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, Frostpunk and Dungeon Keeper 2.
- Survival Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- 23 RimWorld alternatives
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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Canada
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
RimWorld Features
- 26 Dwarf Fortress alternatives
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...
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Dwarf Fortress Features
- 46 Banished alternatives
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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
- Wine
- Steam
Banished Features
- 16 Evil Genius alternatives
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...
DiscontinuedThe game was released on September 28, 2004. It can be still bought from GOG.com
Evil Genius Features
- 10 Frostpunk alternatives
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?.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Poland
EU
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- Xbox
- 14 Dungeon Keeper 2 alternatives
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...
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- Windows
DiscontinuedDiscontinued but available at GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper_2
- 8 Oxygen Not Included alternatives
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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
Canada
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
Oxygen Not Included Features
- 18 Castle Story alternatives
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".
- 17 Prison Architect alternatives
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...
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
Prison Architect Features
- 15 Gnomoria alternatives
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!.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
DiscontinuedNo updates since release, also see Steam reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/224500/
Gnomoria Features
- 15 Kingdoms and Castles alternatives
A medieval city building game where you construct castles to protect your peasants from a living and dangerous world.
- 12 A Game of Dwarves alternatives
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
A Game of Dwarves Features