60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Automation, Resource Management, Sandbox.
A space themed open world crafting and base-building game where you terraform a planet by scaling up a colony of autonomous robots. Provide shelter, gather resources, and manage your bots to keep work moving across the base. Create a new atmosphere and make the planet inhabitable.
Astro Colony
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.
Dawn Apart
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…
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 20.7%, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Space 13%, Crafting 6.9%
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 28.7%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Space 10.3%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Space 15.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Robots 11.6%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 9.4%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 17%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Robots 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 17.4%, Robots 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%
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 27.7%, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 8.1%
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: Automation 17.9%, Robots 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Space 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%
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 23.8%, Automation 20.2%, Space 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 7.9%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 23.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Space 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Robots 9.8%, Crafting 9%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 20.4%, Incremental 13.6%, Space 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.1%
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: Automation 21.3%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 9.6%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.9%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 7.4%
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 26.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 8.4%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Robots 12.6%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.9%
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.1%
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Space 13.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Space 10.4%, Survival 9.6%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Automation 21.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%
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 39.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 8.3%, Space 7%
StarColony is a resource management & incremental space colony building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Incremental 21.8%, Space 18.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 4.7%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Space 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 10%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 18.2%, Space 11.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 8.1%
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 44.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 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: Automation 24%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 13.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
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: Automation 21.5%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 13%, Robots 11%, Sandbox 9%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Space 9%
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 34.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Automation 14.4%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 6.7%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Automation 21.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Space 11.9%, Incremental 9.2%
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 24.5%, Space 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
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: Colony Sim 21.1%, Space 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 8.5%
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Automation 20%, Space 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Space 8.2%
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 14.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
The third iteration of the game that invented the Factory genre, FortressCraft :Phoenix takes the over-the-top base building and survival gameplay and cranks it up a hundred times. Build your mining base with hundreds of thousands of machines in it, explore alien landscape, heading deep underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 14.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 10.3%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Automation 20.6%, Incremental 20.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
Explore, build, and master the art of automation. Build your base, discover colorful new worlds, and develop new technologies as you tame the far reaches of space and search for a way to return to Earth.
Why similar: Space 17.1%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.4%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Crafting 17.6%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
A sci-fi game where you help restore collapsed ecosystems on an alien planet. Raise and breed bees, grow native plants from bee produce and automate production as you stabilise the planet's ecosystems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Automation 24.1%, Robots 15.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%
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: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.1%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Automation 25.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 7.5%
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Space 14.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
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 42.2%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 5.9%
A zany single-player, open-world survival-crafting adventure game, set in space across a colorful planetary system. Explore the system at your own pace, leverage the unique properties and lifeforms of the planets, build bases and factories, and reveal the mystery of a vanished science colony.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Robots 10.8%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Automation 14.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 13%, Survival 8.6%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%
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 29%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.5%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 7.7%
