- #1 Arcbound
97% 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 32.4%, Space Sim 23.5%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 4.4%
- #2 ASTROBURROW
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bacon interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey through uncharted galaxies. Build new space civilizations, and fight for the future of the species in this pixel art space strategy game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Space Sim 19%, Flight 18.3%, Building 8%, Management 7.9%
- #3 Venusville - Prologue
96% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Space Sim 20.3%, Flight 17%, Building 8.2%, Management 7%
- #4 Stacks:Space!
95% matchVery Positive84% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Space Sim 21.7%, Building 11%, Space 8.7%, Management 8.1%
- #5 The Final Earth 2
94% matchVery Positive97% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
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 26.4%, Space Sim 17.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 11.3%, Space 9.8%
- #6 Starship Colony
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 28.5%, Space Sim 18.2%, Management 11%, Building 9.1%, Space 7.2%
- #7 SpaceSlog
93% matchMixed68% of 46 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 challenging survival colony sim features deep simulated ship systems and a whole universe to explore.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Space Sim 17.3%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Space 8.3%
- #8 ORBITAL
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Night Sky Dogs
Windows · Mac
A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Flight 16.5%, Space 12.5%, Management 6.6%
- #9 Generation Nova
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Space Sim 22.7%, Management 9.9%, Space 9.2%, Building 7.6%
- #10 Generation Ship
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scifan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Space Sim 16.7%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.2%, Flight 9.3%
- #11 Amazing Space
90% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Space Sim 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Building 12.3%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 7%
- #12 Space Haven
89% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 25.7%, Space Sim 18.5%, Building 11.3%, Management 11.3%, Space 9.9%
- #13 _space_train
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Josh McNamee
Windows
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Space Sim 27.6%, Space 9.7%, Aliens 8%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #14 Galactic Pioneers
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Item Games
Windows
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Space Sim 24.7%, Building 11.3%, Space 10.5%, Management 8.7%
- #15 Resort Galactica
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
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 28%, Space Sim 15.1%, Building 14.8%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #16 Nova Origin
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZapNova Games
Windows
Explore, scan, and conquer an unknown world. Deploy rovers, uncover hidden resources, and build a fully automated colony that must survive, adapt, and scale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Space Sim 24.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 7.8%, Management 6.2%
- #17 IMPACT
86% matchMixed56% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Hochschule Darmstadt
Windows
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: Colony Sim 27.4%, Space Sim 23.7%, Space 9.9%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #18 Stellar Shipyard
84% 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: Colony Sim 21.5%, Space Sim 15.8%, Flight 14.8%, Building 11.8%, Space 9.2%
- #19 Meeple Station
85% matchMixed57% of 954 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
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 22.2%, Space Sim 16.8%, Building 11.4%, Space 10.9%, Management 10%
- #20 Possible One: Lunar Industries
82% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Space Sim 22.7%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.3%, Space 7.8%
- #21 HELLO EXO
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weasel Games
Windows
It is the year 2072. Recent research has revealed how to locate an Earth-like exoplanet. You were shipped there. Your mission is to repair the spaceship, keep people in hibernation pods alive, and prepare the exoplanet for their arrival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Space Sim 29.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Space 12.6%, Crafting 3.7%
- #22 Maia
84% matchMixed44% of 1,064 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: Colony Sim 43%, Management 13.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Space 9.2%, Survival 8.1%
- #23 Horizon 1990
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Management 11.6%, Space Sim 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #24 Venusville
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Space 12%, Flight 11.3%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.2%
- #25 Order: The New Dawn
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Space Sim 25.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 10%, Survival 5.3%
- #26 Starfall Protocol
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Space Sim 26.1%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%
- #27 LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cubic PiePub: Cubic Pie Live
Windows
LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! - A space roguelite game about adventures, loyal crews and a multitude of amazing stories in the depths of the galaxy. Sources of inspiration for this game: The sense of freedom and adventure from Pirates! by Sid Meier, crazy stories from Rimworld...
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Space Sim 22.7%, Flight 18.3%, Management 7.7%, Space 7.2%
- #28 Exostation
79% 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: Colony Sim 30.2%, Space Sim 27.6%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #29 Tidal Expanse
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
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 29.8%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Management 13%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #30 Scraponauts
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AriaMakesGames
Windows
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.4%, Flight 22.8%, Building 14.9%, Space 12.7%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #31 Stationbreak
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken SpaceshipPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?
Why similar: Space Sim 27.4%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Building 13.1%, Space 11.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #32 The Last Starship
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,688 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Space Sim 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 12.4%, Space 10.7%, Management 8.4%
- #33 Oxygen Not Included
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Building 12.2%, Survival 9.2%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 6.1%
- #34 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
77% matchMixed65% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a Space 4X and an MMO. An online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players, or just sit and chat with the friendly community.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.6%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Space 8.9%, Building 8.9%
- #35 ExoColony: Planet Survival
75% 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: Colony Sim 22.9%, Space Sim 18.3%, Building 10.9%, Management 10%, Space 8.8%
- #36 Sunward
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Voidworks Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A deep, relaxed space-industry sim. Mine asteroids, refine raw ore into valuable goods, and trade on a living market while you build a modular station, grow a colony, and expand across the solar system and beyond into a freighter-linked empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.4%, Space 8.7%, Futuristic 7.9%
- #37 Solargene
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 848 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 26%, Space Sim 20.9%, Building 10.4%, Management 10.2%, Flight 9.5%
- #38 Luna Meridian
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Field Noise Co.
