Games Like The Alters

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: Base Building 22.3%, Survival 21.5%, Space 18.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space station management with a desperate, narrative-driven survival mission that feels very similar to the plight of Jan Dolski.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same emotional intensity and focus on human survival under extreme pressure as the narrative core of The Alters.

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: Survival 33.7%, Resource Management 24%, Base Building 18.6%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Alters, this game forces players to make grueling moral choices while managing a desperate survival situation.

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: Base Building 34.1%, Survival 22.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 11.3%, Space 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep, complex base management and survival mechanics that mirror the technical challenges of maintaining a base in The Alters.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Survival 22.7%, Management 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust survival and base-building experience on a hostile planet that aligns well with the core gameplay loop of The Alters.

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 26.4%, Survival 18%, Crafting 12.2%, Space 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the sci-fi exploration and base-building aspects, focusing on transforming a hostile world into a habitable one.

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%, Survival 16.5%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Space 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title features intricate crew management and base-building within a hostile space environment, emphasizing the need for careful resource allocation.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.5%, Science 13.5% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game features a mobile base-building mechanic and exploration that mirrors the isolation and ingenuity required in The Alters.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 14.4%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, atmospheric survival experience where your vehicle acts as your base, much like the mobile base in The Alters.

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: Base Building 35.4%, Survival 22.8%, Management 17.7%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on managing individual characters with unique traits and needs makes it a perfect parallel to the character-management aspect of The Alters.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Survival 21.3%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This space-survival game blends crafting and base-building with a distinct sci-fi aesthetic and a focus on overcoming environmental hazards.

Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?

Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Survival 18.1%, Management 17.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a small crew in a harsh, alien environment, requiring strategic decision-making to survive.

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Space 29.6%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Adventure 11%, Survival 8.3%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a strong, narrative-driven sci-fi experience that captures the sense of isolation and mission-critical urgency found in The Alters.

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: Base Building 27%, Resource Management 14%, Management 13.8%, Space 13.1%, Survival 12%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and colony management on the moon, providing a similar strategic depth to the base-building in The Alters.

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

Why similar: Science 28.7% ★, Sci-fi 20.3%, Futuristic 18.4%, Space 18%, Story Rich 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, narrative-focused sci-fi experience that prioritizes exploration and the mystery of an alien planet.

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 25.6%, Survival 18.9%, Management 16.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival and base-building in an open-world setting, focusing on the struggle to maintain infrastructure.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Survival 24%, Space 16.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on creative base-building and exploration in a colorful, sci-fi setting that encourages experimentation with resources.

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 17.8%, Survival 13.2%, Management 13.1%, Science 12.5% ★, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sci-fi management experience that focuses on building and maintaining a base while keeping your crew alive.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Survival 20.6%, Science 17.4% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Sci-fi 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game emphasizes base-building and crafting within a scientific facility, mirroring the technical management found in The Alters.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Resource Management 23.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's brutal survival and management systems, offering even more complex societal dilemmas.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 38.7%, Sci-fi 33.4%, Futuristic 13.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the gritty, industrial sci-fi atmosphere and the feeling of working under pressure to maintain one's survival.

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: Base Building 31%, Survival 18.9%, Space 14.9%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim requires careful management of resources and personnel to survive in the harsh environment of space.

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and base-building with a strong narrative focus, making it a good thematic match for The Alters.

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Resource Management 21%, Management 15.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Futuristic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on resource management and survival with a strong emphasis on choices that impact the narrative outcome.

Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 19.9%, Management 19.9%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines space survival and resource management with strategic decision-making in a hostile environment.

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: Base Building 27.2%, Survival 17.5%, Resource Management 13%, Management 12.5%, Science 9.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation and colony-management experience that rewards careful planning and resource usage.

Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...

Why similar: Sci-fi 41.7%, Exploration 26.4%, Story Rich 16.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a claustrophobic, narrative-rich sci-fi experience that emphasizes the psychological toll of survival.

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 22.7%, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Space 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Space 36.8%, Sci-fi 33.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It places you in the role of an AI managing a space station, offering a unique perspective on the management and survival themes found in The Alters.

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.8%, Space 24.8%, Exploration 15.3%, Story Rich 9%, Adventure 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: Base Building 24.5%, Survival 21.3%, Management 16.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 9%, Exploration 8.4%

A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?

Why similar: Survival 16.9%, Management 15.9%, Time Management 13.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival management game that focuses on the well-being of a crew in a harsh environment, mirroring the management of alters.

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 32.1%, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Sci-fi 13%, Exploration 8.9%

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: Base Building 23.3%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12%, Space 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

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: Base Building 24.3%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Space 10.5%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Base Building 26.4%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Space 9.3%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Space 12.4%

Lodestar sends you and your squad of friends on your own space odyssey. Traverse multiple planets in a journey to get home without losing yourself or your ship to the perils of the unknown! Solve puzzles, gather resources, mine asteroids, and survive... with your own oh-so welcoming AI sidekick!

Why similar: Base Building 21%, Resource Management 12.6%, Space 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.4%

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Management 19.9%, Space 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%

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: Base Building 23.6%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Space 11.5%

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Survival 20.3%, Space 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Time Management 21.9%, Exploration 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Space 10.8%, Management 10.4%

Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Survival 18.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Space 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Exploration 18.1%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Third Person 12.5%, Story Rich 7.1%

Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.

Why similar: Story Rich 34.3%, Exploration 32.8%, Adventure 11%, 3D 8.5%, Singleplayer 8.3%

In the distant outer space, there's an exp base. Aliens turn humans into animals with a catalyst for their needs. Different catalysts cause different forms. You're a human who escaped. While exploring and fleeing, you reveal the truth in the lab.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 16.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.1%, Exploration 12%, Space 10.9%

Sam – with companions by his side – sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Join them as they traverse a world beset by otherworldly enemies, obstacles and a haunting question: should we have connected?

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.5%, Exploration 19.8%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Third Person 13.8%, Story Rich 12.2%

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.

Why similar: Base Building 28.9%, Space 18.6%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Exploration 11%, Action-Adventure 10.6%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Base Building 31.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Adventure 6.4%

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: Survival 20.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Management 18%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Space 9.9%

Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.​

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Space 20.4%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Survival 17.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.

Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Science 16.7% ★, Management 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Sci-fi 12%

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.

Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.3%

Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Base Building 30.7%, Management 16.8%, Exploration 11.5%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 10.3%

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

Why similar: Story Rich 46.2%, Strategy 26%, Singleplayer 12%, Action 9.2%, Adventure 6.6%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Exploration 8.8%

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: Base Building 25.8%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Space 10.2%