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2017USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable71 % positive−80 % 29.99 € 5.99 €

A sci-fi city-builder where you establish humanity's first colony on the alien world of Aven Prime. You must keep colonists fed, employed and happy while surviving hostile environmental hazards and threats.

  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Resources and survival
  • Sci-fi setting

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In short: Games like Aven Colony

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Aven Colony special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Surviving Mars

100 %Match

2018USK 0PC, PlayStation, Xbox77 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Aven Colony: economy and management, building and crafting as well as scarce resources and survival.

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

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Aquatico

Building and crafting

A survival city builder where you construct a futuristic underwater city, balancing resources and the needs of your citizens against the dangers of the deep.

Stardeus

Building and crafting

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

Synergy

Building and crafting

A survival city-builder set on a hostile alien planet, where you grow your settlement, weather extreme conditions and disasters, and keep your citizens happy.

The Crust

Building and crafting

You build and automate a lunar colony that Earth relies on, mining regolith, running conveyor and drone factories, looking after colonists and trading with rival factions. A story campaign with multiple endings adds direction to the sandbox.

Ixion

Economy and management

As Administrator of the space station Tiqqun, you manage resources, population and construction while leading humanity through dangerous sectors toward a new home. A dark blend of city-building strategy and survival pressure with a strong narrative.

Per Aspera

Sci-fi setting

You play an AI managing the terraforming of Mars, building infrastructure, handling resources and research while a story with moral questions unfolds. A calm but demanding base-building strategy game with a scientific bent.

Planetbase

Building and crafting

A sci-fi colony builder where you balance oxygen, food and power to keep settlers alive on hostile planets. Meteors, storms and tight resources turn every expansion into careful planning.

Timberborn

Tactical depth

You build a beaver colony in a world abandoned by humans, managing water physics, droughts and vertical architecture. It blends charming city-building with tricky logistics puzzles.

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