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VEOM Studio · 2026 · 76 % positive of 2,603

24 games that play like The Crust and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Planetbase, Solargene and Astro Colony.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • Base-Building
  • Space
  • Colony Sim
  • Automation
  • Resource Management
  • Sandbox
  • Strategy

At a glance

What games like The Crust have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Crust: Space (21 of 24), Base-Building (19) and Colony Sim (17).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, none of them after The Crust (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Stardeus (87 % positive of 1,343).
  • 7 games both play and look like The Crust, among them Solargene, Astro Colony and Mercury Fallen.

By gameplay

Plays like The Crust

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Maia43 % positive of 1,060Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  2. Prospector: The First Contract91 % positive of 498Shared: Base-Building · Automation · Resource Management
  3. Sol 0: Mars Colonization69 % positive of 407Shared: Base-Building · Space · Strategy
  4. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder73 % positive of 701Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  5. Farlanders93 % positive of 524Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  6. My Colony92 % positive of 238Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · City Builder
  7. Base One38 % positive of 470Shared: Space · Strategy · Building
  8. Stationeers85 % positive of 7,066Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  9. Drill Core85 % positive of 1,329Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  10. Farlanders: Prologue92 % positive of 280Shared: Base-Building · Space · Colony Sim
  11. Outworld Station89 % positive of 274Shared: Base-Building · Space · Automation
  12. The Colonists85 % positive of 1,161Shared: Base-Building · Colony Sim · Automation

By look

Looks like The Crust

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Project AURA64 % positive of 694
  2. Astro Colony82 % positive of 2,256
  3. Empyrion - Galactic Survival78 % positive of 33,247
  4. Mercury Fallen81 % positive of 287
  5. Dyson Sphere Program97 % positive of 85,088
  6. Final Upgrade78 % positive of 431
  7. Base One38 % positive of 470
  8. InfraSpace79 % positive of 1,667
  9. Stationeers85 % positive of 7,066
  10. Offworld Trading Company76 % positive of 5,580
  11. IXION78 % positive of 15,689
  12. Interstellar Rift69 % positive of 1,627

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.

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