Games like Starship Colony
If Starship Colony 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. 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 Starship Colony: A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Players who liked Starship Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Starship Colony 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 Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starship Colony.
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
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Second-strongest match for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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
Third-strongest match for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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.
Aven Colony
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Ranked #4 for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Dwarf Fortress
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Ranked #5 for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
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Ranked #6 for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starship Colony.
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.
Against the Storm
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Ranked #7 for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starship Colony.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
RimWorld
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Ranked #8 for Starship Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starship Colony.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starship Colony.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starship Colony.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Starship Colony.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starship Colony.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starship Colony.
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
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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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starship Colony.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starship Colony.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starship Colony.
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.
Frequently asked about Starship Colony
- What games are most similar to Starship Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starship Colony are Surviving Mars, Space Haven, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
- Who developed Starship Colony?
- Starship Colony was developed by Black Belt Software.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Starship Colony.
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