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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Ratopia (2024)

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j Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • cute
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • open-world

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Zombie Cure Lab (2022)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 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
  • zombies
  • sandbox
  • science
  • time-management
  • survival
  • management
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • zombification
  • tower-defense

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Sengoku Dynasty (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X j Playstation 5

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!


  • city-building
  • medieval
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • colony
  • building
  • life
  • war-torn
  • management
  • historical
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • resource-management

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

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
  • dark
  • resource-management
  • tower

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Autonauts (2019)

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

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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