Games like Wastelander

Miss the replayable and minimalist pull of Wastelander? These games are worth a look next.

Farlanders
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Mysterious
89% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Terraformers
Terraform Mars in a turn-based colony builder with a card-driven twist. Every run gives you a fresh planet, a hand of project cards and rotating leaders, and it is on you to turn a red rock into a green world. Raise cities in craters and lava tubes, seed life from bacteria to bears, and geo-engineer the whole planet before your colonists' demands catch up with you.
Replayable
88% of 3,044 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$19.99
Stranded: 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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 537$34.99
Against the Storm
A dark fantasy city builder about founding short-lived settlements in endless rain. As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, raise each outpost to reputation, then start over somewhere new with upgrades in hand.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Dark
94% of 33,692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99
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 · Replayable, Dark
71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$29.99
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, Mysterious, Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
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 and City builder · Replayable
69% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
dotAGE
You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that can survive the Prophecy. A turn-based city builder with board-game worker placement, dark comedy and a doom that keeps coming.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro
95% of 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$17.59
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 · Replayable, Dark
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
79% of 9,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 179$14.99
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 2,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$5.99
TownsFolk
A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny. Lead your people into an uncharted world as they rebuild after ruin, endure harsh challenges, and carve out a thriving settlement. Manage scarce resources, face dynamic events, and never forget to pay tribute to the kingdom.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Tense
84% of 25 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99

Cheaper than Wastelander

ROD: Revolt Of Defense

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.

$0.99

Sol 0: Mars Colonization

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony.

$0.99

Unclaimed World

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

$1.18

The Wanderer

Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.

$0.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Dungeon D14

You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology.

$1.99

Space Architect

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

$1.79

ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH

Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's.

$1.19

Expansion

A strategy game about space (location) in space (cosmic). Colonise the galaxy with a thousand clicks of a mouse. Winner of DreamHack Austin Jam!

$0.99

Undholm

A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished.

$1.99

Strategy Core

Lead your clan from a small settlement all the way to the launch of a colony ship.

$0.69

WARIUM

WARIUM is a turn-based strategy for creating your empire. Choose your faction and go ahead.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Wastelander

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Rogue Hex

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.

$19.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

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

dotAGE

You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that…

$17.59

The Wandering Village

A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.

$29.99

Scorchlands

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.

$11.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

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

Free

Farlanders

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder.

$14.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

Terraformers

Turn a fresh Mars into a living world, one turn and one project card at a time.

$19.99

Subterrain: Mines of Titan

Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG.

$19.99

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