Games Like Stranded: Alien Dawn

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 29.7%, Base Building 28.8%, Survival 17.9%, Resource Management 7%, Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, complex resource management and base-building challenges that mirror the technical survival aspects of Stranded.

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the 3D perspective and focus on building multi-story structures while managing a small group of survivors in a harsh 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 29.3%, Base Building 28.8%, Survival 17.7%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that shares the core DNA of managing individual survivor needs, base defense, and emergent storytelling.

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: Base Building 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Survival 16%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a modular ship-building and crew management experience that feels like a sci-fi, space-faring cousin to Stranded's planetary survival.

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 23.4%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 19.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space station management with survival, requiring constant adaptation to environmental threats much like the planetary survival in Stranded.

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 26%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Survival 16.8%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed city-building experience with a strong emphasis on survival, resource chains, and defending your settlement from external threats.

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 29.6%, Base Building 27%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Resource Management 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical challenge of maintaining a self-sufficient colony on a remote planet, echoing the core survival loop 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 49.4%, Crafting 28.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Building 7.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony simulator that emphasizes individual survivor needs and seasonal survival, mirroring the intimate management style of Stranded.

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 47.2%, Survival 26.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.9%, Destruction 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to guide a group of early humans through the ages, focusing on survival, hunting, and base development.

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 29.6%, Base Building 27.4%, Survival 13.4%, Management 9%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with 3D exploration and RPG-like character interactions, capturing the personal focus of your survivors.

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 25.9%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Survival 17.7%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: The complex simulation depth found here provides the ultimate challenge for players who enjoy the intricate management systems of Stranded.

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: Survival 26.9%, Base Building 26.9%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a post-apocalyptic setting where you must manage resources and protect your colony from environmental hazards.

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 26.5%, Survival 25.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on city-wide survival, it captures the same high-stakes decision-making and desperate struggle against a hostile environment.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines lunar base-building with automation and resource management, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of Stranded.

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 26.6%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 21.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony builder that emphasizes managing survivors and exploring the surrounding wasteland.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulator that focuses on repairing a crashed ship and managing your crew's survival in deep space.

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 29.9%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, grid-based city-building experience with a strong focus on survival mechanics and resource management.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Crafting 25.1%, Survival 23%, Management 8.7%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more personal, first-person take on colony management and survival, focusing on building a legacy over generations.

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 22.8%, Base Building 22.2%, Survival 17.4%, Management 7.1%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on rebuilding society while managing limited resources and harsh weather conditions.

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 37.6%, Survival 21.4%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to guide a civilization through the ages, blending city-building with planetary management.

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 41.1%, Base Building 22.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a colony on an alien world, dealing with unique environmental threats and resource constraints.

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 26.8%, Base Building 25.1%, Survival 18.5%, Crafting 8%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with tactical combat against demonic forces, mirroring the base-defense aspects of Stranded.

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 33.9%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 14.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game focused on the long-term goal of terraforming Mars, requiring careful resource management and expansion.

Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, Survival 23.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the psychological and survival challenges of managing different versions of yourself on a dangerous alien planet.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Base Building 32.8%, Survival 23.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal, open-world survival experience where you can build your own base and manage a squad of unique characters.

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 29%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 19.4%, Management 7%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more focus on exploration and managing multiple settlements in a hostile world.

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 37.2%, Survival 24%, Crafting 17.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 4.9%

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 34%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 6.5%

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 32.1%, Survival 25.4%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build an underground bunker and manage resources to prepare for an uncertain future.

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 25.3%, Base Building 24%, Survival 20.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that focuses on keeping a small group alive in a harsh, post-apocalyptic bunker.

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 26.2%, Base Building 24%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric colony simulator that focuses on building, gathering, and managing your tribe's survival in a vast, open world.

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: Base Building 28.5%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 6.7%

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Survival 16.3%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8%

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 36.5%, Survival 20.7%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 6.8%

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 35.9%, Survival 16.6%, Strategy 13%, Colony Sim 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%

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 30%, Base Building 29.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Strategy 6.7%, Destruction 6%

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 29.7%, Base Building 23.2%, Survival 17.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 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 30.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 16.6%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%

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 34.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 9.3%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 16%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Resource Management 6.1%

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 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 5.8%

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 29.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 17.3%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 7.4%

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 7%

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Base Building 33.4%, Survival 22.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 5.5%

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 46.6%, Survival 16.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6.5%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Base Building 35.4%, Survival 32.3%, Management 7.3%, Crafting 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%

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 30%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 15%, Simulation 6.7%

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 23.3%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 7%

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 33.8%, Base Building 24.9%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Strategy 6.2%

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 32.8%, Strategy 32%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Combat 9.2%, 3D 6.2%

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 27.6%, Base Building 27.4%, Survival 16.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 6.8%

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 27%, Base Building 24%, Survival 15.8%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 6.2%

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: Base Building 30.2%, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 17%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Survival 20.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 6.6%

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 27.8%, Survival 25.6%, Crafting 18.2%, Inventory Management 9.3%, Resource Management 7.3%

“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 26.7%, Base Building 26.4%, Survival 18.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 7.3%

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: Base Building 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 8.2%