Games Like The Banished Vault

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

Why similar: Resource Management 22.6%, Space 16.6%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Roguelite 14%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential space survival game that mirrors the high-stakes resource management and exploration loop of The Banished Vault.

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Why similar: Perma Death 16.2%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Roguelite 14.9%, Space 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, atmospheric space game that captures the dark, narrative-driven exploration and turn-based combat found in gothic sci-fi.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 25.3%, Perma Death 23.7%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Sci-fi 12%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This definitive space roguelite shares the intense pressure of managing ship resources while navigating dangerous, procedurally generated sectors.

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Roguelite 31.7%, Strategy 30.3%, Procedural Generation 22.8%, Sci-fi 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on combat, its grid-based, turn-based puzzle mechanics provide the same level of strategic depth and consequence-heavy decision-making.

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: Resource Management 20.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Roguelite 16.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of scavenging and survival in a hostile space environment with strong roguelite strategy elements.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Perma Death 16.9%, Gothic 14.2% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Procedural Generation 13%, Roguelite 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space roguelite that prioritizes strategic choices and perma-death, echoing the endurance-focused gameplay of the seed game.

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 25.4%, Perma Death 23.3%, Roguelite 17.2%, Space 12.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep, turn-based space simulation that rewards careful planning and resource management during long-term exploration.

Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 44.7%, Roguelite 36.2%, Strategy 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space-faring strategy game that utilizes deckbuilding and tactical combat to simulate the tension of interstellar travel.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Resource Management 24%, Roguelite 18.8%, Space 16.1%, Aliens 15.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal space survival sim that forces players to manage complex ship systems and crew resources under constant threat.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Why similar: Base Building 41.8%, Space 34.2%, Strategy 24%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and tactical turn-based combat in a space setting, capturing the management aspects of a space-faring monastery.

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 26.1%, Resource Management 23.5%, Board Game 19.4%, Space 14.8%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based colony-building game that emphasizes procedural exploration and long-term resource planning on a planetary scale.

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 21.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 15.3%, Space 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed colony-sim experience where managing ship systems and crew survival is paramount to success.

Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.

Why similar: Roguelite 26.4%, Space 25.3%, Strategy 25%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Sci-fi 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, card-driven exploration game set in a dark, decaying space environment that matches the seed game's gothic aesthetic.

Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.

Why similar: Strategy 25.6%, Procedural Generation 25.1%, Board Game 24.1%, Space 16.2%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that distills space colonization into a board-game-like experience focused on resource management.

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 18.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 13.5%, Aliens 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy strategy game focused on building and maintaining a base capable of interstellar exploration.

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 27.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Space 14.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the base-building and survival aspects of establishing a colony in the harsh vacuum of space.

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 23.4%, Resource Management 19.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 13.5%, Space 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of space survival, requiring careful planning of resources and infrastructure.

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 18.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Roguelite 15.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused colony-sim that blends tower-defense elements with the need for constant resource extraction.

This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, City Builder 15.7%, Building 15.1%, Perma Death 14.4%, Roguelite 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite base-builder that emphasizes the constant threat of space hazards and the need for efficient infrastructure.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Roguelite 35.5%, Exploration 20.2%

Why You'll Like It: While thematicly different, its focus on turn-based exploration and managing limited resources across dangerous expeditions is highly comparable.

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Base Building 29.7%, Resource Management 25.1%, Dark 12.4%, Space 12%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management and base-building game that forces players to navigate the dangers of a hostile environment while maintaining resources.

Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.

Why similar: Resource Management 26.7%, Procedural Generation 23.2%, Building 17.4%, Space 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented space strategy game that requires efficient resource routing and planning within a limited turn structure.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 16.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Procedural Generation 14%, Building 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based city-builder that requires careful spatial planning and resource management to survive on a barren planet.

"Explore 'Stellar Orphans', a captivating deck-building game where every choice determines the fate of your crew lost in infinite space. Forge alliances, manage resources, and resolve crises to guide your 'Stellar Orphans' to survival. Ready to defy the stars?"

Why similar: Roguelite 20.5%, Board Game 19.8%, Space 15.5%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deckbuilding strategy game that focuses on the replayability and resource management of a space-faring mission.

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Roguelite 38.4%, Strategy 28.7%, Sci-fi 18.4%, Exploration 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that emphasizes resource management and survival across a hostile, procedurally generated landscape.

Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 35.7%, Roguelite 33%, Exploration 15.9%, Strategy 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based exploration game that manages supplies and combat encounters with a focus on high-stakes decision-making.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Perma Death 27.2%, Roguelite 24.3%, Procedural Generation 24%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in turn-based, grid-based strategy where every move carries the weight of potential failure and resource loss.

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 25.5%, Procedural Generation 20.1%, Building 19.4%, Space 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused survival game that tasks players with building a base and maintaining life support systems in a sci-fi setting.

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: City Builder 22%, Resource Management 19.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 15.2%, Building 12.2%

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: Base Building 38%, Resource Management 26.7%, Building 17.7%, Space 7.2%, Strategy 4.8%

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 42.8%, Resource Management 31.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game that emphasizes the difficulty of maintaining a base in a hostile, alien environment.

A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.

Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, City Builder 14.8%, Board Game 11.5%, Tabletop 11.1%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Resource Management 19%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 17%, Building 13.3%, Space 8.9%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 27.4%, Resource Management 19.2%, Building 16.5%, Space 15.6%, City Builder 11.2%

A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 22.1%, Perma Death 21.1%, Roguelite 18.8%, Space 14.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Resource Management 19.1%, Space 18.3%, Inventory Management 15.3%, Strategy 7.8%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: Base Building 18%, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Building 15.2%, Aliens 10.9%

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Resource Management 27%, Board Game 22.7%, Tabletop 22.5%, Roguelite 18.8%, Strategy 9%

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Board Game 13%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Building 13.2%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Inventory Management 10.5%

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.

Why similar: Resource Management 34.6%, Building 24.2%, Dark 19.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Exploration 10.4%

Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Resource Management 15%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 12%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 37.1%, Resource Management 22.7%, Space 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Exploration 8.8%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 19.4%, Building 16.8%, Roguelite 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 19.8%, City Builder 19.4%, Building 14.9%, Space 9.3%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 23.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Exploration 8.1%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Medieval 9%, Building 8.2%

Project Tarvotan allows you to explore the depths of the Milky Way and local universe. Use your wit and resources at hand to plan out your path through each sector. Your demise lurks around every decision. Can you survive long enough and restore balance to the universe?

Why similar: Strategy 56.6%, Space 43.4%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 17.4%, Building 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Resource Management 22.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Building 16.8%, Strategy 8.9%

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 45.1%, Space 21.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.

Why similar: Gothic 31% ★, Inventory Management 22.5%, Dark Fantasy 22%, Strategy 10%, Exploration 7.2%

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 44.3%, Space 34.8%, Sci-fi 20.9%

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: Base Building 24.8%, Resource Management 21.5%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Space 13.7%, Exploration 8.1%

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 44.6%, Resource Management 17.4%, Inventory Management 12.8%, Strategy 11%, Building 6.1%

Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Board Game 15.7%, Building 13.3%, Roguelite 12.5%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 18.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 15.3%, Roguelite 12.7%

Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!

Why similar: Building 37.1%, Space 19.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.3%

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 38%, Strategy 21.6%, Roguelite 20.7%, Perma Death 11.8%, Sci-fi 7.8%