Games Like IXION

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 18.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar 'moving space station' mechanic where you must manage crew needs and structural integrity while navigating a dangerous galaxy.

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 27.5%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares IXION's core philosophy of unrelenting survival pressure and difficult moral choices in a harsh, resource-starved environment.

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 31.6% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 13%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex resource management and survival systems that require precise engineering to keep your colony from collapsing.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Space 25.2%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the grand scale of space-faring logistics and industrial automation required to fuel a civilization's expansion.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Survival 15.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Colony Sim 6.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's survival-city-builder formula with even greater focus on societal management and resource scarcity.

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: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like IXION, this game features a mobile base—a giant creature—that you must manage and protect while traveling through a post-apocalyptic world.

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: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-pressure, mission-based city-building experience where you must constantly adapt to survive against an encroaching, apocalyptic storm.

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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Space 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward space colony-builder that focuses heavily on the essential task of keeping your base powered and your colonists fed.

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 29.8%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused city builder forces you to manage resources and protect your colony from environmental disasters and external threats.

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 34.6%, Survival 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Base Building 10%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring careful infrastructure planning to withstand radiation and climate events.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that challenges you to rebuild society after a solar flare apocalypse.

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: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Space 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with tactical combat and resource management in a unique, futuristic sci-fi setting.

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 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Space 14.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Set on the Moon, this game focuses on automation and resource extraction to support a growing lunar colony.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 19%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D survival colony-sim that tasks you with managing a small group of survivors on an alien planet with complex threats.

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 31.2% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 13.1%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A premier colony-sim that excels at generating high-stakes emergent narratives and survival challenges for your settlers.

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: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Space 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the planetary-scale terraforming of Mars, blending grand strategy with detailed resource management.

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 21.5% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Space 11.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that allows for detailed colony management and base-building across various celestial bodies.

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: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder where you manage a beaver colony, focusing heavily on water management and drought survival.

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: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 8.3%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game requires you to manage multiple small, interconnected cities on cliff-tops to survive a post-apocalyptic Earth.

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: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 9%, Space 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city builder that tasks you with establishing a sustainable human settlement on an exotic, dangerous alien world.

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game applies the survival-colony-sim formula to the extreme, high-pressure environment of the deep ocean floor.

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 28.1%, Space 18%, Resource Management 13.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on the logistical challenges of transportation and resource flow in a futuristic setting.

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: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the post-apocalyptic survival mechanics, focusing on exploration and resource management in a harsh wasteland.

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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder where you must manage oxygen production and other vital resources to keep your colony alive.

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: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a secret facility and the exploration of alien worlds through a stargate-like portal.

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 40.6%, Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 6%, Economy 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that tracks the progress of a human settlement from the Stone Age through the Iron Age.

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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, realistic management game that offers the most complex resource and logistics systems for those who enjoy deep simulation.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.6%

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: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Space 12%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that incorporates survival and management elements as you guide your civilization through the ages into the space era.

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Space 13.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 6.9%

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: Resource Management 20.4%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Economy 9.2%

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 41%, Space 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city builder that features multi-stage production chains and space-based resource extraction.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%

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: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Space 13.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.2%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Space 18.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 12.6%

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: Space 30.6%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 8.6%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 17%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.6%

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Space 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 8.2%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 9.6%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, Space 13.7%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%

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% ★, Space 20.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Building 9.4%

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: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

Why similar: Space 34.3%, Economy 19%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.4%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Survival 21.5%, Space 18.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Strategy 7.9%

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Space 14.4%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 6.7%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 8.2%

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: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Space 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7.2%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 9.9%, Strategy 7.8%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.1%

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 33.3% ★, Resource Management 21.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 6.4%

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 34.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9%, Economy 8.2%

「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 20% ★, Space 14.2%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9.8%

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 24% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Space 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.7%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Economy 31.5%, Strategy 22.1%, Management 16%, RTS 14.3%, Simulation 13.6%

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Space 16.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.3%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 8.5%