60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Sandbox, Survival.
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
ARUS-1
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Terra Taker
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.
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Exploration 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
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 20.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go it alone in a world where the apex predator is still a distant aspiration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 9.2%
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 29.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 7.2%
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 34.1%, Automation 16.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.6%
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 43.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.7%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 11.6%, Automation 7.9%
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 19.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10%
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Automation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.4%
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 29.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 8%
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 40.3%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.2%, Sci-fi 7.2%
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 27.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.4%
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 25.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Automation 15.1%, Space 9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 12.6%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
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: Colony Sim 26.6%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 8.8%
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.8%
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 14.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, PvE 7.9%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.7%
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 20%, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.5%
Factory automation meets megastructure. Explore an ancient space station in search of a buried star. Build automated factories and defend against a living and realigning station.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
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 41.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 4.9%
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Incremental 17.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 7.7%
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 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%
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 25.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
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 32.7%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8.8%
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 12%, Automation 8.8%, Crafting 7.3%
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 12.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Automation 17%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 7%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7.3%, Open World 6.8%
A factory automation game made entirely out of text characters. Real simulated electricity, fluid pressure, steam and logic gates. You crash on a dead planet with a terminal and 50,000 sleeping colonists somewhere below you. Runs on almost anything. Free demo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Incremental 15.8%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 6.8%
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 6.4%
Mine asteroids and refine resources to build your own spaceship, designing every detail as you balance mass, thrust, and torque. Alone or with a crew, expand your vessel into a self-sustaining mobile factory through automation as you survive the harshness of space.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 12.1%
Survival Craft with PvE, CO-OP, Questline that lasts for several hours. Historic Bronze Age vibes. Lead your tribe to Civilization, found your own town, construct a great Ziggurat, and become the King!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10.4%
Survival is just the beginning. Stranded in a desert wilderness, an endless river is your only lifeline. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and build a floating home to brave the treacherous waters and scorching heat. Every bend brings new danger and deeper discoveries. How far will you go?
Why similar: Sandbox 18.2%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 14%, Crafting 12.6%
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 35.5%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Space 7.2%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Management 7.3%
Project Starbound is a single-player space exploration game built in Unreal Engine 5. After a habitable moon is discovered, players explore the solar system, take on missions, build bases, and navigate faction conflicts in a story-driven, low-poly universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, PvE 11.2%, Open World 8.8%
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 32.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Management 7.1%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.4%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.2%
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 25.8%, Automation 14.7%, Incremental 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.7%
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 30.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Third Person 6.2%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 7.8%
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, PvE 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 9.1%
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: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.7%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 6.9%
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.5%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Incremental 20.6%, Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 9.9%
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Incremental 18.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 13.6%, PvE 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%
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 27.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 9.6%, Space 8.3%
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Space 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Survival 15.3%, PvE 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Exploration 8.6%
TimbrianGuard is a voxel-based sandbox colony management sim. Lead colonists to a new home, guide their survival, expand your colony's influence, establish outposts, and attract new settlers as your community grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Automation 12%, Survival 9.6%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Incremental 15.1%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.8%
