60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Simulation, Base Building, Automation.
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.
Vilset
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
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 32.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 12.9%, Automation 11.9%, Underground 7.7% ★
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 29.9%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 34.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 14.4%, Underground 11.7% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
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 25.3%, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 6.9%
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 7.9%, Procedural Generation 6%
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 26%, Base Building 17.9%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Underground 9.7% ★, 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 32.1%, Automation 22.2%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 7.8%
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 34.5%, Automation 19.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.5%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Automation 26.9%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%
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 34.4%, Automation 20.3%, Building 15.8%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%
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 25.4%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 26.6%, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 36.2%, Automation 24%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13%, 2D 2.3%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 22.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 11.7%, Building 10.5%
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%, Automation 18%, Base Building 17.1%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Building 8.4%
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 29.9%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%
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 27.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 12.4%, Automation 10.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 26.6%, Underground 18.2% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
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%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Life Sim 10.9%
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 23.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 27.8%, Automation 21%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 22.2%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9%
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 28.2%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Life Sim 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7%
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 25.4%, Automation 19%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 11.9%, Sandbox 6.8%, Resource Management 5.4%
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 22.4%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Life Sim 9.9%
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 26.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 14.3%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 27.8%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 20%, Building 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 5.4%
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 31.2%, Life Sim 13.2%, Automation 11.2%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.6%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
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 37.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 4.5%, Resource Management 4.3%
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 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%
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 27.6%, Underground 18% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Life Sim 9.8%, Building 8.8%
🎃 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 27.9%, Automation 13.7%, Life Sim 12%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%
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 32.4%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 16%, Life Sim 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
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 32.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
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 32.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 6%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Procedural Generation 7.1%, Building 7%
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 37.6%, Base Building 24.1%, Building 17.2%, Exploration 7.3%, Open World 6.4%
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 25.4%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 23.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 13.5%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sandbox 9%
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 26.6%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.6%
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 25.6%, Automation 18.4%, Underground 15.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 4.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 7.5%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.5%
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%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Procedural Generation 9%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 41.7%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 11%, Automation 11%, Simulation 7%
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 34.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.8%, Open World 8.1%
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Underground 15.3% ★, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
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 28.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 17.1%, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 10.8%
Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 18%, Building 11.4%, Life Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Building 16%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 10.2%
