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  1. #1 Astro Colony
    97% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Automation 17%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Space Sim 10.9%, Space 10%

  2. #2 Prospector
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
    Dev: Loonworks Games
    Windows

    Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

    Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Robots 14.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

  3. #3 Autonauts
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    Why similar: Automation 28%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Resource Management 7.9%

  4. #4 Facteroids
    95% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: by Jan Zizka
    Windows

    Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

    Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Space Sim 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%

  5. #5 Microtopia
    94% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Robots 12.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

  6. #6 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    93% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

    Why similar: Automation 27%, Robots 18.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 13.4%

  7. #7 Evospace
    94% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
    Dev: Quantum Rivet
    Windows · Mac

    Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

    Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.3%

  8. #8 Space Trash Scavenger
    92% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
    Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

    Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Space Sim 12.5%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

  9. #9 Star Ores Inc.
    91% matchVery Positive83% of 293 reviews2025
    Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
    Windows

    Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

    Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Space 15.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Base Building 9.7%

  10. #10 FOUNDRY
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

    Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Robots 13.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 10%

  11. #11 Builderment
    90% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
    Dev: Builderment LLC
    Windows · Mac

    Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!

    Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.6%

  12. #12 Skyformer
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
    Dev: Weatherfused
    Windows

    Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

    Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.7%, Space 12%, Resource Management 10.2%

  13. #13 Industrial Petting
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2020
    Dev: Another Yeti
    Windows · Mac

    Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!

    Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Robots 14.3%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%

  14. #14 Techtonica
    88% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.6%

  15. #15 Satisfactory
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

  16. #16 Nova Lands
    86% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

    Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Robots 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 11%

  17. #17 Final Upgrade
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

    Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Space Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 12.5%, Resource Management 10.7%

  18. #18 The Planet Crafter
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Space 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%

  19. #19 Icaria
    86% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Robots 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

  20. #20 Dyson Sphere Program
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Automation 27%, Base Building 15.8%, Space 15.2%, Resource Management 11%, Space Sim 9.9%

  21. #21 Star Crafter
    82% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
    Dev: Tbjbu2
    Windows

    A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

    Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Space 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 12.6%

  22. #22 orbit.industries
    83% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
    Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
    Windows · Linux

    🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

    Why similar: Space Sim 20.8%, Automation 19.1%, Space 17.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

  23. #23 Autonauts vs Piratebots
    82% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 reviews2022
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

    Why similar: Automation 25%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.9%, Robots 9.3%

  24. #24 Astrometica
    79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
    Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

    Why similar: Space Sim 26.4%, Automation 18.3%, Space 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%

  25. #25 The Colonists
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Automation 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Robots 15.6%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.6%

  26. #26 Stacks:Space!
    81% matchVery Positive85% of 104 reviews2023
    Dev: Stacks:Engine
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!

    Why similar: Space Sim 21.7%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Aliens 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Robots 11%

  27. #27 Plan B: Terraform
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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: Automation 21.8%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10%

  28. #28 Roboplant
    80% matchMixed66% of 80 reviews2023
    Dev: Rebelpug
    Windows · Linux

    In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.

    Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Resource Management 17.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.7%

  29. #29 Star Birds
    76% matchVery Positive93% of 2,628 reviews2025
    Dev: Toukana Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

    Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Space 11%

  30. #30 Space for Sale
    79% matchMixed57% of 165 reviews2025
    Dev: Mirage Game Studios
    Windows

    Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!

    Why similar: Space Sim 26.1%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Aliens 14.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 8.9%

  31. #31 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    78% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 18.4%, Space Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 12.7%, Resource Management 11.4%

  32. #32 Microtopia: Prologue
    75% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 17%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Robots 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%

  33. #33 Center Station Simulator
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 555 reviews2024
    Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
    Windows

    Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

    Why similar: Automation 25%, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 11.6%, First-Person 8.9%

  34. #34 The Spatials
    78% matchMixed69% of 329 reviews2015
    Dev: Weird and Wry
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

    Why similar: Space 18.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Space Sim 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Colony Sim 10.1%

  35. #35 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

    Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Building 15%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.6%

  36. #36 Outerverse
    77% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
    Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
    Windows

    Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!

    Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Automation 20%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%

  37. #37 Outworld Station
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

    Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 16.8%, Space 16.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.9%

  38. #38 Final Factory
    74% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

    Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Space 9.8%

  39. #39 Blossom: The Seed of Life
    72% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
    Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    Why similar: Space Sim 18.4%, Automation 14.6%, Robots 14.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%

  40. #40 Planet Miner
    76% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
    Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
    Windows

    Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.

    Why similar: Space Sim 36.3%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Simulation 11%, Space 9.3%, Stylized 6.9%

  41. #41 The Crust
    72% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Automation 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%

  42. #42 JUNKPUNK
    74% matchMixed63% of 672 reviews2021
    Dev: SCT
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

    Why similar: Automation 27%, Crafting 15.2%, Robots 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.8%

  43. #43 Occupy Mars: The Game
    70% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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: Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Space 12%, Crafting 11.8%

  44. #44 Space Architect
    71% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
    Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    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: Automation 21.3%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10%

  45. #45 Mars First Logistics
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,474 reviews2025
    Dev: Shape Shop
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

    Why similar: Space Sim 23.6%, Robots 18%, Sandbox 12.6%, Stylized 12.5%, Procedural Generation 12.4%

  46. #46 Galactic Mining Corp
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 931 reviews2021
    Dev: Windybeard
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Galactic Mining Corp is a unique rogue-lite, action game with crafting and base building mechanics. Head into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy work force, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything.

    Why similar: Space Sim 19.4%, Space 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Capitalism 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%

  47. #47 Automation Empire
    73% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

    Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.1%

  48. #48 Eden Crafters
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%

  49. #49 Space Haven
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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 19.1%, Space Sim 18.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Space 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%

  50. #50 Trappist
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
    Dev: Sirrah
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Space Sim 16.6%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Space 8.8%

  51. #51 MegaFactory Titan
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
    Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

    Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Space 11%

  52. #52 Surviving Ceres
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 28.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 7.9%

  53. #53 Lightyear Frontier
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
    Dev: FRAME BREAK
    Windows
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 21%, Crafting 20.9%, Sandbox 16.4%, First-Person 9%

  54. #54 Minicology
    68% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
    Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.

    Why similar: Space Sim 24.1%, Automation 16.9%, Aliens 13.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%

  55. #55 ReFactory
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

    Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

    Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 24%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 11.5%

  56. #56 Farlight Explorers
    71% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
    Dev: Farlight Games Industry
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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: Sandbox 29.8%, Building 25.8%, Space 23.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Simulation 10.2%

  57. #57 Per Aspera
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
    Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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: Automation 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Robots 13.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%

  58. #58 Orebound
    65% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?

    Why similar: Automation 22%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

  59. #59 XenoHaven
    65% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
    Windows

    In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Automation 16.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Space 10.9%

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