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by Serious Bros.
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.
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$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Colony Sim · 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
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Nature
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
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · Colony Sim
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
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Post-apocalyptic
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalBuildingColony SimPost-apocalypticRealisticSimulationBase BuildingTop-Down👍 2,602
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
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
-60%$9.99Reus 2
May 28 · Abbey Games
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Nature
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
God GamePuzzleColony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingManagementStrategyResource ManagementSandboxNature👍 2,137
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
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
$15.99Plan B: Terraform
Aug 29 · Gaddy Games
Both: 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
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
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
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
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
$29.99The Wandering Village
Jul 17 · Stray Fawn Studio
Both: City Builder · Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
City BuilderManagementSimulationPost-apocalypticColony SimResource ManagementExplorationCuteNatureSurvival👍 7,741
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · Colony Sim
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalBuildingManagementEconomyColony Sim👍 25,244
$59.99Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
Nov 27 · Eversim
Both: Political Sim · Grand Strategy · Top-Down
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
SimulationStrategyPolitical SimGrand StrategyRTSWargameReal Time Tactics3DTop-DownCapitalism👍 253
-50%$19.99Terra Invicta
Jan 5 · Pavonis Interactive
Both: Grand Strategy
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulation4XEconomyWarHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyTacticalManagement👍 9,064
$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Grand Strategy
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingSandbox👍 8,912
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Grand Strategy
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
$19.99Havendock
Apr 22 · YYZ Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
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
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Nature
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
$9.99Space Architect
Nov 23 · Albert Wiatr
Both: Colony Sim · Top-Down
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
$19.99One Lonely Outpost
Mar 6 · indie.io
Both: Colony Sim
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.
Farming SimColony SimSandboxIndieSpaceLife SimPixel GraphicsAgricultureBase BuildingRPG👍 539
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
ManagementSpaceTower DefenseCity BuilderColony SimBuildingCraftingEconomyBase BuildingSpace Sim👍 190
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: Grand Strategy · City Builder · Colony Sim
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
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
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
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Immersive 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
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimCity BuilderSandboxResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,309
$4.99Hexfactory
Aug 24 · Aquila Industrial
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
SimulationCity BuilderColony SimSpace SimExploration3D Platformer3DAutomationBuildingSpace
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Colony Sim
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
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Nature
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
$19.99Space for Sale
Apr 15 · Mirage Game Studios
Both: Colony Sim · Top-Down
Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!
SimulationStrategyColony SimSandboxSpace SimExplorationCute3DTop-DownCartoon👍 140
-60%$4.79Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: City Builder · 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
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Colony Sim
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
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
$39.99Galactic Civilizations IV
Oct 19 · Stardock Entertainment
Both: Grand Strategy
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
SpaceGrand StrategySimulation4XStrategySci-fiExplorationSandboxMultiplayerTurn-Based Strategy👍 2,210
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · Colony Sim
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$14.99TerraScape
Jul 17 · Bitfall Studios
Both: City Builder · Relaxing
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Turn-Based StrategyPuzzleBoard GameMedievalDeckbuildingProcedural GenerationHex GridCity BuilderMultiplayerRelaxing👍 2,068
$34.99Pioneers of Pagonia
Dec 11 · Envision Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
StrategyResource ManagementColony SimOnline Co-OpFantasyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementProcedural GenerationPvE👍 4,794
$5.99Space industrial empire
May 24 · 游戏养家工作室
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
AutomationSpaceIndieManagementIdlerStrategyLootCasualSingleplayerWord Game👍 1,022
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Colony Sim
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
-35%$12.99Drill Core
Jul 17 · Hungry Couch Games
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
StrategyRogueliteTower DefenseColony SimExplorationSide ScrollerRoguelikeCity BuilderBase Building2D👍 2,130
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder
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
$5.99Idle Colony
Dec 16 · Faith G.
Both: Colony Sim
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
IncrementalCasualAutomationStrategyIdlerEconomyManagementColony SimRogueliteBuilding👍 553
$11.99Scorchlands
Jul 25 · Ringlab
Both: 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
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
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
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: City Builder
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
$19.99Dawn Apart
Jul 14 · Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Both: Colony Sim
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
-25%$5.99Fantasy Map Simulator
Sep 4 · The Stranger
Both: Grand Strategy · Political Sim
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
God GameSandboxAlternate HistoryGrand StrategyIdlerPolitical SimLevel EditorArtificial IntelligenceMedievalWar👍 4,194
-50%$22.49Frostpunk 2
Sep 20 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Post-apocalyptic
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementPost-apocalypticSimulationSingleplayerSteampunkManagementBase Building👍 20,886
$19.99Dinkum
Apr 22 · James Bendon
Both: Relaxing
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Open World Survival CraftAgricultureRelaxingCo-opFarming SimLife SimFarmingCraftingSimulationSandbox👍 24,646
$11.99Ocean Punk
Apr 26 · Infinite Studio
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Post-apocalypticPiratesColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalSandboxResource ManagementPixel GraphicsAdventureExploration👍 118
-50%$9.99Microtopia
Feb 18 · Cordyceps Collective
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
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
$11.99Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Apr 25 · Bob
Both: Colony Sim · Post-apocalyptic
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Dialogue HeavyOpen World Survival CraftColony SimRPGRTSPost-apocalypticBase BuildingThird PersonActionCharacter Customization👍 4,016
$7.99Terraspace
Dec 31 · Black Apple
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
AdventureCity BuilderSpace SimSandboxColony Sim3DStylizedColorfulFuturisticSurvival
