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Games like Ixion

Enjoyed Ixion? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Starmancer, Surviving Mars: Relaunched, The Alters. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Ixion: IXION is a city-building strategy game set in space. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, a prototype station built by DOLOS, you take care of infrastructure, resources and crew while balancing preservation against exploration. The station has been cut off, so you must cope with dangers from outside as well as tension within – the population brings its pleas to you and your decisions carry consequences that may only surface later. Six sectors can be unlocked inside the station, and you send out probes and mining ships while searching for other groups of survivors.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

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Starmancer

Starmancer is a space station management sim from a small two-person team. You play as an A.I. commanding a lost space ark and must keep your colonists alive. The station warps between stars, salvages derelict stations and fends off space monsters, zombies and pirates.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Surviving Mars: Relaunched is a remastered and expanded sci-fi city builder about colonizing Mars, in the simulation and strategy genres. Players move from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists, working toward long-term stability for their settlement. They balance oxygen, water, power and food, build life-support systems and power grids, while drones construct and maintain infrastructure. The game includes improved and reworked expansions, the new Martian Assembly update where players shape society through laws, and rival colonies from the Space Race expansion.

The Alters

The Alters is a story-driven sci-fi survival game. Jan Dolski, lone survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, is stranded on a lethal, radiation-soaked planet as a scorching sun closes in, with only a mobile base too complex for one person to run. Using quantum technology and local resources he creates the Alters — alternative versions of himself who bring the expertise he lacks, plus their own personalities, memories and regrets. Players upgrade the base, research technologies, manufacture supplies, mine resources in anomalies and radiation, and mediate conflicts among the crew.

Planetbase

A strategy game in which you lead a group of space settlers establishing a base on a remote planet. As the base architect and manager, you decide where structures are built and keep colonists supplied with oxygen, food and water. You harness energy, mine and process resources, grow hydroponic vegetables, synthesize Vitromeat and build production chains. You must also manage colonist immigration, survive disasters such as meteors, sandstorms or solar flares, and defend the base against intruders.

Aven Colony

Aven Colony is a strategy simulation in which you lead humanity's first extrasolar settlement on the alien planet Aven Prime. You expand small colonies into sprawling cities while managing infrastructure, citizens' well-being and resources, and withstanding dangers such as storms, toxic gas eruptions from geothermal vents and giant sandworms. Expeditions explore alien ruins, recover artifacts and fend off splinter groups, rebels and the planet's remaining robot guardians. The game includes a story-driven single-player campaign and a day, night and seasonal cycle in which Aven Prime freezes over in winter.

Into the Stars

Into the Stars is a space survival simulation in which you take on the role of Captain. Humanity has faced attacks from the Skorn for ten years now, with the aliens arriving every six months to destroy the planet, and of the massive Ark ships built as a means of escape only Ark 13 is left. With a hand-picked but inexperienced crew you explore a vast star system split into 90 zones, scavenging resources, sheltering civilians and either outrunning or outgunning the hostile alien force. Built in Unreal Engine 4, the game features an original score by Jack Wall, and every decision you make, along with randomly generated obstacles, can change the outcome of a mission.