
Overview: Manage resources and defend your base against alien attacks. Design: Build structures, collect resources and defend your colony with defense towers. Automation lets you focus on strategy.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, 2D, Singleplayer, Colony Sim.

Overview: Manage resources and defend your base against alien attacks. Design: Build structures, collect resources and defend your colony with defense towers. Automation lets you focus on strategy.

Spaceship Idle: Design, Build, Explore & Battle
Spaceship Idle is an idle/incremental 4X grand strategy auto battler where you build your own spaceship and engage in space battles. Research a vast tech tree, equip unique weapons, unlock powerful upgrades, construct bigger and better ships, win epic (auto) battles, and conquer the galaxy!

A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Spaceship Idle is an idle/incremental 4X grand strategy auto battler where you build your own spaceship and engage in space battles. Research a vast tech tree, equip unique weapons, unlock powerful upgrades, construct bigger and better ships, win epic (auto) battles, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, 4X 21.5% ★, Auto Battler 19.5%, Incremental 14.9%, Space 5.7%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 10.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 7%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Colony Sim 27.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Exploration 4.1%
Lead your clan, build settlements, and survive enemy raids in a turn-based strategy set in the harsh northern lands.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Strategy 8.5%
The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.
Why similar: 4X 37.8% ★, Auto Battler 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Strategy 6.6%
With vivid and exciting graphics, a pulsating soundtrack, and addictive gameplay, "Danger in Body" is a game that will keep you entertained and hooked for hours on end. You are the last hope of the human body - so get ready to fight for your right to live!
Why similar: Auto Battler 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Science 9%
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Incremental 14.3%, Automation 12.9%, Time Management 9.6%
Lordship is a turn-based 4x strategy where your objective is to be the first to obtain the set victory points (Fame). Explore, find treasure, build and expand cities, battle creeps and opponents, and interact with various objects on the map that automatically resolve.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Auto Battler 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 5.8%
Endless idle tower defense game full of deep strategy and combat mechanics. Unlock and upgrade dozens of epic fantasy heroes to defeat an infinite swarm of enemy monsters. Strategize hero positions, synergies, and skills for an effective defense, then sit back and let the auto-battler do its thing!
Why similar: Auto Battler 24.3%, Tower Defense 22.4%, Incremental 16.8%, Time Management 14.2%, Strategy 6.4%
A pixel-perfect Tower Defense game where defeat is just the beginning. Master the rock-paper-scissors balance of combat, speed up the action with 4x speed, and use your hard-earned XP to unlock powerful permanent skills. Can you hold the line?
Why similar: Auto Battler 24.4%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 7.7%
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.8%, Science 9.3%, Minimalist 7.6%, Building 7.5%
Swarmex is a casual pixel-art tower defense game where you build and upgrade a modular space base. Place turrets, mine resources with automated miners, and optimise adjacency bonuses as your defences run on their own. Play in short, satisfying sessions.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, Incremental 17%, Time Management 13.2%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.8%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Time Management 13.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Automation 6.6%
Protect the Infinite Power Generator by looping around the train tracks! Battle endless waves of enemies in this unique hybrid of auto-battler, survivor, tower defense, idle/clicker gameplay. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Auto Battler 24.6%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Incremental 17.1%, Time Management 13.1%, Minimalist 7.2%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 44.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 45.8% ★, Colony Sim 30.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Exploration 5.1%, Simulation 3.5%
Spawn weapons, strengthen them, and swipe waves of enemies. Spin the slot machine to earn rewards and become stronger.
Why similar: Auto Battler 31.8%, Tower Defense 25.4%, Incremental 19.4%, Strategy 12.7%, Casual 7.2%
Last Watchtower is a minimalist roguelite defense game. Gather resources, pick upgrades, and unlock powerful tower abilities. Experiment with diverse builds, withstand relentless monster waves, and grow stronger with every run through permanent meta-progression.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Auto Battler 29.8%, Tower Defense 21.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Minimalist 5.3%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9.2%
Auto Cell run in a two-dimensional grid world. Each grid can be regarded as a small life. It has two states: survival or death.
