Games like The Crust
by VEOM Studio
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.
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$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder
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
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Base Building · Automation · Space
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.
Base BuildingAutomationSpaceResource ManagementColony SimSimulationMultiplayerStrategyBuildingIndie👍 2,397
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Automation · Space
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,638
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Colony Sim
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
-60%$4.79Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
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.
City BuilderBase BuildingColony SimResource ManagementStrategySimulationBuildingSurvivalMarsSpace👍 744
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Space
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
-50%$9.99Microtopia
Feb 18 · Cordyceps Collective
Both: Colony Sim · Automation · Resource Management
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Colony SimAutomationProcedural GenerationResource ManagementSandboxSci-fiRobotsFuturisticBase BuildingCity Builder👍 881
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · Automation · Resource Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$29.99Techtonica
Nov 7 · Fire Hose Games
Both: Automation · Building · Base Building
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
AutomationSimulationBuildingBase BuildingExplorationImmersive SimOnline Co-OpStrategyResource ManagementSandbox👍 3,077
$19.99Dawn Apart
Jul 14 · Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Automation
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…
Colony SimBase BuildingAutomationStrategyCraftingVoxelSpaceSimulationResource ManagementPhysics👍 245
$15.99Plan B: Terraform
Aug 29 · Gaddy Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
AutomationResource ManagementSimulationTransportationColony SimSandboxTrainsBase BuildingColorfulHex Grid👍 3,528
$11.99Scorchlands
Jul 25 · Ringlab
Both: Resource Management · City Builder · Colony Sim
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Hex GridResource ManagementStylizedSingleplayerCity BuilderColony SimSandboxManagementBase BuildingStrategy👍 115
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Management
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
$19.99Havendock
Apr 22 · YYZ Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
SingleplayerStrategyCity BuilderColony SimSandboxAgricultureAutomationBuildingCraftingBase Building👍 1,504
$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Base Building · Automation · Building
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 3,277
$16.99Return from Core
Jul 17 · 顽核社 FuncoreClub
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
AutomationSurvivalBase BuildingDating SimSandboxCraftingSingleplayerActionAdventureBuilding👍 1,621
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSandboxAgricultureBuildingWargameDiplomacyManagementHistorical👍 647
$39.99Satisfactory
Sep 10 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Base Building · Automation · Building
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!
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldCraftingMultiplayerCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 235,059
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$24.99AutoForge
Mar 27 · Siege Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Base Building
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Early AccessAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSandboxCraftingBuildingProcedural GenerationExplorationMultiplayer👍 439
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Building
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingBuildingGrand StrategyManagementResource ManagementHistoricalColony Sim👍 33,296
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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.
City BuilderColony SimGod GameSandboxBuildingSurvivalManagementSpaceStrategySimulation👍 8,464
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Sandbox
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
-30%$20.99Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationProgrammingBase BuildingSandboxCity BuilderRTSSci-fiMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,880
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Resource Management
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
StylizedCity BuilderEconomyColony SimStrategyResource ManagementIsometricColorfulBuildingNature👍 694
$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Resource Management · Automation · City Builder
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
TrainsStrategySimulationResource ManagementAutomationCity BuilderModdableBuildingManagementEconomy👍 1,207
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Management
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
$9.99Space Architect
Nov 23 · Albert Wiatr
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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?
IndieColony SimBase BuildingManagementTop-DownStrategySurvivalAutomationCartoonySimulation👍 294
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Colony Sim
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
StrategyCity BuilderResource ManagementColony SimBuildingReal-Time with PauseBase BuildingManagementSimulationImmersive Sim👍 1,425
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029