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Games Like ExoColony: Planet Survival

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Simulation, Building, City Builder.

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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.

Reviews: Mixed — 68% — of 28 reviews
Released: 2025-06-02
Developer: Simplemole
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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  1. #1 Planetbase
    97% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 9.8%, Survival 7.1%

  2. #2 Starship Colony
    96% 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 20%, Space Sim 13.1%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 9.9%, Survival 7.2%

  3. #3 Meeple Station
    96% matchMixed57% of 941 reviews2020
    Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 9.4 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 14.3%, Space Sim 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Space 8.3%

  4. #4 Venusville
    95% matchNo user reviews
    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 20.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 7.1%

  5. #5 Mercury Fallen
    94% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
    Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, Mining 15.1%, Underground 14.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.2%

  6. #6 Arcbound
    94% 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 24.6%, Space Sim 18.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.5%, Management 8.2%

  7. #7 Space Haven
    93% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Space Sim 12.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 7.6%

  8. #8 The Final Earth 2
    92% matchVery Positive97% of 386 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 19.2%, Space Sim 13.2%, City Builder 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Space 8.5%

  9. #9 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 20%, City Builder 16.6%, Space Sim 12%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 7.7%

  10. #10 Space Colony: Steam Edition
    91% matchVery Positive80% of 657 reviews2015
    Dev: Firefly Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 14.1%, Space Sim 13.4%, Mining 12.3%, Immersive Sim 8.7%

  11. #11 Heliopolis Six
    90% matchMixed55% of 39 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 18.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Space Sim 11.3%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%

  12. #12 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    89% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 7.7%

  13. #13 The Stellar Station Engineer
    89% 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 17.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Space Sim 12.2%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Building 8.1%

  14. #14 Resort Galactica
    88% 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 19.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11%, Space Sim 10.6%, Building 10%

  15. #15 Exostation
    87% 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 19.9%, Space Sim 18.7%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 7%

  16. #16 Hexfactory
    86% 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: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Space Sim 15.6%, Mining 10.9%, Building 6.8%

  17. #17 Generation Nova
    84% 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 20.9%, Space Sim 17.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Space 8.2%, Management 6.9%

  18. #18 IXION
    84% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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

    Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Space 13%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

  19. #19 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    85% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
    Dev: Jim Offerman
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%

    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 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 11.7%, Space 10.1%, Building 9.4%

  20. #20 Possible One: Lunar Industries
    82% matchNo user reviews
    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 19%, City Builder 17%, Space Sim 16.5%, Building 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%

  21. #21 EndZ Village
    83% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
    Dev: DEVCLIED
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    EndZ Village is a 2D post-apocalyptic zombie survival game developed by DEVCLIED. This 2D survival game immerses you in a post-apocalyptic world infested with zombies, where humanity is fighting endlessly against the constant onslaught of infected zombie hordes.

    Why similar: Mining 20.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.5%

  22. #22 Colonials Programme
    82% 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 18.8%, Space Sim 15.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.1%

  23. #23 Facteroids
    81% 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: Mining 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Space Sim 9.9%

  24. #24 Sect Leader's Decree
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alena Selezneva
    Windows

    Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Management 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, City Builder 9.1%

  25. #25 The Last Starship
    79% 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 20.1%, Space Sim 16%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 10%, Space 8.8%

  26. #26 Lil Guys
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9%, Management 8.7%

  27. #27 Sky Base Venus
    79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
    Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
    Windows

    Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.2%

  28. #28 Venusville - Prologue
    78% matchNo user 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 20.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Space Sim 16.8%, Building 6.6%, Futuristic 5.8%

  29. #29 CitaDrill
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Studio Moka
    Windows

    Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.

    Why similar: Mining 21%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Underground 15.5%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 8.6%

  30. #30 nStations
    78% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
    Dev: OxeLiz
    Windows · Mac

    Construct and manage your colony anytime, anywhere, any device!!!!

    Why similar: City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Space Sim 12.7%, Mining 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%

  31. #31 Oxygen Not Included
    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 30.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.5%

  32. #32 Oxygen: First Breath
    75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.7%

  33. #33 Sphere - Flying Cities
    76% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
    Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Mining 18%, City Builder 16.1%, Space 8.2%, Survival 7.4%

  34. #34 Aven Colony
    77% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 9.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Strategy 5.8%

  35. #35 Isla Paradiso
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 23.7%, Building 11%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 8.6%

  36. #36 Exipelago
    75% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
    Dev: reiti.net
    Windows

    Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world

    Why similar: Mining 18.3%, Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16%, Underground 15%, Building 7.9%

  37. #37 Quriocity
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
    Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
    Windows · Mac

    Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 7.8%

  38. #38 Galactic Pioneers
    73% 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 20.4%, Space Sim 19.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Space 9.5%, Building 8.5%

  39. #39 Outer Space Shack
    73% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
    Dev: Open Lowcode SAS
    Windows

    Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.3%, Space Sim 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 9.6%

  40. #40 Generation Exile
    71% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
    Dev: Sonderlust Studios
    Windows

    Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.9%

  41. #41 Stationbreak
    72% 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 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Space 10.1%, Building 9.4%

  42. #42 Founders' Fortune
    73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    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 32.5%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.1%, Survival 6.3%

  43. #43 Cosmic colonists
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Chewy bytes studio
    Windows

    Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Space Sim 21.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Colony Sim 7.3%

  44. #44 Solargene
    69% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
    Dev: Alexander Semenov
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Space Sim 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 7.5%

  45. #45 IMPACT
    70% matchMixed56% of 61 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 20.9%, Space Sim 18.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.5%

  46. #46 Death By FrostByte
    72% 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 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Underground 15.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 8.8%

  47. #47 AstroMiner
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Clay Cube
    Windows

    AstroMiner is a game about building a mining colony in an asteroid field, starting as a small space station and growing to a sprawling space port.

    Why similar: Mining 27.3%, Space Sim 19.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Space 12.5%, Strategy 8.9%

  48. #48 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    71% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

  49. #49 AstroCore Mining
    70% 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 22.4%, Space Sim 19%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 7.9%, Space 6.9%

  50. #50 SpaceSlog
    69% 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: Colony Sim 21.2%, Space Sim 18%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 7.6%

  51. #51 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    68% 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: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Space Sim 11%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.4%

  52. #52 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
    68% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: KarmanLine Studio
    Windows

    Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Space 13.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.7%

  53. #53 Orbital Nexus
    68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: ZxStudio
    Windows

    Start on a barren planet, expand your empire through resource management, fleet building, and planetary conquest. Discover cosmic relics, trade or fight with neutral factions, and build galactic wonders like particle colliders. Balance strategy, exploration, and combat to dominate the galaxy!

    Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Space Sim 12.1%, Futuristic 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.1%

  54. #54 Farmman
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    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 23.4%, City Builder 21.1%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 8.3%

  55. #55 Settletopia
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    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 23.4%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.6%

  56. #56 The Spatials: Galactology
    69% 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 20.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Space Sim 14.8%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.6%

  57. #57 Richat Structure
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alawar
    Windows

    Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Mining 17.6%, Underground 12.3%, Management 6.1%

  58. #58 Rise Against the Invaders
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.7%, Survival 7.7%

  59. #59 The Crust
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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 20.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Space 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%

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