
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Base Building.

Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.

Maia
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.

Venusville
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
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 37.4% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Survival 7.4%, Space 7.3%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 6.9%
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 37% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, RTS 7.4%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Space 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.6%
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 24% ★, Space 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 8.8%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Dystopian 12.5%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 6.6%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 7.7%
A grounded sci-fi station builder where you hold failing systems together while pursued by a relentless, energy-hungry swarm. As a fleet on the run, drop into hostile systems, gather what you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Try to survive long enough to secure a future for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 10.4%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%
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: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Space 9.9%, Building 9%
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 35.6% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Space 11.2%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 5.9%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.9%, Survival 7.3%, Futuristic 5.6%
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 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Survival 7.3%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Economy 8.8%
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 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8.3%
「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: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 10.5%, RTS 9.5%, Space 7.7%
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 34.8% ★, Building 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Survival 7.5%
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 24.1% ★, Dystopian 14.1%, Base Building 9.6%, RTS 8.6%, Building 7.2%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13%, Resource Management 8.2%, Economy 7.6%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
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 20.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9%, RTS 7.5%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%
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 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.3%, Space 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.1%, Economy 7.4%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 5.8%, Survival 5.6%
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, RTS 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Dystopian 14%, Building 8.9%, Space 8.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
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 48% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 6.4%, Survival 6.1%
Dive into the sunken world. Face the dangers of the deepness. Build a colony and make it thrive. Conquer or explore the unknown, you decide which way you choose.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8.3%, Resource Management 8.1%
Embark on a cosmic odyssey as the director of your own space station in a galaxy full of wonders. Skillful management is vital as you construct and connect station components, oversee resource handling, and guide your space haven to reach new heights amidst the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Space 10.6%, Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.4%
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Building 13.4%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 7%
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Base Building 16%, Space 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 7.6%
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 30.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 10.3%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, RTS 7.2%, Survival 7.1%
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: Colony Sim 24% ★, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
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 30% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 7.8%
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Space 11.5%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 13%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 9.4%, Survival 7.5%
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 39.1% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Management 5.6%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Building 15.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11.2%, Space 7.6%, Survival 7.6%
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11%, RTS 8.7%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.5%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.2%, RTS 7.8%
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Building 10.7%, RTS 10.2%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 7.2%
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Space 8.5%
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Building 9.4%, Economy 7.6%, Exploration 6.9%
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 30.8% ★, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 6.7%
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 7.6%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.4%, RTS 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
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: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Economy 8.3%
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Space 14.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.8%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Strategy 6%
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 31.1% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13.8%, Survival 8.9%, Simulation 6.8%
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, RTS 10.5%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.4%