Why similar: Auto Battler 29.7%, Science 14.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Automation 10%
Idle Protocol is a minimalist sci-fi tower defense and incremental game. Manage a central CPU core, equip exactly 2 Nodes, and defend against geometric anomalies. Perform a System Reboot to earn Cycles and unlock permanent modules in the BIOS!
Why similar: Auto Battler 28.6%, Incremental 25.6%, Tower Defense 23%, Strategy 9.7%, Minimalist 5.9%
Defend your planet from relentless stream of incoming asteroids in this fast-paced 2D tower defence game. Strategically place defensive buildings and upgrade your arsenal to protect your world from destruction!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Auto Battler 19.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Incremental 7.2%, Space 7.2%
A strategy/castle builder. Create a character, build your palace, build up your defenses, craft, adventure and conquer all ancient China. Recruit legendary Heroes to lead into battle and command and fight real-time battles against waves of enemy forces out for your blood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.6%
"Island Deck" is a turn-based strategy game combined with island construction. Build your island with the cards in your hand, gather resources, and complete various tasks assigned by the king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Strategy 11%, Minimalist 9.2%
A turn-based grand strategy about the exploration of the Solar System. Use technologies — from existing prototypes to near-future engineering concepts. Build a space industry and become the leader of a new era.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, 4X 18.3% ★, Science 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%
An idle defense game at the bottom of your screen. Build your squad, upgrade your base, and hold the line against relentless alien waves while you work or browse.
Why similar: Auto Battler 26.3%, Tower Defense 24.4%, Incremental 21.7%, Automation 10.1%, Strategy 4.9%
HEXARX is a tactical turn based, crew management, ship building space combat game! You and your crew have been contracted by the Mega Corporations of New Hexaria Galaxy. Build, configure, upgrade and modify your ship. Manage and equip your crew members. Man your stations and protect your claim.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Strategy 6.6%, Cartoony 6.5%
Rebuild a fallen medieval kingdom one click at a time. Manage resources, construct 30+ buildings, master skills, and balance Faith against Chaos in this relaxing idle clicker with deep progression and offline rewards.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Auto Battler 27.2%, Incremental 14.8%, Time Management 11.8%, Casual 5.6%
A dark fantasy incremental breeding game where you cultivate a monstrous brood, inherit stronger traits, unlock mutations and automation, then send your evolving creatures into conquest across a hostile corpse-world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Auto Battler 23.6%, Incremental 19.2%, Automation 13%, Exploration 6.6%
Lands of Achra is a dark fantasy strategy game of a lost age. Build a customized force as a hero, monster or nation, fight your enemies in brutal autobattles and strive to vanquish the procedurally generated world. Seek glory, against all who struggle upon the distorted earth...
Why similar: 4X 44.9% ★, Auto Battler 27.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 11.3%, 2D 3%
An accident causes a lost space probe to become self aware. "Apotheosis engine" is a lore-rich incremental game. Grow from a piece of engineering into a galactic superdeity.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Auto Battler 19.4%, Incremental 15.3%, Exploration 5%
Eurekas is a real-time strategy colony sim where settlers battle a hostile, mystical island. Build, survive, use magic, and appease your gods—or risk losing everything to the wild forces that resist your claim.
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Building 5.1%
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 59.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.2%, Strategy 16.1%, 2D 5%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Why similar: 4X 67.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 11.3%, Space 9.3%
A chill clicker-idle game where you dig, recruit and manage miners, and uncover buried upgrades deep underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Auto Battler 18.5%, Incremental 17.2%, Automation 16.5%, Strategy 6.2%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 60.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Space 8.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.8%
A turn based city biulder, where you have to manage increasingly complex production lines, attract adventurers to your city and create Quests to protect yourself instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Auto Battler 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Building 8.3%
Sent to the edges of your kingdom as a noble, you must explore new lands, build settlements, and compete against rival lords. Plan wisely, manage resources, and decide in short, strategic turns who will gain fame, power, and influence in the Frontiers of the Realms.
