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Games like Astro Colony

2026PCSteam Deck playable80 % positive19.50 €

A space colony-building sim where you found colonies on different celestial bodies, automate production with conveyor belts and look after your astronauts. The appeal lies in optimizing an efficient network of colonies.

  • Economy and management
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting

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In short: Games like Astro Colony

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Astro Colony special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dyson Sphere Program

97 %Match

2021PCSteam Deck playable97 % positive16.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Astro Colony: a sandbox with your own goals, building and crafting as well as economy and management.

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

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Nova Lands

Open world

A relaxed factory-building and island-management game on an alien planet where you explore, automate production chains, and handle light combat along the way.

FortressCraft Evolved!

Sandbox with your own goals

After crash-landing on an alien planet, you build machines, production lines and defenses in a voxel world. A blend of crafting, logistics and tower defense sits at the heart of the game.

The Final Earth 2

Sci-fi setting

A relaxed, vertical pixel-art city builder where you grow an exploration ship into a sprawling space colony. Gathering resources, researching tech and optimizing your city floor by floor is the core loop.

Satisfactory

Sandbox with your own goals

As a FICSIT Pioneer you build sprawling automated factories in first person on an alien planet. Designing efficient production chains in a beautiful open world, solo or in co-op, is deeply satisfying.

Microtopia

Sci-fi setting

You act as the hive mind of a robot ant colony, laying pheromone trails to build automated supply chains. Gathering resources, feeding the queen and growing the colony makes for a relaxed, optimization-focused strategy sim.

Sandustry

Lots to discover

Sandustry blends mining and factory automation in a fully destructible sand-physics world. You dig deeper, build logistics chains, and uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization along the way.

Oxygen Not Included

Sandbox with your own goals

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

Stardeus

Sci-fi setting

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

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