The Best Base-building colony Games - Page 5

Update : Final Outpost added at rank #20.
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Starmancer (2021)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Starmancer is a space station building game offering gameplay with consequences, a living sandbox environment, crafting, and managing the daily lives of colonists. Send crews out to mine on asteroids, trade with other factions, and explore old alien ruins. Obey protocol or go rogue as you take on the role of a powerful A.I.. Build bustling space ports, secret laboratories, and incubators for mysterious eggs. Defend against starvation, sabotage, and space zombies. Don't worry, you can always grow more humans. The vastness of space awaits. Are you ready?


  • simulation
  • space
  • base-building
  • colony
  • building
  • pixel
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • sci-fi

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New Cycle (2024)

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early access PC Windows

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

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  • city-building
  • colony
  • building
  • survival
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • resource-management
  • top-down
  • pause
  • realistic
  • sci-fi
  • base-building
  • 3d
  • replay-value
  • real-time

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Offworld Trading Company (2016)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • economy
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • moddable
  • sci-fi
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • building
  • space
  • futuristic
  • sandbox

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Autonauts (2019)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5

Autonauts is a charming simulation game that allows you to colonize uninhabited planets and build a civilization of robots to do your bidding. With a fun and unique automation programming system, colorful graphics, and no required programming knowledge, you can explore, gather resources, and create an animal husbandry world. The game offers limitless opportunities for automation and colonization, making it an experience you won't want to miss!


What we like:
  • Fun and challenging gameplay for management sim lovers
  • Unique automation programming system
  • Colorful and cute graphics
  • No required programming knowledge
  • Large world to explore and customize.
What could be improved:
  • Steep learning curve
  • Limited inventory space

  • programming
  • simulation
  • agriculture
  • automation
  • visual
  • crafting
  • resource-management
  • colony
  • farming
  • base-building
  • robots
  • attractive

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Winter Games Challenge (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Faster, farther, higher! Fly like an eagle, perform spectacular dramatic half-pipe stunts and race down the ice track or across the slopes. Take on sporting challenges in eight action-packed winter sports disciplines.

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  • cooperative
  • colony
  • sport
  • base-building
  • skating
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • skiing
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • snowboarding
  • local
  • 2d
  • survival

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Odd Realm (2018)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Odd Realm is a colony sim set in a procedurally generated, fantasy world where you control a group of settlers to build a settlement that survives the passing seasons, roaming bandits, underground horrors, and gods from legend.


  • colony
  • simulation
  • base-building

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Per Aspera (2020)

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PC Windows

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.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • science
  • mars
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • resource-management
  • automation
  • management
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • strategy
  • minimalist
  • sci-fi

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Zombie Cure Lab (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Create the perfect lab in this challenging sandbox base builder and defend it from zombie attacks. Lead a team of scientists in curing the zombies and transform them into Human-Zombie hybrids. Gather resources, research new technologies and optimize your defense to overcome the apocalypse.


  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • building
  • sandbox
  • science
  • zombies
  • time-management
  • survival
  • management
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • tower-defense
  • post-apocalyptic

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Landnama (2023)

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Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

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  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • hex
  • vikings
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • grid
  • build-em-up
  • economy
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • building

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Reshaping Mars (2023)

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PC Windows

In Reshaping Mars, you play as a bold and meticulous base commander tasked with transforming the barren planet into a habitable one. Using a real terrain database, you must mine, build, and manage resources to create a thriving civilization. Manage the behavior of your inhabitants, climb the technology ladder, and engage in production. Once the ecological cycle is formed, the power of nature will help you further complete the transformation to habitability. With different story backgrounds, you can experience exciting new journeys. Enjoy the unique journey of navigating Mars as a pioneer!

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What we like:
  • Good idea with potential for development
  • Fun gameplay mechanics
  • Lots of content and replay value
  • Androids increase productivity
  • Worth the price tag
What could be improved:
  • Performance: lag and stuttering
  • Unnecessary money system
  • Annoying notifications that can't be turned off
  • Production chains are unbalanced
  • Mining abilities are limited with no option to tunnel
  • Needs more fundamental work for deeper gameplay

  • 4x
  • mars
  • colony
  • base-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • building
  • real-time
  • space
  • resource-management
  • management
  • futuristic
  • mineral
  • chain

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