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2015PC55 % positive

An indie space base-building and management game where you set up colonies on alien planets, keep power, water, food and oxygen running, and automate production. You then build spaceships to ship goods between worlds.

  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Resources and survival
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Farlight Explorers special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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FortressCraft Evolved!

93 %Match

2013PC, Steam Deck playable72 % positive12.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Farlight Explorers: building and crafting, a sandbox with your own goals as well as economy and management.

After crash-landing on an alien planet, you build machines, production lines and defenses in a voxel world. A blend of crafting, logistics and tower defense sits at the heart of the game.

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Surviving Mars

Building and crafting

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.

Astro Colony

Building and crafting

A space colony-building sim where you found colonies on different celestial bodies, automate production with conveyor belts and look after your astronauts. The appeal lies in optimizing an efficient network of colonies.

Oxygen Not Included

Economy and management

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.

Thrive

Deep systems to master

Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life, taking a species from a single cell up to a cosmic civilization. It focuses on simulation and creation tools, and is still a work in progress.

Dig or Die

Building and crafting

You are stranded on a hostile alien world after your ship crashes and must turn local resources and your own fabrication tools into a working base. It blends survival, automation and exploration into a sandbox where you build your own way off the planet.

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.

Dyson Sphere Program

Building and crafting

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

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