Spacebase DF-9 Alternatives
Spacebase DF-9 is described as 'In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives' and is an game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Spacebase DF-9 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Wine apps. The best Spacebase DF-9 alternative is RimWorld. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Dwarf Fortress. Other Spacebase DF-9 like games are Banished, Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper 2 and Oxygen Not Included.
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Spacebase DF-9 alternatives are mainly City Building Games but may also be RTS Games or Survival Games. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Spacebase DF-9.- 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
RimWorld Features
- 27 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...
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- Free • Proprietary
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- 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.
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
- 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...
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- Paid • Proprietary
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United Kingdom
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- 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
Canada
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- 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...
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
Prison Architect Features
- 10 Space Haven alternatives
Space Haven is a spaceship colony sim, where you manage resources and crew members in order to build and keep your spaceship. Then you'll be able to explore the universe with rewards and perils. Website: https://bugbyte.fi/spacehaven/.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Space Haven Features
Comments about Space Haven as an Alternative to Spacebase DF-9
Most Recent CommentSpacebase DF-9 has its strengths but the age shows. Bugs were never fixed and there is no development after it was abandoned by the developers. Space Haven is better because it is currently in development (you can give feedback) and the developers repeatedly showed that their customers are important to them.
It is a space colony simulator where you can help your crew survive and build ships
- 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!.
DiscontinuedNo updates since release, also see Steam reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/224500/
Gnomoria Features
- 20 Planetbase alternatives
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.
- 12 Craft The World alternatives
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Steam
Space Haven is the colony sim that DF-9 was supposed to be. Given the failures of DF-9, I think Space Haven will check the boxes people are looking for.