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Games Like Earth Space Colonies

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Space, Sci-fi.

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Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.

Reviews: Mixed — 50% — of 167 reviews
Released: 2016-07-01
Developer: Persona and Pixel studio
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 3.6 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 96%

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    97% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: City Builder 45.6%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Space 12.3%, Survival 6.5%

  2. #2 Mercury Fallen
    96% 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: Space 31.4%, Survival 28.9%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 18.3%

  3. #3 Planetbase
    96% 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: City Builder 37.2%, Space 23.7%, Survival 16%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 8.1%

  4. #4 My Colony
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
    Dev: Ape Apps
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

    Why similar: City Builder 57%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 17.1%, Indie 6.8%

  5. #5 Sol 0: Mars Colonization
    94% matchMixed69% of 409 reviews2016
    Dev: Chondrite Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.

    Why similar: Space 32.5%, Strategy 30.8%, Simulation 27.3%, Indie 9.4%

  6. #6 Reshaping Mars
    93% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
    Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

    Why similar: Space 29%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 22.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Indie 4.3%

  7. #7 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
    Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
    Windows

    Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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: City Builder 34.3%, Simulation 28.8%, Strategy 25.3%, Space 11.6%

  8. #8 Terraformers
    90% matchVery Positive88% of 3,606 reviews2023
    Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

    Why similar: Space 37.7%, Survival 32.4%, Simulation 29.9%

  9. #9 Planet S
    89% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 reviews2023
    Dev: Glimmerlight Games
    Windows · Linux

    Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.

    Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Space 29.2%, Strategy 19%, Indie 4.8%, Simulation 4.7%

  10. #10 Per Aspera
    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
    Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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: City Builder 33.6%, Space 21%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 14.5%

  11. #11 Mars Colony:Challenger
    91% matchMixed65% of 119 reviews2014
    Dev: HyperKat Games
    Windows

    Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars. At its core, the game was derived from a simulator where everything is interactively tied together.

    Why similar: Simulation 45.7%, Space 36.1%, Indie 9.4%, Survival 8.8%

  12. #12 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    87% 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: City Builder 36%, Space 19.3%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 14.5%

  13. #13 Solargene
    85% 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: City Builder 46.7%, Space 26%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 10.5%

  14. #14 Colony On Mars
    88% matchMostly Negative25% of 55 reviews2018
    Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    You play as an astronaut in a colony on Mars and you need to upgrade your colony, build new constructions and collect resources

    Why similar: Simulation 41.8%, Strategy 40.6%, Indie 17.6%

  15. #15 EarthX
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 905 reviews2023
    Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

    Why similar: Space 40%, Simulation 26.2%, Strategy 24.4%, Indie 9.4%

  16. #16 Unclaimed World
    86% matchMixed50% of 216 reviews2016
    Dev: Refactored Games OÜ
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

    Why similar: Simulation 39%, Strategy 34.5%, Survival 15.5%, Indie 11%

  17. #17 Poly Universe
    84% matchVery Positive87% of 124 reviews2018
    Dev: Pouchmouse
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.

    Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Strategy 42.5%, Indie 14.9%

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    82% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
    Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

    Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Space 24.4%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 12.9%

  19. #19 PeriAreion
    86% matchMostly Negative40% of 63 reviews2015
    Dev: Explorasaurus Studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Prepare for the ultimate test of survival! Do you have the skill necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!

    Why similar: Simulation 36.5%, Strategy 36.2%, Indie 13.7%, Space 13.6%

  20. #20 Surviving Ceres
    80% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

    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: Survival 42.1%, Simulation 37.1%, Strategy 20.8%

  21. #21 Trappist
    81% 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.

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  22. #22 Starport Delta
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 75 reviews2020
    Dev: Cloudfire Studios
    Windows

    Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

    Why similar: Simulation 26.8%, Strategy 26.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Space 16.6%, Indie 9.9%

  23. #23 Space Company Simulator
    83% matchMostly Negative28% of 178 reviews2019
    Dev: IntermarumPub: All in! Games
    Windows

    Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.

