
Find yourself in an endless open world and journey from the Stone Age to quantum immortality. Advance technologies, build cities and rockets, manage a dynasty, and conquer space in a massive Sci-Fi sandbox with total freedom of action!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Building, Simulation, Colony Sim.

Find yourself in an endless open world and journey from the Stone Age to quantum immortality. Advance technologies, build cities and rockets, manage a dynasty, and conquer space in a massive Sci-Fi sandbox with total freedom of action!

Mars Colony Builder
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!

Mountania
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 11.1%, Moddable 10.9%, City Builder 9.6%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 12.9%
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 20%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 8.9%
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 13.8%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 16.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%
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 21%, City Builder 16.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%
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: Colony Sim 20%, Space Sim 13.8%, Moddable 12.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Moddable 10.9%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Building 13.3%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 21.1%, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 10%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 11.3%, Moddable 10.6%, Sandbox 10%
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 9.5%
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 18.5%, Space Sim 13.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.5%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 6.9%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Space Sim 18.7%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.4%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Moddable 10.9%
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.3%
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 33.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Lead an expedition into an unexplored solar system. Build rockets, aircraft, and other vehicles, discover new worlds, gather resources, complete missions, unlock technology, and grow a colony of tiny purple Klorps in this spaceflight sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 16%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%
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 22.6%, Space Sim 14.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 10.3%
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: Sandbox 13.2%, Building 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Space Sim 11.1%
Build, design, and explore your own fantasy world using over 1000+ items, in this relaxing sandbox game. No missions, no objectives, no timers. Just stress-free building, exploration, and good vibes.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Farming Sim 23.5%, Building 16.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Simulation 10.2%
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 20.6%, Sandbox 16.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 15.4%, Space Sim 11.5%
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 10.4%
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
Why similar: Space Sim 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 11.4%, Building 11.3%
A vast 6 handred-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Why similar: Building 18.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Space Sim 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, Simulation 10.9%
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 13%, Building 12.1%, Farming Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 18%, Sandbox 14.3%, Farming Sim 13.6%, Building 11.5%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 20%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.2%
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 19.9%, Space Sim 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%
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 19.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12.2%, Moddable 11.2%
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: Colony Sim 20.1%, Space Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Farming Sim 18.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 13.9%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Moddable 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.6%
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: Colony Sim 19.2%, Space Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 7.9%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Sandbox 22.4%, Simulation 19.1%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 7.8%
Build and Destroy with satisfying digging and building mechanics in this openworld physics constuction simulator, borrow cash to buy bigger more powerfull machines and Build more! Freely construct your yard and the world around to build a town from nothing.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Farming Sim 20.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Building 11.9%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space Sim 16.1%, Moddable 14.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.6%, Open World 11.3%
Build In Space is a relaxing tycoon game where you can grow crops, build your base, and raise animals.
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Farming Sim 13.4%, Space Sim 13.1%, Building 12.5%
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 19.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12%, Moddable 11.8%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.4%, Building 22.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Space Sim 10%
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 19.2%, Space Sim 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Moddable 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%
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 28%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 8.2%, Building 7.4%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%
‘Runai’ is a cute pixel art sandbox game for casual players. Team up with various animal companions to build a village and explore unknown planets.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Farming Sim 15.8%, Moddable 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%
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: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Space Sim 15.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 12.6%
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Building 16.9%, Simulation 16.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Sandbox 12.5%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Moddable 14.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 16.3%, Moddable 10.6%
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 33.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 9.8%
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: Colony Sim 28.7%, Space Sim 21.5%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%
Explore the pixel cosmos, jumping from star system to star system. Land on fully procedural planets, and make them your home.
Why similar: Sandbox 19%, Space Sim 17.8%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 10%
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 29.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, City Builder 10.9%, Open World 10.5%
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 18.1%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Sandbox 15%, Building 10.7%
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Building 21%, City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Space Sim 9.9%
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.4%, Space Sim 15.8%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 10.2%
Project Starbound is a single-player space exploration game built in Unreal Engine 5. After a habitable moon is discovered, players explore the solar system, take on missions, build bases, and navigate faction conflicts in a story-driven, low-poly universe.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 13%, Building 12.6%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, Moddable 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 12.2%