Games like Deep Space Directive

Still thinking about Deep Space Directive and its minimalist and replayable tone? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Deep 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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
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!
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
89% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Space Architect
Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom. A cartoony colony and automation sim where every run plays out differently.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
Planetbase
Planetbase puts you in charge of a small band of space settlers on a remote planet, and it is your job to keep them breathing. Build the base, grow the food, keep the power on, and turn a fragile outpost into a colony of hundreds in a place that would very much prefer you failed.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
Deep Corp
Run a mining company in a late Wild West state: dig tunnels, hire miners, keep the ore carts moving, and turn raw rock into goods for growing towns. As governor, your deliveries keep your rating alive. A hand-drawn management game that is easy to learn and quietly absorbing.
Replayable
89% of 413 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$14.99
Vectorio Classic
A minimalist survival base builder where every resource you claim makes your machines run hotter and the enemy shapes angrier. Research new weapons, plan your power grid, and take down four guardians.
Minimalist, Replayable
93% of 1,474 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
69% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
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....
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
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 Colony sim · Replayable
66% of 248 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Spatials: Galactology
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
68% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Farlight Explorers
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Replayable
53% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than Deep Space Directive

Space Architect

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

$1.79

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

Farlight Explorers

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive.

$9.99

Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era

Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space.

$1.99

Dungeon D14

You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology.

$1.99

Orbit Zero

Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets.

$7.99

Colonies

Build your own colony and defend it with a powerful army of tanks, defensive towers, and different sized mechs on alien planets!

$7.99

Drill Core

Run a mining crew on hostile alien worlds, balancing profit against the lives of your people.

$9.99

Masterplan Tycoon

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test!

$4.79

Vectorio

Build. Automate. Defend.

$9.99

Earth Space Colonies

Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system.

$9.99

Project Astra Dominium

Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements.

$7.99

Hidden gems like Deep Space Directive

Deep Corp

Mine the rock, run the company and keep the towns of a Wild West state supplied.

$14.99

Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

Run a space company at your own pace, moving cargo across the solar system one careful calculation at a time.

$17.99

Outworld Station

Link modules with tubes, run supply chains across planets and build starships at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$18.99

Star Birds

Star Birds is a relaxed factory game on asteroids. Scan rocks, mine ice and stranger things, and link it all with hand-drawn pipes while your…

$19.99

Plan B: Terraform

Turn frozen wasteland into green, living terrain by moving water, resources and people across a calm hex-grid planet.

$11.99

Drill Core

Run a mining crew on hostile alien worlds, balancing profit against the lives of your people.

$9.99

Astro Colony

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Solargene

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

$34.99

MegaFactory Titan

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with…

$19.99

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

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

Free

The Crust

Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…

$19.19

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