
Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.
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Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.

Possible One: Lunar Industries
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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.
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Space Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 15.7%, Futuristic 3.8%
Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Colony Sim 8.3%
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Space Sim 21.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 6.5%
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Space Sim 19.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.4%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Space Sim 13.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.8%
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Space Sim 23.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 4.7%
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Space Sim 21%, City Builder 14%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.5%
Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Space Sim 21.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 10.1%
Embark on a cosmic odyssey as the director of your own space station in a galaxy full of wonders. Skillful management is vital as you construct and connect station components, oversee resource handling, and guide your space haven to reach new heights amidst the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Space Sim 14.6%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.7%
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Space Sim 24.5%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 6.3%, Building 6%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Base Building 3.7%
Titan: The Ascension is a colony management strategy game on Saturn’s moon Titan. Build and expand an off-world industrial colony, extract ice to produce water for Earth, trade resources, and defend against ancient automated systems that react to technology growth. Will you prevail?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Space Sim 17.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.6%
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 31.9%, City Builder 26.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 7.2%
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 28.4%, Space Sim 18%, City Builder 12%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.5%
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 19.4%, Space Sim 15.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 15.9%, Building 4.7%
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 13%, Realistic 4.2%
Deep Space Remnant is a space survival base-building simulator: build your station, gather resources with ships, research technology, and strengthen shields to survive escalating cosmic radiation.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.5%, City Builder 25.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Space 4%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 4%
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Space Sim 17.8%, City Builder 12%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6%
Dodge lasers and explore! Planetary Development Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Space Sim 24%, City Builder 19.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 15%, City Builder 13.5%, Building 5%
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Space Sim 26.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 4.9%
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 34.5%, City Builder 24.9%, Strategy 9%, Space Sim 5.8%, Base Building 5.5%
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Space Sim 22.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 5%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 35.5%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 1.2%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 5.1%
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 24.9%, Space Sim 17.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.8%
Construct and manage your colony anytime, anywhere, any device!!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 16%, Space Sim 15.8%, Simulation 14.8%
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 35.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Space 5.7%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 21.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Building 3.7%
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 18.9%, Realistic 5.3%, Simulation 4.9%
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 29.2%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 7.4%, 3D 4.1%
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Space Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Simulation 8.6%, Building 5.2%
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 15.6%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 6.1%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 24.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 5%
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 29.4%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Realistic 5.6%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 4%
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 29.9%, City Builder 21.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Base Building 5%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 21.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Base Building 5.5%
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 24.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Top-Down 5.3%
IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Space Sim 23.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Top-Down 4.2%
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 33.1%, City Builder 27.9%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 7.1%
Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Building 4.4%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 6.2%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Space Sim 17.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Building 5.6%
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 18.2%, Top-Down 5.9%, Building 5%
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 25.4%, Strategy 20%, Building 9.5%, Management 4%
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 24.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 4.7%
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 9%, Building 7.6%
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Building 6.4%, Top-Down 6%
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 29.9%, Strategy 17.5%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 6%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 32.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Building 6.4%, Simulation 6.2%
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 27.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Building 5.4%, Top-Down 4.7%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.9%, Building 2.1%