ExoColony: Planet Survival
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply.
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.49
Colony sims like Colonials Programme
If Colonials Programme scratched a replayable and cute itch for you, keep reading. These colony sims are worth a look next.
The Colonists
Build a new home for self-replicating robots who escaped Earth to live like humans. You lay roads, boat routes and train lines, harvest resources, farm food and research tech across three ages. Relaxing, cute and full of routing puzzles, with peaceful building or races against AI colonies.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Cute, Colorful
85% of 1,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99Planetbase
Guide a handful of space settlers as they turn a bare landing site into a self-sufficient planetbase. You place the domes, mines, and farms, balance oxygen, water, food, and power, and keep everyone alive through meteors, sandstorms, and solar flares. Simple to start, strict about mistakes.
Also in City builder · Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99Alien 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 City builder · Replayable
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeAstro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets. You dock voxel worlds, lay conveyor belts and pipes, research over 100 technologies, and keep recruited astronauts fed and housed while your industrial hub drifts onward.
Replayable, Relaxing
80% of 2,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive. You mine regolith, lay conveyors and drones, hire experts with useful traits, and trade with Earth factions through a story campaign with multiple endings.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
75% of 3,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19Earth Space Colonies
Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
38% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99ExoColony: 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 City builder · Replayable
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.49Dawn Apart
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…
Replayable, Colorful
66% of 248 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99Autonauts
You land on an empty planet with sticks, stones, and big plans. In Autonauts you build workerbots, teach them every job by showing them what to do, and watch them farm, cook, fish, and craft while your colonists settle in. It is a colony sim for colony sim fans who like slow, cheerful automation.
Replayable, Cute, Colorful
89% of 3,611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99Aven Colony
Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first settlement on Aven Prime, growing small outposts into sprawling cities across deserts, tundras, and wetlands. You house colonists, manage food, water, power, and morale, then hold it all together through shard storms, toxic gas, and frozen winters. Good pick for colony sim fans who want city-building with survival pressure.
Also in City builder · Relaxing
71% of 2,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99My Colony
A sci-fi colony sim that starts with one lander and a rover and ends wherever your ambition does. Pick a faction, grow an outpost into an empire, trade on a player-run market, or share a region with friends. It runs on almost anything and never asks you to wait for a timer.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
89% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Cheaper than Colonials Programme
Aven Colony
Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first settlement on Aven Prime, growing small outposts into sprawling cities across deserts, tundras…
71% of 2,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
My Colony
Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.
89% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony.
67% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Desktop Colony
A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things.
100% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Space Architect
You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
AUTARKIS
Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!
93% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Colonization Simulator
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists.
0% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
StarShip-DF
Build a massive multi-deck starship and lead colonists across the galaxy. Gather resources in space or land on alien worlds for supplies.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
The Promised Land
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation!
86% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
Colonize
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or…
40% of 202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$6.99
Hidden gems like Colonials Programme
Microtopia
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony. You lay pheromone trails that tell ants where to haul, build and craft, then watch the lines come alive…
87% of 897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
Solargene
Run a private space corporation and spread housing, mines, and farms from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt.
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
Scorchlands
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.
88% of 115 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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.
97% of 422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Farlanders
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder.
89% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Stardeus
Stardeus puts you in charge as the immortal AI of a broken starship, with a few drones and sleeping colonists depending on you.
87% of 1,465 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
Reshaping Mars
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a…
84% of 753 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Space Architect
You mine asteroids and even a black hole, turn raw ice and ore into goods, trade with passing ships, and hire crewmates to haul and build while you…
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
Newest colony sims like Colonials Programme
Beyond These Stars
Found a settlement on a living Space Whale and journey across the galaxy together.
64% of 260 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Rocket Engineer
Design custom rockets and master 2D orbital mechanics to navigate a fully simulated solar system.
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
StarShip-DF
Build a massive multi-deck starship and lead colonists across the galaxy. Gather resources in space or land on alien worlds for supplies.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Icaria
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed.
74% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
Possible One: Lunar Industries
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game!
64% of 56 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile for a ragtag civilian crew searching for a new home, then keep its air, heat, power, food and moods balanced as you…
85% of 10,443 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
Space Drilling Station
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet.
89% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
71% of 587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Solargene
Run a private space corporation and spread housing, mines, and farms from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt.
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99