Planetbase
Guide a handful of space settlers as they turn a bare landing site into a self-sufficient planetbase.
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
Colony sims like Nova Origin
If the replayable rhythm of Nova Origin stuck with you, this helps. These colony sims are worth a look next.
Planetbase
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.
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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....
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87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeOxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim where three Duplicants wake up inside an asteroid and immediately start using up the air. You dig, pipe, wire, farm and recycle to keep them breathing, and the systems fight back in funny ways. A great pick for colony sim fans who like solving one crisis after another.
Replayable
96% of 136,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Astro 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
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99ExoColony: 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.
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69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.49Solargene
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.
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77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99Mercury 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: 2$24.99Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Replayable
67% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.99The 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.
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75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19Dawn 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
67% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$19.99After the Crash : Colony
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
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75% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Aven 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.
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71% of 2,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
Cheaper than Nova Origin
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
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
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
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
After the Crash : Colony
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship.
75% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
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!
54% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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
SeaColony
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop…
60% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Earth Space Colonies
Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system.
38% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Project AURA
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors.
62% of 655 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hidden gems like Nova Origin
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
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 2,447 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
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: 626$24.99
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 3,986 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 1,466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
New Cycle
After solar flares knock humanity flat, you raise a settlement from tents to a coal-burning industrial city.
79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$29.99
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
Newest colony sims like Nova Origin
Wall World Strategy
Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.
73% of 92 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667
Beyond These Stars
Found a settlement on a living Space Whale and journey across the galaxy together.
65% of 263 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
After the Crash : Colony
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship.
75% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Crust
Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
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
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 2,447 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
Nova Patria
Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power.
100% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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: 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
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