    Why similar: Space 32.2%, Simulation 28.9%, Strategy 28.1%, City Builder 9.3%, Indie 1.6%

  24. #24 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
    79% matchMixed52% of 1,856 reviews2025
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

    Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Space 24.1%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 18.3%

  25. #25 Occupy Mars: The Game
    77% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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: Space 38.6%, Survival 28.8%, Simulation 24.3%, Indie 8.4%

  26. #26 Maia
    81% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    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: Survival 24.2%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 22.9%, Space 21.8%, Indie 7.5%

  27. #27 Astro Colony
    77% 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: Space 45.2%, Simulation 24.9%, Strategy 22.4%, Indie 7.5%

  28. #28 Mars Horizon
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 3,058 reviews2020
    Dev: Auroch Digital
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    Why similar: Space 48.2%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 23.4%

  29. #29 Exogate Initiative
    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
    Dev: Xeno Bits
    Windows

    Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

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  30. #30 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 696 reviews2021
    Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%

    Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

    Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Strategy 27.5%, Simulation 27.5%

  31. #31 Habitat
    79% matchMostly Negative40% of 261 reviews2016
    Dev: 4gencyPub: Versus Evil
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.

    Why similar: Space 36.4%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 21.2%, Survival 11.3%, Indie 8%

  32. #32 Plan B: Terraform
    72% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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: Simulation 51.1%, Strategy 35.6%, Indie 13.2%

  33. #33 Imagine Earth
    75% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
    Dev: Serious Bros.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

    Why similar: City Builder 70.1%, Strategy 29.9%

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    78% matchMixed46% of 78 reviews2015
    Dev: NuclearFirecracker
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6 minMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 32%

    Build and manage a space station in the outer reaches of space. The challenges will be many, oxygen will escape through every tiny hole in the hull, you'll contend with asteroid showers and nebulous alien blobs.

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  35. #35 Space Haven
    73% 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: City Builder 28.9%, Space 21.6%, Survival 17.7%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 13.7%

  36. #36 The Universim
    71% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
    Dev: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

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  37. #37 Eden Crafters
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    Why similar: Space 42.3%, Survival 37.2%, Strategy 20.5%

  38. #38 Epic Astro Story
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

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  39. #39 Industries of Titan
    72% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
    Dev: Brace Yourself Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: City Builder 41.5%, Space 23.3%, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 17.4%

  40. #40 Space Architect
    71% 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: Survival 25.5%, Space 23.6%, Strategy 21%, Simulation 20.2%, Indie 9.7%

  41. #41 Tempest Citadel
    74% matchMostly Positive74% of 61 reviews2018
    Dev: Aartform Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

    Why similar: Strategy 42.7%, Simulation 41.8%, Indie 15.4%

  42. #42 SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD
    70% matchVery Positive82% of 68 reviews2025
    Dev: Logix Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Lead mankind's exploration into outer space! Build bases on the Moon and Mars, survey the rings of Saturn, and send generational Colony ships to Alpha Centauri, all in one sitting! SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is a fast-playing, single-player, turn-based, sci-fi strategy game.

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  43. #43 Galactic Inheritors
    75% matchMixed44% of 86 reviews2015
    Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.

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  44. #44 Space Colony: Steam Edition
    73% 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.

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  45. #45 Into the Stars
    74% matchMixed41% of 537 reviews2016
    Dev: Fugitive GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

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  46. #46 The Final Earth 2
    68% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
    Dev: Florian van Strien
    Windows

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  47. #47 Moons of Ardan
    68% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
    Dev: Pandora Technology
    Windows

    Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.

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    69% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
    Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
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  49. #49 Space Engineers 2
    65% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

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    67% matchMixed63% of 114 reviews2025
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  51. #51 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    71% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
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    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
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    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

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    69% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
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    Windows

    Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

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    69% matchMixed57% of 941 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    65% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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?

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  56. #56 Starship Corporation
    70% matchMixed42% of 555 reviews2018
    Dev: Coronado GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
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  57. #57 Dyson Sphere Program
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
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    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Space 41.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Indie 1.8%

  58. #58 Planetary Life
    61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
    Dev: Sotenbox
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

    Why similar: Simulation 55.3%, Space 44.7%

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