
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Exploration, Base Building.

Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.

A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!

Void Ascendancy
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Simulation 6%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 36.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Space 6.8%
We must revive this post-industrial world. Plant trees to earn Karma, build pipes, join Guilds, and participate in league tournaments to stay alive. Find lost objects to craft secret messages. Go rogue, wander with your dog, steal other players' Karma and grow stronger with every battle
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.6%, Space 8%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 7.8%, Exploration 7.5%
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Space 14.8%, Base Building 12.4%, RPG 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%
Rebuild a fallen species in this dark sci-fi 4X strategy game. Extract and refine real elements, command drone swarms, and make tough choices as you guide The Exalted Descendant toward resurgence—or extinction—in a procedurally generated galaxy. No diplomacy. No mercy.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Space 9.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Space 14.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
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 24%, Base Building 13.9%, Space 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, 4X 23.7% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Exploration 5.6%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 9.2%, Open World 7.7%, Space 7.5%
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, Colony Sim 30.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.6%
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: Colony Sim 40.8%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Space 6.6%, Open World 2.9%
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 6.8%, Crafting 6%
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Colony Sim 28.1%, Space 10.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Sci-fi 7%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Choices Matter 7%
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 42%, Base Building 13.3%, Space 11.2%, Sci-fi 10%, Simulation 6.6%
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 30.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
It is the year 2072. Recent research has revealed how to locate an Earth-like exoplanet. You were shipped there. Your mission is to repair the spaceship, keep people in hibernation pods alive, and prepare the exoplanet for their arrival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Space 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Strategy 9.6%
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 30.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Space 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Open World 5.3%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Space 17.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 5.8%
「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: 4X 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Space 10.6%, Resource Management 7.6%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, 4X 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%
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: 4X 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
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 47%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 7.1%, Simulation 5.1%
HEXARX is a tactical turn based, crew management, ship building space combat game! You and your crew have been contracted by the Mega Corporations of New Hexaria Galaxy. Build, configure, upgrade and modify your ship. Manage and equip your crew members. Man your stations and protect your claim.
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Colony Sim 26%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Character Customization 5.7%
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 22%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
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 37.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Space 16.3%, Resource Management 6.6%, Strategy 4.7%
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, 4X 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Character Customization 9.6%
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 12%, Simulation 5.2%
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Character Customization 9.2%
Command Asimov's OFFICIAL Foundation universe! Live the life as an interstellar trader to exploit your trade routes! Build your starship home, crush enemies in explosive shootouts & outsmart rivals with fleet strategies in epic space wars - with new content expanding your saga!
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Base Building 18%, Space 14.5%, Resource Management 8%, Sci-fi 7.8%
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: 4X 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 10.4%, Resource Management 9%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%
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 30.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 10.6%, Simulation 6.2%
Spaceship Idle is an idle/incremental 4X grand strategy auto battler where you build your own spaceship and engage in space battles. Research a vast tech tree, equip unique weapons, unlock powerful upgrades, construct bigger and better ships, win epic (auto) battles, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, 4X 24.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Space 13.2%, Exploration 7.2%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 14.9%, Space 11.9%, Strategy 4.8%
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 40.6%, Base Building 23.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.4%, Resource Management 7%
A space themed open world crafting and base-building game where you terraform a planet by scaling up a colony of autonomous robots. Provide shelter, gather resources, and manage your bots to keep work moving across the base. Create a new atmosphere and make the planet inhabitable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Space 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 6.9%
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Space 13%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Top-Down 8.9%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, RPG 9.9%, Character Customization 7.4%
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Exploration 6.6%, Open World 6.3%
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Base Building 20%, Space 16.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 7.1%
Explore the cursed continent of Kopno and shape your path through moral choices. 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 a thriving fantasy settlement worthy of leading your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 15.6%, RPG 10.1%
You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 21.6%, Space 14.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%
It's a Chinese ancient city building strategy game that features ancient-style city building, a rich social simulation system, and always dissatisfied citizens. You come to a nice place, and you will become a lord who leads people to live in peace, reclaim wasteland, and build a stable city.
Why similar: 4X 42.6% ★, Base Building 28%, Simulation 10.7%, RPG 9.1%, Strategy 8.5%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Exploration 8.1%, Top-Down 7.1%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 29.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Space 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Colony Sim 31.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Top-Down 6.3%, Exploration 6.3%
A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Space 17.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
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 31.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Top-Down 7.3%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sci-fi 9%
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 28.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Space 13.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Open World 8.4%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Open World 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Space 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Space 14.1%, Character Customization 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.6%
Astro Architect is a city-builder game, where your employees' votes define what you build. As an architect working for the corporation, build your own space station, expand your influence, take care of your employees' needs, manage logistics and space expeditions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Space 13.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Top-Down 7.2%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.4%
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, 4X 18.9% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Open World 11%
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, Base Building 15.2%, RPG 7.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Character Customization 6.7%