
Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
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Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
Dodge lasers and explore! Planetary Development Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Space Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Simulation 12.1%, Aliens 5%
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Space Sim 18.6% ★, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 10.5%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, City Builder 38.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9%, Indie 1.2%
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 40.5% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Sci-fi 3.6%
Embark on an exciting mission to establish a colony on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon. Following Earth's collapse, humanity's fate rests in your hands. Gather essential resources, excel in trading, and combat ancient technology to secure our future on Titan's harsh frontier. Will you prevail?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Space Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.8%
Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Colony Sim 9.1% ★
This space survival sim lets you build a space station, construct ships to gather resources for expansion, and upgrade tech for stronger shields to withstand cosmic radiation, all while surviving in a radioactive environment.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Strategy 21.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Space 4.1%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Futuristic 4.7%
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Space Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Resource Management 1.9%
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 28.7% ★, Space Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 7.2%
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 3.6%
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, City Builder 21%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, City Builder 36.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, 2D 3.1%
Vanquish villains and lead the Kairobot Corps to glory in this spacefaring saga!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Space Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 20%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.1%
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Space Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.4%
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 26.1% ★, Space Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.8%
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Space Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Futuristic 4.6%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, City Builder 37.7%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 7.8%, Resource Management 1.7%
Travelers in Space Crack is a survive game in deep space. Explore in different galaxy through space cracks. To find and gather useful resource, to trade and make money are all important to develop your own fleets. And only through build massive fleets, you triumph over the unknown evil forces.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 15.1%, Space 3.2%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 34.2%, Strategy 24%, Resource Management 4.5%
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, Space Sim 30.1% ★, Aliens 11.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
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 29.2% ★, Space Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 5.7%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8% ★, Strategy 18.2%, City Builder 16.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Resource Management 2.9%
Mars Era is a turn-based strategy game about Mars colonization. Build your base, welcome settlers, gather resources, research technologies, and overcome the harsh conditions of the Red Planet. Manage your settlers, develop infrastructure, and turn Mars into a new home for humanity! 🚀
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Space Sim 17.2% ★, Mars 14.7% ★, Strategy 6.6%
Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Mars 6.1% ★
Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, Space Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 3%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Space Sim 19% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Mars 13.9% ★, Strategy 9.2%
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 38.5% ★, City Builder 34.9%, Strategy 19%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, 2D 3.2%
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 37.6% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Space Sim 6.7% ★, Space 5.7%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Space Sim 18.7% ★, Mars 15% ★, Strategy 6.7%
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 27% ★, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Mars 11.4% ★, Futuristic 5.4%
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 42.2% ★, City Builder 38.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 4%
Construct and manage your colony anytime, anywhere, any device!!!!
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 14.1%
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 38.3% ★, Space Sim 29.6% ★, Simulation 9.8%, City Builder 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 0.7%
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.
Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Indie 2.4%
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 35.8% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Futuristic 3.8%
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 28.2% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Space Sim 17.9% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 6.7%
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
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 26.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Space Sim 15.4% ★, Mars 14.3% ★, Strategy 8.3%
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 30.7% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Space Sim 19.1% ★, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Resource Management 2.7%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Aliens 7.5%
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Space Sim 20.2% ★, Mars 16% ★, Strategy 6.5%
It is the year 2072. Recent research has revealed how to locate an Earth-like exoplanet. You were shipped there. Your mission is to repair the spaceship, keep people in hibernation pods alive, and prepare the exoplanet for their arrival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, Space Sim 32.5% ★, Strategy 20.9%, Space 5.7%, Resource Management 2.9%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 15.7%, Resource Management 2.1%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Space Sim 16.8% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.1%
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 32.5% ★, Space Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.5%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Colony Sim 38.9% ★, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 3.2%
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, City Builder 33.1%, Strategy 21.8%, 2D 3%, Resource Management 2.9%
What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Aliens 5.5%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, City Builder 30%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 10%, Dark Fantasy 5.8%
IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Space Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Space 4.6%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Space Sim 25.7% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Futuristic 5%
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Space Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 4.8%