
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
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Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.

Occupy Mars: The Game
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.

Oxygen Not Included
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.
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 12.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
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 26% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Speck Miner is a small, open-world survival game set in a universe of tiny, procedurally generated planets.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Space 14.1%, Resource Management 12.7%
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 11.5%
It was a dark and stormy night when the helicopter had to make an emergency landing on an isolated island. Unfortunately for them, fate had a cruel twist in store. As the storm progressed, the chopper was violently tossed and turned until it landed on an isolated island shrouded in mystery.
Why similar: Crafting 18.5%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 15.6%, Loot 10.9%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%
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: Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★, Survival 9%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.7%
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Space 10.4%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Crafting 15.4%, Co-op 14.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 12.1%
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: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.8%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Survival 16%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Space 8.6%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Exploration 7.1%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 11%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.7%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 13.3%, Resource Management 11.7%
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%
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 17.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 10.4%
Land on a new planet as a space refugee. Craft items, build bases, and battle aliens to survive. Pioneer your future in this online survival RPG.
Why similar: Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.3%, Space 12.3%
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
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 26.6% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.1%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 9.4%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Co-op 13.4%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%
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: Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Space 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.8%
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 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 10.4%
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 16.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Co-op 11.5%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.8%
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 30% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Space 9.4%
Help Terry and his dog survive on their adventure across a charming world of floating islands. Gather, Craft, Build and Battle in a classic RPG adventure to piece together the mystery of how their world fell apart.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Space 10.4%, Building 8.6%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 12.4%, Space 11.7%
In Cosmic Remnants, you find yourself adrift in space with only a floating platform. Alone or with friends, survive by scavenging resources, upgrading your platform, and enhancing yourself with discovered body parts. Explore advanced bases and uncover the truth behind humanity's demise!
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Space 13.4%, Survival 13.3%, Building 9.6%
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Why similar: Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 12%, Space 12%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Space 12.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%
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: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.2%
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 13.2%, Building 8.8%
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: Base Building 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Resource Management 13.2%, Space 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 11.5%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Space 9.5%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.4%
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Co-op 10.5%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Space 11.5%
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 25.2% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
Play as an Orc—or choose one of six unique races—and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build your own settlement. Shape your path through moral choices and explore dangerous lands in the cursed continent of Kopno.
Why similar: Crafting 17.5%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Co-op 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 10.7%
The Dark Forest found you — uncover its mysteries, together. Explore Trollheim as tiny gnomes in a vast, mystical world. Rooted in Nordic folk belief, handcrafted artistry meets ancient nature in a magical, replayable Dark Forest sandbox built for friends. Explore. Survive. Thrive.
Why similar: Co-op 21.8%, Sandbox 20%, Survival 17%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 15.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 11.9%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 7.1%
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 14.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.9%, Building 10.3%
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.4%
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: Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Co-op 12.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 18.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 8.9%