Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Colony sims like Outpost Zero
Want something that feels chaotic and dark the way Outpost Zero does? These colony sims are a good place to start.
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74Gaia
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Also in Survival crafting
57% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Stranded: 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.
Also in Survival crafting · Chaotic, Dark
83% of 9,927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99Astro 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.
Also in Co-op
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Also in Survival crafting
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99CryoFall
CryoFall is a top-down sci-fi survival game about rebuilding on a forgotten planet, from stone tools to power grids and mechs. For colony sim fans, the pull is the shared build: farms, factories, shops and whole player-run cities growing tech tier by tier.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Dark
78% of 4,909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99Planetbase
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.
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$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.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99The 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.
75% of 3,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19Deep 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.
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Penkura
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Also in Survival crafting
89% of 191 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99Dawn 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 · Chaotic
67% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cheaper than Outpost Zero
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
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
pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Welcome to ParadiZe
ParadiZe is overrun, but the zombies can be hacked and put to work.
67% of 1,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$2.99
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 positivePlayers online now: 1$2.49
Grim Nights
Your village has 13 days against the undead. Put villagers to work by their random talents, gather wood, stone, gold and food, dig underground for…
87% of 1,508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99
Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.
92% of 115,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99
Grandiose
Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy.
67% of 162 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Unrect
Build a home for your colony to live in peace, and protect it from aggressive creatures.
78% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like Outpost Zero
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
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
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: 18$34.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
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
Aground Zero
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion.
80% of 123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.
83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
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
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
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 Outpost Zero
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
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
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
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
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
Occupy Mars: The Game
Occupy Mars is a technical survival sandbox about building a working Mars base alone or in online co-op.
68% of 2,746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$29.99
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: 18$34.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
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.
92% of 24,756 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Ascent of Ashes
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.
68% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$14.99