Games like Taskbar Colony

Want something that feels relaxing and minimalist the way Taskbar Colony does? These games are worth a look next.

Desktop Colony
A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things. Mine asteroids, build ships, expand the colony, research technology, uncover mysteries and explore the universe.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Cute
100% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
My Colony
A sci-fi colony sim that starts with one lander and a rover and ends wherever your ambition does. Pick a faction, grow an outpost into an empire, trade on a player-run market, or share a region with friends. It runs on almost anything and never asks you to wait for a timer.
Relaxing, Replayable
89% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Space Colony: Steam Edition
A real-time base builder where the buildings are the easy part and the crew is the problem. You lay out power, oxygen, mines and laser turrets, then try to keep twenty stubborn colonists fed, paid, rested and speaking to each other while aliens close in.
Retro, Replayable
78% of 574 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Idle Colony
A colony of small, cheerful creatures grows and merges bigger and bigger fruits while the money climbs from single dollars to numbers with names you rarely say out loud. Water the first sapling by hand, then recruit thousands of helpers, stack upgrades into wild synergies, and when the wok is full, sacrifice the whole colony to do it all again, faster.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Cute
81% of 566 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$5.99
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 through smile-to-fly technology can be transformed into rocket fuel!
Retro, Replayable, Colorful
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Trappist
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
89% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
Relaxing, Replayable
80% of 2,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
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.
Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
Eclectic Expansion Enterprise
Expand among the stars! It is 72k years in the future, and a new wave of Human expansion abounds. Join the ranks of the Ecxos, prep star systems for habitation, and develop your tools and ships to enterprise ever faster and further.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
73% of 30 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to make more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.
Relaxing, Minimalist
68% of 131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Space Civilization Clicker
An idle clicker where you grow one small planet into a galactic empire. Click Earth, colonize living worlds across star systems, build Dyson Spheres, catch comets and reset reality with the Big Bang. Your civilization keeps producing even while the game is closed.
Relaxing, Colorful
93% of 14 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Raccateer
Raccateer is a colony sim idle game. Recruit and upgrade raccoons each with unique personalities and stats, manage their equipment and synergize your team to become a Trashilionaire. Go from trash to riches in this tight, narrative-focused idler
Relaxing, Cute, Retro
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Taskbar Colony

Desktop Colony

A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things.

$5.99

My Colony

Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.

$4.99

Idle Colony

Raise a cheerful little colony that waters, harvests and automates its way from a single sapling to absurd sums of money, then reset and do it better.

$5.99

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…

$2.99

Space Civilization Clicker

An idle clicker where you grow one small planet into a galactic empire.

$3.99

Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker

Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game.

$5.99

Raccateer

Raccateer is a colony sim idle game. Recruit and upgrade raccoons each with unique personalities and stats, manage their equipment and synergize…

$5.99

Space Architect

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

$1.79

Taskbarn

A cozy idle incremental game about raising barn animals that live on your taskbar.

$1.99

Startopia

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse.

$6.99

Epic Astro Story

Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

$8.99

Pixel Colony

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

$4.99

Hidden gems like Taskbar Colony

Astro Colony

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

$19.99

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

Idle Colony

Raise a cheerful little colony that waters, harvests and automates its way from a single sapling to absurd sums of money, then reset and do it better.

$5.99