- #1 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
96% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Simulation 7.4%
- #2 Starfall Protocol
96% 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: Space Sim 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Crafting 6.7%
- #3 Project: Zenith Expanse
95% 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Space Sim 14.1% ★, Moddable 9% ★, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #4 Eternity
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firedrake GamesPub: Ground Control Studios
Windows
An unforgettable journey of discovery, hope, and survival, as you strive to unlock the secrets of the universe and pave the way for humanity's destiny. By intertwining Exploration, Adaptive Gameplay, and Survival, ETERNITY offers a rich and immersive experience.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, Base Building 9.6%
- #5 Moonport
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HiHowYaDurin
Windows · Mac
Moonport is a side-scrolling, real time strategy, space colony simulation with roguelike elements. You play as a brave space explorer who aspires to colonize the moons of Saturn. How many moons can you conquer?
Why similar: 4X 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Space Sim 16.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Roguelike 8.6%
- #6 Stardeus
93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Space Sim 17.3% ★, Moddable 16% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%
- #7 Legendary Creatures 2
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 959 reviews2023
Dev: HideCharaPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Sequel to the acclaimed Legendary Creatures, created by HideChara, and a fun treat combining both roguelike and auto-battler gameplay. Recruit and evolve a large array of troops, creatures, and an arsenal of weapons, to defeat the demon lord spreading corruption across the land.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Moddable 15.2% ★, Strategy RPG 15%, Dungeon Crawler 12.3%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #8 HELLO EXO
91% 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 30.6% ★, Space Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Crafting 9%
- #9 Order: The New Dawn
91% 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 25.4% ★, Space Sim 25.1% ★, 4X 22.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Exploration 5.2%
- #10 Space One - Electron
90% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #11 Arcbound
89% 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 32.8% ★, Space Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%
- #12 SpaceDominator
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BeyondPlanet
Windows
SpaceDominator is strategy fantasy open world where you can discover universe! Contact other civilizations, make friends or enemies, start trading or fighting, expand your own area or help others to expand, increase your intelligence level.. and much more! Follow developing http://discord.gg/cqEZJ5J
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
- #13 Tidal Expanse
88% 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 30.1% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Moddable 8.7% ★, Crafting 7.4%
- #14 Void Ascendancy
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Procedural Generation 5.9%
- #15 Solargene
86% 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 22.3% ★, Space Sim 21.2% ★, 4X 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Moddable 13.5% ★
- #16 Antimatter
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Moddable 12.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space Sim 10.3% ★
- #17 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
85% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Space Sim 24.5% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%
- #18 Star Zeal 4x
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal is a space based 4x strategy and rpg hybrid. A mixture between a procedural, open ended RPG and a space civilization builder. Go on an adventure with your character and their faction whilst making friends, enemies and exploring a vast galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Space Sim 20.3% ★, Strategy RPG 13.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #19 Splinter Colony
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 41.7% ★, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Strategy 12.5%, Choices Matter 6%, Exploration 5.9%
- #20 Travelers in Space Crack
83% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Xenon LuPub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Travelers in Space Crack is a survive game in deep space. Explore in different galaxy through space cracks. To find and gather useful resource, to trade and make money are all important to develop your own fleets. And only through build massive fleets, you triumph over the unknown evil forces.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #21 Roving Rovers - Australian Rover Challenge 2025
81% match3 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Mini Mammoth Games
Windows
Ensure the moon is safe for man's inevitable lunar habitat. Drive and interact as a Lunar Rover with crashed ships, the natural resources and explore the nearby landscape to determine the suitability!
Why similar: Space Sim 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Realistic 11.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%
- #22 Trailblazers: Into the March
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrangersPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Roguelike 13.1%, Strategy RPG 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #23 Yargis - Space Melee
84% matchMixed58% of 236 reviews2015
Dev: PlazSoft
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Yargis is a fast paced, top down spaceship shooter. Customize your ship to join a battle online or offline. Yargis is focused on team based, close combat action. The game has a variety of battle and co-op game modes and a powerful editor make Yargis a great game!
