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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.
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Surviving Mars
Mar 15 · Haemimont Games, Abstraction
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Space
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySpaceSurvivalBase BuildingMarsSimulationSci-fiResource Management👍 17,245
-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
$24.99Oxygen Not Included
Jul 30 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalResource ManagementBuildingSingleplayerManagement2DSandboxSimulation👍 135,357
$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
-90%$2.99Aven Colony
Jul 25 · Mothership Entertainment LLC
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sci-fi
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.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySimulationSci-fiBase BuildingIndieSpaceSingleplayerSurvival👍 2,008
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,093
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,899
$14.99Farlanders
Jan 17 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Resource Management
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.
Turn-Based StrategyPixel GraphicsColony SimCity BuilderResource ManagementProcedural GenerationPuzzleStrategyBase BuildingSandbox👍 510
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Space · 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
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Resource 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
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Base Building
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base 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
$24.99The Colonists
Oct 24 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052
-20%$27.99RimWorld
Oct 17 · Ludeon Studios
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategyManagementSandboxSingleplayerModdableSimulationSci-fi👍 208,795
$29.99Stardeus
Oct 12 · Kodo Linija
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Early AccessExplorationColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalSpaceStrategySci-fiResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 1,431
-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
$24.99Sapiens
Jul 26 · Majic Jungle
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderGod GameBase BuildingBuildingSurvivalCraftingManagementLife Sim👍 2,054