60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Colony Sim, Crafting, Sandbox.
A sci-fi first-person 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.
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.
Polylithic
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.
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%, Automation 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
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 22.4%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 9.1%
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 30%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7.2%
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 33.9%, Automation 14.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 7.5%
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 33.8%, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%
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 43.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.7%
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 21.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 11.5%, Automation 8.2%
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 22.2%, Automation 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%
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 19.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10%
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 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.4%, Sci-fi 7.2%
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 29.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 7.9%
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: Colony Sim 25.9%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 27.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 7.4%
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 12.3%, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.6%
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 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%
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 26.5%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 8.6%
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 34.8%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Third Person 8.2%
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%, Crafting 10.7%, PvE 8%
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 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.5%
Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Incremental 17%, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 10.4%, Survival 8.8%
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 32%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
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 41.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 5%
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 29.4%, Incremental 18.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 7.5%
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 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%
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 32.6%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
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 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8.8%
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 13%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.6%
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 33.8%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 8.6%
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 15.6%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 6.9%
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 29.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.8%
Crash-land on Kepler-442b. With nothing but a terminal, build automated factories from raw ore. Power them. Fight back the wildlife. Descend 4 world layers to save 50,000 colonists in cryo-sleep. ASCII factory automation, deep and brutal. Pure text. Pure systems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Incremental 16.2%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 6.7%
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 39.5%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7.3%, Open World 6.7%
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 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 6.3%
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 35.3%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Space 7.1%
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 16.7%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%
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 14.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Management 7.4%
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 15.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, PvE 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 21.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.2%
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 32.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Management 7.2%
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 36.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.3%
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 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Third Person 6.1%
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 25.6%, Automation 15%, Incremental 15%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.9%
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: Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.6%
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 32.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 7.7%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Incremental 20.9%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 9.8%
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 23.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.6%
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 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 8.9%
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 23.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
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 28%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.5%, Space 8.3%
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 13.5%, PvE 7.5%, Strategy 6.5%
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 24.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14%, Space 11.2%, 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 33.8%, Survival 15.2%, PvE 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Exploration 8.6%
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 28.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 9.5%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Incremental 15.5%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%
Stranded on an uncharted alien world with a broken ship and no rescue coming. Scan the wildlife, uncover the truth behind abandoned human outposts, and build the technology you need to escape, before this planet becomes your grave.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.5%, Survival 18.5%, PvE 14.2%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 11.2%
Build data centers, manufacture integrated circuits, and deal with threats to your network in this automation game with an emphasis on computer hardware and networks.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, PvE 9.8%, Management 7.7%
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: Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 16%, Automation 15.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 10.2%
Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Space 11.5%, Open World 10.8%
