Games like Planetbase
If Planetbase is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Banished and Aven Colony — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its methodical progression feels rewarding, atmospheric 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 →Planetbase is a strategy and simulation game developed by Madruga Works, released in 2015. Players guide a group of space settlers attempting to establish a functioning colony on a remote alien world, managing resource allocation, colonist needs, and base expansion. The core gameplay loop centers on logistics planning and strategic placement decisions, where players must balance food production, energy collection, and resource gathering to keep their settlement self-sufficient. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with moments that feel tense as survival pressures mount. Players highlight that thoughtful base layout directly impacts survival outcomes and find the progression system rewarding. The game supports solo play only and runs on Steam Deck in playable condition, offering substantial replay value at its modest price point.
About Planetbase: 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.
Players who liked Planetbase also play
Steam players who put hours into Planetbase 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
Shares resource allocation and a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Top pick for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planetbase.
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
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Second-strongest match for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Aven Colony
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planetbase.
Third-strongest match for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Ranked #4 for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Ranked #5 for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planetbase.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Ranked #6 for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Dawn of Man
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Ranked #7 for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Ranked #8 for Planetbase fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Planetbase
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planetbase.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Planetbase.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Space Chef
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Planetbase.
Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Contraption Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planetbase cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planetbase at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
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 ~67% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Planetbase.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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 ~67% under Planetbase on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetbase.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
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 Planetbase.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Head-to-head comparisons
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 a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planetbase.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetbase.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetbase.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetbase.
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.
Frequently asked about Planetbase
- Does Planetbase run on Steam Deck?
- Planetbase 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 Planetbase cost?
- Planetbase is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planetbase?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planetbase are Surviving Mars, Banished, Aven Colony.
- Who developed Planetbase?
- Planetbase was developed by Madruga Works.
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