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2018PCSteam Deck verified98 % positive31.99 €

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting
Deep systems to master
Economy and management

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The closest matches for RimWorld are Oxygen Not Included, Spacebase DF-9 and Stardeus. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes RimWorld special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Oxygen Not Included

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2019PCSteam Deck verified97 % positive22.99 €

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.

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Spacebase DF-9

Sandbox with your own goals

A space station colony-management sim in the vein of Dwarf Fortress: you manage crew, resources and disasters while emergent, often darkly funny stories unfold among your inhabitants.

Stardeus

Building and crafting

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.

Dwarf Fortress

Sandbox with your own goals

An immensely deep simulation where you build and manage a dwarven fortress or roam a procedurally generated, persistent world as an adventurer. Its interlocking systems produce chaotic, memorable stories, though the learning curve is notoriously steep.

Dwarf Fortress

Sandbox with your own goals

You build and manage a dwarven fortress in a deeply simulated world where every dwarf has its own personality and every system interacts. Watch your civilization decline and use the lessons for your next attempt.

Maia

Economy and management

Maia is a colony-building sim where you keep settlers alive on a hostile alien planet. You manage resources, construction and your colonists' needs inside a living, unpredictable simulation.

Stranded: Alien Dawn

Building and crafting

A colony survival sim where you guide stranded survivors on an alien planet, building bases, managing needs and fending off wildlife and harsh weather. Emergent stories arise from your colonists' personalities and fates.

Space Haven

Building and crafting

A spaceship colony sim where you build ships tile by tile, manage air and power, and look after the needs and moods of a ragtag crew as you travel the galaxy in search of a new home.

Factorio

Sandbox with your own goals

Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Sci-fi setting

You build starships module by module, from floor plan to weapons and engines, then take them into real-time battles and campaigns in space. Your design choices directly determine how well your ship performs in combat.