Games Like Stationeers

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 30.7% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 11%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep atmospheric, thermal, and gas management systems that mirror the technical complexity found in Stationeers.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Moddable 20.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.9%, Space 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust physics-based sandbox for building space stations and ships with complex mechanical and electrical components.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation and logistics, requiring complex logic and planning to build an efficient, self-sustaining base.

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 26.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Space 13.7%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale automation game that challenges players to manage resource chains across multiple planetary systems.

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 23.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on large-scale automation and factory building with a strong emphasis on verticality and complex logistics.

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: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 15%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Mining 8.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Features deep resource management and complex production chains that require careful planning and engineering to maintain.

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 22.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a space station with detailed atmospheric, temperature, and crew management mechanics.

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 23.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a bioluminescent alien cave system with a focus on base building and resource extraction.

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: Co-op 23%, Moddable 20.9% ★, Survival 20%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore submarine systems management, including electrical wiring, pressure mechanics, and emergency repairs in a hostile environment.

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 20.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory building game that emphasizes large-scale automation and complex logistics in an infinite open world.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Space 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Automation 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more accessible take on space exploration and base building with a focus on physics-based terrain manipulation.

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: Building 24.6%, Space 24.3%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for highly detailed ship design where internal layout and component placement directly impact combat performance and system efficiency.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Science 21.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where players must build a society and manage resources while balancing the environmental impact of their technology.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive space survival game that combines base building, ship construction, and planetary exploration.

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 27.2% ★, Moddable 17.6% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that offers deep system interactions and emergent storytelling through base management.

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 19.4% ★, Moddable 14.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Space 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony management sim set on a broken spaceship where you must repair systems and manage resources to survive.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Building 24.2%, Space 23.6%, Sandbox 23%, Management 15.4%, Sci-fi 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular ship building and space exploration with a deep economy and complex ship systems.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based mining and automation game where you build complex machines to extract and process resources.

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 19.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A lunar base-building game that emphasizes automation and resource management in a harsh, realistic space environment.

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Space 13.2%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A focused colony builder where you must manage the survival of a space outpost by balancing oxygen, water, and power production.

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 21.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A space station simulation that tasks players with maintaining complex systems and managing resources in a dangerous environment.

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 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and terraforming, requiring players to build complex machines to transform an alien planet.

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Programming 25.6% ★, Building 18.6%, Space 15.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A massive space-sim that features highly detailed ship construction and a focus on physics-based simulation.

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 23.1% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic space colony simulation with a heavy emphasis on city-building and resource management mechanics.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and automation with survival elements in a vibrant, alien open-world setting.

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 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11.6%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that combines colony simulation with deep system control and atmospheric management.

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 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Space 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that requires meticulous management of base systems and resources to survive on the Martian surface.

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: Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Science 11.2% ★, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the design and management of a spaceship, requiring players to build and maintain every system on board.

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Mining 19.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%

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 25.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Mining 12% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation game that challenges players to build massive, interconnected logistics networks.

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 15.9% ★, Automation 13%, Mining 10% ★, Science 9.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on the design and management of space stations with a top-down perspective.

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Moddable 16.2% ★, Mining 15.4% ★, Science 14.8% ★, Building 9.1%, Space 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: Automation 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Space 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%

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 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 9.5%

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 13.2% ★, Moddable 12.8% ★, Automation 12.1%, Science 11.1% ★, Base Building 8.5%

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: Automation 15.8%, Science 13.9% ★, Moddable 12% ★, Space 8.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 25.4% ★, Space 18.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 12.6%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Space 26.8%, Building 26.5%, Sandbox 20.9%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Physics 8.1%

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: Programming 23.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 10.9%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 19%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.5%

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 25.1%, Sandbox 20.2%, Physics 16.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.4%

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: Programming 29.4% ★, Automation 20%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 6.4%

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: Mining 17.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.3%

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 19.4% ★, Automation 15.9%, Science 15.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 8.8%

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 27.1%, Sandbox 22%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

Why similar: Science 25.3% ★, Moddable 16% ★, Space 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 16%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.2%

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: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 13.9%, Space 13.7%

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 26.6% ★, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Space 8.4%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 15%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%

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 20.6%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Why similar: Programming 21.1% ★, Science 16.4% ★, Moddable 13.3% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 9.1%

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 18.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11%

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 30.7% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 11.3%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Space 12.2%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%