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.
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 31.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.6%, Automation 12.5%, Underground 7.6% ★
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 29.7% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 24.4% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 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 27%, Base Building 17.5%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Underground 9.6% ★, Procedural Generation 8.4%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Automation 27.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
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 37.2% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%, Procedural Generation 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 34.1% ★, Automation 21.1%, Building 15.4%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%
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 30.7% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Building 8.3%
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 25.9% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 26.3% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 25.2% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 8.4%
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 14.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 31%, Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%, Exploration 8%
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 22.2% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.5%, Life Sim 10%
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 22.1% ★, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9%
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 25.1% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 24.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 27.6% ★, Automation 22%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 27.5% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.2%, Automation 11.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 25.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Life Sim 10.9%
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7%
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 30.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 14%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.8%
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 22.9%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 6.7%, Resource Management 5.7%
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 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11.3%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Procedural Generation 7%, Building 6.8%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
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 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Life Sim 9.9%, Building 8.7%
🎃 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 27.7% ★, Automation 14.3%, Life Sim 12%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%
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 26.3% ★, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.4%
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 37.7% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Building 17%, Exploration 7.3%, Open World 6.2%
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 24.3% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Automation 27.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 10.1%, Procedural Generation 7.6%
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 24.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 38.3% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 17.3%, Resource Management 4.6%, Simulation 4.5%
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 49% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 5.3%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 24.1%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.1%
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 19.3%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 16%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 7.2%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Automation 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 7.1%
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 29%, Base Building 20.4%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.5%
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 34.4% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Procedural Generation 5.7%
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 9.8%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 6.2%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.3%, Open World 6.9%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 6.1%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Underground 19.2% ★, Building 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 30.8% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Underground 15.3% ★, Building 12.2%, 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 38.6% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 7.6%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
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 39.2% ★, Automation 29.2%, Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 4.3%, Simulation 3.4%
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 25.6% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
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: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.6%
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: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 7.7%, Exploration 7.6%
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10.1%
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, Base Building 23.4%, Building 17.3%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 9.3%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Exploration 7.2%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Automation 23.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 6%
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Procedural Generation 6.2%
