Games like The Colonists
by Codebyfire
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
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-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Automation · Colony Sim
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
2 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · Survival · Management
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
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-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
6 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Robots
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
$14.99A Little Age
Aug 28 · Benerot
Both: Building · City Builder
A cozy minimalist settlement builder about growing a network of settlements, each with its own little economy. Manage the flow of resources between them at your own pace, pause at any time, and watch a civilization emerge as your settlements work together to raise a great temple and claim the land.
RelaxingCozyCasualBuildingMinimalistCuteReal-Time with PauseProcedural GenerationCity BuilderSimulation
-15%$12.74Biovoid
2 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Building
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%$8.39Creator Chronicles
6 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
$24.99Anymaker
2 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox · Building
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
-30%$6.99Havelyn
2 days ago · All Loose®
Both: Sandbox · 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
$29.99Valheim
11 days ago · Iron Gate AB
Both: Survival · Building · 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
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy · Sandbox
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
FreeBrixonia
3 days ago · FaintVeil Games
Both: Sandbox · Building · Economy
A cozy multiplayer building sandbox where every world is shared and persistent. Place and break blocks, farm crops, fish, craft gear, and decorate your space alongside other players. No combat, no death penalty, just building at your own pace.
Side Scroller2D PlatformerSandboxBuildingCasualSimulationCraftingAgricultureMassively MultiplayerEconomy
-10%$13.49Nightwater
2 days ago · Studio Ashty
Both: Automation · Sandbox
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
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementCasualMultiplayerLife SimStrategyEconomyBuildingSingleplayer👍 171
-25%$5.99Cloudscrapers
6 days ago · Nementic Games
Both: City Builder
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools, and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.
CasualCity BuilderRelaxingPuzzleStrategyMinimalistSimulationAtmosphericResource ManagementCozy
-15%$5.94Moon Garden
9 days ago · Kairos Games LLC
Both: Building · Management
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
IdlerStrategyIncrementalResource ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasual
$19.99Spirit Animal Survival
7 days ago · TRUEFX GAMES
Both: Survival · Building · Sandbox
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
SurvivalOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingNudityMultiplayerCraftingExplorationSandboxOnline Co-Op
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Colony Sim · Sandbox
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
$3.99Cells
Sep 6 · Mousetrick Studio
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