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Casual 5.5%
Stunning sphere-themed idle/incremental game. Experience simplicity's beauty.
Why similar: Auto Battler 26.3%, Incremental 18.3%, Time Management 16.7%, Science 10%, Minimalist 8.1%
Endustry is a game about building, exploring and surviving. Build machines and conveyor belts to collect resources. Try to survive with or without enemy waves depending on which game mode you play.
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.7%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Automation 12.2%, 4X 11.4% ★, Minimalist 8.2%
WarBoard: Arena Empire is a turn-based tactical strategy game on a hex arena. Command Rome, the Turks, Vikings, Egypt, Japan or Persia. Play solo against AI, or battle up to 4 Steam friends in private matches. Every move counts.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Auto Battler 13.3%, Strategy 11.3%
Manage an expedition of dwarves as they build out a colony under the surface in this incremental game. Assign your dwarves to farm food, forge runes, hunt trolls and mine ore!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Incremental 21.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Minimalist 6.9%, Casual 6.6%
Humans are ruining the lush world of Terra Inferno! Embody nature's wrath in this Turn-Based Tactics meets Resource Management Game, evoke natural calamities to devastate the human onslaught!
Why similar: Auto Battler 30.8%, Tower Defense 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Strategy 8.7%
Heroes collect gold, and we use gold to increase staff and buildings, and we collect training points. And heroes get stronger using training points. It is a game that can be enjoyed comfortably without time and limitations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Auto Battler 32%, Time Management 16.7%, Cartoony 7%, Casual 6.4%
Build random towers, combine them into powerful defenses, farm gold, go fishing for jackpots, and level up to get stronger every run in GreySpire!
Why similar: Auto Battler 35.7%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Casual 8%
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Time Management 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%, Space 8%
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.8%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Auto Battler 18%, Strategy 9.7%, Minimalist 5.6%
All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Incremental 24.9%, Automation 19.5%, Exploration 7.8%, Simulation 6.8%
A short incremental clicker game that blends the strategy of tower defense with the depth of sprawling upgrade trees. Build your own winding mazes to repel the oncoming hordes!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Incremental 21.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Minimalist 7.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%
An endless Tower Defense game of epic heroes vs evil zombies. Unlock and upgrade countless Heroes, artifacts, and technologies to defend against the infinite zombie swarms. Strategize the most effective placement of Heroes to synergize their skills and abilities.
Why similar: Auto Battler 22.9%, Incremental 22.4%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Time Management 13.4%, Automation 7.8%
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 30.1%, Building 6.5%, Minimalist 6.3%, Simulation 6.3%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 61.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 5%, Space 3.6%
Ant Attack - A peculiar blend of Clicker and Tower Defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, Incremental 24.8%, Time Management 24.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Automation 8.4%
Lead your civilization to galactic glory in this bite-sized 4X strategy game. Build, colonize, trade, and, by tact or might, overcome all who oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 52.8% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Space 10.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
What happens when a Viking meets a Cowboy? He fights him, of course! The World is not big enough for both of them. World of Asgabas is a turn-based strategy game opposing multiple factions fighting to dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 45.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Building 8.3%, Minimalist 8.2%
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, Space 8%, Top-Down 6.3%, Exploration 5.7%
Casual, short autobattler focused on progression. Recruit fighters from different realms into your arena. Earn fame. Upgrade the arena, level up your fighters, and add stronger enemies. Earn more fame. Invite nobles, kings, and even gods into the audience.
Why similar: Auto Battler 43.9%, Incremental 34.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Top-Down 6%, Casual 5.4%
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Why similar: 4X 66.8% ★, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Space 7.9%
Clash of Cultures is an addictive turn based stratergy game that is simple to learn yet has a lot of depth. Research technologies, shape your government, progress through the ages, and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 47.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Casual 6.6%