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2026PC, Steam Deck playable29.99 €

A turn-based city-builder aboard a generation starship where you must live off the resources you brought and rebuild fragile ecosystems over centuries. Procedurally generated characters and storylines make each voyage unique.

  • Resources and survival
  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Turn-based combat

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In short: Games like Generation Exile

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

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Surviving Mars

94 %Match

2018USK 0PC, PlayStation, Xbox77 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Generation Exile: economy and management, scarce resources and survival as well as 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.

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Farlanders

Sci-fi setting

A laid-back colony builder where you design a Martian settlement as its architect, using limited terraforming tools to meet settlers' needs so they don't defect to rival bases.

Synergy

Resources and survival

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.

Xenonauts 2

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics and strategy game in the spirit of classic X-COM: you lead a global resistance against a technologically superior alien invasion, managing bases, directing fighter interceptors and fighting demanding ground battles.

Tharsis

Turn-based combat

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.

Aven Colony

Economy and management

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.

RimWorld

Resources and survival

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

Oxygen Not Included

Resources and survival

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.

Ixion

Resources and survival

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.

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