Surviving Ceres
Games like Surviving Ceres

Games like Surviving Ceres

A survival strategy sim on Ceres with crafting, base building, alien defense, and terraforming, offering a satisfying but visually dated ~20-hour colony experience.

Stranded: Alien Dawn
A single-player planet survival sim focused on managing a marooned group through base building and strategic decisions, with a median reviewer playtime of about 34 hours.
2023-04-25
- Science fiction
- Survival

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Surviving Ceres
Games like Surviving Ceres

Games like Surviving Ceres

A survival strategy sim on Ceres with crafting, base building, alien defense, and terraforming, offering a satisfying but visually dated ~20-hour colony experience.

Stranded: Alien Dawn
A single-player planet survival sim focused on managing a marooned group through base building and strategic decisions, with a median reviewer playtime of about 34 hours.
2023-04-25
- Science fiction
- Survival

Strategy

Bird view / Isometric

Simulator

Mercury Fallen

A lengthy single-player sci-fi colony sim about rebuilding an alien underground base, with simple systems and mixed reviews citing rough edges.

2023-08-22

Science fiction
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

Eden Crafters

A rough-around-the-edges open-world co-op survival and factory-builder where you automate terraforming to make a hostile planet habitable.

2026-05-07

First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Open world

The Planet Crafter: Prologue

A short, relaxing space survival prologue focused on terraforming a barren planet through base building and atmosphere management, with reviewers averaging 4-8 hours.

2021-12-19

Terraformers

A turn-based Mars colony builder with roguelike meta-progression and a substantial single-player campaign.

2023-03-09

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Sandbox

Surviving the Aftermath

A grim, difficult post-apocalyptic colony sim focused on fortified settlement building, resource management, and wasteland expeditions across long single-player sessions.

2021-11-16

Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Open world

AETHUS

A guided, single-player top-down sci-fi survival-crafter with underground mining, modular outpost building, and hydroponic farming, delivering an atmospheric ~30-hour story campaign.

2026-03-06

Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Open world

Drill Core

A strategic planet-mining colony sim that mixes base management with tower defense, balancing resource extraction against escalating alien attacks.

2025-07-17

Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Sandbox

Keplerth

A 2D sandbox survival RPG on a hostile alien planet, playable solo or in co-op, focused on building, farming, and exploration.

2022-05-23

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

GeoDepths

A slow-burn single-player mining adventure where you drill deeper on a remote planet, upgrading equipment and building a base while uncovering cave mysteries.

2023-10-20

First person
Adventure
Strategy

CryoFall

A sci-fi colony survival sim with base building, crafting, tech research, and both single-player and co-op/PvP multiplayer, described as casual and friendly but with online connectivity requirements.

2021-04-29

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Sandbox

Cast Out Colony

An action roguelite mixing bullet-heaven horde combat with colony-building stat progression, featuring solid mechanics and a lengthy progression loop.

2025-03-03

Action
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

Stranded: Alien Dawn