Windows · Mac
Luna Meridian is a near-future narrative lunar colony game. A card-based drafted crew runs a 5-phase mission on the Moon's surface. Build mission critical infrastructure, manage resources, respond to hazards, follow and shape their stories and make decisions that determine if the colony survives.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Space Sim 26.2%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Building 8%
- #39 Project Longshot
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: LongshotWorks
Windows
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 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Flight 18%, Building 11.6%, Space 11.1%
- #40 Space for Sale
72% matchMixed56% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Mirage Game Studios
Windows
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: Colony Sim 29.1%, Space Sim 25%, Building 11.5%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #41 Titan: The Ascension
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Wildercroft Studio
Windows
Titan: The Ascension is a colony management strategy game on Saturn’s moon Titan. Build and expand an off-world industrial colony, extract ice to produce water for Earth, trade resources, and defend against ancient automated systems that react to technology growth. Will you prevail?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Space Sim 20.6%, Space 13.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Futuristic 7.1%
- #42 Heliopolis Six
72% matchMixed52% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: Acid Mines Software UG
Windows
Embark on a cosmic odyssey as the director of your own space station in a galaxy full of wonders. Skillful management is vital as you construct and connect station components, oversee resource handling, and guide your space haven to reach new heights amidst the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Space Sim 17.4%, Building 12.7%, Space 12.2%, Management 8%
- #43 Space Trader Corps
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: D SquiresPub: Moronical Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time multiplayer space trading game in a shared persistent galaxy. Haul cargo across a living player-driven galaxy, mine asteroids, colonize and industrialize planets, become a pirate (or a hunt them), or out-trade every other captain - solo or with your friends. PvP & PvE.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Space Sim 20.9%, Building 10.8%, Space 8.1%, Futuristic 7.1%
- #44 Search of Galaxy
71% matchMixed54% of 26 reviews2022
Dev: DRAGONnoid
Windows
After the supernova explosion, the Thermian race was destroyed. All knowledge, technologies and data about the past were lost. You must to restore civilization and explore the territories of your home system in search of lost technologies and artifacts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Space Sim 23.2%, Flight 18.5%, Space 8.3%, Aliens 7.9%
- #45 The Stellar Station Engineer
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbital Flag StudioPub: Unknown
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Space Sim 18.9%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.8%, Space 10%
- #46 Psi 5 Trading Company
71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Accolade, Inc.Pub: Ziggurat
Windows
Captain a space freighter on its perilous voyage to deliver vital supplies to the Parvin Frontier! Select your crew, then lead and command their efforts to manage the ship's navigation, engineering, weapons, and more on the fly as crises and obstacles arise in real time.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3%, Management 16.4%, Space 15.4%, Aliens 9.6%, Futuristic 6%
- #47 Rocket Engineer
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xavier B.
Windows
Design custom rockets and master 2D orbital mechanics to navigate a fully simulated solar system. Establish outposts, process local resources to launch interplanetary missions, and manage critical supply lines to keep your colony's workforce alive.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2%, Flight 21.9%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Management 11.4%, Space 9.3%
- #48 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
71% matchMixed50% of 381 reviews2017
Dev: Jim Offerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Building 14.4%, Management 14.1%, Space 12.8%
- #49 AstroCore Mining
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gamegine
Windows
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Space Sim 26.2%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.2%, Space 8.3%
- #50 Colonials Programme
70% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: CookieLegends
Windows
Rebuild humanity with two robots while travelling across the galaxy in this colony-management game! Build machines, harvest resources, shelter colonists and launch rockets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Space Sim 23.3%, Building 11%, Space 8.5%, Management 7.9%
- #51 The Spatials: Galactology
70% matchMixed69% of 258 reviews2018
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29.2%, Space Sim 20.8%, Management 13%, Building 12.6%, Space 10.1%
- #52 Launch Window
68% 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 orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.2%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Flight 17.6%, Management 11%, Space 10.1%
- #53 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape
67% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Space Sim 21.4%, Building 12.9%, Space 10.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #54 Roids
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Braymatter
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore a unique, procedurally generated galaxy filled with alien artifacts and resources to extract and exploit. Mine asteroids, harvest nebula, pilot unique ships and find new and strange things in the void between stars as you struggle to survive long enough to find another home.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.2%, Flight 22.5%, Building 12.6%, Aliens 8.7%, Futuristic 8.6%
- #55 Hexfactory
66% matchMixed54% of 13 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: Colony Sim 29.6%, Space Sim 25.5%, Building 11.5%, Space 9.1%, Management 8.3%
- #56 Far Sector
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metal cast
Windows
All that matters is that you're a spaceship captain. Your objective is to explore the far sector. Build, develop, and research. Get to the bottom of the targets of your mission and find out the truth of what happened before it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Space Sim 24%, Management 9.5%, Building 9%, Futuristic 7.7%
- #57 Planetbase
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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: Colony Sim 40.1%, Space 13.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 7.5%, Survival 7.4%
- #58 Zenith Expanse
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Space Sim 17.7%, Management 13.8%, Space 8%, Survival 7.7%
- #59 Starmancer
67% matchMixed62% of 1,047 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 28.7%, Management 14.2%, Building 13.1%, Space 11.2%, Space Sim 6.5%