Third Person 5.7%
- #42 Astrometica: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.1% ★, Automation 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Inventory Management 9.4%, Resource Management 8%
- #43 Beyond These Stars
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #44 Far Sector
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metal cast
Windows
All that matters is that you're a spaceship captain. Your objective is to explore the far sector. Build, develop, and research. Get to the bottom of the targets of your mission and find out the truth of what happened before it.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Roguelike 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 7%
- #45 Scraponauts
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AriaMakesGames
Windows
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.3% ★, Flight 17.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 7.6%, Adventure 6.4%
- #46 Founders' Fortune
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, City Builder 26%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 6.4%
- #47 Offshore Prophets
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Roguelite 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Roguelike 9.7%
- #48 Settletopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #49 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: City Builder 39.8%, Colony Sim 38.1% ★, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 4.8%, Sandbox 4.2%
- #50 Architect of Ruin
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Automation 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%
- #51 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 25.1% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Automation 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #52 Colonization Simulator
68% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #53 Cannon Island
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: PlayDuck
Windows
Cannon Island is a roguelike city builder, where you colonize procedurally generated islands and fight rivals. Wise building placement and resource management are the key to victory.
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Roguelike 13.4%, Base Building 11%
- #54 Galactic Pioneers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Item Games
Windows
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Building 6%, Exploration 4.3%
- #55 Planet Miner
69% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.1% ★, Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Adventure 13.1%, Third Person 5.4%, Exploration 5.4%
- #56 IMPACT
67% matchMixed56% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: Hochschule Darmstadt
Windows
IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.6% ★, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Exploration 5.5%
- #57 Venusville
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Flight 8.9%, Resource Management 8.2%