- #1 Occupy Mars: The Game
97% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8%
- #2 Outer Space Shack
96% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Open Lowcode SAS
Windows
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: Mars 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Space 8.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #3 Mars Colony Simulator
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mars Simulator
Windows
Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Mars 18% ★, Immersive Sim 16.5%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.2%
- #4 Red Dust Colony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
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 35.8% ★, Mars 22.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #5 Too Far Too Late
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fly Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Mars 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #6 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
92% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Bolverk GamesPub: Impact Inked
Windows
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Mars 27.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #7 Embark
93% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 45.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #8 Surviving Ceres
91% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
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 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9%
- #9 687 Days on Mars
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
687 Days on Mars is a survival game where you are stranded alone on Mars - your task is to manage resources, build a base from scratch, grow food, and explore the red planet in search of supplies and other hidden challenges. Every breath and decision counts - can you survive on the Red Planet?
Why similar: Mars 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #10 Oxygen Not Included
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 41.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #11 Vilset
90% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
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 32.4% ★, Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #12 Mars Colony Builder
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #13 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
87% matchMixed52% of 1,856 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Mars 28% ★, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Building 8.4%, Space 8.1%
- #14 Quriocity
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Mars 17.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #15 DeepWork
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CCS
Windows
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Mars 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.9%
- #16 Resilience
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Samskara Games
Windows
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Space 9.5%
- #17 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Mars 21.3% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #18 Medieval Frontiers
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Building 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #19 Starvector
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Starvector is a massive story-driven procedural universe where you aren't the main character. Collect resources, craft technology, build custom spaceships and bases, and so much more in a universe that existed long before you arrived, complete with pre-existing factions, conflicts, and history.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Space 9.2%
- #20 Colony Survival
84% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.1%
- #21 TFM: The First Men
82% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 40.2% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 6.5%
- #22 Marscape
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rohn Media GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Why similar: Mars 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #23 Cutthroat Cove
82% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Wicked Games
Windows
Welcome to Cutthroat Cove. Get ready to pillage and plunder, or be prepared to walk the plank. In this open world pirate thriller you can craft, engage in combat with the nasty locals, and follow clues to unlock the secrets of the Old World.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.5%
- #24 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Mars 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 7.7%
- #25 Home Domes
80% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: GivenKittens Games
Windows
Explore this life sim on a new planet. Create your new home on the rugged surface of Mars during the early days of colonization inside the safety of your new Dome. Everyday life on a new planet has new challenges and more difficulties of surviving out on the Domestead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Mars 27.8% ★, Space 12%, Base Building 7.8%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
- #26 Worlds Explorers
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
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 24.9% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 11.1%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #27 Star Rangers™ XE
81% matchMostly Negative40% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Project Whitecard Studios Inc.Pub: Awestruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
Why similar: Mars 32.9% ★, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.6%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #28 Citizens: On Mars
78% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
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: Mars 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.4%, Space 9.6%
- #29 Astro Colony
78% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Space 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #30 Settletopia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 32.6% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #31 Mozi
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozi
Windows
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Building 11.9%, 3D Platformer 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #32 GNOPE - Gnome Owner Simulator
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moodneys
Windows · Linux
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Building 14.4%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%
- #33 Nyric
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
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 24.5% ★, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10%
- #34 Outpost Surge
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thrive Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 38.6% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8%
- #35 The Stellar Station Engineer
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbital Flag StudioPub: Unknown
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Space 9.5%
- #36 Funorbit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aeroenix
Windows · Mac
Funorbit is a space survival simulation with realistic physics, resource gathering, crafting, and building. Navigate a vast universe using orbital mechanics, encounter drifting meteoroids, and construct space stations to survive.
Why similar: Mars 29.4% ★, Immersive Sim 14%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Space 7.1%
- #37 Wayward Beyond
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bitfish
Windows
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
Why similar: Immersive Sim 14.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.2%
- #38 Take On Mars
76% matchMixed55% of 2,023 reviews2017
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 43.6% ★, Space 15.1%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Exploration 7.8%
- #39 Sect Leader's Decree
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #40 Red Planet Rampart
72% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Beijing 1023 Technology CO., Ltd
Windows
You are deployed to the desolate red planet to reforge humanity's hope. With no hospitable atmosphere, no nurturing water sources, only relentless storms, unknown alien creatures, you must use wit and determination to survive on this alien land and build a Mars base of your own.
Why similar: Mars 34.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Building 12%, Space 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
- #41 Gateworlds
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
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 35.1% ★, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #42 Underground Nomads
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 41% ★, Building 15.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10%, Exploration 7.8%
- #43 Starship Colony
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 34.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #44 Farlanders: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 6%
- #45 Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Qubit
Windows
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Why similar: Mars 33.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Building 9.3%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Survival 7.6%
- #46 Maia
73% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 46.6% ★, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Space 9.5%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #47 Farlanders
69% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Mars 32% ★, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Building 10.8%, Space 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #48 Founders' Fortune
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 47.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 6.8%
- #49 Space Haven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 28.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 10.1%
- #50 Farmman
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 9.3%
- #51 Build Master: MarsVille
69% matchMixed50% of 290 reviews2023
Dev: FIRST FUN HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Build Master: MarsVille is a city-building and strategy game that invites you to create your Martian colony with your engineering genius and building skills. Form alliances, trade resources, and conquer rival colonies. Embrace the challenge and become the ultimate Build Master on Mars!
Why similar: Mars 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9%
- #52 Outpost On Syrinx
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Polychrome Games
Windows
Establish an Outpost on a wondrous alien world. Harvest, craft, build a base for humanity, uncover alien mysteries, and explore strange new lands.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 18.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 16%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 12.8%
- #53 Start Over
68% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.4%
- #54 Exot
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.4%
- #55 AGRONOM
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CyberMages
Windows
Farm, build, and automate with robots in AGRONOM, inspired by the best in the automation genre, games like Satisfactory, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, StarRupture and Planet Crafter. Сreate a cozy Martian homestead in Eastern European setting
Why similar: Mars 36.4% ★, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Base Building 10%
- #56 Terraspace
66% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Black Apple
Windows
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: Colony Sim 29% ★, Mars 23.6% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Space 7.9%
- #57 Woodland Rebels
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #58 Zodchy
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Try Hard Games
Windows · Mac
Zodchy is a top-down, co-op PvE action game for 1-10 players, set on the volatile surfaces of alien worlds. Drop into short, intense missions, tackle bonus objectives for extra rewards, and extract with valuable loot. Teamwork is your greatest weapon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #59 Stardeus
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 10.5%