Games Like Planetbase

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 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Space 14.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with space survival, forcing you to manage a massive station while navigating the dangers of deep space.

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 23.8%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 10%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and maintaining a spaceship colony, requiring careful management of resources and crew morale in a vacuum.

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: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 27.1%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Resource Management 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D survival colony sim captures the feeling of managing a small group of survivors on an alien planet with unpredictable threats.

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 39.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 6%, Space 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the same core challenge as Planetbase: managing complex life-support systems like oxygen, temperature, and power in a hostile environment.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Survival 9.5%, Management 4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for colony simulation, offering deep emergent storytelling and complex survival mechanics in a sci-fi setting.

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 25.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 11.8%, Survival 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A lunar-based colony sim that focuses on resource extraction and automation, mirroring the industrial expansion goals of Planetbase.

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 40.4%, City Builder 34.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to keep a small population alive through harsh winters and resource shortages.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, City Builder 38.2%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 4.9%, Simulation 2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival of a small group through different eras, requiring careful resource management and environmental adaptation.

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, it perfectly captures the 'survival city-builder' tension where every resource decision is a matter of life and death.

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 32%, City Builder 25.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to guide a civilization from the stone age to space, maintaining the focus on colony growth and survival.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where managing radiation, water, and food supplies is essential for the survival of your colony.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 8%, Resource Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder forces you to adapt to harsh, ever-changing weather conditions, providing a similar sense of urgency to Planetbase.

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: Base Building 26.9%, Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 19.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep logistics and resource management, perfect for players who enjoy the automation and production chains of Planetbase.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 7.8%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that places a heavy emphasis on survival, farming, and protecting your settlers from the elements and disease.

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: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 7.5%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder where managing water levels and drought cycles is the primary challenge for your beaver colony.

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 37.3%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 5.9%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder set on an alien world that directly mirrors the base-building and environmental management found in Planetbase.

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: City Builder 31%, Space 16.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 7.6%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that focuses on transportation and logistics networks, essential for keeping a growing space colony functional.

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: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 5.9%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder where limited space forces you to be extremely efficient with your resource management and layout.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 9.3%, Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that adds a vertical dimension to building, requiring you to survive environmental threats and raids.

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 26.7%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 5.9%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want the most complex resource management and logistics simulation possible in a city-building framework.

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 30.2%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder where you must manage a colony in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.

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 31%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming but deep colony-building game that focuses on automation and resource transport chains to grow your settlement.

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 31.9%, Base Building 22%, Space 15.5%, Resource Management 6.8%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-based colony sim where you build and automate a base while traveling through space.

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: Base Building 24.2%, Space 19.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it captures the grand scale of space-based resource extraction and industrial expansion.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 9.2%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to rebuild society after a global catastrophe.

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 31.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Space 13.4%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore space base-building game that focuses on the intricate physics and engineering of life-support systems.

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation that focuses on the survival of a small team on a hostile planet, featuring complex environmental systems.

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 28%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Space 8.8%, Resource Management 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space colony simulation that focuses on the technical aspects of building a base on different planets and moons.

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: Colony Sim 39.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 5.6%, Building 5.6%

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 46.3%, Space 12.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 6%, Resource Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that includes space-based colonies and complex production chains across different environments.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 29.1%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 6.1%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 5.9%, Strategy 4.4%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, City Builder 33.7%, Survival 6.5%, Resource Management 5.4%, Strategy 4.4%

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: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 23.8%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 5.3%

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: Base Building 29.3%, Space 19.5%, Survival 15.9%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.8%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 5.4%, Resource Management 5%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 9.6%, Survival 6.7%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 6.9%

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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 8.7%, Survival 6.6%

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 36.1%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 3.8%

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 27.9%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 6.6%, Resource Management 5.1%

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: Base Building 32.1%, Survival 18.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 9.7%, Sci-fi 7%

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 32.2%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 4.9%, Strategy 4.3%

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Space 24.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Survival 7.1%, Sci-fi 7%

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 9.5%, Space Sim 5%

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: Base Building 37.9%, Space 32.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Indie 2.3%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 26.5%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 5.2%

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: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Space 11.2%, Survival 6.3%

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 26.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 29.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Space 12.6%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 5.7%

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 23.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 5.5%

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space 25.5%, Survival 17.8%, Building 10.8%, Space Sim 9.8%, Strategy 7.4%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 5.6%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 13%, Survival 9.4%, Building 4.8%

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 39%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 10.8%, Building 5.4%

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 32.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 9.3%, Space 9.2%, Building 5.3%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Space 10.2%, Survival 7.2%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 11.1%, Resource Management 5.6%