The Best Base-building colony Games for Playstation 5

Update : Hotel Galactic added at rank #13.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Stranded: Alien Dawn drops you into an unknown alien world, where you'll lead survivors, build a high-tech outpost, and make tough decisions to survive. With engaging gameplay, a variety of planets, and a peaceful non-combat option, you'll experience a unique, unpredictable journey. But beware, time may slow and crafting can get repetitive in this thrilling survival sim.


What we like:
  • Engaging gameplay
  • Variety of planets and moons
  • Non-combat peaceful option
  • Customizable difficulty settings
  • Beautiful graphics
What could be improved:
  • Time can feel slow
  • Crafting becomes repetitive
  • Lack of depth in some systems
  • Requires internet connection to play

  • survival
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • management
  • crafting
  • colony
  • hunting
  • destruction
  • cooking

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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation (2018)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?


  • survival
  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • base
  • real-time
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • crafting
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • israeli

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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.


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

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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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Diluvian Winds (2023)

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early access Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X PC Windows

Diluvian Winds is a management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and help each other to try and survive the unpredictable weather. Grow your hamlet on land, under the sea or among the clouds.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • nature
  • simulation
  • hand-drawn
  • underwater
  • sandbox
  • economy
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • management
  • atmospheric

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Quriocity (2022)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 j PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.


  • cluster-head
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • colony
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • building
  • strategy
  • mars
  • management
  • 3d
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • immersive
  • hard

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Spellcaster University (2019)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X Mac OS PC Windows

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.


  • simulation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • magic
  • immersive
  • management
  • nonlinear
  • economy
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • colourful
  • deck
  • dark
  • resource-management

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One Lonely Outpost (2025)

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early access Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.


  • simulation
  • colony
  • agriculture
  • life
  • farming
  • space
  • base-building
  • japanese
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • building
  • dating-sim
  • frustration
  • pixel
  • crafting

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Bridges & Docks (2024)

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j Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Xbox One Playstation 5

Build the island of your dreams - either by hand or using procedural generation tools. Create cozy islands while completing objectives to unlock new items & tools. Adjust the quantity of bridges, the maximum height of the terrain, and meticulously tweak configurations to create unique island worlds!


  • city-building
  • colony
  • god-game
  • building
  • procedural
  • nature
  • relaxing
  • minimalist
  • editor
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • level
  • stylized
  • base-building
  • medieval

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Cartel Tycoon (2021)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Build an empire of drug production and smuggling chains while managing rogue lieutenants, state authorities, and public opinion. Rival gangs, the DEA, the army, and even the CIA all threaten your growing business. When Capo dies, crown your successor, and build your empire from the ruins all over again.


  • empire
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • business
  • management
  • survival
  • agriculture
  • strategy
  • soundtrack
  • narrative
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • building
  • base-building
  • economy

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