Games like Spacebase DF-9
If Spacebase DF-9 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Haven, Planetbase and Surviving Mars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →Spacebase DF-9 is a 2014 strategy and simulation game from Double Fine Productions set in Earth's distant future, where players construct and manage a space station housing humans and aliens. The core gameplay centers on base-building, resource management, and survival-horror scenarios, with players tasked with keeping their crew alive while attending to their rehabilitation. Players describe the experience as challenging and stressful, with tactical positioning matters noted as a key consideration for maintaining stability. The game is available for $9.99 USD and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck. According to Steam reviews, the game holds a 16% positive rating from 2,862 reviews.
About Spacebase DF-9: In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Players who liked Spacebase DF-9 also play
Steam players who put hours into Spacebase DF-9 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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Top pick for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Second-strongest match for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Ranked #4 for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
The Final Earth 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Spacebase DF-9.
Ranked #5 for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Ranked #6 for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Ranked #7 for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Aven Colony
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Spacebase DF-9.
Ranked #8 for Spacebase DF-9 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Spacebase DF-9
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
The Spatials: Galactology
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Cold Space
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Spacebase DF-9 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
Fast team-based one-shot-one-kill shooter. Cold War gave a start for a huge conflict in space. Grab your knife and pistol, turn on your force-field and fight in the name of your motherland. But is it possible to survive for more than ten seconds in this slaughter?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spacebase DF-9 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
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 ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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 ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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 ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Spacebase DF-9.
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 ~70% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spacebase DF-9 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Spacebase DF-9.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Double Fine Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Double Fine Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Psychonauts
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Psychonauts 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Brutal Legend
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9. Shares Strategy with Spacebase DF-9.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
Grim Fandango Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
Broken Age
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9. Shares Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Costume Quest
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
Full Throttle Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Spacebase DF-9.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
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
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Spacebase DF-9.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spacebase DF-9.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spacebase DF-9.
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 Spacebase DF-9
- Does Spacebase DF-9 run on Steam Deck?
- Spacebase DF-9 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Spacebase DF-9 cost?
- Spacebase DF-9 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Spacebase DF-9?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spacebase DF-9 are Space Haven, Planetbase, Surviving Mars.
- Who developed Spacebase DF-9?
- Spacebase DF-9 was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Double Fine Productions, Xbox Game Studios.
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