Games Like EarthX

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 Sim 22.9% ★, Education 16%, Space 15.6%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep management simulation where you lead a space agency from the dawn of the space age to landing on Mars.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Space 29.7%, Space Sim 29.1% ★, Building 12.9%, Education 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive rocket-building simulation that captures the physics and engineering challenges central to the EarthX experience.

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 31% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Space 17.6%, Management 6.7%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-building game focuses on the logistical challenges of keeping a space base operational in harsh extraterrestrial environments.

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 Sim 22% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Space 15.5%, Building 13.8%, Management 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It places you in the role of a space agency director managing the development and launch of various rocket systems.

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 22.5% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Space Sim 16.7% ★, Space 16.6%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space exploration with automation and base-building mechanics to create a self-sustaining interstellar civilization.

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.2% ★, Space 15%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Management 12.8%, Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the technical and management aspects of constructing and maintaining a functional space station.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Space 14.3%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This economic strategy game focuses on the cutthroat business of resource management and competition on Mars.

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: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.9%, Immersive Sim 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A planetary management game that challenges you to balance industrial growth with environmental sustainability on a global scale.

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 34.4%, Management 28.8%, Simulation 18.2%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game centered on the long-term goal of terraforming Mars through resource management and exploration.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Management 15.5%, Space 14.7%, Building 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: You play as an AI tasked with terraforming the entire planet of Mars, blending grand-scale strategy with resource management.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Management 13.8%, Building 12.7%, Space 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a secret facility and the logistics of sending teams through an interdimensional gate.

「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: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 11.6%, Space 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-management game that emphasizes the growth and development of a Martian settlement through strategic planning.

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 21.9% ★, Space Sim 18.2% ★, Space 13.4%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing colony-builder that focuses on building and managing a space-based civilization on floating islands.

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 17%, Management 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Minimalist 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistics of transporting resources and terraforming a planet to make it habitable for humans.

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 20.5% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Space 12.3%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the management of a space-faring crew and the construction of modular ships, similar to the station-building aspects of EarthX.

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Space Sim 19% ★, Space 14.4%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a management-heavy experience centered on building and operating a profitable space station.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Space 14.3%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation where you control a space station, focusing on the needs of the inhabitants and the station's infrastructure.

Satellite Command is a realistic, relaxing astrophysics simulator. Complete contracts with real data, launch and take control of ever more powerful Satellites, research advanced technology and build your Space Agency!

Why similar: Space Sim 22.1% ★, Education 15.7%, Space 14.7%, Management 10.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and deployment of satellite constellations, a key feature found in EarthX.

Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

Why similar: Space 36.7%, Management 22.1%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 18.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A historical simulation that allows you to manage a space agency during the golden age of space exploration.

Tiny Space Academy is a 2D space sim where you can grow your own space agency and explore our solar system with rockets you design! Learn basic orbital mechanics, run science experiments, and get your astronauts back to Earth safely.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.4% ★, Space 20.9%, Education 16%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, physics-based rocket simulation that captures the spirit of space exploration in a more accessible format.

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Why similar: Space 16.8%, Management 15.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.2%, Space Sim 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A management and simulation game that tasks you with building and running a space station while dealing with various alien visitors.

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 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Management 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Space 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the design and construction of space-based structures, emphasizing the architectural side of space management.

Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!

Why similar: Space Sim 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Building 11.2%, Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the business and exploration aspects of developing space real estate.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Space Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Management 11.2%, Space 10.8%

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 29.8%, Base Building 27.7%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 16.7%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on the initial stages of establishing a sustainable base on Mars.

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.

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

Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival mechanics with base-building to challenge your ability to manage resources in space.

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Space Sim 15.9% ★, Space 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that focuses on keeping your crew alive and your station functional in a dangerous galaxy.

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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Space 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-simulation game that focuses on strategic base-building and resource management in space.

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 24.2% ★, Space Sim 16.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Space 12%, Building 11.9%

Operate the Starship space launch system and learn how to catch a rocket to understand what it takes to colonize Mars in this ever-evolving simulation of SpaceX Starbase Texas.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.3% ★, Education 16.4%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Space 12.9%, Simulation 11.6%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Management 13.7%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-simulation game that emphasizes the technical and survival challenges of building a base on a hostile planet.

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.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Space 15.8%, Education 15.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.5%

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: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Space Sim 25.8% ★, Management 13.1%, Family Friendly 9.3%, Strategy 8.8%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space Sim 25.1% ★, Space 22.6%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.9%, Immersive Sim 9.2%

Space Station Manager is an exciting game where you own a space company, your main goal is to build a space station, make profit, grow your business, build an economical network, and expand beyond the solar system.

Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Space 19.2%, Management 15.8%, Building 15.4%, Indie 12.3%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Space 11%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.9%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Building 16.4%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 9.1%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Space Sim 20.3% ★, Space 17.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 14.5%, Management 12.9%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Space 22.6%, Base Building 22%, Building 15%, Space Sim 13.7% ★, Management 12.4%

As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.3% ★, Education 18.4%, Space 16.4%, Minimalist 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.9%

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: Space Sim 22% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Space 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%

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: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Space 16.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.6%, Management 13.4%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Space 20.6%, Building 18%, Management 15.3%, Cute 5.4%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Space 17.1%, Building 14.8%, Family Friendly 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%

PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Building 13%, Space 11.1%, Strategy 8.9%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Space 23.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12%, Strategy 8.3%

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: Base Building 54%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 8.8%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Space 18.6%, Building 16.4%, Management 16.2%

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Management 46.7%, Simulation 19%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Indie 3.5%

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 26% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Space 17.8%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.9%

Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Simulation 13.9%, Space 9.8%, Family Friendly 7%

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: Base Building 29.1%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Management 16.9%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Management 16.4%, Education 14.5%, Space 11.5%, Simulation 9.5%

A sci-fi simulation game, in which players must design, assemble and test spaceships, in a bid to build a supreme Galactic Mega-Corporation. Gain your reputation by engineering and selling your own spacecraft, testing them to the limit in RTS missions and simulated emergency and combat situations.

Why similar: Management 30.1%, Space 23.9%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Indie 7%

Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.1%, Space 10.8%

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 23.2% ★, Space 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.1%

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: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Space 14.5%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 11%

The time has finally come when we can enjoy a new stage in human development!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 15.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.1%