Games Like Project AURA

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: City Builder 37.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sci-fi colony builder that tasks you with managing a base on a remote planet while balancing resources and colonist needs.

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 34.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines space station management with survival mechanics, focusing on the same resource-constrained atmosphere found in Project AURA.

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 39.1%, Resource Management 17.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 8.1%, Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive climate-disaster survival city-builder, mirroring the high-stakes management and harsh environment of Project AURA.

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: City Builder 21.7%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It features detailed micro-management of a spaceship colony, requiring players to build and maintain habitats in a hostile vacuum.

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 41.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that forces players to manage a colony while dealing with radiation and environmental disasters.

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 21.8%, Management 17%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 16%, Resource Management 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival colony sim focuses on managing a small group of survivors on an alien world, emphasizing building and resource gathering.

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 23.9%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game challenges players to build futuristic, resource-efficient cities on narrow cliffs, requiring precise management of limited space.

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: City Builder 23.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.2%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder centers on managing a post-apocalyptic colony where air quality and resource scarcity are constant threats.

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: City Builder 45.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that focuses on expanding a colony on an alien planet while managing atmospheric and resource challenges.

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 41.1%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that requires players to manage resources and build a resilient base to survive environmental hazards.

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: City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world that emphasizes resource management and societal development.

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: City Builder 20%, Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep simulation of colonist needs and complex base-building mechanics.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Economy 11.7%, Trading 10.4% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized sci-fi city-builder that tasks players with building a sustainable habitat while respecting the local ecosystem.

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: City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 11.3%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival under constant environmental pressure.

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: City Builder 24.6%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.8%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love deep micro-management, this game offers the most complex economy and logistics simulation in the genre.

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: Management 19%, Strategy 16.3%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation that focuses on the technical challenges of building and maintaining a base on a dangerous alien world.

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Strategy 18.8%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base-building game that focuses on the daily management of resources to keep a colony alive.

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 39.2%, Management 14.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: While themed differently, its focus on survival-based city-building and complex water management provides a similar strategic satisfaction.

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 38.2%, Strategy 37.8%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation that emphasizes the struggle of establishing a new home on a distant, untamed planet.

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: City Builder 25.4%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the survival city-building mechanics of the original, offering more depth in colony management and exploration.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that blends base-building with survival against supernatural threats in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes resource management and building on challenging terrain, requiring careful planning to succeed.

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused simulation game that tasks players with the technical construction and maintenance of a space station.

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: City Builder 23.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Management 10.7%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony simulator that emphasizes base-building and resource management in a realistic sci-fi setting.

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that focuses on the intricate balance of resource production and population needs.

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: City Builder 34.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival city-builder where you manage a floating city, adding a vertical dimension to the standard colony-sim formula.

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 25.7%, Economy 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing colony-building game that focuses on managing resources and expanding across multiple planets.

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 36.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.1%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%

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: City Builder 32.9%, Management 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.5%, Economy 8.4%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9.6%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful management of resources and population to survive through the ages.

Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!

Why similar: City Builder 58.8%, Strategy 19.7%, Realistic 9.3%, Base Building 6.2%, Building 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy colony sim that tasks players with building a settlement while balancing survival and expansion.

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.6%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.6%

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 25.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.2%

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: City Builder 33.1%, Building 12.2%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Economy 14.5%, Management 14%, Resource Management 13%, Building 10.9%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 8.6%

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: City Builder 48.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 7%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.8%

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: City Builder 33.4%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 9.1%

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: City Builder 32.2%, Economy 16.2%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Trading 13.6% ★, Management 12.6%, Economy 11.8%, Building 10.4%

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 35.1%, Strategy 11%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 7.2%

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: City Builder 25.2%, Resource Management 13%, Management 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 8.3%

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: Resource Management 20.2%, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 11.3%

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: City Builder 58.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Economy 6.6%, Sandbox 6.1%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Economy 11.6%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.7%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Economy 12.9%, Management 12%, Base Building 8.8%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Management 21%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 11.4%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 7.9%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Economy 10.9%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9%

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: City Builder 23.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.6%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.9%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 6.9%

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: Building 19.4%, Management 19.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 10.6%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Strategy 14.2%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 7%

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: City Builder 46.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Resource Management 6.4%, Sandbox 6.1%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Building 9%

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: City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 12%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 8%