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Moddable 22.5% ★, Space Sim 21% ★, Co-op 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #24 Harrowlands
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Strategy RPG 11.2%
- #25 Space Engineers
79% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space Sim 23% ★, Moddable 22.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Realistic 8.2%
- #26 Pandora Galaxy
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: SimplexCode
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pandora Galaxy is a PC game. The game is based in space, in the far future, with elements of exploration and trade. The protagonist of the game is a merchant engaged in interplanetary trade, but as the story unfolds, the player can choose the path of an interstellar pirate or a planetary explorer.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.4% ★, Strategy RPG 24.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #27 After the Collapse
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Moddable 20.4% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Procedural Generation 11%, Crafting 9.6%
- #28 Spaceship Idle: Design, Build, Explore & Battle
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Linux
Spaceship Idle is an idle/incremental 4X grand strategy auto battler where you build your own spaceship and engage in space battles. Research a vast tech tree, equip unique weapons, unlock powerful upgrades, construct bigger and better ships, win epic (auto) battles, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, 4X 23.7% ★, Space Sim 20.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Exploration 6.8%
- #29 Starpoint Gemini Warlords
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,569 reviews2017
Dev: Little Green Men Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Space Sim 21.8% ★, Moddable 17.3% ★, Strategy RPG 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%
- #30 Stationbreak
77% 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Choices Matter 8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #31 Build The Sun
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Simulation 6.4%, Exploration 6.2%
- #32 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape
75% 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 27.3% ★, Space Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 13%, Roguelike 8.2%
- #33 Conquest of Elysium 5
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2021
Dev: Illwinter Game Design
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Moddable 20.8% ★, Roguelike 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Strategy 7.1%
- #34 Age of Wonders 4
74% matchVery Positive81% of 21,784 reviews2023
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 22.4 hrsMean: 58.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Moddable 17.4% ★, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Co-op 7.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #35 After the Crash : Colony
73% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Penche Software
Windows
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Space Sim 33.1% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #36 Kairobotica
75% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Vanquish villains and lead the Kairobot Corps to glory in this spacefaring saga!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Space Sim 27.5% ★, Strategy RPG 22.1%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 6.9%
- #37 Embark
76% 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 45.2% ★, Base Building 20.9%, Moddable 9.9% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #38 Epic Astro Story
74% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Space Sim 28.2% ★, Strategy RPG 21.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Exploration 5.5%
- #39 Microtopia: Prologue
73% 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 24.4% ★, Moddable 22.2% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #40 The Final Earth 2
73% 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 28.7% ★, Space Sim 22.8% ★, Moddable 20.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #41 Whiteverse: No Country for Old Men
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Whiteverse Studio
Windows
This is a game combines SIM and SRPG. Please lead your family, your friends and strangers who come to you to survive in this broken, unknown and fascinating universe, Captain.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Strategy RPG 18.7%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 7.5%
- #42 Astro Colony
72% 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 21.7%, Space Sim 18.2% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #43 Let's Build Wonders: Galaxy
71% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Sunjoy Meta
Windows
Let’s Build Wonders:Galaxy is a multiplayer cooperative space-building game. In the game, members within each alliance achieve efficient resource sharing and division of labor through trade transportation means. They work to expand their alliance's galactic territory to resist pirate harassment.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Space Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Co-op 7.2%, Strategy 5.9%
- #44 Space Station Tycoon
71% 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 24% ★, Space Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #45 Starship Colony
70% 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 31.3% ★, Space Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #46 Card World
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Huawen
Windows
Card World is a card game entirely under your control. You can adventure in this card world, create new cards, new themes, new BGM, new backgrounds, and even make a completely new game.
Why similar: Moddable 30.6% ★, Level Editor 29.6%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 5.3%
- #47 RimWorld
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Moddable 22.9% ★, Base Building 21.5%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #48 Mars Colony Builder
69% 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 29.2% ★, Moddable 20.5% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11%, Realistic 6.9%
- #49 Red Frontier
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DW
Windows
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Space Sim 26.3% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Co-op 8.1%
- #50 Take Root
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zhukovsky Games
Windows
Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Co-op 14.1%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Simulation 11.2%
- #51 Galactic Ruler
70% matchMixed49% of 121 reviews2022
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Space Sim 21.7% ★, Moddable 12.9% ★, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Co-op 11%
- #52 Cantata
68% matchMixed65% of 142 reviews2023
Dev: Afterschool StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Crash-landed in the universe of Cantata, will you expand your empire or bring peace to the war torn planet? Grow your army, manage resources and discover the colourful planet of Shoal, its people, and the armed forces overrunning this land in this genre-defining Grand Tactics game.
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Moddable 24.9% ★, Level Editor 21.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #53 云之城
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ALGHUB
Windows
It's a Chinese ancient city building strategy game that features ancient-style city building, a rich social simulation system, and always dissatisfied citizens. You come to a nice place, and you will become a lord who leads people to live in peace, reclaim wasteland, and build a stable city.
Why similar: 4X 43.5% ★, Base Building 29.5%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #54 _space_train
68% 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: Space Sim 34% ★, Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Simulation 7.6%
- #55 Nyric
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 10.7%
- #56 SpaceSlog
67% 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 28.6% ★, Space Sim 28% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Moddable 14.4% ★, Strategy 6.2%
- #57 Trappist
67% 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 26.3% ★, Space Sim 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 4.4%
- #58 Songs of Syx
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Moddable 20.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 5.6%
- #59 Powerplay
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7%