Games Like Pax Autocratica

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Cult 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Action Roguelike 11.3%, Roguelite 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines dark colony and cult management with fast-paced action-roguelike dungeon crawling.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 12.5%, Management 12.5%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep colony-sim mechanics centered around ruling over subjects with absolute, tyrannical power.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers rigorous colony survival and base-building mechanics on a hostile alien world.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that tests your survival skills and moral boundaries under harsh conditions.

TerraTech Legion, a chaotic Bullet Heaven Builder. Build the ultimate battle vehicle block by block and survive waves of robotic foes, ramming them at speed and shooting infinite projectiles.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 24.2%, Mechs 20.1% ★, Action Roguelike 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Roguelite 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on crafting, vehicular combat, and action-roguelike destruction.

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 28.5%, Automation 24.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Involves complex base-building and automated resource management in a sprawling space setting.

Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 48.9%, Building 20.2%, Roguelite 12.4%, PvE 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes vehicular combat and tactical command of a specialized crew in a harsh wasteland.

True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.

Why similar: Military 24.5%, Base Building 22.4%, Action Roguelike 17.6%, Building 15.3%, Roguelite 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategic base-building and military deployment with roguelite mechanics.

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 27.9%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 19%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi base-building and resource management game focused on industrial expansion on the moon.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on large-scale automation, crafting, and terraforming in an open world.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Automation 25.3%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival elements with intense automation and combat on alien planets.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Base Building 33.6%, Colony Sim 29.6%, Management 15.2%, Survival 13.4%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that requires defending your base and managing citizens against hostile threats.

Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.

Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Military 17.4%, Looter Shooter 16.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base-building, tower defense, and heavy mech-based tactical combat.

The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Action Roguelike 14.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes automation, survival, and roguelite progression within an industrial setting.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Automation 17.8%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim focused on survival, building, and simulation mechanics.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.8%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you build a settlement and rule over your subjects with direct management and defense.

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 37.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 13.4%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony-sim where you manage workers and build defenses against nightly monster hordes.

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Automation 25.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management, base-building, and heavy automation in a resource-driven world.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Automation 19%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deeply detailed base construction and automation systems for hardcore survivalists.

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 23.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Management 12.9%, PvE 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features automation and base-building mechanics centered around managing a remote outpost.

“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Military 18.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features strategic colony defense and resource survival against aggressive alien forces.

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.8%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on industrial automation, strategy, and survival against overwhelming swarms.

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 23.8%, Management 16.4%, Survival 14.8%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-driven colony management game set within the dangerous confines of a dungeon.

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 36.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony-sim where you manage survivors, build a base, and fight off demonic threats.

Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 12.3%, Management 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes management, simulation, and building within a structured colony setup.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 35.2%, Crafting 34%, Building 23.1%, Strategy 5.7%, 3D 2%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.6%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival experience centered on building and maintaining a functional colony.

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 27.7%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 17%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down management game focused on building and running structured space colonies.

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, Base Building 28.7%, Survival 14.2%, Roguelite 10.7%, Strategy 5.7%

Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.

Why similar: Mechs 34.4% ★, Military 18.3%, Looter Shooter 16.3% ★, Action Roguelike 12.3%, Action RPG 8.1%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 11.7%, Survival 11.3%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Automation 16.2%, Crafting 16%, Vehicular Combat 15.2%, Building 13%

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 26.3%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your strategic planning and simulation skills in maintaining a fragile colony.

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 14.8%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Management 16.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 13.1%, Building 6.1%

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 21.1%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Military 15.8%, Building 10.5%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 25.4%, Crafting 20.6%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 5.5%

This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Action Roguelike 15.2%, Building 14.1%, Roguelite 13.4%, Management 12.3%

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 31.7%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.9%

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.7%

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: Automation 30.4%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.3%

Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Management 9.4%, Building 8.1%

Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 58.6%, Roguelite 41.4%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 14.1%, Management 13.9%, Survival 12.5%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11.3%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, Base Building 27%, Building 19%, Strategy 7.2%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 17.8%, Building 9%, Strategy 8.5%

In this presidential rogue-like action game, gather votes and run for presidency by day, then transform into a warrior to take down your enemies by night! Master unique skills to become a swordmaster, a cyber mage, or anything in between, and overthrow the ruthless president!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 17.9%, Action Roguelike 17.6%, Roguelite 13.4%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Management 16%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 5.1%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Survival 11.1%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 22.8%, Building 15%, Management 11.8%, Survival 9.4%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Base Building 25.2%, Survival 16.7%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 6.1%

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Management 22.4%, Building 21.7%, Roguelite 18.8%, Strategy 7.7%

You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!

Why similar: Base Building 39.8%, Roguelite 25.7%, Building 23.9%, Strategy 10.6%

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 42.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 12.9%, Building 7%, Management 6.6%

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Roguelite 14%, Management 13.4%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 17%, Automation 16.4%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%

Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.

Why similar: Mechs 59.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 33.4%, Strategy 7%