Games Like Per Aspera

Per Aspera

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

★ THE CRUST ★ MINI SETTLERS: PROLOGUE ★ AVEN COLONY ★ STELLAR SETTLERS: SPACE BASE BUILDER ★ STEEL ARTERY: TRAIN CITY BUILDER ★ THE COLONISTS ★ BLACKSMITH MASTER ★ MINI SETTLERS ★ TIMBERBORN ★ FACTORY TOWN ★ ENDZONE - A WORLD APART ★ OXYGEN: FIRST BREATH ★ WE ♥ IT 
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The Crust

77% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Mine Beneath the Moon
  • …Build Conveyor Factories
  • …Explore Lunar Sites
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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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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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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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The Colonists

86% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Robot Settlements
  • …Connect Roads, Rails, Boats
  • …Advance Through Three Ages
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Blacksmith Master

84% 👍 OF 2.8K
About This Game

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Run a Medieval Forge
  • …Mine Ore and Timber
  • …Forge Weapons and Tools
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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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Timberborn

96% 👍 OF 25K
About This Game

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a dam so high you flood half the map and most of your village.
  • …dig canals and blast new channels with explosives to create artificial lakes that carry you through week-long droughts.
  • …replace most of your workforce with robot beavers that run factories and mines 24/7.
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Factory Town

91% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …chain transport from hand-carrying to wagons, boats, trains, chutes, belts, pipes, and even airships in one connected network.
  • …build a sprawling 3D factory over hills, bridges, and water, stacking production on multiple layers and routing goods vertically.
  • …pipe liquids and mana across the map, including routing farm goods like milk through pipe networks.
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Endzone - A World Apart

77% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Food and Water
  • …Protect Against Radiation
  • …Build a Scrap Settlement
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Oxygen: First Breath

89% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Keep the Oxygen Center Running
  • …Seal Toxic Cracks
  • …Prepare for Harsh Weather