Games Like Stranded: Alien Dawn

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 23.2% ★, Base Building 23.2%, Survival 15.7%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar sci-fi survival management loop where you must maintain a base while exploring space.

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: Base Building 23.5%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the 3D perspective and tactical base-building focus while managing a small group of survivors.

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 29.4% ★, Base Building 28.4%, Survival 17.5%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers intricate resource management and survival mechanics within a complex sci-fi environment.

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 29.1% ★, Base Building 28.5%, Survival 17.3%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that shares the deep management, emergent storytelling, and combat-focused survival of Stranded: Alien Dawn.

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 23.1% ★, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 19%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space station management with intense survival pressure and narrative-driven decision making.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9% ★, Survival 25.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Destruction 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on human survival, development, and base-building through the ages.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Survival 26.4%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A robust post-apocalyptic colony builder with strong survival elements and resource management.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 24.8%, Survival 18%, Crafting 8.1%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and tactical combat against supernatural threats in a survival setting.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Base Building 27.4%, Survival 13.4%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that emphasizes character management and combat in a way that mirrors the personal stakes of Stranded.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9% ★, Crafting 29.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Building 7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that focuses on survival, family management, and adapting to a harsh, changing environment.

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: Base Building 36.3%, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying loop of terraforming and survival on a desolate alien world.

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 21.8% ★, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space colony-sim with complex automation and survival mechanics set on a derelict ship.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging city-builder with deep survival and resource management systems that require careful planning.

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: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 21.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with exploration and survival in a harsh post-apocalyptic setting.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Survival 24.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes survival management experience where every decision is critical to the survival of your colony.

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Survival 22.7%, Management 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and management on a hostile planet with unique character-based mechanics.

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: Base Building 33.8%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a base in space with a focus on resource management.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 26.7%, Survival 15.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony-sim that emphasizes resource management and survival against the elements.

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 37.5%, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex resource management and base-building on a remote island with a focus on industrial survival.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 16.8%, Management 7.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and societal development.

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 37% ★, Survival 20.8%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to guide a civilization through eras on various planets with survival challenges.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 18.9%, Management 7.5%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Refines the survival city-builder formula with new exploration and management features in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 40.9% ★, Base Building 22%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that focuses on managing a colony on an alien world with environmental hazards.

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: Survival 32.3%, Management 15.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game about colonizing and terraforming Mars with a focus on long-term survival.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Survival 17.3%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational colony-sim that offers unparalleled depth in management, simulation, and emergent gameplay.

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Base Building 31%, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused base-building game with a unique theme of preparing for an uncertain future.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on early human development, exploration, and base-building.

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 28.5% ★, Survival 19.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 6.4%

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: Base Building 27%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 9%, Management 7.7%

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 30.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 16.2%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that emphasizes survival and base-building on a hostile planet with a focus on realism.

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 19.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic bunker with a focus on character needs.

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 17%, Crafting 13.6%, Management 7.7%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Base Building 35.9%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 6.9%

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: Base Building 29.6%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Survival 20%, Crafting 15.1%, Simulation 7%

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: Base Building 29.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Resource Management 6.8%

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: Base Building 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Colony Sim 8.1% ★, Crafting 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Base Building 21%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 9.8%

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 29.7% ★, Base Building 29.2%, Crafting 14%, Strategy 6.8%, Destruction 6.2%

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: Base Building 24.3%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 8.8%, Strategy 5.9%

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 23%, Survival 17%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 7.5%

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: Base Building 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 9.8%, Resource Management 7.7%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 20%, Survival 16.8%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.5%

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: Base Building 27.4%, Survival 24.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Inventory Management 9.9%, Resource Management 8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 27%, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.8%

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 24.9% ★, Base Building 24.4%, Crafting 14%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 6.6%

Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

Why similar: Survival 32.5%, Strategy 32%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Combat 9.1%, 3D 6.5%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.1%

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 21.4% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15%, Crafting 10%, Management 8.8%

Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?

Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 8%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 24.6%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Strategy 6.3%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Management 7.7%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 32.6%, Survival 26.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 8.3%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 4.8%

“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 26.1%, Survival 18.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%

Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 24.9%, Survival 17%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 6.3%