Games Like Per Aspera

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Space 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the planetary-scale automation and logistical complexity found in Per Aspera.

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Mars 30.1% ★, Science 18.6% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 10.1%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific goal of terraforming a planet through strategic decision-making and resource management.

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: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Space 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines space-based city building with high-stakes survival and complex resource management.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Moddable 8.3% ★, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation and supply chain management, it mirrors the core gameplay loop of building efficient, self-sustaining systems.

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 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 9.4%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on the logistical struggle of keeping a remote space base functional.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 10.9%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on lunar colonization with a heavy emphasis on automation and resource extraction.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★, City Builder 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex logistics and industrial supply chains that will appeal to fans of Per Aspera's management systems.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Mars 21.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more granular, survival-focused look at building and maintaining a base on Mars.

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: Automation 15.6%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on AI-driven bot management and automation makes it a strong mechanical cousin to Per Aspera.

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 32.1% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a traditional sci-fi city-building experience on an alien planet with similar environmental challenges.

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Automation 14.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Moddable 11.4% ★, Science 11.1% ★, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with a heavy focus on transportation networks and automated logistics.

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 21.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city-building with industrial automation and strategic combat in a unique sci-fi setting.

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Mars 19.1% ★, Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses entirely on the logistics of planetary terraforming and resource production.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game captures the scale and satisfaction of building massive industrial structures on an alien world.

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 18.3% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.5%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing a colony in space, emphasizing survival and internal base layout.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Moddable 13.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most complex and realistic logistics and resource management simulation available in the city-builder genre.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Robots 10.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming automation-focused city builder that shares the goal of building a self-sustaining civilization.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 19.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This underground automation game focuses on building massive factories and managing resources in a sci-fi setting.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.7%, Space 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing take on planetary city-building that emphasizes resource management and expansion.

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 16.8%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Robots 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes large-scale base building and resource processing.

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 13.2% ★, Moddable 12.8% ★, Automation 12.1%, Science 11.1% ★, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore look at atmospheric, power, and logic management in a space-based setting.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a god-game perspective on planetary development, allowing you to guide a civilization through the ages.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 44.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While historical, its deep logistics and multi-island supply chain management are the gold standard for the genre.

「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 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused colony sim that directly tackles the challenges of developing the Martian surface.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10%, Real-Time 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that challenges players to manage resources in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Why similar: Mars 32% ★, Science 18.5% ★, Management 11.7%, Space 10.7%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the space agency management side of the Mars mission, providing a different perspective on the same theme.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the high-stakes, survival-focused city-building experience where every resource decision matters.

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: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with survival mechanics in a world where resources are scarce.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Mars 10.7% ★, Moddable 10.4% ★, Base Building 10.2%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.5%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.6%, Space 9%

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 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Moddable 11.7% ★, Base Building 6.4%

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: Automation 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Space 9.4%

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an economic-focused strategy experience set on Mars, emphasizing market manipulation and resource control.

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 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 14.7%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Base Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Moddable 15.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Space 8.6%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Automation 13%, Moddable 11.4% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Robots 9.7%

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Management 15.5%, Space 14.7%, Building 14.1%

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 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Automation 8.6%

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 21.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Space 10.7%, Management 9.5%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 17%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Base Building 13%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Building 8.4%

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

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 17% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Science 9.5% ★, Management 8%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Management 9.3%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9.5%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Automation 13.6%, Science 11.9% ★, Base Building 9.1%

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.6%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

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 29.8% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.3%

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 34.5% ★, Science 14.3% ★, Space 12.7%, Building 7.8%, Moddable 7.4% ★

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.2%, Building 16.6%, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Survival 10.1%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Science 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Management 10.3%

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 40.5% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 9.5%

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Real-Time 24.4% ★, Moddable 14% ★, Automation 13%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 7.8%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 7.4%

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Why similar: Mars 45.9% ★, Science 17.2% ★, Robots 14.2%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 9%, Space 8.9%, Management 8.6%