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Games like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
Purple Nebula · 2024 · Windows
Steam: 87 % positive of 209 reviews, as of Oct 28
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
24 games that play like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha) and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Surviving Mars, Stranded: Alien Dawn and Oxygen Not Included.
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Plays and looks like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
Surviving Mars
76 % positive of 29,321
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,596
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Dyson Sphere Program
97 % positive of 83,847
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation
From Glory To Goo
96 % positive of 1,852
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
By gameplay
Plays like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Surviving Mars
76 % positive of 29,321
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Stranded: Alien Dawn
83 % positive of 9,786
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Simulation
Oxygen Not Included
96 % positive of 136,132
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Simulation
Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,596
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Aven Colony
71 % positive of 2,022
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
IXION
76 % positive of 15,437
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
New Cycle
79 % positive of 2,615
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Dyson Sphere Program
97 % positive of 83,847
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation
From Glory To Goo
96 % positive of 1,852
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Before We Leave
77 % positive of 1,281
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Surviving the Aftermath
71 % positive of 3,157
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
68 % positive of 747
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
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- The Planet Crafter96 % positive of 69,754Shared: Building · Survival · Base-Building
- Settlement Survival84 % positive of 7,751Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Space Haven85 % positive of 10,407Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Cliff Empire87 % positive of 4,203Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Stardeus86 % positive of 1,437Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Simulation
- Astro Colony80 % positive of 2,436Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Simulation
- The Universim78 % positive of 8,479Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Imagine Earth78 % positive of 813Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Simulation
- The Final Earth 296 % positive of 418Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Solargene76 % positive of 782Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- T-Minus 3091 % positive of 169Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Plan B: Terraform90 % positive of 3,642Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Simulation
By look
Looks like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Surviving Mars
76 % positive of 29,321
Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,596
InfraSpace
82 % positive of 1,656
Dyson Sphere Program
97 % positive of 83,847
Oxygen: First Breath
87 % positive of 1,665
Timberborn
96 % positive of 39,101
Reshaping Mars
83 % positive of 754
MegaFactory Titan
76 % positive of 152
The Crust
73 % positive of 3,929
Solargene
76 % positive of 782
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
77 % positive of 29,240
Plan B: Terraform
90 % positive of 3,642
More matches
- Factorio97 % positive of 193,208
- Satisfactory97 % positive of 236,870
- Oxygen70 % positive of 835
- From Glory To Goo96 % positive of 1,852
- Calyx86 % positive of 491
- The Planet Crafter96 % positive of 69,754
- EarthX92 % positive of 543
- Eden Crafters84 % positive of 2,589
- The Planet Crafter: Prologue95 % positive of 10,715
- Sol 0: Mars Colonization67 % positive of 370
- FOUNDRY82 % positive of 3,324
- Space Haven85 % positive of 10,407
At a glance
What games like Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha) have in common
- The tags they share most often with Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha): Strategy (22 of 24), Colony Sim (22) and City Builder (18).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, 5 of them after Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha) (2024).
- Best rated by Steam players: Dyson Sphere Program (97 % positive of 83,847).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.