Games like Stardeus

Still thinking about Stardeus and its replayable and dark tone? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
61% of 896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Starship Theory
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
50% of 1,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8Free
The Last Starship
Design a starship from the reactor up, then fly it through a procedurally generated galaxy as a pirate hunter, miner, spacebus driver or whatever else takes your fancy. A 2D construction and simulation sandbox from Introversion where the ship you build decides everything.
Replayable
75% of 1,644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 96$19.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a relaxed automation game in an endless procedurally generated universe. Build conveyor networks, move and dock your stations, recruit astronauts and research new tech, alone or with friends. No timers, no punishing failure: just you, a growing colony and a galaxy of voxel planets to strip for parts.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
80% of 2,440 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
Solargene
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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
77% of 784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
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 · Replayable, Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Starminer
Design a fleet module by module, mine asteroids in real-time physics, and watch your greed light up the sky: the more you extract, the louder your heat signature, until the aliens come looking. A slow, careful space sandbox for players who like building things that work.
Replayable, Tense
72% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$29.99
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 Colony sim · Replayable
69% of 748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
69% of 48 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
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 Colony sim · Replayable
68% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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 306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79

Cheaper than Stardeus

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

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.

$14.99

Astro Colony

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

$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

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

SpaceSlog

Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.

$24.99

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…

$12.99

Space Architect

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

$1.79

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

Adaptory

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

$19.99

Deep Space Outpost

Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.

$15.99

Hidden gems like Stardeus

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

Sector Space

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…

$7.49

Starlathe

Run one small ship through a simulated economy of mining, trade and war, then build stations and grow a fleet with friends in co-op.

$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.

$14.99

Jitter

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.

$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

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

Ostranauts

Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.

$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

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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