City builders like Spacebase Startopia

Looking for that same funny and retro spark as Spacebase Startopia? You might settle into these city builders easily.

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 Tycoon · Retro, Colorful, Replayable
68% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
Funny, Retro, Replayable
78% of 574 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Space Station Alpha
Build and manage a space station in the outer reaches of space. The challenges will be many, oxygen will escape through every tiny hole in the hull, you'll contend with asteroid showers and nebulous alien blobs.
48% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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 small civilian crew fed, rested and sane as you mine, salvage, trade and jump to a new procedurally generated galaxy each run.
Retro, Replayable
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
Space Station Tycoon
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.
Also in Tycoon · Colorful, Replayable
56% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Meeple Station
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Retro
57% of 647 Steam reviews are positive$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.
Replayable
69% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
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.
Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
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.
Replayable
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
Outworld Station
As Station Commander in the TAU System, you build a space station from first ore to planet-spanning industry. Mine asteroids, chain factories together, found new stations on other planets, and build civilian and military starships while something out there pushes back.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
83% of 866 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$18.99
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.
Replayable, Story-driven
77% of 15,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
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. You scan rocks, mine ice and metals, link machines with pipes, and ship goods to your station. Level by level, you hop to new star systems with fresh puzzles.
Colorful, Replayable
92% of 3,089 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$19.99

Cheaper than Spacebase Startopia

Startopia

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

$6.99

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…

$12.99

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

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

Space Station Alpha

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

$5.99

Space Station Tycoon

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…

$4.99

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

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

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

$11.99

Planetbase

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

$14.99

Solargene

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

$34.99

Outworld Station

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

$18.99

IXION

IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting space station carrying the last of humanity.

$34.99

Hidden gems like Spacebase Startopia

Mars Attracts

Run a Martian theme park where the main attraction is humans.

$24.99

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

From Glory To Goo

From Glory To Goo is a pixel-art sci-fi survival RTS with a real colony sim inside: you found an outpost, house colonists, pump water, wire up…

$7.79

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

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

$9.99

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

Pioneers of Pagonia

Lead your Pioneers across fog-covered isles, found settlements, and grow them into busy towns of thousands.

$20.99

The Crust

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

$19.19

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