- #1 Dawn Apart
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Voxel 20.1% ★, Automation 14.8%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.4%
- #2 Aground Zero
96% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Voxel 19% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Automation 8.3%, Moddable 6.9% ★
- #3 Goblin Keep
96% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Black Lake Entertainment
Windows
Voxel World Town Building and Survival game with building tools, combat, destruction, and multiplayer
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Voxel 21.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%
- #4 Voxel Eras
95% matchPositive95% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Voxel 22.1% ★, Automation 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10%
- #5 Microtopia: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 23.3% ★, Automation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Crafting 9.4%
- #6 Microtopia
93% 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 23.2% ★, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Futuristic 8.4%
- #7 Kubifaktorium
94% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Voxel 16.8% ★, Automation 13.2%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #8 Mars Colony Builder
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
- #9 Engineer Alpha
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Aaron Worcester
Windows
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Why similar: Voxel 27.9% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Automation 13.9%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #10 Icaria
90% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Voxel 20.4% ★, Automation 12.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.4%
- #11 Embark
91% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%
- #12 Revive & Prosper
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Voxel 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Automation 12.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Moddable 10.4% ★
- #13 Facteroids
88% 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 19.9% ★, Voxel 15% ★, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.3%
- #14 Vilset
89% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Automation 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #15 Astro Colony
87% 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 26.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.9%, Space 9.8%
- #16 The Final Earth 2
86% 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 29.6% ★, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Space 9.1%
- #17 Pixel Factory
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Flame
Windows
Build and automate your own factory in Pixel Factory. Paint cubes in different colors and create unique patterns, design efficient production lines and upgrade your buildings to optimize production.
Why similar: Voxel 33% ★, Automation 23%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #18 Mozi
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozi
Windows
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #19 Cubactory
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quim GarrigósPub: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cubactory is the only factory game where you truly build objects freely, transforming, blending, carving and compacting colored cubes into intricate voxel figures while automating your modular factory to meet increasingly complex orders.
Why similar: Voxel 26.8% ★, Automation 14.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.4%
- #20 Evospace
84% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Voxel 21% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Building 12.4%
- #21 Shroomchitect
82% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: PUNKCAKE Delicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help shroomies transform a big mushroom into a cozy little home! Care for them, help them garden and build things, relax, and take nice pictures!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Voxel 24.7% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 6.8%
- #22 Stonehearth
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, Voxel 15.6% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 7%
- #23 Factor Y
81% 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: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10%
- #24 Going Medieval
78% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Voxel 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Moddable 10.2% ★, Crafting 9.1%
- #25 Castle Story
82% matchMixed65% of 10,510 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43% ★, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Voxel 8.8% ★
- #26 NEW DAWN
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parallax Games
Windows
Exploration, survival and construction in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Voxel 29.6% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Futuristic 9.8%, Space 8%
- #27 Hexoplanet
79% 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 37.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Building 14.9%, Futuristic 9%, Crafting 6.4%
- #28 Colony Survival
81% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9% ★, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Voxel 10.6% ★
- #29 ROWBOTS
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevTX
Windows
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Voxel 21.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Automation 10.5%, Building 8%
- #30 The Factory Must Survive
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sebastian Fitt
Windows
Command the resources of the stars through automation on an unprecedented scale. Establish an autonomous megafactory, the Forge World of the rising Megacorporation, to outproduce the Empire in a galactic war of attrition. Defend it against all odds. The Factory Must Survive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, Automation 16.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%
- #31 Final Frost
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Automation 13.2%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%
- #32 Colonization Simulator
77% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Futuristic 7.3%
- #33 Clipper
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #34 The Crust
74% 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 29.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 10.3%
- #35 Project: Zenith Expanse
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Space 11.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #36 Common'hood
75% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Building 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 10.8%
- #37 Reforj
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 4J Studios
Windows
Reclaim the future. Rewrite the past. Reforj the world.
Why similar: Voxel 34.5% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #38 Maia
76% 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 47.1% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Space 8.3%
- #39 Reclaim Earth
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Futuristic 8.5%
- #40 Synthaar
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thauxan Studios
Windows
Synthaar is a game where Life Simulation meets Grand Strategy. Create your legacy, build your home, business, base and beyond, and accumulate power and wealth to ensure your descendants have a prosperous future under your care.
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #41 Architect of Ruin
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Automation 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 10%
- #42 Beyond These Stars
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Sandbox 13%, Automation 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #43 Restland - Inno World
75% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Technologies&Simulators
Windows
Restland -Inno World - interesting sandbox, there you can change landscape as you want.
Why similar: Voxel 27.4% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.8%, Futuristic 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #44 Timberborn
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Voxel 25.5% ★, Automation 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10%
- #45 Tidal Expanse
71% 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: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #46 Reprocessed
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 15%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%
- #47 Founders' Fortune
71% 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 49.2% ★, Building 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 6%
- #48 BroBlast
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evan Peri
Windows
BROBLAST is a top down builder game where you defend your base from enemies
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Space 8.5%
- #49 friends world
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: kylacpp
Windows
This is a voxel style sandbox game that focuses on survival. You can do anything inside and destroy any block. and cooperatively survive and fight with friends in a world. If you like playing Minecraft, this is a game you must not miss.
Why similar: Voxel 39.8% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 14%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 5.2%
- #50 Kardashev
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%
- #51 GNOPE - Gnome Owner Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moodneys
Windows · Linux
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 11%, First-Person 7.5%
- #52 StarMade
71% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Voxel 28.2% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Space 18%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #53 Plentiful
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
Plentiful is a Human Terrarium — Sculpt the land, redirect rivers, and grow food as you nurture your tribe. Guide your people through a perilous Stone Age and protect them from nature’s whims.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Voxel 25% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Strategy 5.9%, Colorful 5.4%
- #54 Final Factory
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%
- #55 Factory Town 2: Paradise
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Automation 16.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #56 Metaverse: Origins
69% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Penumbra.tech
Windows
Early development open world sandbox survival game with a focus on detail and granularity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Voxel 22.9% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%
- #57 Factory Town
67% 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: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Automation 17.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%
- #58 Subzero Tides
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, Building 13.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Space 8.8%, Futuristic 7.9%
- #59 FluxWerks
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Voxel 24.1% ★, Automation 19.8%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%
- #60 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.9%