Games Like Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

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 26.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 8.7%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This classic colony sim tasks you with building a self-sufficient base on remote planets while managing oxygen and food supplies.

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 19.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12%, Space Sim 10.1%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep base-building mechanics within a spaceship, emphasizing crew management and survival in the vacuum of space.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Space 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends city-building with space survival, requiring you to manage a massive station while navigating a dying solar system.

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 21.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Automation 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Space 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and vertical base expansion, allowing you to build sprawling space factories across multiple planets.

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 33.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulation that forces you to master thermodynamics and gas management to keep your space-faring colonists alive.

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: Mars 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based city builder that captures the challenge of terraforming and settling on a harsh, resource-scarce Mars.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where managing oxygen and infrastructure is key to your colony's longevity.

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 31.4%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Survival 8.8%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, offering unparalleled depth in managing colonist needs and base security against hostile threats.

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: Mars 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Automation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines planetary-scale terraforming with base management, tasking you with making Mars habitable for humanity.

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 21.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city builder that emphasizes automation and logistics, perfect for players who enjoy the building loop of Stellar Settlers.

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 18.1%, Automation 16.3%, Space 11.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game scales up the automation and resource management aspects of space building to an intergalactic level.

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 22.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Automation 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore space base construction game that requires precise engineering and atmospheric management to survive.

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 36%, City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 6%, Space 5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building and maintaining a colony on an alien world, complete with environmental hazards and resource logistics.

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: Mars 34.5% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed survival experience on Mars, focusing on technical base maintenance and resource extraction.

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 25%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 8%, Economy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a different era, its robust vertical building system and colony management are perfect for fans of complex base design.

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 22.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features unique vertical city-building mechanics that mirror the structural challenges found in Stellar Settlers.

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: Colony Sim 14.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Space Sim 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated space station construction simulator that focuses on modular design and life support management.

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building with automation in a space setting, focusing on mining and processing resources on asteroids.

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 23.6%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Space Sim 11.2%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features vertical city building on floating islands, emphasizing survival and efficient resource distribution.

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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Automation 9.4%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces vertical building and water management mechanics that provide a satisfying challenge for fans of structural planning.

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 21.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Space Sim 11.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Space 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management and expansion of space stations, blending simulation with strategic growth.

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep colony management experience with a focus on logistics and survival in challenging landscapes.

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 18.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Space Sim 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Automation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that focuses on building and managing a base on a distant, alien exoplanet.

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: Base Building 30%, Automation 23%, Resource Management 14.8%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder that excels at complex vertical construction and resource chain management.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city builder that captures the intensity of managing a colony in a constantly hostile and changing 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: Base Building 22%, Automation 18.3%, Resource Management 16.2%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive, complex base building in an infinite procedural world.

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 26.9%, City Builder 22.1%, Building 10.3%, Survival 7.1%, Space 6.9%

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 18.5%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 11%, Mars 10.6% ★, Space Sim 10.6%

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 16.9%, Space Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game tasks you with building and maintaining space stations while defending against various hazards.

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.1%, Space 7.7%

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 26.4%, Space 19.3%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space base management game that emphasizes the daily life and needs of your colonists.

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.6%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 24.2%, Building 11.1%, Survival 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%

「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: Mars 22% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7.7%

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 23%, Base Building 13.8%, Automation 10.7%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%

Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18%, Space Sim 13.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.7%

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: Mars 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14%, Automation 11.8%, Building 7.8%

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 20.2%, City Builder 17%, Spaceships 12.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Space Sim 10.2%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: Mars 22% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 7.4%, Space 6.6%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 6.7%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Automation 8.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 8.9%

An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time. Trade, run shops, build a Commerce Guild, join Military Factions, govern planets, and command fleets in war. Your every choice reshape the galaxy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.6%, Space 12.9%, Management 8.2%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Survival 7.6%

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 39.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.9%, Space 8%, Strategy 7%

Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.

Why similar: Mars 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 7%

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 20%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Automation 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 28.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.1%, Survival 9.6%, Space 9.3%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 16.1%, Automation 16%, Building 14%, Space 11.1%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, City Builder 7.3%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 24.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 6.7%

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Mars 39.3% ★, Resource Management 14.4%, Space 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Automation 17%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 10.7%

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 20.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Automation 15.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 12.1%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Economy 8%, Sandbox 7.2%