
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, Singleplayer, 2D, 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: 4X 22.1% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Auto Battler 18.8%, Incremental 14.2%, Space 5.9%
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 35.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 9.9%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 7%
An idle space 4X drawn entirely in Minitel-era text. Your empire builds, scans and colonizes while the game is closed — but the Hegemony raids on ninety seconds' warning, and something at the centre of the galaxy has started listening.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.4%, Incremental 15.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Space 6.8%
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 41.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Exploration 4.2%
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 38.5% ★, Auto Battler 21.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, 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 19.5%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Science 9.2%
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Colony Sim 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Exploration 4.8%
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 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Incremental 13.6%, Automation 12.3%, 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 41.4% ★, Auto Battler 23.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 5.8%
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: Tower Defense 24.7%, Auto Battler 23.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy 7.8%
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 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.7%, Science 9.4%, Minimalist 7.7%, Building 7.6%
A country simulator built on strategy: 160 real nations, deep production chains, a live world market, diplomacy, intelligence and war. Win the world with economy, not armies.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.3%
Govern the New World as His Majesty's Viceroy during the Age of Exploration. Explore unknown lands, build thriving colonies, trade across the Atlantic, wage war, and forge an independent nation in this historical turn-based 4X strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 10.7%, Exploration 4.2%
Endless Idle Tower Defense with deep strategy and RPG progression and combat mechanics. Recruit, upgrade, and position powerful fantasy heroes, discover game-changing synergies, and survive infinite monster waves. Grow stronger every run with literally millions of upgrades and endless auto battles.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, Auto Battler 20.5%, Incremental 15.5%, Time Management 13.7%, Automation 11.9%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%
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 27.6%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Time Management 13%, Strategy 6.7%, Minimalist 6.3%
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 46.1% ★, Colony Sim 30.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Exploration 5.1%, Simulation 3.5%
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 24.8%, Incremental 16.2%, Time Management 13.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 9.9%
Settle an island and grow it into a busy town in this relaxed city builder. Create roads, farms, and watch citizens carry every good on foot. Research new technology, upgrade shelters for more citizens, and keep every home supplied.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Incremental 16.6%, Time Management 13.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Automation 9.3%
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 32.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%
Spin the slot machine for rewards and bonuses that improve your odds, then strengthen your defenses against waves of enemies. Turn lucky opportunities into upgrades and combine luck with strategy to build a stronger defense.
Why similar: Auto Battler 31.1%, Tower Defense 26.2%, Incremental 18.7%, Strategy 13%, Casual 7.5%
Attack with your cursor, build towers and walls to defend your pit! An incremental clicker that combines tower defense, maze building, and large upgrade trees. Earn money, upgrade your defenses, and build winding mazes to stop the hordes of the Dark Forest.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Auto Battler 21.3%, Incremental 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Minimalist 6.2%
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 28.1%, Incremental 24.7%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Minimalist 6.2%
"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 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Minimalist 9.3%
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 28.7%, Science 15%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Automation 9.6%
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 27.1%, 4X 18.4% ★, Science 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%
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 23.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%
HOLD THE COOP! is an incremental auto-battler where you protect your coop from waves of coyotes. Earn gold, buy upgrades, unlock stronger chicken units, and survive tougher rounds. Lose, upgrade, and come back stronger!
Why similar: Auto Battler 28.4%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Incremental 22.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Top-Down 4.9%
ONE MORE VOYAGE is a minimalist 4X game with incremental progression. On each new Voyage you explore strange planets on the hunt for vital resources to make the next warp jump on the flight from an overpowering enemy. Can you find the starcharts to escape your pursuers?
Why similar: 4X 45.6% ★, Incremental 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Minimalist 9.3%, Exploration 5.7%
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 38.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Cartoony 6.6%, Strategy 6.5%
Build a steampunk colony, put robots to work and connect a growing network of steam-powered machines. Mine resources, research new technology and defend your Steam Core when night falls. Play solo or join friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Automation 9.6%, Simulation 9.2%
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 42.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 4.2%
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 38.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.6%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Building 5.1%
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 35.3%, Auto Battler 18.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Space 7.5%, Incremental 6.9%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Why similar: 4X 67.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 11%, Space 9.2%
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%, Tower Defense 25.4%, Incremental 21.1%, Automation 9.5%, Minimalist 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 60.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Strategy 15.9%, 2D 5%
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 56% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Space 7.1%, 2D 4.7%
Hollow Orbits 4X combines 4X strategy with the mechanics of a board game. Collect and use tactic cards, and roll dice for your fleet’s weapons. Play solo, against AI, or with friends for dominance in a galaxy filled with ancient dangers and hidden treasures.
Why similar: 4X 50.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Space 7%
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 60.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Space 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.7%
An incremental roguelike tower defense colony sim where you command your colonist to farm, craft, mine and defend waves of the undead. Progressing towards your skill tree after each run to survive further and further!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Tower Defense 31.3%, Incremental 12.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 8.1%
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 45.9% ★, Auto Battler 26.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 11.3%, 2D 3%
A deep-space 4X simulation. Explore a procedurally generated universe, colonize worlds, build a realistic economy, and lead your civilization toward galactic domination. Brave ecological and economic crises, face famines, wars, and disasters, and ensure your survival!
Why similar: 4X 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Time Management 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Space 7.8%
Build a realm and a deck to match. Grow villages into cities, shape production chains and play cards for supplies, expansion and tactical support. A turn-based strategy game where rivals act in the same round. Play against AI or challenge friends online.
Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 9%, Casual 5.5%
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 by navigating an alien OS.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, Auto Battler 18.7%, Incremental 14.6%, Exploration 5.1%
Rebuild a fallen kingdom in a cozy idle-RPG. An economy that earns while you sleep, a hero who raids for loot and gear, and endless prestige. No energy limits. No ads. No pay-to-win.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Auto Battler 26.6%, Incremental 14.3%, Time Management 12%, Casual 5.8%
A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game. Design and build Your own space ships, planet and battle-stations to conquer the Galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Space 7.1%, Strategy 5.6%
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 44.8% ★, Colony Sim 30.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Space 6%, Building 4.4%
Build a colony on a fungal alien world and keep it alive. Explore the shrouded lands and claim them. Build, and grow your colony. Be prepared to defend against hostile and terrible threats. Xenobiome Command goes hard - from planetfall to last stand.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Time Management 18.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Top-Down 4.9%
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Tower Defense 25.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Minimalist 7.4%
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 32.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Auto Battler 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Building 8.5%
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 41.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Auto Battler 12.7%, Strategy 11.3%
A chill hand-drawn idle clicker where you dig, upgrade, and manage miners.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Auto Battler 18.1%, Incremental 16.7%, Automation 16%, Strategy 6.4%
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 40.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Time Management 9.8%, Space 8.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%
Last Watchtower is a short incremental 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: Auto Battler 33.1%, Tower Defense 27%, Minimalist 10%, Incremental 9.4%, Strategy 8%
Build an underground shelter for content creators. Recruit new talent, construct specialized rooms, manage your resources and grow your operation into a thriving creator empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Time Management 15.6%, Incremental 15%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%
Conquer Irkalla, a world of mortals torn apart by a war between eight civilizations! Command heroes, forge and break alliances, journey through five eras of history, and choose one of the Seven Truths to change the face of reality forever. A turn-based 4X strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 59.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Strategy 16%, 2D 5.1%
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 24.8%, Auto Battler 21.5%, Incremental 16.4%, Automation 14.1%, Building 7.4%
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 35%, Auto Battler 30.9%, Time Management 16.8%, Cartoony 7.3%, Casual 6.6%