Games like Distant Colony
If Distant Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stellar Shipyard, Rise - The Vieneo Province and Terraspace — 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 Distant Colony: Explore alien planets in sci-fi survival adventure, gather resources to craft tools, overcome environmental hazards, uncover hidden secrets, and build thriving, self-sustaining colonies with advanced technology. Prepare humanity for a new future among the stars.
Players who liked Distant Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Distant 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.
Stellar Shipyard
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Top pick for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Rise - The Vieneo Province
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Second-strongest match for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Terraspace
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Third-strongest match for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Colony.
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Surviving Mars
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Ranked #4 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
Airborne Empire
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Ranked #5 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Space Haven
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Ranked #6 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant 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
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Ranked #7 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant 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.
Solargene
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Ranked #8 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
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!
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Frequently asked about Distant Colony
- What games are most similar to Distant Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Colony are Stellar Shipyard, Rise - The Vieneo Province, Terraspace.
- Who developed Distant Colony?
- Distant Colony was developed by Asteroid Games.
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 Distant Colony.
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