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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 23.5%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 5.8%

  2. #2 IXION
    96% 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 20.3%, Colony Sim 17%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%

  3. #3 Solargene
    96% 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 16.9%, City Builder 13.8%, 4X 12.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

  4. #4 Aven Colony
    95% 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 30.5%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Strategy 6.5%

  5. #5 Space Haven
    94% 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 17.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 8.7%, Building 8.6%

  6. #6 The Crust
    94% 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 16.5%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Space 7.8%

  7. #7 The Universim
    92% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
    Dev: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.3%

  8. #8 Industries of Titan
    93% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
    Dev: Brace Yourself Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

    Why similar: 4X 18.3%, Colony Sim 14.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

  9. #9 Astro Colony
    91% 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: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Space 11.3%, Building 10.8%

  10. #10 InfraSpace
    91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.3%

  11. #11 Dyson Sphere Program
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Base Building 18.4%, Space 12.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 11.2%, City Builder 10.9%

  12. #12 Farlanders
    89% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
    Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    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 18.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.6%

  13. #13 orbit.industries
    89% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
    Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
    Windows · Linux

    🚀 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 19%, Resource Management 16.2%, Building 15.2%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 12.2%

  14. #14 Cliff Empire
    88% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
    Dev: Lion's Shade
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

    Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.7%

  15. #15 Stranded: Alien Dawn
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

    Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 7.4%

  16. #16 Trappist
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
    Dev: Sirrah
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: 4X 15.7%, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.1%

  17. #17 Maia
    87% matchMixed44% of 1,063 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 30%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Space 7.3%

  18. #18 Per Aspera
    85% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
    Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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 16.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9.5%

  19. #19 Drill Core
    83% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
    Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 7.3%, Sandbox 6.7%

  20. #20 Mars Horizon
    84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,058 reviews2020
    Dev: Auroch Digital
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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: Management 21.4%, Building 18.2%, Space 18.1%, Resource Management 15.9%, Strategy 9.6%

  21. #21 Reshaping Mars
    84% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
    Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    「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: 4X 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.1%, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.1%

  22. #22 Desynced
    80% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

    Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.3%, RTS 12.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.3%

  23. #23 Anno 2205™
    82% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,263 reviews2015
    Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
    Windows
    Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, 4X 19.6%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.8%, RTS 6.8%

  24. #24 Mercury Fallen
    81% 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 22%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.7%, Space 8.5%

  25. #25 Imagine Earth
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
    Dev: Serious Bros.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

  26. #26 Captain of Industry
    78% 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: Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 19.3%, Colony Sim 13%, City Builder 12%, Management 10.9%

  27. #27 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    81% 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: Colony Sim 11.8%, City Builder 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%

  28. #28 Microtopia
    77% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%

  29. #29 Final Upgrade
    78% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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: Base Building 17.2%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Space 11.7%, Management 11.4%

  30. #30 Terraformers
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 3,606 reviews2023
    Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Resource Management 20.3%, Management 18.7%, Space 16.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Simulation 10.9%

  31. #31 Base One
    79% matchMostly Negative38% of 478 reviews2021
    Dev: PixFrozePub: Blowfish Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!

    Why similar: Building 20.3%, Management 17.2%, Space 12.1%, 3D 11%, Strategy 10.3%

  32. #32 Ragnorium
    77% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
    Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows

    Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 15.8%, 4X 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.6%

  33. #33 Settlement Survival
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.2%

  34. #34 Edge Islands
    74% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 9.8%

  35. #35 Before We Leave
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8.4%

  36. #36 Starport Delta
    76% matchMostly Positive72% of 75 reviews2020
    Dev: Cloudfire Studios
    Windows

    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: City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 11%, RTS 10.4%, Simulation 10.2%

  37. #37 Synergy
    73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
    Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.5%

  38. #38 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    73% 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 20.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.6%

  39. #39 New Cycle
    72% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

  40. #40 Facteroids
    72% 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: Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 10.5%

  41. #41 Meeple Station
    74% 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 18.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.6%

  42. #42 Surviving the Abyss
    71% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
    Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 11.8%, Building 10.2%

  43. #43 Outworld Station
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, RTS 14.2%, Space 12.2%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%

  44. #44 Surviving the Aftermath
    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

    Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%

  45. #45 Project AURA
    73% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
    Dev: Nexcentric Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

    Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 12%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 8%

  46. #46 Space Architect
    70% 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 21.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%

  47. #47 EarthX
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 905 reviews2023
    Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

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

  48. #48 Empires of the Undergrowth
    67% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
    Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

    Why similar: 4X 17.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

  49. #49 Pioneers of Pagonia
    66% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
    Dev: Envision Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%

  50. #50 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
    70% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
    Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
    Windows

    Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 21.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%

  51. #51 Oxygen
    69% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%

  52. #52 X4: Foundations
    68% matchMostly Positive80% of 27,985 reviews2018
    Dev: Egosoft
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 94.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

    Why similar: 4X 20.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Space 12.2%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.1%

  53. #53 Surviving Ceres
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

    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 26.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 15.3%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 7.4%

  54. #54 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 15.3%, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.9%

  55. #55 Occupy Mars: The Game
    65% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.3%

  56. #56 Space Station Tycoon
    67% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
    Dev: Lunheim Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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 19.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 12%, Building 10.2%

  57. #57 My Colony
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
    Dev: Ape Apps
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

    Why similar: City Builder 42%, Colony Sim 41.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8.1%

  58. #58 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 19.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 10%, Building 9.3%

  59. #59 Whiskerwood
    62% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
    Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

    Why similar: 4X 16.7%, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.5%

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