Games like ExoColony: Planet Survival
If ExoColony: Planet Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Space Haven and Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep resource recycling loop, gas mechanics feel realistic and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About ExoColony: Planet Survival: Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
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Steam players who put hours into ExoColony: Planet Survival also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Top pick for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Second-strongest match for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Third-strongest match for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
The Final Earth 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
The Last Starship
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Ranked #5 for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Ranked #6 for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Ranked #7 for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and an immersive mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Ranked #8 for ExoColony: Planet Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Reviewers mention these as similar to ExoColony: Planet Survival
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Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Reviewers of ExoColony: Planet Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ExoColony: Planet Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Banished
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ExoColony: Planet Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ExoColony: Planet Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Reviewers of ExoColony: Planet Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ExoColony: Planet Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under ExoColony: Planet Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about ExoColony: Planet Survival
- How much does ExoColony: Planet Survival cost?
- ExoColony: Planet Survival is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ExoColony: Planet Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ExoColony: Planet Survival are Surviving Mars, Space Haven, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
- Who developed ExoColony: Planet Survival?
- ExoColony: Planet Survival was developed by Simplemole.
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