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Games like Damage Control

2016PC

You command a squad of engineers keeping a spaceship running on its voyage through deep space. Careful planning and timing decide whether the ship and crew survive the dangers.

  • Resources and survival
  • Sci-fi setting
  • A party of several characters
  • Tactical depth

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In short: Games like Damage Control

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

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Planetbase

91 %Match

2015USK 6PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable79 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Damage Control: scarce resources and survival, a sci-fi setting as well as tactical depth.

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.

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Tin Can

Linear, curated structure

You play an untrained technician stuck in a cramped escape pod, learning its systems through manuals and trial and error to stay alive in space. The appeal is tense, claustrophobic problem-solving under pressure.

Maia

Tactical depth

Maia is a colony-building sim where you keep settlers alive on a hostile alien planet. You manage resources, construction and your colonists' needs inside a living, unpredictable simulation.

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

A party of several characters

You command a spaceship and manage a crew in real time, assigning them to stations, repairs and combat as missions and emergencies pile up. A humorous blend of strategy and simulation in a retro sci-fi style, from the team behind Bomber Crew.

Oxygen Not Included

A party of several characters

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

Surviving Mars

Tactical depth

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.

Tharsis

A party of several characters

Tharsis is a punishing space survival strategy game about the first manned mission to Mars. You assign dice to crew tasks as disasters, starvation and creeping madness close in, making every turn a tense gamble between luck and planning.

Stranded: Alien Dawn

A party of several characters

A colony survival sim where you guide stranded survivors on an alien planet, building bases, managing needs and fending off wildlife and harsh weather. Emergent stories arise from your colonists' personalities and fates.

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