Games like Dawn Apart
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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…
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-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Space · Automation
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Crafting
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
7 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Automation · Crafting · Base Building
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
-10%$13.49Nightwater
3 days ago · Studio Ashty
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Crafting
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Open WorldAutomationResource ManagementIncrementalIdlerCraftingSandboxRelaxingSimulationStrategy
$29.99Valheim
12 days ago · Iron Gate AB
Both: Crafting · Base Building
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingCraftingBase BuildingExplorationCo-op👍 465,813
$3.99Cells
Sep 6 · Mousetrick Studio
Both: Physics
CELLS is a calm sci-fi trading game about goods, routes and decisions. Explore new worlds, build trade chains, mine resources and uncover the story of a broken network between the worlds.
CasualRelaxingMinimalistProcedural GenerationLogicAtmosphericPhysicsLinearTutorial2D
$4.99POWDR
3 days ago · SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Both: Physics
POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.
SimulationCasualSandboxPhysicsImmersive SimDestructionPixel GraphicsAbstractGod GameColorful
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
-30%$6.99Havelyn
3 days ago · All Loose®
Both: Colony Sim
A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.
AdventureSimulationFarming SimSandboxColony SimExplorationImmersive Sim3DFirst-PersonColorful
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Colony Sim
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Resource Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
-10%$5.39Needle In A Haystack - A Time For Goats
3 days ago · Red Key Games
Both: Physics · Crafting · Automation
Find the Needle. Honor the Goat. Dig through the haystack with an array of tools and machines to find the mythical needle and unlock the ultimate reward.
CasualSimulationPhysicsSingleplayerPuzzleCraftingTime ManagementComedy3DAutomation
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588
-40%$2.99Thuggin It Further
2 days ago · Firetoad Games, Nebula Radiance
High intensity co-op roguelite space adventure party game for 2–4 players (or bots). Take on crew jobs, keep a failing ship alive, and survive procedural missions with endless exploration, light RPG progression, and real-time crisis gameplay.
Early AccessAction RoguelikeExplorationStrategyRoguelitePvEArcadeParty GameAction-AdventureRoguelike
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485

