- #1 DeepWork
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CCS
Windows
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Mars 25.9% ★, Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Mining 9.2% ★
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 26.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 10.4% ★, Mining 8.9% ★
- #3 HAS Galactics
96% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
Why similar: Mars 22.1% ★, Automation 19.3%, Space Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #4 Plan B: Terraform
95% 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: Transportation 16.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Mars 16.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 8.7%
- #5 Bouncekraft
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jordan Davis Graphics Adapter
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 28.2% ★, Space Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #6 Too Far Too Late
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fly Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Mars 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Mining 15.9% ★, Space Sim 12.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%
- #7 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
93% 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: Mars 19% ★, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Space Sim 12.9% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 11%
- #8 Mini Settlers: Prologue
92% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Automation 18%, Transportation 14.9% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #9 Truck City
91% matchPositive83% of 24 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: Transportation 18.2% ★, Automation 16.9%, Mining 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%
- #10 Red Dust Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Mars 17.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Automation 9.4%
- #11 Spaceflight Factory
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Automation 16.9%, Transportation 16.3% ★, Space Sim 15.3% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #12 The Last Starship
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 21.2% ★, Space Sim 20% ★, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Automation 12.4%, Base Building 11.4%
- #13 Launch Window
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gumptiongames
Windows
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using Newtonian orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.5% ★, Transportation 17.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Resource Management 9.2%
- #14 Astro Mining
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Snarkle Studios
Windows
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.
Why similar: Space Sim 23% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Time Management 13.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #15 Preset Rocket Plan
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MakeThings
Windows
A rocket simulation game inspired by SpaceX's rocket recovery technology: Precisely control rocket engines, plan launches, complete missions, secure government funding, deliver supplies to Mars, and ultimately achieve Mars terraforming and human colonization.
Why similar: Mars 25% ★, Automation 19.1%, Space Sim 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Transportation 9% ★
- #16 Survival Vacancy
87% 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 20.5% ★, Automation 16.6%, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Inventory Management 8.7%
- #17 Hammerting
86% matchMixed57% of 2,576 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 19.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Inventory Management 8.5%
- #18 Arcbound
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Space Sim 26% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Management 8.8%, Building 6.7%
- #19 Facteroids
84% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Mining 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Space Sim 12.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%
- #20 Illuminaria
84% 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 21.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #21 Exostation
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Space Sim 26% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Time Management 10.9%, Building 5.4%
- #22 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
81% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Bolverk GamesPub: Impact Inked
Windows
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Mars 21.7% ★, Mining 20% ★, Space Sim 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%
- #23 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 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Time Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Transportation 10.2% ★
- #24 Infindustry
82% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Mining 19.1% ★, Transportation 18.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #25 Marscape
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rohn Media GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Why similar: Mars 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Space Sim 15.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Inventory Management 8.9%
- #26 Astro Colony
80% 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: Automation 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Space Sim 15.2% ★, Resource Management 10.7%
- #27 Hexfactory
79% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Automation 15.7%, Mining 12.8% ★, Base Building 5.9%
- #28 FARWORLD BEACON
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BEACON STUDIO
Windows
You are the supreme commander who directing the construction of a galactic space base. You need to manage the living and administrative needs of the space base residents, establish the industrial chain for space docks and starship, and ultimately complete a dream starship.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.7% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 9.2%
- #29 Citizens: On Mars
78% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Space Sim 17.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Management 7.8%
- #30 Utopia Colony
79% matchMixed67% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: GridSky Software
Windows
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Why similar: Mars 25.3% ★, Mining 22.2% ★, Space Sim 18.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 10%
- #31 Outer Factory
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Transportation 14.9% ★, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 8.7%
- #32 Moose Miners
77% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #33 Cog Foo
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #34 SkillGrid
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 10.5%
- #35 Project Substrata
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Substrata
Windows
A base-building and automation game about restoring a ruined planet. Mine resources, build factories, deploy AI drones, and revive a living world.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Automation 22.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Transportation 11.8% ★, Simulation 8.9%
- #36 Warehouse Bots
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Automation 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Time Management 12.3%, Simulation 6.2%
- #37 Space Architect
73% 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: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Automation 18.4%, Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Management 8.4%
- #38 DeliverieZ
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Mielczarek
Windows · Mac
Become a CEO of your own delivery company. Transport parcels from A to B, expand your fleet and depots. Face multiple challenges and earn as much money as you can.
Why similar: Transportation 24.5% ★, Automation 18%, Time Management 14.1%, Management 10.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%
- #39 Destination Ares
76% matchMixed48% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Pat Scott
Windows
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
Why similar: Mars 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Space Sim 18.4% ★, Time Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%
- #40 ExoColony: Planet Survival
72% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Space Sim 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #41 SpaceSlog
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Produno Games Studios
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.2%
- #42 Industronaut
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains to survive alone on a radiation heavy planet with no rescue and no external support.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Space Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Simulation 4.7%
- #43 CLOUD DWELLERS
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Management 10.6%, Inventory Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #44 Mars Era
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Osis Studio
Windows
Mars Era is a turn-based strategy game about Mars colonization. Build your base, welcome settlers, gather resources, research technologies, and overcome the harsh conditions of the Red Planet. Manage your settlers, develop infrastructure, and turn Mars into a new home for humanity! 🚀
Why similar: Mars 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Space Sim 16.8% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%
- #45 Space Company Simulator
74% 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: Mars 23.6% ★, Space Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.1%
- #46 Factory Town
71% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Transportation 12.5% ★, Resource Management 11.1%
- #47 Rise Under the Warstorm
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #48 Hexoplanet
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirnic Interactive
Windows · Mac
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Automation 22.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 9.2%
- #49 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Automation 21.2%, Transportation 10.2% ★, Colony Sim 7.5% ★, Base Building 7.1%
- #50 Stellar Shipyard
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Space Sim 17.6% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 12.1%
- #51 Factor Y
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 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 26.9% ★, Automation 23.1%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 6.3%
- #52 Industrix
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Mining 17.6% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 11.1%
- #53 Underground Nomads
68% matchNo user reviews
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 31.7% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Automation 15.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 8.7%
- #54 Mars Rapid Transit
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Engineer a fast and efficient train network on Mars. Build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy in this Transport and Economy Management game.
Why similar: Mars 23.7% ★, Transportation 22% ★, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Resource Management 10%, Management 7.7%
- #55 Stationbreak
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Spaceship
Windows · Linux
A grounded sci-fi station builder where you hold failing systems together while pursued by a relentless, energy-hungry swarm. As a fleet on the run, drop into hostile systems, gather what you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Try to survive long enough to secure a future for humanity.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.3%
- #56 Motile Works
67% 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 20.4% ★, Mining 15.1% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 13%, Time Management 10%
- #57 Outpost Surge
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thrive Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #58 MineMogul
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.5% ★, Automation 24%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8%
- #59 Clipper
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Management 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Building 7.6%