60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Simulation, Base Building, Building.
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Underground Nomads
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.
Malignus
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
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 32.2%, Base Building 16%, Building 13%, Automation 11.6%, Underground 7.7% ★
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 14.5%, Underground 11.7% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
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 30.1%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15%, Sandbox 8%
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 25.4%, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 7%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8%, Procedural Generation 6%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Automation 24.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.7%
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Underground 9.8% ★, Procedural Generation 8.5%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 7.8%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Automation 26.3%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 34.7%, Automation 19.8%, Building 16%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 6%
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 26.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 15%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, 2D 2.3%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 22.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Automation 11.4%, Building 10.6%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Colony Sim 29%, Sandbox 12%, Exploration 8.4%, Simulation 8.3%
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 26.7%, Underground 18.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 12.5%, Automation 10.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 31.2%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Building 8.5%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Automation 14.7%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Exploration 9.3%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Automation 17.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10%
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Automation 17%, Base Building 15.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 22.3%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
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 43%, Base Building 23.1%, Building 12%, Sandbox 6.8%, Resource Management 5.3%
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 25.6%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Life Sim 10%
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 26.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 13.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 15.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 14.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Life Sim 13.3%, Automation 10.9%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%
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 48.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 5.5%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 4.4%, Resource Management 4.2%
A cozy underground colony sim where nothing can ever go wrong. You never dig, you give the orders, and the Bobbitz do the rest. Carve a home out of the dark, raise a town of little burrowers, and light the deep together. No death, no fail states. Dig at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Life Sim 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Underground 18% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Life Sim 9.8%, Building 8.9%
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: Automation 22.2%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8%
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 13.3%, Life Sim 12%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Base Building 24.1%, Building 17.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Open World 6.5%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 5.9%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Procedural Generation 7.1%, Building 7.1%
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Building 20.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Sandbox 5.1%
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Exploration 8.9%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Exploration 9.9%
Dig and explore the depth of the earth. Mine and harvest miscellaneous resources. Craft better tools and weapons and expand your base ! Fight against local mobs. Unlock electricity to lighten the darker depths. Automate harvesting to reign on the underground world !
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 13.7%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 19.2%, Underground 12.3% ★, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Automation 17.9%, Underground 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 6.6%
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Underground 28.5% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Exploration 7.5%, Simulation 3.2%
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 26.8%, Automation 19%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.7%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%
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 34.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Procedural Generation 5.7%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 7.7%
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 12.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 7.3%
