60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Colony Sim, Base Building.
Sail your island. Bring new land home. A colony sim where heroes of history and myth gather, build and fight to survive. Merge islands, plan your settlement, set each hero’s priorities and automate production—then take command in battle. Turn a tiny camp into a moving homeland.
Galaxy Scavengers
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.
Underground Nomads
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.
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: Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.9%
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 28.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.8%
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: Real-Time with Pause 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Programming 20.1% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 14.1%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.8%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 11.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.9%
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 28.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Real-Time with Pause 12.4% ★, Resource Management 11%, Building 7.9%
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 25.8%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
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 32.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 7.1%
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 30.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 7.2%, Management 6.6%, Building 6.4%
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 21.9%, Automation 17%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.7%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.2%
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Real-Time with Pause 12.3% ★, Resource Management 12%, Management 9.8%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.8%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Programming 18.7% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 23.4% ★, Automation 20.4%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 6%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 13%, Automation 12.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 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 30.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 9.6%, Survival 7.2%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Automation 9%, Survival 8.5%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 8.7%
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Real-Time with Pause 19.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%, Resource Management 8.5%
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 27.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 8.9%
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 21.7%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 8.4%, Survival 7.7%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Programming 17.4% ★, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Real-Time with Pause 15% ★, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 7%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 23.7%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 8.9%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Automation 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 8.5%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 18.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
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: Colony Sim 20.5%, Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Farming 15.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 9.5%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.8% ★, Farming 13.5% ★, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.7%
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 31.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%
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 32.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 10.1%, Automation 8.6%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 9.7%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
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: Colony Sim 26.2%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 9.1%
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 17.1% ★, Automation 15.9%, Farming 15.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 11.7%, Management 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.9%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9%
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 26.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 9%, Building 8.1%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.6%
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23% ★, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Automation 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Farming 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, Automation 15%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
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 33%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 10.8%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 6.3%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Real-Time with Pause 18% ★, Programming 14.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.6%
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%
Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.8%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.8%
