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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 23.3%, Survival 22.5%, Space 18.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines harsh sci-fi survival, base building, and critical management of a vulnerable crew in deep space.

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 38%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the grounded, emotionally heavy focus on psychological survival and managing individuals through a crisis.

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 35.1%, Survival 23.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10.9%, Space 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features intricate colony simulation and base-building mechanics centered around keeping a group of unique characters alive.

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 35.4%, Resource Management 22.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same desperate, society-straining survival management and agonizing moral choices under extreme environmental pressure.

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 32.3%, Survival 23.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build a base and manage a small group of survivors on an unforgiving alien world.

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 24%, Survival 17.1%, Management 15.1%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Involves constructing a custom spaceship base and managing the complex psychological and physical needs of a space-faring crew.

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 27.4%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Space 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself in a sci-fi survival and terraforming loop focused on mastering a hostile planet.

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 31.7%, Survival 19.7%, Space 14.7%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Demands careful resource management and base construction to keep a struggling group alive on a hostile planet.

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 26.1%, Survival 22.2%, Space 16.4%, Sci-fi 12%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends dark sci-fi humor with open-world space survival and base-building mechanics.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Resource Management 22.8%, Psychological 13.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource management, crew morale, and survival against harsh elements with difficult leadership decisions.

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 36.2%, Resource Management 21.8%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 13.2%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the grim societal survival and strategic management formula in an even grander post-apocalyptic scale.

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 36%, Survival 23.5%, Management 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep simulation of individual psychological traits, interpersonal dynamics, and survival management.

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 22%, Survival 16.2%, Science 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Tasks you with surviving on a ruined ecological sci-fi world using a mobile airship base.

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 24.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an atmospheric, highly tense survival experience centered around a mobile base and harsh anomalous environments.

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 26.6%, Survival 21.6%, Science 16.9%, Crafting 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and crafting survival with a compelling, heavily atmospheric sci-fi facility setting.

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 26.1%, Sci-fi 19%, Space 16.9%, Futuristic 16.5%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the thought-provoking, retro-futuristic sci-fi narrative tone found in existential survival adventures.

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: Base Building 27.9%, Management 13.2%, Space 13.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on lunar base-building, resource automation, and survival logistics in a hard sci-fi setting.

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 24.5%, Survival 18.4%, Management 15%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Involves automated survival and base-building mechanics in a lonely sci-fi landscape.

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 18.3%, Survival 13.8%, Management 12.6%, Science 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on managing a subterranean sci-fi base and keeping survivors productive and safe.

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 21.2%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines mining, base-building, and atmospheric survival mechanics in a rich story-driven framework.

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 25.3%, Survival 19%, Management 17%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Simulates a harsh scientific survival expedition on a desolate planet requiring careful base setup.

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 27.3%, Resource Management 19.4%, Management 15.3%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Futuristic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource-management survival choices and narrative-driven decision-making.

Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Space 16.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Action-Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the open-world sci-fi survival and crafting formula with fresh exploration challenges.

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 27.9%, Survival 18.3%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Science 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features underground colony simulation and survival crafting with a strong emphasis on storytelling.

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 22.9%, Management 19.6%, Resource Management 18.6%, Space 16.5%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space resource management and tactical survival in a lonely, challenging universe.

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 21.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Management 17.3%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sci-fi colony simulation focused on keeping a base running smoothly in a hazardous alien environment.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Base Building 28.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Exploration 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a masterclass in alien world exploration, crafting, and tense survival against the odds.

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Science 16.4%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates survival crafting and base development within a mysterious sci-fi biopunk world.

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 29%, Space 24.6%, Exploration 15.3%, Story Rich 9.1%, Adventure 6.9%

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 36.7%, Exploration 17.8%, Action-Adventure 14%, Third Person 11.7%, Story Rich 6.8%

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 48.1%, Strategy 24.2%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 6.8%

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 23.1%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 14%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.7%

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Sci-fi 38.7%, Exploration 24.5%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explores deep philosophical questions about human identity, consciousness, and survival in a claustrophobic sci-fi setting.

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 18%, Management 15.5%, Time Management 13.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your management skills as you try to keep a stranded crew alive in a desolate, freezing environment.

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 29.6%, Survival 24.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Exploration 8.3%, Resource Management 8.2%

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 21.5%, Exploration 12.3%, Sci-fi 12%, Space 10.6%, Management 9.8%

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 25.6%, Management 19.2%, Space 13.7%, Survival 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%

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 25.2%, Survival 20.9%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%

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 25%, Survival 14.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Space 10.4%

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 26.3%, Survival 24.6%, Space 16.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Exploration 8.8%

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Space 19.6%, Resource Management 16.7%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Exploration 9.9%

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 21.7%, Space 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%

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 35.5%, Exploration 31.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Singleplayer 8.6%, 3D 8.1%

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 25.1%, Survival 17.1%, Science 16.5%, Management 15.9%, Sci-fi 12%

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 27.1%, Survival 19.6%, Space 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 11%

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 26.5%, Survival 15%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 12.9%, Space 12.3%

Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Space 35.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Adventure 5.7%, Action 4.9%

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Base Building 28%, Survival 23.6%, Management 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11%

Follow R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, on a cinematic adventure through an alternate 1980s America. Explore an atmospheric cyberpunk world full of high-stakes action wrapped in a unique 2.5D pixel art style.

Why similar: Sci-fi 34.4%, Action-Adventure 32.7%, Story Rich 17.6%, Adventure 9.1%, Singleplayer 6.3%

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: Base Building 26.9%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 29.3%, Space 18.3%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10.6%

A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

Why similar: Sci-fi 19.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Futuristic 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.5%

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 41.4%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Exploration 12.6%, Space 11.7%, Crafting 6.3%

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 24.3%, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Space 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.2%

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 36.9%, Base Building 31.3%, Crafting 13%, Sci-fi 7%, Adventure 6.3%

Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.

Why similar: Base Building 23%, Survival 15.9%, Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%

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 30.5%, Exploration 21.9%, Action-Adventure 17.1%, Third Person 16.2%, Action 5.8%

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.

Why similar: Space 29.3%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Survival 8.8%, Action 6.7%

Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...

Why similar: Survival 25.6%, Space 25.3%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Exploration 13.3%, Adventure 8.3%

A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.

Why similar: Story Rich 28.3%, Action-Adventure 25.2%, Adventure 14.4%, Singleplayer 12.2%, Action 12%