City builders like Nova Origin

If the replayable rhythm of Nova Origin stuck with you, this helps. These city builders are worth a look next.

Planetbase
Guide a handful of settlers to a living, breathing colony on a hostile planet. You place domes, mines, farms and solar panels, keep oxygen, water, food and power flowing, and slowly grow to hundreds of colonists. Simple to start, easy to break, hard to stop fixing.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
87% of 208 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
ExoColony: Planet Survival
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.49
Solargene
Run a private space corporation and industrialize the solar system, from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. You found mining outposts, farms, resorts and orbital stations, link them with shuttles, and keep very particular colonists fed, rested and healthy. Dense and fiddly, but city builder fans who love production chains will find a lot to run.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
The Crust
The Crust puts you in charge of a lunar colony that keeps Earth supplied. You mine regolith, build factories above and below the surface, automate them with conveyors and drones, keep colonists alive, and trade with rival Earth factions through a story campaign with multiple endings.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
75% of 3,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19
After the Crash : Colony
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
75% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Aven Colony
Found humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime and grow it from a few domes into a sprawling sci-fi city. You place housing, farms, power and drones, keep colonists fed and happy, and hold the whole thing together through storms, toxic gas and freezing winters.
Also in Colony sim
71% of 2,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
Colony Simulator
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Also in Colony sim
66% of 422 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Wall World Strategy
A colony sim on a sheer vertical cliff of stone and metal. Build your base, mine the Wall's depths, keep your people fed and calm, and hold off the zyrexes that keep coming. Every choice matters, and the ground is literal vertical.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
71% of 121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$16.99
Moons of Ardan
Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
93% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
53% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
AUTARKIS
Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
93% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.49

Cheaper than Nova Origin

Planetbase

Guide a handful of settlers to a living, breathing colony on a hostile planet.

$14.99

ExoColony: Planet Survival

Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply.

$3.49

The Crust

The Crust puts you in charge of a lunar colony that keeps Earth supplied.

$19.19

Aven Colony

Found humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime and grow it from a few domes into a sprawling sci-fi city.

$5.99

After the Crash : Colony

Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship.

$4.99

AUTARKIS

Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!

$2.49

Farlanders

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder.

$14.99

Oasis Mission: Colony Sim

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines!

$14.99

Galaxy Too Far

Another world is about to become a resource colony for your Creator. Prove your usefulness. Spread your influence across the planet.

$11.99

Project AURA

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors.

$14.99

Earth Space Colonies

Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system.

$9.99

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Nova Origin

Microtopia

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony and grow it from one queen into a supply-chain settlement spread across islands.

$19.99

Solargene

Run a private space corporation and industrialize the solar system, from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt.

$34.99

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

Space Haven

Space Haven is a spaceship colony sim for city builder fans: you lay out hull tile by tile, wire power, balance air, heat and comfort, and keep a…

$24.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Free

The Crust

The Crust puts you in charge of a lunar colony that keeps Earth supplied.

$19.19

Farlanders

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder.

$14.99

New Cycle

You found a small settlement and grow it toward an industrial metropolis, balancing food, water, tools, clothes, health and work while sandstorms…

$29.99

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling…

Free

Wall World Strategy

Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.

$16.99

Don't get lost

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.

Free

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.

$11.99

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