Planetbase Alternatives

Planetbase is described as 'Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient colony' and is a Survival Game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Planetbase for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Wine apps. The best Planetbase alternative is RimWorld. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Dwarf Fortress. Other Planetbase like games are Banished, Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper 2 and Frostpunk.

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  1. RimWorld icon
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    RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

    23 RimWorld alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
    • RimWorld is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Planetbase.

    • RimWorld is the most popular commercial alternative to Planetbase.

    • RimWorld is Paid and ProprietaryPlanetbase is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Dwarf Fortress icon
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    Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies...

    26 Dwarf Fortress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Dwarf Fortress is the most popular free alternative to Planetbase.

    • Dwarf Fortress is Free and ProprietaryPlanetbase is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Banished icon
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    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

    46 Banished alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
    • Steam
     
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  4. Evil Genius icon
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    Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan. As a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination, through the construction of...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Discover your evil side as you build your own underground kingdom. Carve out a living, breathing world and attract a host of devilish creatures to swell the ranks of your dark hoards. Form an alliance with the Horned Reaper and expand your empire in your quest to reach the...

    14 Dungeon Keeper 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Frostpunk icon
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    As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and its infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?.

    10 Frostpunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
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    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Manage your colonists and help them dig, build and maintain a subterranean asteroid base. You'll need water, warmth, food, and oxygen to keep them alive, and even more than that to keep them happy.

    8 Oxygen Not Included alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
  8. Castle Story icon
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    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little characters called "Bricktrons".

    18 Castle Story alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • Steam
     
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    Build and manage a Maximum Security Prison. As the sun casts it’s early morning rays on a beautiful patch of countryside the clock starts ticking. You’ve got to crack on and build a holding cell to detain the job­ lot of maximum security prisoners that are trundling to your...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
     
    • Prison Architect is the most popular iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Planetbase.

    • Prison Architect is Paid and ProprietaryPlanetbase is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. Aven Colony icon
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    Colonize an Alien World

    The epic story of humanity's first colonization and settlement of a new world outside the solar system.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
  11. Gnomoria icon
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    Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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    A medieval city building game where you construct castles to protect your peasants from a living and dangerous world.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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