Games Like Startopia

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, RTS 12.1%, Space 10%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct modern reimagining of the original game, featuring updated graphics and familiar mechanics.

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 26.9% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 11.9%, Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on the logistical challenges of building and maintaining a functional base on a hostile alien world.

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 21.9% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 12%, Space 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space station management sim that emphasizes survival, crew needs, and complex base-building in a sci-fi setting.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 34.8%, Simulation 19%, City Builder 10.2%, Funny 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not set in space, it perfectly captures the quirky, humorous management and character-driven simulation that made Startopia so charming.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: God Game 56% ★, Strategy 19.9%, RTS 12%, Base Building 9%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual ancestor to Startopia, this game shares the same humorous, villainous management style and unique room-building mechanics.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Space 16.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes management of a massive space station, blending city-building with survival and narrative-driven exploration.

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 38.9% ★, Base Building 24.6%, Management 10%, Space 6.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly complex base-management game with a charming art style and intricate systems that reward careful planning.

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 19.5% ★, God Game 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Real-Time with Pause 10.6% ★, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game elements with planetary management, allowing for a unique perspective on growing a civilization.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A solid sci-fi city-builder that tasks players with managing a colony on a distant, often hostile, alien planet.

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 30% ★, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in colony management and emergent storytelling, making it a must-play for fans of complex simulation games.

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10.3%, Space 9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct predecessor in the space-management genre that focuses on crew needs and base expansion.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Management 13.1%, God Game 11.8% ★, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A modern successor to the Dungeon Keeper style, offering the same satisfying base-building and management loop found in Startopia.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Base Building 34.3%, Management 19.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the humorous, base-building, and management-heavy gameplay of the original, focusing on running a secret lair.

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 22.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, God Game 14.6% ★, Space 11.4%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space station simulation that emphasizes survival, automation, and the complexities of maintaining a ship in deep space.

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 22.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 12.7%, Space 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a quirky sci-fi aesthetic and a strong focus on base design and management of diverse alien populations.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Requires vertical city-building and managing resources across multiple platforms, echoing the deck-based management of the seed game.

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 32.6% ★, Management 13%, Base Building 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Space 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hard sci-fi colony-sim that focuses on survival and base-building in harsh, realistic environments.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Space 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%, RTS 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that includes complex space station expansion elements alongside planetary development.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 41.7%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, City Builder 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The vertical management gameplay mirrors the deck-based structure of Startopia, requiring efficient space usage and facility planning.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Management 19.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous management sim that balances complex economic systems with a lighthearted, satirical tone.

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: Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%, RTS 10%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim focused on running a stargate-style facility, balancing research, base-building, and personnel management.

Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

Why similar: City Builder 15%, Simulation 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 13.3%, RTS 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space station building game that emphasizes defense and resource management in a modular construction system.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Management 24.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of facilities and the specific needs of creatures, sharing the 'attraction management' feel of Startopia.

Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Management 13.4%, Comedy 9.2%, Life Sim 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim about running a busy space station hub that caters to a wide variety of alien travelers.

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Management 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 13%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the niche of managing a space station's facilities and attracting visitors.

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: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Aliens 14.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky space-based simulation that focuses on building and exploration with a lighthearted tone.

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

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Management 11.8%, City Builder 11%, Space 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic approach to space station construction and the ongoing management of life-support systems.

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 24.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Management 12.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Space 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes vertical, space-saving construction, which feels very similar to managing decks in Startopia.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6% ★, City Builder 39.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible colony-sim that focuses on expansion and resource management in a sci-fi setting.

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, God Game 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous management sim that focuses on base-building and character needs in a stylized, supernatural setting.

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 19.3% ★, City Builder 16%, God Game 16% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Space 9%

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Real-Time with Pause 15.9% ★, Comedy 10.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 8.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, RTS 14.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 12.2%, Space 9.2%

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: God Game 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11%, Life Sim 8.9%

「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: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, RTS 16.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Space 10%, Management 9.9%

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: Base Building 19.1%, Management 18.8%, Space 16.2%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Simulation 9.8%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%

Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 15.4%, God Game 14.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10.9%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Management 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Real-Time with Pause 13.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%

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 22.9%, Space 20.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 24.5% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 11.9%, Space 9%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.6%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 4.7%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 29.5%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Management 16.5%, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 9%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Simulation 18%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 7.7%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 29.8%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Management 13.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.6%

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Management 15.2%, Space 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14.6%, RTS 14.5%, Management 12.7%

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: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 8.1%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Space 14.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 10.7%

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Management 14.9%, Space 13.5%, Sandbox 10.6%

Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, RTS 19.8%, Space 15.3%, Management 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

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 26% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 10%, Management 7.9%

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 26% ★, Management 15.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 12.8%, Sandbox 11%

In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

Why similar: RTS 22.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Space 16.7%, Aliens 16.2%, Sci-fi 11.1%

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: Base Building 19.5%, Space 15.4%, RTS 14.8%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: Space 22.1%, God Game 18.2% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Sci-fi 8%

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Management 14.8%, Real-Time with Pause 12.4% ★, Simulation 8.7%, Comedy 8.4%