Games Like Zenith Expanse

Zenith Expanse

Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.

★ RIMWORLD ★ OXYGEN NOT INCLUDED ★ EMBARK ★ STARDEUS ★ STARMANCER ★ OCEAN PUNK ★ SPACE HAVEN ★ JUDGMENT: APOCALYPSE SURVIVAL SIMULATION ★ AFTER THE COLLAPSE ★ SPACE ARCHITECT ★ STRANDED: ALIEN DAWN ★ ODD REALM ★ WE ♥ IT 
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RimWorld

98% 👍 OF 245K
About This Game

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stockpile hundreds of mortar shells, have one cook off during a raid, and set off a chain reaction that blows half your mountain base apart.
  • …trap an insect infestation in a sealed room, steal the jelly, and keep repeating until the bugs are basically livestock.
  • …recruit a cannibal crime lord, feed him nutrient paste, surgically add retractable claws, and rename him C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.
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Oxygen Not Included

97% 👍 OF 143K
About This Game

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …see gases behave like real layers, with oxygen drifting, carbon dioxide sinking, and rooms turning into live pressure puzzles.
  • …build a closed-loop bathroom where toilets flush into a tank, sewage gets treated, and the whole colony runs on recycled waste.
  • …turn a steam vent, a cold biome, or a magma lake into an engine: melt ice by accident, boil sewage into steam on purpose, and pull clean water back out.
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Stardeus

87% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rebuild a Broken Starship
  • …Restore Oxygen and Power
  • …Direct a Drone Crew
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Starmancer

60% 👍 OF 745
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Life-Support Station
  • …Grow Uploaded Colonists
  • …Wire Power and Water
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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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

81% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Scavenge Demon Lands
  • …Rescue More Survivors
  • …Pause Squad Battles
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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.

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Space Architect

74% 👍 OF 309
About This Game

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

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Stranded: Alien Dawn

84% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Study Alien Wildlife
  • …Build Vertical Bases
  • …Farm Alien Crops
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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