City builders like Space Haven

Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Space Haven does? Start with these city builders when you are ready.

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 784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
The Spatials: Galactology
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
68% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
The Last Starship
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction sim where your city is a starship. You lay out reactors, engines, pipes, wiring and life support, then keep crew, water, oxygen and fuel balanced as you grow. Mine, salvage, trade and take pirate-hunting or cargo jobs to fund the next expansion.
Replayable, Retro
75% of 1,644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 96$19.99
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
69% of 748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
Meeple Station
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Also in Colony sim · Retro
57% of 647 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Space Colony: Steam Edition
A remaster of Firefly's sci-fi base builder where you design colonies from over 100 buildings and keep a ragtag crew paid, fed and entertained. Mine minerals, run power and oxygen, serve space chickens, then hold off alien attacks. Funny, fiddly and full of personality, it suits city builder fans who like managing people as much as buildings.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
78% of 574 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Hazeron Starship
Explore and colonize a vast universe. Discover resources. Build cities. Make spacecraft. Walk aboard them. Operate their controls. Command a crew of NPCs. Lift off. Fly up through the atmosphere to outer space. Land on other worlds, anywhere, not at designated places. Build an empire.
Replayable
71% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Startopia
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
Replayable, Retro
91% of 845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
IXION
IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting space station carrying the last of humanity. You build its sectors, keep power, food and hull together, keep the crew on side, and jump from star to star looking for a new home. Grim, tense and demanding, it is a city builder for people who like hard choices.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric, Dark
77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
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, Dark
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
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
54% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim where you build a floating town in the middle of the ocean. You pull wood and scraps from drifting debris, house castaways, farm and cook, then automate it all the way up to robots, power plants, submarines and a rocket.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99

Cheaper than Space Haven

The Spatials: Galactology

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy…

$12.99

The Last Starship

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction sim where your city is a starship.

$19.99

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

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

$11.99

Space Colony: Steam Edition

A remaster of Firefly's sci-fi base builder where you design colonies from over 100 buildings and keep a ragtag crew paid, fed and entertained.

$14.99

Meeple Station

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

$19.99

Hazeron Starship

Explore and colonize a vast universe. Discover resources. Build cities. Make spacecraft. Walk aboard them. Operate their controls.

$19.99

Startopia

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse.

$6.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim where you build a floating town in the middle of the ocean.

$19.99

Planetbase

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

$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

Space Station Alpha

Build and manage a space station in the outer reaches of space.

$5.99

Aven Colony

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

$5.99

Hidden gems like Space Haven

Outworld Station

As Station Commander in the TAU System, you build a space station from first ore to planet-spanning industry.

$18.99

Star Birds

Star Birds is a chill factory builder where you settle tiny asteroids and turn them into buzzing space factories for a crew of birds.

$19.99

Corsair Cove

Raise a pirate haven on sheer cliffs, feed it with hard tack, rum and over 50 goods, then sail out to raid the Crown and keep piracy alive.

$39.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim where you build a floating town in the middle of the ocean.

$19.99

Solargene

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

$34.99

The Last Starship

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction sim where your city is a starship.

$19.99

Planet S

Planet S is a real-time strategy city builder spread across a solar system of up to 24 procedurally generated planets.

Free

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

Exogate Initiative

Build an underground facility, recruit a team of specialists and explore new worlds through the Exogate.

$11.24

AColony

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

$19.99

The Banished Vault

A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery.

$24.99

Newest city builders like Space Haven