Games Like Poly Universe

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: Strategy 52.1%, Simulation 47.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with god-game elements, allowing you to guide a civilization from the stone age to space exploration.

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: Strategy 58.6%, Simulation 33%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony simulation that tasks you with guiding settlers to build a self-sustaining base on remote, unforgiving planets.

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: Strategy 45.9%, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a space-faring colony ship, emphasizing survival and internal logistics similar to Poly Universe.

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: Simulation 51.5%, Strategy 48.5%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent, hex-based city builder that features planetary expansion and resource logistics across multiple worlds.

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: Simulation 43.1%, Strategy 42.6%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features infinite procedural space exploration with a heavy emphasis on automation and base-building.

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: Strategy 52.7%, Simulation 47.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and survival aspects of establishing a base on various alien planets.

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: Strategy 51.9%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished sci-fi city-building experience on an alien world, focusing on infrastructure and colonist needs.

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: Strategy 48.4%, Simulation 43.5%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where managing your oxygen supply is the key to your colony's longevity.

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: Strategy 54.8%, Simulation 45.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes resource management and societal development after a global catastrophe.

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Strategy 59%, Simulation 41%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build and manage a city on a floating platform, mirroring the constrained planetoid gameplay of Poly Universe.

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: Strategy 45.8%, Simulation 41.5%, Indie 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep simulation and emergent storytelling in a sci-fi setting.

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: Simulation 54.4%, Strategy 39.6%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale logistics and building across multiple planets, perfect for those who enjoy the expansion aspect of Poly Universe.

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: Strategy 73.3%, Simulation 26.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces you to make difficult moral choices to keep your society alive in a frozen wasteland.

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

Why similar: Simulation 43.9%, Strategy 42.7%, Indie 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that focuses on the challenges of settling on a distant, untamed planet.

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: Strategy 54.1%, Simulation 45.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder that requires you to manage a colony while dealing with environmental hazards and resource scarcity.

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: Strategy 60.1%, Simulation 37%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space station management with survival, requiring you to balance resources while navigating a dangerous solar system.

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: Strategy 45.7%, Simulation 40.9%, Indie 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city builder that tasks you with rebuilding society in a futuristic, enclosed environment.

Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.

Why similar: Strategy 67.6%, Indie 17.1%, Simulation 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed strategy game that focuses on colonization and resource management across different planetary bodies.

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: Strategy 53.1%, Simulation 46.9%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique water-management mechanics and vertical building that provide a fresh challenge to the city-building genre.

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: Strategy 53.4%, Simulation 46.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that features complex vertical building and survival mechanics in a historical setting.

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: Strategy 52.3%, Simulation 47.7%

Why You'll Like It: Requires you to build cities on small, isolated platforms, creating a unique spatial constraint similar to the small planets in Poly Universe.

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 43.1%, Simulation 42.7%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and maintaining a functional starship while surviving in the vacuum of space.

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: Strategy 44.3%, Simulation 41.4%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation that emphasizes realistic physics and survival on a hostile alien world.

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: Strategy 48.5%, Simulation 41.4%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival city-builder that focuses on population management and resource sustainability in a harsh environment.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Simulation 42.3%, Strategy 41.4%, Indie 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward space-themed city builder that emphasizes growth and resource production.

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: Strategy 52.1%, Simulation 47.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that tasks you with building multiple settlements under constant environmental pressure.

「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: Strategy 46%, Simulation 45.3%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation strategy game that tasks you with terraforming and building a base on the red planet.

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: Strategy 47.4%, Simulation 38.2%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game focused on the technical challenges of establishing a base on Mars.

Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Simulation 40.2%, Indie 16.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space-station builder that focuses on defense and infrastructure management in a sci-fi setting.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Simulation 42.6%, Indie 12.5%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Simulation 45.8%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 45.7%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: Strategy 74.2%, Indie 25.8%

Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.

Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Strategy 42.5%, Indie 14.9%

Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.

Why similar: Strategy 43.3%, Simulation 40.4%, Indie 16.3%

Prepare for the ultimate test of survival! Do you have the skill necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Simulation 40%, Indie 16.4%

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: Strategy 56.4%, Simulation 43.6%

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: Strategy 100%

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: Strategy 51%, Simulation 49%

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

Why similar: Strategy 42.5%, Simulation 36.8%, Indie 20.7%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Simulation 61.9%, Strategy 38.1%

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: Strategy 56.3%, Simulation 43.7%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Simulation 39.8%, Indie 16.5%

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.

Why similar: Strategy 67.7%, Indie 32.3%

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: Simulation 48.6%, Strategy 38.7%, Indie 12.7%

Take the role of an astronomer exploring the depths of the universe. Build large telescopes to explore distant stars. Discover a habitable planet or an unknown anomaly in a far corner of the galaxy. Get scientific grants, publish your results and explore new technologies.

Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Simulation 41.3%, Indie 16.1%

Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

Why similar: Strategy 44.5%, Simulation 39.6%, Indie 15.9%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: Strategy 51%, Simulation 49%

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: Simulation 44.5%, Strategy 44.4%, Indie 11.1%

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: Strategy 53.5%, Simulation 46.5%

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Strategy 45.7%, Simulation 32.8%, Indie 21.5%

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: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Simulation 44.4%, Strategy 41.8%, Indie 13.8%

"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.

Why similar: Strategy 68.2%, Indie 31.8%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Simulation 74.4%, Indie 25.6%

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: Strategy 44.5%, Simulation 44.4%, Indie 11.2%