
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
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Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!

Outer Space Shack
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.

Surviving Mars: Pioneer
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Mars 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, Science 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Space Sim 9.5%
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Mars 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, Mining 14.1% ★, Space Sim 11.3%, Base Building 9.9%
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: Mars 23% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 11%, Space 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Mars 31% ★, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Mining 7.5% ★, Resource Management 7.2%
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: Mars 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Space Sim 8.3%, Resource Management 8%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Space Sim 11.8%, Space 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
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: Mining 15.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Space Sim 12.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Space 10.3%
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 29.1% ★, Science 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Space 8.9%
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Why similar: Mars 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.4%
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Mining 18.1% ★, Inventory Management 9.2%, Perma Death 8.9%, Base Building 8.5%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Mars 19.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.8%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.2%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Mining 19.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Space Sim 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Space 9.9%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Space Sim 16.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.
Why similar: Mars 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, Space 11.9%, Space Sim 9.9%, Management 8.8%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Mining 13.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 17.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Space 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Space Sim 8.7%
Grow your rocket startup from a humble launchpad to sprawling colonies on Mars and beyond! Secure government contracts, launch massive satellite constellations, build space stations, terraform Mars with nuclear blasts, and mine vital resources to fuel your expansion!
Why similar: Mars 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, Mining 15.7% ★, Space Sim 13.1%, Base Building 10.5%
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: Colony Sim 18.1%, Mining 13.9% ★, Science 11.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Space 8.4%
Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
Why similar: Mars 21% ★, Science 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Space Sim 10.8%, Space 10.2%
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: Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Mining 11% ★, Science 9.9%, Management 7.8%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Space Sim 10.3%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 34.6% ★, Space 15.6%, Science 12.3%, Space Sim 10.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12%, Science 11.2%, Space Sim 11.1%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Space Sim 12%, Space 10.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Why similar: Mars 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Space Sim 10.3%, Inventory Management 8.5%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Space Sim 11.3%, Space 10.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Why similar: Mars 26% ★, Mining 10.9% ★, Inventory Management 8.7%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 7.5%
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: Mars 25% ★, Base Building 14%, Space Sim 13.5%, Space 12.4%, Building 9%
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Mars 18.3% ★, Space Sim 16%, Sandbox 9.8%, Science 9.2%
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Why similar: Mars 28.1% ★, Mining 17% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, Space Sim 11.8%, Space 11.3%
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Space Sim 17.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Management 9%, Building 8.4%
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Mining 17.5% ★, Perma Death 13.3%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Mining 11.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Inventory Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 7.3%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
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: Mars 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 10.3%, Resource Management 8.1%
Build, launch, and survive. Design your own rover and automated robot workforce to conquer the harsh Martian climate, fulfill Mission Control directives, and uncover the secrets of the red planet in Heng Mar Mission.
Why similar: Mars 24.9% ★, Mining 14.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
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: Colony Sim 16.2%, Mining 13.8% ★, Science 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 8.7%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
Why similar: Mars 28.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Space Sim 12.4%, Space 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Space 13.7%, Space Sim 10.7%, Resource Management 10%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Mining 14.7% ★, Destruction 14%, Science 12.9%, Space 11.4%, Space Sim 10.4%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Space Sim 16.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Space Sim 15.7%, Mining 10.8% ★, Space 9.4%, Building 7%
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Mining 17% ★, Space Sim 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.6%
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: Colony Sim 20.8%, Space Sim 13.7%, Mars 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7%, Management 6.7%
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Why similar: Mars 28.1% ★, Space Sim 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Space 10.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
Why similar: Mars 28.3% ★, Science 11.6%, Space 11.4%, Space Sim 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 8.5%, Building 8.2%
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
Why similar: Mars 28.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Mining 13.1% ★, Space 9.8%, Crafting 8.3%
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: Mining 21.2% ★, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
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 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Survival 11.6%, Destruction 11.1%, Crafting 8.6%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Resource Management 7.1%
Above Earth is a science fiction survival game. Experience a struggle for life in the fragile artificial environment of a damaged space station.
Why similar: Mars 20.3% ★, Space 14.7%, Space Sim 11.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Science 9.2%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Mars 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Space Sim 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Space Sim 12.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Space 10.4%, Base Building 9.6%