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Games like Beyond These Stars
Balancing Monkey Games · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 66 % positive of 214 reviews, as of Oct 28
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
24 games that play like Beyond These Stars and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Before We Leave, Dyson Sphere Program and Oxygen Not Included.
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Plays and looks like Beyond These Stars
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
Before We Leave
77 % positive of 1,281
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,869
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Plan B: Terraform
90 % positive of 3,642
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
77 % positive of 29,240
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Building
By gameplay
Plays like Beyond These Stars
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Before We Leave
77 % positive of 1,281
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Dyson Sphere Program
97 % positive of 83,847
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Oxygen Not Included
96 % positive of 136,132
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,869
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,596
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
ASTRONEER
90 % positive of 119,274
Shared: Simulation · Base-Building · Building
Space Haven
85 % positive of 10,407
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Surviving Mars
76 % positive of 29,321
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Aven Colony
71 % positive of 2,022
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
The Universim
78 % positive of 8,479
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
Astro Colony
80 % positive of 2,436
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
68 % positive of 747
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
More matches
- The Final Earth 296 % positive of 418Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
- IXION76 % positive of 15,437Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
- Settlement Survival84 % positive of 7,751Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
- SPORE™92 % positive of 67,267Shared: Simulation · Colony Sim · Sandbox
- Plan B: Terraform90 % positive of 3,642Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Stranded: Alien Dawn83 % positive of 9,786Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Stardeus86 % positive of 1,437Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Havendock80 % positive of 1,510Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
- Imagine Earth78 % positive of 813Shared: Simulation · City Builder · Colony Sim
- Star Birds90 % positive of 3,064
- My Colony88 % positive of 276Shared: Strategy · Simulation · City Builder
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Building
By look
Looks like Beyond These Stars
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Planet S
91 % positive of 2,904
Before We Leave
77 % positive of 1,281
Mycopunk
88 % positive of 4,561
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,869
Northgard: Definitive Edition
85 % positive of 54,588
Timberborn
96 % positive of 39,101
WorldBox - God Simulator
94 % positive of 51,895
Outer Wilds
94 % positive of 90,955
Outpath
92 % positive of 2,953
Boundless
72 % positive of 1,614
Stellaris
85 % positive of 139,715
Plan B: Terraform
90 % positive of 3,642
More matches
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240
- Project: Gorgon80 % positive of 4,729
- AI War 287 % positive of 1,131
- Mountain88 % positive of 12,927
- Exodus Borealis90 % positive of 243
- Annihilate The Spance88 % positive of 351
- Outworld Station83 % positive of 855
- Zero-K92 % positive of 4,426
- Humanica92 % positive of 228
- ASKA79 % positive of 10,592
- The RPG Engine84 % positive of 303
- MMORPG Tycoon 285 % positive of 2,999
At a glance
What games like Beyond These Stars have in common
- The tags they share most often with Beyond These Stars: Simulation (23 of 24), Strategy (20) and City Builder (15).
- They came out between 2008 and 2026, none of them after Beyond These Stars (2026).
- 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.