Colony sims like Orebound

If Orebound left you wanting something replayable and relaxing, you have options. These colony sims keep things close enough to feel familiar. Most of them work well for a shared session.

Techtonica
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game set in glowing caves under the alien planet Calyx. You mine, build machines, and automate production lines to dig your way toward the surface while a voice-acted story unfolds. Worth playing for its calm building rhythm and steady sense of mystery.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Relaxing
64% of 3,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$29.99
Hammerting
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
57% of 1,736 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99
Dawn 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…
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
67% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Replayable
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Kubifaktorium
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Replayable, Relaxing
79% of 728 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Astro 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.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Also in Survival crafting
78% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
The 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, Relaxing
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19
Craft The World
Lead a tribe of dwarves on a randomly generated island, from one sleepy dwarf to a busy fortress. You give the orders to dig, build, gather and fight, keep them fed and clothed, and hold the walls when portals spit out zombies, skeletons and goblins.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
88% of 15,161 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 386$18.99
JUNKPUNK
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Relaxing
59% of 647 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 480 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Eden Crafters
Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and the tools to make it livable. You gather, craft, build factories with conveyors and machines, then temper the climate, make air breathable, and turn toxic lakes into water. Five planets are included, solo or in online co-op.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
84% of 2,619 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 351$19.99

Cheaper than Orebound

DwarfCorp

Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.

$2.99

Dawn Apart

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments.

$19.99

Kubifaktorium

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex…

$19.99

Atrio: The Dark Wild

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything.

$19.99

Astro Colony

Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.

$19.99

The Crust

Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.

$19.19

JUNKPUNK

JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed.

$15.99

Craft The World

Lead a tribe of dwarves on a randomly generated island, from one sleepy dwarf to a busy fortress.

$18.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and the tools to make it livable.

$19.99

Revive & Prosper

A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport.

$19.99

A Game of Dwarves

A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey.

$9.99

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…

$9.99

Hidden gems like Orebound

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.

$19.99

Regions of Ruin: Runegate

A hack-and-slash RPG with a rebuilding thread for colony sim fans: you play a lone dwarf clearing monster-held lands, rescuing allies, and slowly…

$19.99

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a mouse colony on a cramped island, answering to demanding cat overlords.

$29.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and the tools to make it livable.

$19.99

OxyRail

OxyRail is an open-world survival game where your base is a train rolling through snowfields, deserts and volcanoes.

$14.99

Astro Colony

Astro Colony is a space colony sim about building a moving station that eats planets.

$19.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean, where you turn floating debris into a town for castaways.

$19.99

The Crust

Build a lunar base that keeps Earth supplied and your colonists alive.

$19.19

Aground Zero

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion.

$19.99

Romestead

Rome fell, the dead walk at night, and your camp needs dinner.

$13.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony.

$14.99

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

$19.99

Colony sims like Orebound

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