Unknown Planet
Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment…
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Games like Gridmax
If the replayable and tense rhythm of Gridmax stuck with you, this helps. These games are a good place to start.
Unknown Planet
Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment, fight off the alien lifeforms and survive.
Replayable
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge. Build them a base, keep them fed and sane, and hold the walls when the local wildlife comes knocking. Every run plays out differently, and every decision costs something. A colony sim where the planet is actively trying to ruin your day.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99Dark Grid
You wake up with only a luminous tower beside you, its warm light enveloping you. Besides, looking around, there is only endless darkness. Survival, exploration, utilizing all resources around to survive, searching for the reasons why the world is plunged into darkness.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Surviving 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.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99GearStorm - Armored Survival
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
51% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$11.99MewnBase
You are a cat on a barren planet, and you forgot the snacks. Scavenge for food and scrap, build a cozy little base with airlocks and rain collectors, research strange artifacts, and keep the oxygen flowing. Survival without the stress: gentle, cartoony, and yours to rearrange.
92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99Outpost Zero
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Dark
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Planetbase
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.
Replayable, Dark
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99Grid Creeps
Grid Creeps- a Game about Tactics and Strategy which Combine Elements of Tower Defense, Base Building and Resource Management in an Interesting new way. Protect your Headquarters and survive as many Waves of Creeps as possible!
Replayable, Tense
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Penkura
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.
Replayable
89% of 191 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99Beyond Contact
Crash-land on Ketern, a planet tearing itself apart, and fight to save it. Play a story campaign or endless Conquest Mode, alone or with friends.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
71% of 1,013 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99Alien 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....
Replayable, Dark
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Cheaper than Gridmax
Dark Grid
You wake up with only a luminous tower beside you, its warm light enveloping you. Besides, looking around, there is only endless darkness.
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Grid Creeps
Grid Creeps- a Game about Tactics and Strategy which Combine Elements of Tower Defense, Base Building and Resource Management in an Interesting new…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Outpost Zero
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
INCUR Survival
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Grid Miner
Grid Miner is a real-time strategy puzzle game where you mine asteroids to gather resources and expand your space station.
73% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Scrapnaut
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.
69% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$1.39
Build & Survive
Build, craft, and survive in an endless sandbox world filled with danger.
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
AstroPlanet
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere.
63% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Colo Grid Zation
In Colo Grid Zation will have to plan the best way to expand your grid-body creature to get the most efficient resources and survive!
$3.99
Hidden gems like Gridmax
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
MewnBase
Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.
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
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
Astrometica
Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.
81% of 2,960 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$11.99
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, crafting axes and spears, and raising shelters, kitchens and workshops…
79% of 702 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.
80% of 12,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 977$19.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.
69% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
INCUR Survival
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge.
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99
Dawn Apart
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments.
66% of 248 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest games like Gridmax
Project Tomorrow
Wake on a ruined planet, terraform it back to life and fight off everything that wants it dead again.
96% of 90 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 163$5.94
Signs of Life
Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.
76% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.74
XenoHaven
XenoHaven 1.0 is out now! Recruit familiars to farm, mine, craft, and fight by your side.
76% of 63 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Project Cobalt
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴.
66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Gathera
Gather, craft, build and explore alone or with up to 3 friends.
83% of 65 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$13.99
I Missed the Apocalypse
Humanity has fallen under alien control. Every mind but yours is under their influence.
76% of 17 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Astro Colony
Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.
80% of 2,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
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
Dark Grid
You wake up with only a luminous tower beside you, its warm light enveloping you. Besides, looking around, there is only endless darkness.
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99