Games like Arcbound

Miss the retro and replayable pull of Arcbound? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home. Space Haven is a colony sim about designing the ship, managing fragile civilians inside it, and salvaging what you need from derelicts, asteroids, and rival factions along the way.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
Generation Exile
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Replayable, Dark, Atmospheric
65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Stardeus
A deep colony sim on a broken starship. You are the ship's immortal AI: send drones to patch the hull, balance oxygen, heat and power, wake your human crew, and decide whether to protect them or exploit them. Then fly your rebuilt ship into a procedurally generated universe full of pirates, traders and worse.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
87% of 1,464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
Adaptory
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, Atmospheric
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This challenging survival colony sim features deep simulated ship systems and a whole universe to explore.
Replayable, Dark, Atmospheric
69% of 48 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim about keeping cheerful clones alive inside an asteroid. You dig tunnels, pipe oxygen and water, wire up power, and fight heat, hunger, and stress. Systems collide in clever ways, failure is funny, and a working base feels earned.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
96% of 136,319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99
Starmancer
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
61% of 896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
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. Every decision is defensible in the moment. The horror is retroactive. Land what is left and build a colony, alone or with up to three friends.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
84% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
IXION
Earth is dying, and DOLOS' prototype station Tiqqun is all that's left. As Administrator you build out its sectors, mine the void, recover cryopods and keep a fragile crew alive and loyal. A hard, story-driven survival city builder where every choice echoes. Can you keep humanity's flame burning in the cold?
Replayable, Tense, Dark
77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
Jumplight 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.
Retro, Replayable
58% of 962 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Alien 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....
Replayable, Dark
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
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. Defend your warm home from warships and beasts, use robots for labor. Tired of drifting alone through deep space? Bring a crew, and loneliness fades away.
Replayable
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99

Cheaper than Arcbound

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.

$5.99

Wayfarer Protocol

A colony sim on one small starship. Lay every floor tile, wire the reactor, grow the food, and keep a crew of misfits breathing while pirates cut…

$9.99

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.

$4.99

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.

$4.99

The Sentient

Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space.

$9.99

AUTARKIS

Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes. Find the lost components. Mine resources. Escape with a rocket. Save us all!

$2.49

Colony

Colony is a space exploration game where you fly around trying to colonize planets, battle alien races, collect resources, and save the human race!

$0.99

Startopia

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse.

$6.99

Space Architect

Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.

$1.79

Espace

Build your own spaceship tile by tile, wire every system by hand and keep the oxygen flowing.

$8.49

Asteroid Colony

In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in…

$5.99

ExoColony: Planet Survival

Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply.

$3.49

Hidden gems like Arcbound

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.

$14.99

Oceaneers

Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.

$24.99

Solargene

Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system.

$34.99

Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.

$19.99

The Last Starship

Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.

$19.99

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.

$24.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Free

Stardeus

As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.

$29.99

Out of Orbit

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets.

$14.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.

$11.99

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.

$19.99

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