- #1 Odd Realm
97% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 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 19.7%, Mining 16.7% ★, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #2 Starward Era
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 29.8% ★, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Underground 7.5% ★, Resource Management 7%
- #3 Deepworks
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EZDev Games
Windows · Linux
Earth is gone. The fleet is hungry. Drop a Hub on a generated claim, find the seam, and let the robots dig. Every machine you build makes noise — and noise is how the machines that took the planet find you. Hold the line, launch with the take, sell it, and go deeper.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Underground 8.2% ★
- #4 Hammerting
96% matchMixed57% of 2,605 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: Mining 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 8.5%
- #5 Cobalt Miner
94% matchMixed44% of 27 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 26.3% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #6 Food Industry
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Automation 15.3%, Agriculture 14.1% ★, Trading 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #7 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Mining 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 26%, Underground 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Exploration 3.8%
- #8 Factor Y
92% 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 24.4% ★, Automation 18.1%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #9 Mountainhall
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Deepmountain Studios
Windows · Linux
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, Automation 11.3%, Underground 11.2% ★, Trading 10.4%
- #10 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 25.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Economy 10.3%
- #11 Colony
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Games
Windows · Mac
Craft, defend, and conquer in Colony! Solo or with friends. Engage in battles against rival colonies, harness automation for efficient production, explore new islands with new resources, and master the art of survival. Don't wait, your colony needs you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Mining 21.4% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #12 Manufactur’ inc.
89% 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: Mining 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Agriculture 10.9% ★
- #13 Scraplings
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Mining 10.3% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.3%
- #14 Dungeon D14
90% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Mining 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #15 Underground Nomads
87% matchNo user reviews2026
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 30.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Automation 12.1%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #16 CircuitVeil
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%
- #17 Necromancer's Workshop
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 15%, Base Building 12.7%, Shop Keeper 12.1% ★, Economy 8.5%
- #18 Drug Dealer 2049
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nextazio Games
Windows
Drug Dealer 2049 is about building a fully automated factory that produces ever purer drugs, in a 2D world. Design your lab, cross simple plants into new strains or cook synthetic drugs, and protect yourself from every threat.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Agriculture 12.7% ★, Trading 12.4%, Shop Keeper 11.2% ★, Base Building 11%
- #19 Vilset
86% 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 27%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #20 Oreia
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CRT Glow Studios
Windows
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 28.1% ★, Automation 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #21 Truck City
82% matchPositive84% of 25 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: Mining 16.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #22 Survival Vacancy
85% 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 22.9%, Automation 15.3%, Mining 15% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #23 Veinfall
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 28.8% ★, Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #24 SeaColony
79% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #25 Malignus
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Mining 12.2% ★, Underground 9.1% ★, Simulation 7.1%
- #26 Space Architect
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 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 22%, Automation 15.7%, Mining 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 8%
- #27 Death By FrostByte
83% 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: Mining 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Underground 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #28 Deep Space Outpost
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2026
Dev: Niris Games
Windows · Linux
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Mining 19.2% ★, Trading 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 8.8%
- #29 Fill the Sky
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 7%
- #30 Dig a Little Deeper
78% 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 24.6%, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #31 Benders In Space
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: mendlogamesPub: (mendlogames)
Windows
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Mining 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Automation 13.9%, Trading 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%
- #32 Industronaut
75% 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: Mining 23.9% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #33 My Drug Cartel
76% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Automation 16.1%, Agriculture 13.8% ★, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #34 Deepvein
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Belowglow Studio
Windows
Descend into a persistent mine, extract valuable ores and rare discoveries, manage your tools and cargo, then return to smelt, craft, complete contracts, and expand your operation in this combat-free mining game.
Why similar: Mining 35.5% ★, Underground 12.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 7%
- #35 Rustbound
73% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Wylde Wisp Games
Windows
Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Shop Keeper 14% ★, Crafting 14%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 9.3%
- #36 Skyberry Garden
74% 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 31.4%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #37 MineMogul
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Mining 25.2% ★, Automation 21%, Underground 12.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9%
- #38 Astrocraft
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flowcraft GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Open your own shop on a space station: stock the shelves, serve space travelers, and grow from a lone miner into a space tycoon. Mine asteroids, craft goods in your machines, hire a crew of robots, found outposts, and take to the stars in your own ship, solo or in co-op for up to four players.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 21% ★, Mining 18.5% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 8.1%
- #39 Flow Factory
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Mining 22.3% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #40 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 6.8%
- #41 Automation Empire
77% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Mining 13.3% ★, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #42 Planet Gemini
71% matchPositive90% of 19 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: Mining 23% ★, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #43 INCREMINER
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AlbertFreeman
Windows
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Why similar: Mining 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 14.6%, Underground 10.9% ★, Resource Management 8.5%
- #44 Idlings
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Automation 17.9%, Underground 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #45 Illuminaria
73% 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 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #46 AFTERMATH: Bunker Trader
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Daxin
Windows
A simulation game where your bunker becomes the safe space survivors need. Trade and craft items - organize them in storage. Scavenge the surface yourself and hire personnel to send on expeditions. Become the ultimate trading hub in this post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Underground 18.3% ★, Shop Keeper 18.2% ★, Trading 15.4%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 7.9%
- #47 Bouncekraft
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 33.2% ★, Base Building 18%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #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 20.8%, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Trading 10.2%, Economy 9.9%
- #49 GUILDMAKER
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LEONAN
Windows
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Shop Keeper 12.9% ★, Automation 8.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #50 Motile Works
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Mining 15.1% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%
- #51 Factoriant
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #52 Calmaria: Wild Growth
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ryzo Harbor
Windows
Build and automate your settlement in this island survival game, play solo or with friends, but it’s better with friends! Start by tilling the soil and planting your first crops, delegate tasks to your settlers. Sail to new islands, loot dungeons, and prepare your defenses for the next wave.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Agriculture 14.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #53 Neighbor Craft
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: FortL
Windows
Neighbor Craft is a survival card game where you build a civilization by placing cards next to one another. Decide what to place where, then gather resources, craft, fight, trade, and discover new cards as your civilization evolves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #54 Dig & Deal
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: ToYa Games
Windows
Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find. Upgrade your tools, grow your shop, and make the best deals to build your fortune.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Trading 16.8%, Underground 15.8% ★, Shop Keeper 14.4% ★, Economy 12.6%
- #55 Black Market INC.
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 13%, Automation 11.4%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 Hearthkeeper
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Prancing Death Studios
Windows
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Mining 24.5% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #57 Galaxy Scavengers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Automation 11.2%, Survival 10.5%
- #58 The Crust
63% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Automation 20%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7%
- #59 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Mining 19% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Automation 14.2%, Agriculture 12% ★, Base Building 10.6%