Games Like Unclaimed World

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: Simulation 34%, Strategy 31.4%, Survival 27.9%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the theme of surviving on an alien planet with a focus on base-building and resource management.

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: Simulation 29%, Strategy 28.9%, Survival 20.5%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an excellent sci-fi colony management experience with a focus on ship building and resource scarcity in space.

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: Simulation 27.8%, Strategy 27.2%, Survival 23.8%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for personality-driven colony sims, featuring deep simulation of colonist needs and survival challenges.

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: Survival 37%, Simulation 26.4%, Strategy 23.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep scientific simulation and resource management that challenges players to maintain a functional colony.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Strategy 37.3%, Simulation 36.8%, Survival 25.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony survival and building in a challenging, dynamic environment that requires careful planning.

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: Strategy 36.4%, Survival 24.8%, Simulation 23.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sci-fi colony builder that requires players to manage resources and infrastructure to keep colonists alive.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Simulation 38.5%, Strategy 36.4%, Survival 25.1%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation experience available for colony management, offering unparalleled complexity in world-building.

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: Simulation 31.7%, Strategy 26.3%, Survival 23.3%, Sci-fi 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: Sci-fi colony management that emphasizes exploration and survival in a subterranean alien environment.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Simulation 76.2%, Indie 23.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the needs of individuals and the struggle to thrive in a harsh environment.

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: Strategy 37.6%, Simulation 32.5%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Survival 7.8%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the specific challenges of building a sustainable colony on a distant, alien world.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 28.2%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with survival against external threats, mirroring the high-stakes nature of frontier settlement.

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: Strategy 32.4%, Simulation 31.9%, Survival 19.7%, Sci-fi 16%

Why You'll Like It: Strategic colony building on a challenging alien landscape that requires careful resource allocation.

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: Simulation 38.2%, Strategy 37.8%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on long-term survival and resource management within a unique sci-fi setting.

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: Strategy 45.6%, Survival 35.6%, Simulation 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features high-stakes survival management where every decision significantly impacts the future of your colony.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Simulation 46%, Strategy 39.8%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward but deep colony management experience that captures the essence of building a new society.

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: Simulation 31.5%, Strategy 30.4%, Survival 26%, Sci-fi 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game elements with planetary colony management, allowing for a broader scope of development.

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: Strategy 36.6%, Simulation 35.3%, Survival 21.1%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes resource scarcity and the importance of planning for the future.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 35%, Survival 22.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim with a strong focus on individual personalities and social dynamics, similar to the management style of Unclaimed World.

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: Simulation 40.8%, Survival 25.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Sci-fi 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony builder that incorporates crafting and building elements to ensure colonist safety.

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.

Why similar: Strategy 45.8%, Simulation 41.6%, Indie 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the struggle of establishing a foothold on a new planet with a focus on base-building.

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: Simulation 38.9%, Strategy 38.4%, Survival 22.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and engineering challenges of building a functional space base.

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Simulation 36.1%, Strategy 35.1%, Survival 22.4%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that emphasizes resource management and the daily struggle for survival.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 43.9%, Strategy 31.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the day-to-day survival of a small group in a hostile environment, emphasizing individual management.

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Simulation 50%, Indie 25.9%, Sci-fi 24.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines farming and colony management in a space setting, focusing on the growth of a new settlement.

Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.

Why similar: Simulation 39%, Strategy 34.5%, Survival 15.5%, Indie 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic aspects of space colonization and the management of limited resources.

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

Why similar: Simulation 46.9%, Survival 29.6%, Sci-fi 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a mix of survival, crafting, and colony management on alien worlds with a focus on exploration.

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: Simulation 39%, Strategy 35%, Survival 15.6%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space-faring survival game with strong management elements that mirror the pioneer experience.

Take the role of an astronomer exploring the depths of the universe. Build large telescopes to explore distant stars. Discover a habitable planet or an unknown anomaly in a far corner of the galaxy. Get scientific grants, publish your results and explore new technologies.

Why similar: Simulation 44.9%, Strategy 41.1%, Indie 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management side of space operations and the growth of a space-based economy.

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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: Simulation 30.7%, Strategy 29.1%, Survival 17.2%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Indie 8.6%

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: Simulation 45.8%, Survival 25.3%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Indie 12.7%

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: Strategy 49.5%, Simulation 31.5%, Sci-fi 18.9%

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

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Simulation 40.4%, Indie 18.3%

Prepare for the ultimate test of survival! Do you have the skill necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!

Why similar: Simulation 43.6%, Strategy 42%, Indie 14.4%

Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.

Why similar: Simulation 43.9%, Strategy 42.7%, Indie 13.5%

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: Simulation 41.2%, Strategy 40%, Sci-fi 18.8%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Strategy 27.9%, Simulation 27.4%, Sci-fi 13.9%

Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.

Why similar: Strategy 49.2%, Sci-fi 29%, Indie 21.8%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Strategy 62.1%, Survival 37.9%

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: Strategy 32.4%, Simulation 27.3%, Survival 23%, Sci-fi 17.3%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Simulation 35.1%, Survival 19.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%

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: Simulation 37.2%, Strategy 34.4%, Indie 11%, Survival 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%

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: Simulation 34.8%, Strategy 32.1%, Survival 19.6%, Sci-fi 13.5%

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: Simulation 44.9%, Strategy 40.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Indie 7%

Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

Why similar: Simulation 43.1%, Strategy 42.9%, Indie 14%

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: Simulation 46.7%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 12.4%

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: Simulation 39%, Strategy 27.2%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Survival 9.6%, Indie 8.4%

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: Strategy 37.3%, Survival 27.5%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Indie 14%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Strategy 66%, Simulation 26.3%, Indie 7.8%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 68%, Sci-fi 32%

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: Simulation 50%, Survival 29.5%, Sci-fi 20.5%

🚀 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: Simulation 54.9%, Strategy 45.1%

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Survival 100%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Strategy 38.7%, Simulation 28.5%, Survival 27%, Indie 5.8%

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: Strategy 31.8%, Simulation 30.8%, Survival 22.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Simulation 38.5%, Survival 21.3%