- #1 Tidal Expanse
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.8%, Colony Sim 28%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #2 Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire
96% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Anark Studios
Windows
Elon Simulator is an immersive Trillionaire Simulator with TONS of fun mechanics and activities. As Elon, you can: Smoke Weed (a lot), Print your own Money, Sell Lithium to Earth for BILLIONS, Make MILLIONS while you sleep in real life, Become a Trillionaire, and TONS more! Made by one dude.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Space Sim 22.9%, Capitalism 15.2%, Sandbox 13%, Immersive Sim 9.2%
- #3 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
96% matchMixed65% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a space 4X and an MMO for Android and PC. Get dropped into an online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.3%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Capitalism 12.9%, Trading 4.3%
- #4 Orbital Express
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Igor Trnka
Windows
Build and manage your own space company. Design missions, launch satellites, and expand your influence across Earth’s orbit.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.2%, Strategy 19.3%, Sandbox 18%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Simulation 9.4%
- #5 Red Frontier
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DW
Windows
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Space Sim 25%, Strategy 17.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 8.1%
- #6 Urban Entrepreneur
94% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: ArchDawnPub: ArchDawn LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Capitalism 14.9%, Time Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Automation 9.1%
- #7 Cyber Prison Management
93% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Michael Richard Lannon
Windows
You are tasked with managing 8 prisoners in a flying space prison for 30 days with your camera system. You’ll need to manage the stock market, hostile ships, and keep prisoners in line. Or play as one of the prisoners, hiding and trying to escape. But be careful - danger is always around the corner.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Space Sim 21.3%, Time Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Capitalism 10.9%
- #8 HELLO EXO
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weasel Games
Windows
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 40.4%, Space Sim 34.9%, Strategy 23.4%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #9 Generation Nova
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Space Sim 28.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Time Management 9.6%, Management 6.3%
- #10 Travelers in Space Crack
91% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Xenon LuPub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Travelers in Space Crack is a survive game in deep space. Explore in different galaxy through space cracks. To find and gather useful resource, to trade and make money are all important to develop your own fleets. And only through build massive fleets, you triumph over the unknown evil forces.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.3%, Colony Sim 33.9%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 10%, Indie 0.8%
- #11 The Great Hatch
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: duocar
Windows
Help goblins take down a giant floating egg
Why similar: Clicker 50.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 6.7%, Management 2.8%
- #12 Orc Colony
90% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.4%, Strategy 21.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 6.5%
- #13 Starfall Protocol
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Space Sim 30.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #14 The Final Earth 2
88% matchVery Positive97% of 399 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
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 32.8%, Space Sim 23.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Time Management 7.6%
- #15 Nova Origin
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZapNova Games
Windows
Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Space Sim 29.8%, Strategy 20.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Management 3.9%
- #16 MeowFactory
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Smola Game Studio
Windows
Welcome to the MEOWFACTORY! Automate production lines and manage limited space to achieve perfection. Connect machines with conveyor lines and minimize hand (well, paw) labour! In the near and depressing future, when the world is on the verge of destruction, ONLY MEOWORKERS can revive production!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Strategy 17%, Sandbox 16.8%, Time Management 12.1%, Immersive Sim 8.7%
- #17 Logistik
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Trains 18.5% ★, Sandbox 12%, Capitalism 11.8%, Automation 9.4%
- #18 Roving Rovers - Australian Rover Challenge 2025
84% matchMostly Negative33% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Mini Mammoth Games
Windows
Ensure the moon is safe for humanity’s lunar settlement! Explore the moon as a Lunar Rover and interact with crashed ships, natural resources, and the nearby landmarks to determine if humans can live here!
Why similar: Space Sim 36.2%, Colony Sim 32.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Simulation 6%
- #19 Space Sim Tycoon
84% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: SuperChicken Productions LLC
Windows
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 35%, Sandbox 20.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Automation 8.5%
- #20 Arcbound
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Space Sim 33.2%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.6%
- #21 Exostation
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Space Sim 33%, Time Management 13.7%, Strategy 12.8%, Management 5.1%
- #22 Cosmic colonists
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chewy bytes studio
Windows
Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.2%, Strategy 21.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Simulation 10.4%
- #23 Far Sector
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metal cast
Windows
All that matters is that you're a spaceship captain. Your objective is to explore the far sector. Build, develop, and research. Get to the bottom of the targets of your mission and find out the truth of what happened before it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Space Sim 27.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Time Management 13%, Strategy 10.9%
- #24 The Colony
82% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 70.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 9.2%
- #25 Terra-7
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Strategy 24.3%, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 9.6%
- #26 Starship Colony
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 36.4%, Space Sim 24.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 7.6%
- #27 Space for Sale
78% matchMixed57% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Mirage Game Studios
Windows
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 32.5%, Space Sim 29.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 5.5%
- #28 Our Dear Kingdom
78% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 70.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Simulation 5.1%, Management 4%
- #29 Casino Resort Tower
77% matchVery Positive94% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Capitalism 13.1%, Time Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 8.8%
- #30 Your Spaceport!
77% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: LokaFab
Windows
Manage your very own space station in this Tycoon game. Sell fuel and repairs to the visitors. Manufacture and research new ways to defend your business and make more money while balancing your relations towards other factions. Survive against all odds.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.8%, Time Management 17.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Capitalism 15.4%, Strategy 9.5%
- #31 Agromatic
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Time Management 14.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Capitalism 7.3%
- #32 SeaOrama: World of Shipping
76% matchMixed59% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Hidden TowerPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac
Experience the challenges of running a successful shipping company with Seaorama: World of Shipping.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Time Management 14.1%, Strategy 14%, Capitalism 10.9%
- #33 Clipper
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 17%, Strategy 14.1%, Management 9.9%
- #34 Resort Galactica
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Space Sim 19.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Management 7.9%
- #35 Order: The New Dawn
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
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 36%, Space Sim 31.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Management 6.4%
- #36 TV Show Tycoon
74% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: ORDA
Windows
Get in charge of your own TV Show Company in this text-based tycoon game! Have you ever thought of your own TV Show? Design your dream shows down to the small details. Release your shows and witness your audience comment on your design choices! Make money and release more shows and seasons!
Why similar: Clicker 32.6% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Immersive Sim 9.3%
- #37 The EverFloating Island
73% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: GU GAMES
Windows
This is a Sky Island simulation game. To prevent your Sky Island from falling, you need a large amount of float stones to maintain the production of float energy. Trade, missions, robbery—do whatever it takes to survive...
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Space Sim 30.7%, Time Management 14.7%, Trading 11.6%, Simulation 5.8%
- #38 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
72% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
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: Colony Sim 33.3%, Space Sim 29.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 5.1%
- #39 Star Life
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 21HOBNAILS
Windows
Star Life is a space sandbox RPG where you start on a planet and carve your own path. Develop skills through "learn by doing," influence dynamic economies, schedule your life with the "Life Planner," and face the challenges of space. Balance risk and survival in a universe shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Trading 10.8%, Capitalism 10.3%
- #40 The Last Starship
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Space Sim 27.7%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Strategy 11%, Automation 8.4%
- #41 Galactic Pioneers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Item Games
Windows
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Space Sim 32.1%, Time Management 14.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 5.7%
- #42 Spaceflight Factory
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Space Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Automation 11.5%, Strategy 8.8%
- #43 AstroCore Mining
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gamegine
Windows
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Space Sim 31.3%, Capitalism 12.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 5.6%
- #44 Stella Nova
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DavePub: also Dave
Windows
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Space Sim 27.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Immersive Sim 9.2%
- #45 EarthX 2
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
Windows · Mac
Grow your rocket startup from a humble launchpad to sprawling colonies on Mars and beyond! Secure government contracts, launch massive satellite constellations, build space stations, terraform Mars with nuclear blasts, and mine vital resources to fuel your expansion!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.7%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Time Management 11%, Automation 10.8%, Strategy 9.4%
- #46 Wasteland Train: Conductor
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jinye
Windows
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Trains 24.6% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Trading 9%, Simulation 7.9%
- #47 Age of Beasts
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LD Gaming
Windows
Colonial Wars is a sci-fi futuristic real-time strategy and survival game where you face up to three different opponents on battle maps, fighting for control of resources and territory while also contending with the local alien wildlife population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.4%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 14%, Management 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #48 Planet Factory
68% matchPositive86% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: SupremeGuardianGames
Windows
A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!
Why similar: Space Sim 36.3%, Strategy 23.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 7.2%
- #49 Money Garden Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sector Games
Windows
In the Money Garden Simulator, money literally grows on trees! Grow diverse currencies, expand your empire, and dominate the global economy. Crush markets, manipulate exchange rates, builde the ultimate Money Machine.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.3%, Capitalism 21.7%, Strategy 16.5%, Trading 11.7%, Simulation 10.2%
- #50 Station Nexus
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rudovia Subject
Windows
During a 96,000 km journey, you must manage power, secure resources, and survive. But… you may not be alone out here. A top-down, system- and story-driven exploration game. It is based on the opening chapter of a future sequel. It aims to deliver a unique and experimental gameplay system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Space Sim 35.2%, Time Management 17.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 1%
- #51 Launch Window
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gumptiongames
Windows
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Automation 11.3%, Transportation 8.3% ★
- #52 SeaColony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Time Management 14.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 8.8%
- #53 Gravitation
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoldenEggs Workshop
Windows
Gravitation is a sandbox simulation set in the vastness of the cosmos and built on the laws of real-world physics.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.1%, Strategy 25.3%, Sandbox 20.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Indie 1%
- #54 Interstellar Pilot 2
67% matchVery Positive91% of 155 reviews2023
Dev: Pixelfactor Ltd.
Windows
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind. Play how you like in this open world space-sim developed by Pixelfactor.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.6%, Strategy 23.9%, Sandbox 23.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Indie 1%
- #55 The Promised Land
69% matchVery Positive87% of 776 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.8%, Strategy 19.7%, Time Management 5.9%, Simulation 3.9%, Management 3.3%
- #56 Another Dead World
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another Dead World
Windows
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Strategy 26.3%, Sandbox 22.5%, Trading 8.1%, Indie 0.9%