
Open World Survival Automation Crafting Building Turn-Based game, yup that's a huge mix of genres and it works!
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Open World Survival Automation Crafting Building Turn-Based game, yup that's a huge mix of genres and it works!

Vilset
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

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A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.3%
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Survival 9.2%
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: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.2%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Open World 11.1%
Llanthmar is a turn-based, strategy game that tasks you with ensuring the survival of your lost colony on an unknown planet. Gather resources, manufacture supplies, and fight back against anything that threatens to take them away.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.7%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.8%
What seemed like an easy coin leads a small detachment of mercenaries and their employer to a barony lost in the woods, afflicted by a strange disease. The prologue to Plague Lords will introduce you to the basics of the game and take control of a small squad of trained soldiers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Turn-Based 16%, Base Building 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Open World 10.5%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Building 8.9%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Automation 14%, Survival 12.2%, Building 9.2%
Set up your base, gather resources and build a defensive perimeter with walls and towers to protect your outpost from waves of enemies. Then research new tech, gather your forces and send your units and mini-units to annihilate the enemy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 15%, Turn-Based 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 10%
A fantasy open-world terraforming and crafting adventure. Survive, gather resources, and harness magic to build your home. Construct mystical machines to purify the curse and restore life to the realm. Uncover history as you reshape the world around you.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.9%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Automation 24.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Strategy 6.7%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 14.3%, Automation 12.6%, Strategy 8.3%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12.1%, Automation 9.2%
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Turn-Based 16.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12.4%
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 24.1%, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.1%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 26.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Strategy 5.6%
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.5%
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 8.7%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.9%
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
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: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10.5%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.1%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 8.9%
A turn based city biulder, where you have to manage increasingly complex production lines, attract adventurers to your city and create Quests to protect yourself instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Building 8.7%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 13.4%, Building 8.4%
A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 18%, Survival 11.1%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%
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: Colony Sim 35.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 7.6%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.5%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Strategy 6.9%
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 11.7%, Building 9.2%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.9%, Immersive Sim 6.7%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 6.4%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%
Sent to a distant planet to feed a war you never chose, you are the perfect extraction machine. Build sprawling automated factories, survive a wilderness that fights back, and uncover whispers in the soil that make you question your directive. Extract everything. Then decide who it's for.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 6.3%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 11.8%
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 15.4%, Building 10.7%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 24.9%, Building 11%, Open World 9.8%, Strategy 7.4%
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Immersive Sim 9.6%
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 9.5%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 27.3%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 14.1%, Strategy 5.3%
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%
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 36.5%, Base Building 23.4%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.2%
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 13%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%
Factory automation meets megastructure. Explore an ancient space station in search of a buried star. Build automated factories and defend against a living and realigning station.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 7.2%
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: Colony Sim 25.9%, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.5%
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: Automation 20.3%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Isometric 5.5%
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.2%, Building 12%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.6%