Games Like Imagine Earth

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Science 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Players manage the terraforming of an entire planet, mirroring the grand-scale planetary development found in Imagine Earth.

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 35.9% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 5.6%, Management 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony simulator that focuses on the logistical challenges of maintaining life support and resources in isolated environments.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This god-game allows you to guide a civilization across a planet, balancing technological progress with the impact on the environment.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Nature 33.5%, City Builder 31.7%, Relaxing 15.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core environmental philosophy of Imagine Earth, tasking players with restoring ecosystems rather than just exploiting them.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Diplomacy 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Economy 10.8%, Nature 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This stylized city-builder focuses on harmony with the environment and managing resources to ensure long-term sustainability.

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 42.6% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar experience of building and managing a colony on a distant, often unforgiving alien planet.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Economy 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, hex-based planetary management game that focuses on rebuilding civilization and managing resources across multiple worlds.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title masterfully handles the theme of climate-driven survival and the difficult political decisions required to keep a colony alive.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Science 13.9% ★, Nature 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: The core mechanic of managing water levels and environmental changes to ensure colony survival mirrors the ecological challenges of Imagine Earth.

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Political Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Grand Strategy 11.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Set in a post-apocalyptic world shaped by climate change, this city-builder emphasizes survival and societal management in a damaged ecosystem.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Players must manage resources and trade across multiple isolated cliff-top cities in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing logistical efficiency.

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.9%, Immersive Sim 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the space industry and the logistical management of launching missions, which complements the space-trade aspect of Imagine Earth.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Economy 14.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming automation-focused city-builder that emphasizes the logistical chains required to sustain a growing colony.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Diplomacy 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features intense environmental hazards that force players to adapt their colony management strategies constantly.

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-grid management game that focuses on resource extraction and industrial expansion on an alien landscape.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This underwater city-builder requires careful management of resources and environmental conditions to survive in a unique, pressurized habitat.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that forces players to manage radiation and scarce resources to keep their colony thriving.

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: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 9.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on a space station, it captures the high-stakes resource management and survival tension found in planetary colony sims.

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Nature 12.9%, Economy 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique take on planetary management by placing your civilization on the back of a giant turtle, requiring careful ecological balance.

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 37.4% ★, Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulator that focuses on the complex interactions between colonists, resources, and the environment.

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 33.4% ★, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 15.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space colony builder that emphasizes vertical expansion and managing limited resources on floating islands.

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the technical aspects of terraforming and building a sustainable base on the Red Planet.

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of space bases with a heavy emphasis on resource gathering and survival.

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Economy 16.2%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks players with managing a colony in a post-apocalyptic setting, focusing on environmental sustainability and resource recycling.

Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Science 12.9% ★, Economy 10.8%, Political Sim 10.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides a grand-strategy perspective on political and economic management that mirrors the diplomatic systems in Imagine Earth.

Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?

Why similar: Political Sim 20.3% ★, Diplomacy 18.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Capitalism 12.8%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and political simulation aspects of managing trade routes and corporate competition.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Diplomacy 17.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.6%

Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 24.3%, RTS 22.5%, Top-Down 7.3%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused colony sim that blends resource management with the challenges of establishing a new society.

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Why similar: Science 45.9% ★, Management 23.9%, Immersive Sim 19.1%, Strategy 11.1%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Economy 19.1%, Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Management 12.2%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 6.5%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 9.6%

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 13%, Sandbox 10.4%

A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth. The game is set 1000 years into the future where you rebuild society. Grow your town, trade with other players, face challenges and discover the rich history of this suspiciously empty planet.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Top-Down 9.3%

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the challenges of establishing a foothold on an alien planet.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Nature 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 11.6%

Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.

Why similar: City Builder 70.1%, Strategy 29.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation strategy game that focuses on building and maintaining colonies across various space-based environments.

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, Management 17.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, RTS 10.6%, Management 9.2%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 11.3%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 8%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, Base Building 21.6%, Sandbox 18%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 6%

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 38.6% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Economy 6.4%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 6.5%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 40.5%, Economy 16.5%, RTS 12.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 9%

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 25.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, RTS 10%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 15.8%, RTS 12.4%, Capitalism 12%, Base Building 10.5%

Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.5% ★, RTS 23.9%, Nature 12.5%, Top-Down 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%

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 25.7% ★, Science 14.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 10.9%, Management 10.3%

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 26.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Sandbox 11%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Science 18.6% ★, Economy 13.6%, Capitalism 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 6.2%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, Base Building 22.8%, Management 15.5%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Strategy 5.8%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Diplomacy 18.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.4%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.5%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 21.9%, Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Management 15.4%