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: 30$9.99
Colony sims like Drill Core
If Drill Core scratched a replayable and tense itch for you, keep reading. Give these colony sims a try when the craving hits.
Space Drilling Station
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Replayable
89% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Space 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 automate more of the work.
Replayable
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
Replayable, Tense
70% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The 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.
Replayable
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19Wall 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.
Replayable, Tense
70% of 136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$16.99Anoxia Station
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
Replayable, Tense
76% of 184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Planetbase
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.
Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 179$14.99Mercury 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
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99Solargene
Run a private space corporation and spread housing, mines, and farms from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. Your astronauts each have skills, moods, hunger, and hygiene to manage. Worth playing for colony sim fans who want people-first management stretched across a whole solar system of harsh weather and long supply lines.
Replayable
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$34.99DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Replayable
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Dwarfs!?
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Replayable, Colorful
79% of 644 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Outpost Zero
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Cheaper than Drill Core
DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi colony sim where your crashed survivors must keep shelter, water and power running while alien Goo closes in.
96% of 1,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$11.99
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
Terminal Colony Deep Core
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
29% of 14 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
Cavern Adventurers
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
48% of 122 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$8.99
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…
56% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
My Colony
Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.
88% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
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: 26$5.99
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
Hidden gems like Drill Core
From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi colony sim where your crashed survivors must keep shelter, water and power running while alien Goo closes in.
96% of 1,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$11.99
Dungeon Settlers
Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested…
78% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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
Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19
Orebound
Orebound is a first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world, not a settler colony sim.
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
Exogate Initiative
Build an underground facility, recruit a team of specialists and explore new worlds through the Exogate.
76% of 699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$11.24
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
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Newest colony sims like Drill Core
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
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19
Dungeon Settlers
Dungeon Settlers pairs colony sim with dungeon crawler: you raise a settlement in barren, magically eroded land, keep its people fed and rested…
78% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$24.99
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
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
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 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$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
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
AETHUS
AETHUS is a solo sci-fi survival-crafter, not a true colony sim: you are Maeve, an ex-mining engineer building a modular outpost alone with her drone.
94% of 2,101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
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