- #1 Outer Space Shack
97% matchMixed43% of 14 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 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.5%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.1%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
- #2 Mars Colony Simulator
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Almaty Studios
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 34.7%, Mars 18.5% ★, Immersive Sim 16%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #3 Red Dust Colony
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Mars 23.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #4 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 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #5 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
93% matchVery Positive84% of 81 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 27.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.5%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Space 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #6 Embark
94% matchMixed60% of 389 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 44.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #7 Surviving Ceres
92% matchVery Positive87% of 139 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 28.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #8 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
91% matchMixed54% of 2,116 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Building 8.4%, Space 8.2%
- #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 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Immersive Sim 10%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #10 Oxygen Not Included
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 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 41.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #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 32.3%, Building 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #12 Ares Inception
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Spacehabs Studios Inc.
Windows
You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.
Why similar: Mars 33.6% ★, Colony Sim 29.4%, Space 10.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
- #13 Mars Colony Builder
88% 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 28.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #14 Mozi
87% 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 22.9%, 3D Platformer 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #15 DeepWork
86% matchNo user reviews2026
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 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8%
- #16 Quriocity
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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 30.2%, Mars 17.6% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 7.9%
- #17 Resilience
85% 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 20.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Space 9.6%
- #18 MORS
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phiality
Windows
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Why similar: Mars 36.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Space 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7%
- #19 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 21.4% ★, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #20 Worlds Explorers
82% matchNo user reviews2026
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 31.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%
- #21 Colony Survival
83% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 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 39.5%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.2%
- #22 Sol One
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yeetgench
Windows
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
Why similar: Mars 31.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.3%
- #23 From Nothing
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #24 Starvector
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Space 9.3%
- #25 Medieval Frontiers
80% 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 23.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #26 Marscape
79% 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 32% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #27 Home Domes
79% 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: Mars 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 27.7%, Space 12%, Base Building 7.7%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #28 Astro Colony
76% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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 27.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 12%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #29 Project Longshot
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: LongshotWorks
Windows
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Space 10.5%
- #30 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 832 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.6%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 7.9%
- #31 TFM: The First Men
78% matchMixed60% of 413 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%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 6.4%
- #32 Star Rangers™ XE
78% matchMixed40% 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 33.2% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.6%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #33 Satus Colony Survival
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Re³ Studios
Windows
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #34 Cutthroat Cove
77% 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 27.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.6%
- #35 Citizens: On Mars
75% 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 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 27%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.4%, Space 9.7%
- #36 Settletopia
74% 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 32.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.2%
- #37 Legend of Ro
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Foundation GmbH
Windows · Linux
A survival platformer where you, a young warrior monk from the tribe of the mouse people, must ensure the prosperity of your home village and its inhabitants. Explore the forest, collect resources, fight monsters and uncover the secrets of the ancient civilization that came before.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, 3D Platformer 16.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Exploration 7.3%
- #38 Funorbit
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aeroenix
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Space 7.1%
- #39 GNOPE - Gnome Owner Simulator
73% 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 14.5%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #40 Outpost Surge
72% 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 39% ★, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8%
- #41 Nyric
71% 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 24.3%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%
- #42 Heng Rover Mission
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Roeun Technology
Windows · Mac
Build, launch, and survive. Design your own rover and automated robot workforce to conquer the harsh Martian climate, fulfill Mission Control directives, and uncover the secrets of the red planet in Heng Mar Mission.
Why similar: Mars 30.7% ★, Building 16.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Exploration 9.8%
- #43 Everlost
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Building 19.6%, Crafting 17.7%, Exploration 13.1%, Base Building 11.5%
- #44 Take On Mars
73% matchMixed55% of 2,032 reviews2017
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 43.9% ★, Space 15.1%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Exploration 7.7%
- #45 Wayward Beyond
70% 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 14.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #46 SeaColony
68% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.8%
- #47 The Stellar Station Engineer
70% 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 27.4%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Space 9.6%
- #48 Space Haven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 28.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Space 10.7%
- #49 Red Planet Rampart
69% 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 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.5%, Building 12%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 10%
- #50 Maia
72% matchMixed44% of 1,064 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 45.8%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #51 Dwarf Things
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10%
- #52 Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews2027
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 33.5% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.3%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Survival 7.6%
- #53 Farlanders: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive93% of 288 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 35.7% ★, Colony Sim 26.5%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Space 6%
- #54 Terra Crafter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greenway Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Exploration 8.3%
- #55 Malignus
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%
- #56 Starship Colony
67% 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%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #57 Farlanders
67% matchVery Positive90% of 591 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 32.5% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, Building 10.9%, Space 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #58 HullRats
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.4%