Games like Project AURA

Want something that feels dark the way Project AURA does? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

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 Colony sim and City builder · Dark
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
New Cycle
After solar flares end the old world, you lead survivors from a bare settlement to an industrial metropolis. Balance food, water and work through storms, disease and hard choices, then rebuild the machines of the past. A dark, demanding city builder about dragging civilization back from the edge.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
79% of 2,618 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$29.99
Aven Colony
Govern humanity's first settlement on Aven Prime, an alien world of deserts, tundras and wetlands light years from Earth. Grow a small outpost into a sprawling city, keep your colonists fed and breathing through electrical storms and long winters, and uncover the planet's secrets. A calm, easy-to-learn colony builder with a lot of charm.
Also in Colony sim and City builder
71% of 2,021 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
Surviving the Aftermath
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you rebuild after the world ends. Raise a settlement from a handful of survivors, send specialists into a hostile wasteland, and brace for disasters that can undo weeks of work. It is difficult, sometimes cruel, and the stories it leaves you with are the kind you retell.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$29.99
Endzone - A World Apart
Lead the last survivors back to the surface, 150 years after an ecological disaster ended the world. Build them a settlement in a land of radiation, toxic rain, droughts and raiders, and keep it alive. A harsh, atmospheric colony sim that rewards careful planning and does not forgive much.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
76% of 8,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$24.99
Mercury 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 Colony sim · Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Oxygen: First Breath
Keep the power on through deadly winds, frosts and droughts, scavenge the ruins, and lead your survivors through the first 50 days.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and raise a town from nothing: shape the land itself, plant crops, survive winters and disasters, and grow a settlement worth moving to. A colorful, low-pressure survival city builder where every map is new and every town plays out differently.
Also in Colony sim and City builder
85% of 7,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Imagine Earth
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Also in City builder
79% of 813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Surviving the Abyss
Earth, 1976. The cold war rages above while you run a science facility 7,000 metres down, perfecting human cloning. Keep oxygen, power and food flowing, push light pylons into the black, and try not to think about what the darkness hides. A hardcore survival colony builder where every watt matters.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Dark
64% of 1,052 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99

Cheaper than Project AURA

Aven Colony

Grow humanity's first settlement from a lonely outpost into a thriving city, one dome at a time.

$5.99

Unclaimed World

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.

$1.18

Plan B: Terraform

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

$11.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

$9.99

The Promised Land

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation!

$6.99

CLOUD DWELLERS

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.

$9.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

Pixel Colony

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.

$4.99

Seeds of Resilience

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience.

$13.99

Post-Apo Builder

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts!

$5.99

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

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

$11.99

Epoch Cycle

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.

$8.99

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Oceaneers

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

$24.99

Plan B: Terraform

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

$11.99

Astro Colony

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

$19.99

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

$22.49

Havendock

Turn a lonely raft into a cozy ocean colony, fishing debris from the waves and automating your way up to submarines and a rocket.

$19.99

Solargene

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

$34.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$22.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

$24.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

$9.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

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

Free

Flotsam

Recycle the drifting garbage of a flooded world into a floating home for your survivors, one plank and garden at a time.

$24.99

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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