Destination Ares
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you.
38% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Colony sims like Derelict Void
If Derelict Void left you wanting something tense and replayable, you have options. Start with these colony sims when you are ready.
The Banished Vault
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Dark, Scary
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Space 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 mine, salvage derelicts, trade and fight across a procedurally generated galaxy.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Dark
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99Starship Theory
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Tense, Dark
50% of 1,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9FreeStardeus
Stardeus puts you in charge as the immortal AI of a broken starship, with a few drones and sleeping colonists depending on you. You patch the hull, balance oxygen, heat and power, grow food, research alien tech, then fly out to mine new systems. For colony sim fans who like systems that bite back when neglected.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
87% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99Stranded: Alien Dawn
Stranded: Alien Dawn strands a small group of survivors on a living alien world and hands you their food, health and morale. You build from a basic camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost, research new technology and hold off alien attacks, with every playthrough shaped by random events and hard choices.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 537$34.99Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Replayable, Mysterious
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Tense, Replayable, Dark
62% of 400 Steam reviews are positive$29.99IXION
IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting prototype station carrying the last of humanity. You build its sectors, feed its crew, keep their trust, and send ships out to mine, explore and bring survivors home. Unforgiving and heavy with choices, it suits colony sim fans who want every decision to matter.
Also in City builder · Tense, Replayable, Dark
77% of 15,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 239$34.99Dark Moon
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Tense, Replayable, Dark
45% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Jumplight Odyssey
Keep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
Replayable
58% of 962 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Deep Space Outpost
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
Replayable
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Cheaper than Derelict Void
Sheltered
Sheltered puts four family members in your hands in a concrete bunker after nuclear war.
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
Wreckborn
Mine asteroids, automate your supply chains and build outposts across a procedurally generated system, all at your own pace.
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
Wastelander
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Organs Please
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.
82% of 202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
StellarHub
StellarHub is a starbase management game where your job is to build a safe and functional space station.
57% of 216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Outpost Zero
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Space Station Alpha
Build and manage a space station in the outer reaches of space.
48% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.74
Project Of Cooling The Earth
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers.
72% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
92% of 352 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Hidden gems like Derelict Void
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.
85% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Jitter
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.
84% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
MewnBase
MewnBase is a cute 2D survival and base-building game where you are a space-cat stranded on a barren planet with no snacks.
92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 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: 11$34.99
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 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.
87% of 208 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Flotsam
Flotsam is a bright floating colony sim set on a flooded, garbage-covered sea.
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$24.99
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 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99
Anoxia Station
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements.
76% of 184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
The Banished Vault
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery.
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Newest colony sims like Derelict Void
Wall World Strategy
Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.
70% of 136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$16.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Deep Space Outpost
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.
85% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
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 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
Generation Exile
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.
65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.
70% of 47 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$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: 11$34.99
Wreckborn
Mine asteroids, automate your supply chains and build outposts across a procedurally generated system, all at your own pace.
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99