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The Crust

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

★ PLANETBASE ★ SURVIVING MARS ★ SPACE HAVEN ★ MINI SETTLERS: PROLOGUE ★ AVEN COLONY ★ MINI SETTLERS ★ ODD REALM ★ GOING MEDIEVAL ★ STELLAR SETTLERS: SPACE BASE BUILDER ★ GNOMORIA ★ STEEL ARTERY: TRAIN CITY BUILDER ★ AFTER THE COLLAPSE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Planetbase

80% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Life Support
  • …Grow Hydroponic Food
  • …Build Production Chains
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Surviving Mars

80% 👍 OF 28K
About This Game

There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Before Landing
  • …House Colonists in Domes
  • …Keep Air and Water Flowing
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Space Haven

86% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Design Ships Tile-by-Tile
  • …Manage Ship Atmosphere
  • …Salvage Derelict Ships
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Mini Settlers: Prologue

89% 👍 OF 802
About This Game

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Settle Abandoned Islands
  • …Build Train Routes
  • …Link Factories and Cities
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Aven Colony

72% 👍 OF 2.8K
About This Game

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Alien Ruins
  • …Survive Seasonal Freezes
  • …Contain Spore Infestations
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Mini Settlers

81% 👍 OF 755
About This Game

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Link Island Supply
  • …Route Trains and Ships
  • …Grow Tiered Towns
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Odd Realm

84% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Above And Below
  • …Choose A Unique Race
  • …Farm, Fish, Or Raid
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Going Medieval

89% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raise Multi-Storey Castles
  • …Carve Underground Cellars
  • …Shape Terrain and Water
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

70% 👍 OF 832
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Stack Connected Base Pods
  • …Mine Alien Planets
  • …Choose Talented Settlers
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Gnomoria

75% 👍 OF 3.5K
About This Game

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Attract Wandering Gnomads
  • …Build Trap Contraptions
  • …Dig and Rebuild
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Steel Artery: Train City Builder

71% 👍 OF 320
About This Game

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

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After the Collapse

78% 👍 OF 215
About This Game

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.