Games Like HOMUNCULCHU

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 40.2%, Space 11.6%, Survival 8.3%, Building 8.2%, Simulation 7.8%

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 45.8%, Survival 13%, Sci-fi 11%, Simulation 9.1%, Space 7.5%

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 48.5%, Survival 15.5%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Space 4.8%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Survival 7.7%

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 36.6%, Building 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Space 8.3%

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 42.4%, Building 15.3%, Survival 13.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 6.2%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.5%, Survival 17%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 5.1%

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 32.5%, Building 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Science 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%

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 38.3%, Survival 12.1%, Space 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Space 11.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 6.4%, Strategy 5.9%

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 46.6%, Survival 13.1%, Space 12.4%, Building 7.1%, Sci-fi 5.7%

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 29.5%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, Science 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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 49.4%, Survival 16.7%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%

In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in the asteroid belt. Settling in space comes with enormous challenges and dangers, which you will have to guide your people through

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Science 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Space 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Survival 15.3%, Building 9.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Simulation 8%

An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Building 15%, Survival 15%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Strategy 6.3%

The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.

Why similar: Colony Sim 77%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 8.7%

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 40%, Survival 13.7%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Space 7.7%

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 59.9%, Building 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 5.4%

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Survival 10.5%, Space 10.1%

The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Survival 14.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 35.6%, Building 12.6%, Space 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Building 15.3%, Survival 14.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 7.8%

Manage a bunker. Protect survivors. Outsmart a rogue AI. Bunker 1024 is a first person survival management game where you craft tech, maintain critical systems, and deliver aid as time grows thin - all while Lumina 6.0 studies your patterns and actively works against your routines.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Survival 13.1%, Science 12.9%, Artificial Intelligence 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 32.5%, Survival 12.6%, Building 10.9%, Space 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%

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 38.4%, Building 13.4%, Space 11%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Resource Management 6.5%

Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Survival 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.6%

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: Colony Sim 34.9%, Space 15.8%, Survival 15.4%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 58.1%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Space 6.5%

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 38.6%, Survival 14%, Building 13.3%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Space 8.3%

A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 10%

Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Survival 15%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Cinematic 8.3%, Resource Management 8%

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 58.6%, Building 13.4%, Survival 10.6%, Simulation 7.8%, Resource Management 5.1%

StarColony is a resource management & incremental space colony building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.7%, Space 14.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 5.8%

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 43.8%, Building 17.8%, Survival 15.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 50.1%, Survival 13.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.7%

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 35.7%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.6%, Space 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Survival 13.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Survival 20.7%, Simulation 15.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Time Management 9.5%

A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Survival 13.5%, Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%

Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Space 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.3%

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 50.8%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 11%, Survival 9.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%

Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.9%, Simulation 19.1%, Building 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Futuristic 6.4%

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 36.5%, Building 11.9%, Science 10.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Space 8.1%

A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Space 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 11%, Resource Management 8.4%

You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Survival 13.2%, Space 11.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Sci-fi 6.1%

In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7%, Survival 19%, Simulation 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 6.8%

Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!

Why similar: Colony Sim 82%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 4.9%, Resource Management 4.6%

Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Survival 20%, Building 19.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 8.5%

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 40.9%, Survival 14.3%, Building 12.3%, Space 11.7%, Sci-fi 8%

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 24.1%, Building 15%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 10%, Simulation 9.5%

Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!

Why similar: Colony Sim 77.8%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 9.2%

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 41.2%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Space 9.4%, Survival 9%

On a planet with a biome climate similar to Earth, manage your residents from basic construction and planting, develop and research various cutting-edge technologies, recruit soldiers to form troops, resist foreign enemies or actively conquer other countries, and unify this distant planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Survival 14.4%, Building 12%, Simulation 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.3%

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 41.6%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Survival 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 8.5%

Build and manage multiple colonies on different planets. Heavy focus on mining and industry, and setting up automated cargo transport between colonies. Also there are mysterious alien drones that will attack you, so you'll need some weapons to fight them off.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.7%, Sci-fi 12%, Space 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 6.2%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.3%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.6%

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 41%, Space 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Building 9%, Simulation 8.7%