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.
38% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like Deficis
Miss the minimalist and dark pull of Deficis? These games are a good place to start.
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.
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79% of 9,600 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99Destination 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. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
Minimalist, Dark
38% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
Run a 21st century space company: plan real orbital transfers, sling rockets past planets, mine the asteroid belt and drop water ice onto Mars. A slow, numbers-first logistics sim where a good plan pays off centuries later, and terraforming a whole planet is just the next item on the list.
87% of 1,343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 86$17.99Earth Space Colonies
Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.
38% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Solargene
Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system. Build colonies from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt, keep picky astronauts alive, untangle production chains and logistics, and turn contracts with Earth's spacefaring nations into your own off-world empire. Deep, demanding and replayable.
77% of 784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99Alien 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: 2FreePeriapsis: Gravity Slingshot
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity multi-planetary.
79% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Space 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.
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85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99Space Colonizer
Will you use the gravity of the planet or jump through a black hole? It’s up to you. Set an angle, speed and just watch how unsuspecting colonists fly through the space hoping, that they won’t end up flat as a pancake on some meteorite. Puzzle game with unique story will put your brain to the test.
$0.99Possible One: Lunar Industries
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
64% of 56 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99Poly Universe
Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.
Minimalist
85% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Derelict Void
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
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57% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than Deficis
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
Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity…
79% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Space Colonizer
Will you use the gravity of the planet or jump through a black hole? It’s up to you.
$0.99
Poly Universe
Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.
85% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Derelict Void
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management.
57% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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!
38% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Smile To Fly
Mine gold and electricity in your own space colony, find new inhabitants in space, and eventually make them happy - because the energy of happiness…
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
1000 days to escape
Only 1000 days left until the end of the world. You have to realize the largest space program ever to save as many people as you can.
84% of 369 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.
69% of 748 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.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Colony Prospector
Colony Prospecting - the most profitable occupation on Earth, or the quickest way to bankruptcy. That's if the aliens don't kill you first.
83% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Deficis
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.
87% of 1,343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 86$17.99
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.
84% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Solargene
Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system.
77% of 784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,433 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 colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…
75% of 3,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Stardeus
As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.
87% of 1,464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$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
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.
69% of 748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
Imagine Earth
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade.
79% of 813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
1000 days to escape
Only 1000 days left until the end of the world. You have to realize the largest space program ever to save as many people as you can.
84% of 369 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Poly Universe
Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.
85% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Newest games like Deficis
Hull Rupture
Manage power, people and a growing ship as you plug hull breaches and race toward the alien homeworld.
73% of 256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,481$13.49
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…
75% of 3,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19
Rocket Engineer
Design custom rockets and master 2D orbital mechanics to navigate a fully simulated solar system.
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity…
79% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
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
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.
84% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
SpaceCraft
Mine planets, assemble ships from parts and grow a trading empire with friends in an open galaxy.
63% of 2,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 232$29.99
Astro Colony
Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.
80% of 2,440 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
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.
69% of 48 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99