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2015 PC 55 % positive Mixed, 205 reviews on Steam

An indie space base-building and management game where you set up colonies on alien planets, keep power, water, food and oxygen running, and automate production. You then build spaceships to ship goods between worlds.

What defines Farlight Explorers:

  • Sci-fi setting

The closest matches for Farlight Explorers are Astro Colony, Final Upgrade and FortressCraft Evolved!. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Farlight Explorers special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Astro Colony

96 %

2026 PC 19.50 € 80 % positive Very positive, 2,438 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Gameplay comes before story
  • Bright, upbeat tone

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.

Final Upgrade

Sci-fi setting

A space strategy and management game where you play as an AI, exploring new worlds, building factories, setting up trade routes and researching technology while competing against rival AIs.

Thrive

Sci-fi setting

Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life, taking a species from a single cell up to a cosmic civilization. It focuses on simulation and creation tools, and is still a work in progress.

Terraformers

Bright, upbeat tone

You transform Mars step by step into a livable world by harvesting resources, founding cities, and creating oceans and life. A laid-back colony-building and 4X strategy game with roguelite elements.

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.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi city builder where you establish Mars colonies and balance resources, power, oxygen and colonists to keep them alive. The relaunch brings remastered visuals and expanded content to the original.

Dyson Sphere Program

Bright, upbeat tone

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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