Games Like The Spatials

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

Why similar: Base Building 14.8%, Management 12.6%, Space 11.8%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct sequel to the seed game, expanding significantly on the management and simulation mechanics.

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 13.9%, Space 11.6%, Management 11.6%, Colony Sim 9.2% ★, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, tile-based space station management experience with a strong emphasis on crew needs and 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 20%, Space 17.5%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Survival 8.1%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the core challenge of building a self-sustaining colony on a hostile alien world, mirroring the base-building loop of the seed game.

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Space 18.8%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a modern reimagining of a classic space station management game, it shares the same whimsical sci-fi tone and focus on visitor satisfaction.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Management 13.1%, Space 12.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Isometric 9.6%, Colony Sim 9.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: You manage a space station and its inhabitants, focusing on the delicate balance between station efficiency and the needs of your crew.

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a complex, high-stakes management experience where you must balance resource logistics and crew health in a sci-fi environment.

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 21.2%, Space 19.5%, Building 11.5%, Management 11.5%, Sci-fi 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels in large-scale space logistics and automation, perfect for players who enjoy the building and resource management aspects of The Spatials.

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 22.4%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Management 13.7%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While set on a planet, it is the gold standard for colony management games that feature deep RPG-like character interactions and base-building.

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Space 20.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space station management simulation that captures the same spirit of building and maintaining a habitat for diverse space-faring visitors.

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Base Building 13.2%, Space 13.1%, Isometric 11.4%, Management 10%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art space station management game that focuses on the chaos and logistics of keeping a crew alive in deep space.

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: Base Building 22.3%, Space 17.4%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Building 10.5%, Space Sim 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game combines automation and base-building in a space setting, allowing for the creation of complex, interconnected space stations.

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: Space 14.8%, Management 13.4%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Space Sim 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated space station construction simulator that focuses on the technical aspects of building and maintaining a functional orbital habitat.

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 14.9%, Management 13.5%, Isometric 12.8%, Space 11.6%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric colony simulation that tasks you with building an underground base on an alien planet, sharing the management focus of the seed game.

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 25.1%, Space 19.4%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the design and management of a space-faring vessel, focusing on survival and internal logistics.

Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?

Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Management 17.2%, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Sci-fi 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a space station terminal, dealing with resource allocation and visitor interactions.

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Base Building 15.4%, Space 14.5%, Building 10.5%, Space Sim 10.2% ★, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep ship-building mechanics and management, allowing you to design and operate your own vessel.

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 16.7%, Management 14.5%, Space 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Colony Sim 9.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with management, tasking you with running a facility that explores the galaxy through a stargate-like portal.

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 15.1% ★, Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Space 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This hard sci-fi colony simulator emphasizes detailed systems and the challenges of maintaining a base in a hostile extraterrestrial environment.

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 18.2%, Space 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.8% ★, Building 11%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that focuses on the challenges of establishing a new home on various planets, emphasizing resource management.

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Management 13.5%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Building 9.6%, Space 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for detailed station design and colony management, focusing on the structural and functional aspects of space habitats.

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Why similar: Space 16.8%, Management 15.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.2%, Space Sim 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: While focused on space travel companies, it shares the management and strategic planning elements found in The Spatials.

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: Simulation 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Space 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Space Sim 9.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused space station builder that emphasizes defensive planning and resource management.

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space 26.1%, Management 16.7%, Building 13.3%, Space Sim 12.9% ★, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space station construction game that focuses on the modular design and logistical efficiency of orbital structures.

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Space 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 13.1%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game set in space that focuses on vertical expansion and managing the needs of your population.

Geo is a game about building and expanding an intergalactic mining corporation. Explore uncharted space and discover comets, moons, Planets and gas giants before heading in and drilling the cash out of them! Expand your HQ, build new rooms and facilities to increase your drilling stats.

Why similar: Simulation 20.1%, Space 19.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the mining and simulation aspects of space exploration, providing a different but related experience to the seed game.

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: Isometric 16.3%, Management 14.2%, Space Sim 14.1% ★, Building 13.3%, Space 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a narrative-driven space station building experience that focuses on survival and resource management.

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 14.1%, Space 12.8%, Building 10.7%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Space Sim 9.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that emphasizes the god-game aspects of managing a settlement on a distant exoplanet.

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: Space 18.2%, RPG 15.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines RPG elements with base management, tasking you with surviving and thriving on a moon of Saturn.

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Space 17.6%, Management 17.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.8%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★

Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.

Why similar: Space 20.7%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 15.8%, RPG 15%, Space Sim 13.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique blend of simulation and strategy, focusing on the management of a crew and their environment.

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 15.9%, Space 14.3%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Management 10.4%, Space Sim 8.6% ★

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Management 14.5%, Building 14.3%, Space 14.1%, Sandbox 10.2%

Space Station Manager is an exciting game where you own a space company, your main goal is to build a space station, make profit, grow your business, build an economical network, and expand beyond the solar system.

Why similar: Simulation 33.3%, Space 18.8%, Management 16.6%, Building 13.3%, Indie 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management simulation that focuses on the day-to-day operations of running a space station.

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 17.5%, Space 15.3%, Management 11%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Building 9.1%

StellarHub is a starbase management game where your job is to build a safe and functional space station. Deal with the challenges of managing a station crew while taking care of everyone’s needs. Your tasks include construction, extraction of resources, defense, trade, and more.

Why similar: Simulation 31.3%, Base Building 22.4%, Management 17.3%, Space 14.3%, Building 8.4%

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Why similar: Space 30.1%, Simulation 16.9%, RPG 16.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!

Why similar: Space 17.2%, Space Sim 14.5% ★, Building 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Management 13.2%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Management 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.5% ★, Space 11.5%, Space Sim 10.7% ★

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Management 18.8%, Space 16.2%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Simulation 9.8%

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 23.1%, Space 21.4%, Management 16.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

Why similar: Simulation 36.6%, Strategy 24.6%, Sci-fi 14%, Survival 13.6%, Indie 11.2%

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 19.6%, Space 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 22.3%, Space 20.1%, Management 16.9%, Building 14.9%, Survival 8.7%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Space 14.8%, Management 13.8%, Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 11% ★

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: Space 39.2%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Indie 6.6%

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 18.4%, Management 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Survival 10.6%

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 24.9%, Management 19.9%, Space 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

Why similar: Space 24.7%, RPG 15%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Management 9.2%

Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Space Sim 18.7% ★, Simulation 16.6%, RPG 15.9%, Space 8.3%

A sci-fi simulation game, in which players must design, assemble and test spaceships, in a bid to build a supreme Galactic Mega-Corporation. Gain your reputation by engineering and selling your own spacecraft, testing them to the limit in RTS missions and simulated emergency and combat situations.

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Space 21.8%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Space 17.9%, Management 17.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.3%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Space 15.9%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Space Sim 8.1% ★

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: Space 23.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Colony Sim 11.5% ★, Building 10.4%, Survival 10%

Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Space 18.8%, Building 16.3%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Simulation 13.8%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Space 11.2%, Simulation 10%

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

Why similar: Space 32.5%, Base Building 24.5%, Strategy 13.9%, RPG 11.8%, Simulation 9.6%

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 28.3%, Survival 13.7%, Management 12.7%, Colony Sim 11% ★, Simulation 9.7%

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.

Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Space Sim 22.6% ★, Simulation 20.9%, Building 12.6%, Space 9.7%

Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.

Why similar: Base Building 31.5%, Space 25.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.1%

Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.

Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Space 14.5%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 9.6%