Games Like Stardeus

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 18.8%, Space Sim 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Space 9%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the ship-based colony management and survival focus of Stardeus perfectly.

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: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Moddable 13.8%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive colony simulation game that shares the deep emergent storytelling and complex survival mechanics found in Stardeus.

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 31%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers incredibly deep systems management and atmospheric simulation that will appeal to fans of Stardeus's technical complexity.

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: Colony Sim 25.5%, Space 18.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the high-stakes pressure of managing a space station while navigating the dangers of deep space.

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: Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust 3D colony survival experience with a strong focus on base defense and resource gathering.

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 19.3%, Moddable 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore technical challenge focused on atmospheric, power, and logic systems that fans of Stardeus's complexity will appreciate.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space Sim 26.3%, Space 18.8%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Survival 12.5%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed ship-building and management experience that emphasizes modular design and tactical survival.

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: Base Building 20.5%, Space 17.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Space Sim 10.2%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at large-scale automation and resource management within a space-faring setting.

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 21.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 11.9%, Space Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative approach to automated space base building and resource management.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It puts you in the role of an AI managing a space station, making it a thematic and mechanical sibling to Stardeus.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automation and colony building on the moon, focusing on resource extraction and base expansion.

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 29.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Space 12.7%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a classic space colony simulation that focuses on the core loops of survival and infrastructure management.

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Space Sim 17.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of ship design and space travel mechanics.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Moddable 25.2%, Sci-fi 14%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features intense submarine management and survival mechanics in a hostile, high-pressure environment.

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

Why similar: Base Building 28.7%, Space 20.5%, Survival 13.9%, Management 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the immediate survival and maintenance of a ship in the vacuum of space.

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: Colony Sim 23.6%, God Game 21.1% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to manage a growing civilization with god-game mechanics and planetary expansion.

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: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex colony management with unique water physics and structural engineering challenges.

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 32.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Space 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a hard sci-fi colony simulation that emphasizes realistic systems and planetary survival.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a procedural colony simulation that shares the base-building and survival elements of Stardeus.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Moddable 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines post-apocalyptic colony management with survival and strategy elements.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Moddable 16.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep colony simulation with a focus on vertical base building and environmental survival.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Moddable 12.5%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep underground colony simulation with complex systems and environmental interactions.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: God Game 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique god-game experience focused on managing ecosystems and colony growth.

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: Colony Sim 34.4%, Survival 18.9%, Resource Management 18.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-stakes survival management experience where every resource decision is critical to the colony's survival.

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: Colony Sim 19.6%, Moddable 15.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep economic and resource management simulation for those who love complex systems.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 14.2%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-focused colony simulation that emphasizes historical resource management and character needs.

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 28.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with survival against supernatural threats in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 35.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 7.2%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed colony simulation with a focus on complex building and survival mechanics.

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: Colony Sim 21.9%, Space Sim 16.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Moddable 10.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Moddable 14%, Space Sim 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Space 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on space station management with a strong emphasis on crew needs and station maintenance.

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Moddable 17.7%, Space Sim 13.5%, Space 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, God Game 18.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Moddable 10.8%, Crafting 7.7%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: God Game 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Moddable 12.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 7.1%

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: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 15%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 18.7%, God Game 16.4% ★, Space Sim 14.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 8.5%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%

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 23.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Space 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.3%

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: Base Building 15.7%, Moddable 15%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11%, Space 10.5%

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Space Sim 16.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.6%

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, Moddable 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%

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 30.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 6.9%, Survival 6.4%, Open World 6.4%

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.5%, Space 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 10.4%

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.8%, Space 15.9%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 12.7%, Exploration 7.9%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space Sim 22.7%, Space 18.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.1%

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Moddable 20.1%, Space Sim 17.8%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 9.1%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Space Sim 13%, Moddable 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 9.8%

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 15.1%, Moddable 15.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 7.7%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.9%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating 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 24.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.4%, Management 6.2%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Space 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.7%

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Space 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.9%, God Game 10.8% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.1%

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Space 23.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 7.6%

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 24.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Space Sim 12.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Space 9.3%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Space 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%

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: Space 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Space Sim 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.6%

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: Space Sim 17.4%, Base Building 17%, Space 14.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.7%, Moddable 19%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.6%