
Build a living colony on Mars. Manage oxygen, power and food, care for your colonists, trade with five alien species, and uncover buried ruins with scanners and mining rovers. Defend your settlement and research a future beyond survival.
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Build a living colony on Mars. Manage oxygen, power and food, care for your colonists, trade with five alien species, and uncover buried ruins with scanners and mining rovers. Defend your settlement and research a future beyond survival.

Red Dust Colony
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.

Farlanders: Prologue
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.
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 30.6%, Mars 21.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.4%
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 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 6.8%, Survival 6.3%
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 37.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 6.4%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Survival 7.3%
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 27.5%, Mars 16.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
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 35.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 7.2%
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Mars 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Space 5.4%, Survival 5.1%
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 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 7.2%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Space 11.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Survival 7.7%
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 40.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Space 7.4%
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 27.6% ★, Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 9.8%, Survival 7.5%
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 40.3% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 5%
You're the intelligent electronics of a Mars mission. Four capable crew members. You are not one of them. Your job: keep them alive and happy, they're the only ones who can succeed. Built under the advice of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, the big decisions are yours to make.
Why similar: Mars 34.5% ★, Colony Sim 28.5%, Survival 9.6%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 5.9%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Mars 31.4% ★, Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 7.8%, Space 6.7%
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Mars 31.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Survival 7.3%
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 30.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9%, Space 6.6%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8%, Building 7.4%
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Why similar: Mars 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 7.8%, Survival 7.5%
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 37.3%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.3%
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 31.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Space 9.1%, Survival 7.6%
Space Hotel offers a bold new twist on the classic city builder and tycoon genres. Take your management skills beyond the surface and into orbit. Experience the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a luxury space hotel where the stakes are high and the rewards are out of this world.
Why similar: Mars 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.1%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 7%
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 36.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Space 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 6.7%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13%, Building 8.2%, Survival 8.1%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Space 10.1%
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 31.6% ★, Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Space 7.6%, Resource Management 6.9%
「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: Mars 28% ★, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Building 7.5%
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This challenging survival colony sim features deep simulated ship systems and a whole universe to explore.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 10.2%, Aliens 9.6%, Space 7.6%
Terraforming Titans is an incremental colony builder with a moderate focus on realism and scale. Terraform increasingly challenging and large worlds and guide humanity to complete control over the Milky Way.
Why similar: Mars 44.9% ★, Colony Sim 27%, Space 8.5%, Aliens 7.6%, Simulation 4.8%
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 35%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9%, Aliens 8.5%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 9%, Building 6.7%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 7.2%
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Why similar: Mars 44.7% ★, Base Building 21.6%, Space 13.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.5%, Space 8.2%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Space 9.7%, Survival 8.9%
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 34.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.3%
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 34.7%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 7.6%
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 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
Mars Base Alley is a cozy city-builder about creating the perfect little corner of humanity on the red planet—one alley at a time.
Why similar: Mars 37.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Aliens 12.3%, Space 8.3%, Sci-fi 6%
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 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 8.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 49.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 5.1%
Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.
Why similar: Mars 33.1% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Space 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 6.9%
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 28.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.5%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Building 9%
Guide fragile homunculi with limited lifespans through humanity's final bid for survival across six hostile worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Survival 13.6%, Building 9.6%, Space 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 17%, Survival 15.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Simulation 7.1%
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 33.9%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.7%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 14.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 12.8%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Space 10.8%, Survival 7.4%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 14.9%, Building 6.7%
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Why similar: Mars 36.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.2%, Space 8.8%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Simulation 5.4%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 7.5%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%
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 38.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 12%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 6.4%
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.8%
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 29.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10%, Space 9.6%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 24.9%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 6.1%