- #1 60 Seconds!
97% matchVery Positive85% of 11,675 reviews2015
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Wrestling 25.2% ★, Outbreak Sim 21.3% ★, Dark Humor 11.4%, Text-Based 10.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it features the same frantic scavenging and survival mechanics that define the series.
- #2 60 Seconds! Reatomized
96% matchVery Positive94% of 19,151 reviews2019
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Wrestling 22.4% ★, Outbreak Sim 19.8% ★, Dark Humor 11.3%, Text-Based 9.8%, Life Sim 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This remastered version offers the classic experience with updated visuals and refined mechanics for a better survival challenge.
- #3 FTL: Faster Than Light
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 78,107 reviews2012
Dev: Subset Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Why similar: Space Sim 43.6%, Sci-fi 32.2%, Strategy 18.6%, 2D 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the feeling of managing a struggling spaceship crew while making difficult choices under constant pressure.
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 141,608 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Management 35.6%, Space Sim 21.2%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Strategy 12.5%, 2D 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more complex take on sci-fi colony management where maintaining life support is a constant, humorous struggle.
- #5 Dead In Vinland
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,807 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: RPG 39.9%, Strategy 32.3%, Management 21.2%, 2D 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines survival management with deep character interactions and difficult choices that impact your group's fate.
- #6 Space Haven
92% matchVery Positive86% of 10,816 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 41%, Management 23.5%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Exploration 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a spaceship crew and the survival challenges of maintaining a base in deep space.
- #7 Out There: Ω Edition
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,720 reviews2015
Dev: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Sci-fi 42%, Exploration 24.9%, Strategy 21.7%, 2D 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes resource scarcity and text-based narrative choices as you drift through the galaxy.
- #8 Sheltered
93% matchVery Positive82% of 6,253 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Management 49%, Strategy 23.8%, RPG 18.3%, 2D 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the family-based survival and resource management loop of the seed game in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #9 This War of Mine
91% matchVery Positive94% of 97,140 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Management 61.7%, Strategy 38.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the grim, high-stakes decision-making and resource management required to keep a group of survivors alive.
- #10 The Pale Beyond
90% matchVery Positive89% of 2,192 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Strategy 40.3%, Exploration 38%, 2D 21.6%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game where your management decisions directly affect the morale and survival of your expedition crew.
- #11 Citizen Sleeper
89% matchVery Positive92% of 10,196 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Text-Based 48.7%, Sci-fi 24.1%, RPG 14.4%, Exploration 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A text-heavy, sci-fi RPG that focuses on survival and resource management while navigating a complex narrative.
- #12 Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!
91% matchMixed67% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! is a whacky space exploration game where you manage your very own spaceship, craft hundreds of weapons, and explore the vastness of a veggie-filled universe.
Why similar: Sci-fi 24.8%, Management 16.6%, Funny 16.3%, Strategy 13.6%, Exploration 11%
Why You'll Like It: Matches the humorous, lighthearted tone of space exploration while adding a layer of ship management and combat.
- #13 Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,294 reviews2022
Dev: Beautiful Glitch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.8%, LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Comedy 13.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Romance 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the humorous, choice-driven, and management-lite aspects of a group journey in a comedic setting.
- #14 Dark Scavenger
89% matchVery Positive86% of 243 reviews2014
Dev: Psydra Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: RPG 26.5%, Point & Click 20.5%, Comedy 16.6%, Sci-fi 16%, Funny 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky, text-heavy adventure game that shares the dark humor and exploration elements found in the seed game.
- #15 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Why similar: Space Sim 35%, LGBTQ+ 27%, Management 16.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%, RPG 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines resource management with a narrative-rich journey through space where your choices dictate your survival.
- #16 Papers, Please
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 79,225 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Point & Click 77.2%, Strategy 12.6%, 2D 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: While a different setting, it masterfully captures the stress of high-stakes management and the moral weight of difficult choices.
- #17 The Captain
86% matchVery Positive93% of 322 reviews2021
Dev: Sysiac GamesPub: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
Why similar: Point & Click 25.9%, Comedy 23.1%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Exploration 12.2%, RPG 12%
Why You'll Like It: A humorous space adventure that relies on making quick, impactful choices to survive and return home.
- #18 Life of a Space Force Captain
84% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.8%, Space Sim 27.5%, Sci-fi 16.6%, RPG 13%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi adventure that focuses heavily on choices and their long-term consequences for your career and crew.
- #19 Star Story: The Horizon Escape
85% matchVery Positive83% of 183 reviews2017
Dev: EvilCoGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Why similar: Text-Based 51.9%, Point & Click 27.4%, RPG 14%, 2D 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven, text-heavy space adventure that emphasizes multiple endings based on your survival decisions.
- #20 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,447 reviews2019
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.
Why similar: Exploration 47.9%, RPG 40%, 2D 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features atmospheric space exploration with a heavy emphasis on text-based storytelling and managing your ship's limited resources.
- #21 Space Prison
82% matchVery Positive85% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: Wooden AlienPub: Firesquid
Windows
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Why similar: Dark Humor 32%, Turn-Based Tactics 26.2%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Exploration 8.6%, RPG 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical survival game that forces you to manage resources and relationships in a hostile space environment.
- #22 Cultist Simulator
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,903 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Management 55.1%, RPG 23.4%, Strategy 21.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique, text-based management game that shares the dark, mysterious, and punishing nature of the seed game's decision-making.
- #23 RimWorld
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 241,365 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 60.2 hrsMean: 264.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Management 42.7%, Sci-fi 31%, Strategy 17.8%, 2D 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep colony management experience where the narrative is driven by the survival struggles of your unique crew.
- #24 Stellar Tactics
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,691 reviews2026
Dev: Don WilkinsPub: Maverick Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!
Why similar: Dark Humor 36.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 29.1%, Exploration 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.9%, RPG 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, turn-based tactical experience for those who enjoy the strategy elements of space exploration.
- #25 Interstellaria
84% matchMixed56% of 410 reviews2015
Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.3%, Management 15.5%, Point & Click 13.7%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Funny 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space exploration game that balances ship management and crew survival in a pixel-art setting.
- #26 Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
81% matchVery Positive94% of 7,207 reviews2013
Dev: SNK GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!
Why similar: RPG 29.9%, Strategy 24.9%, Sci-fi 24.6%, Comedy 17.6%, 2D 3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast space simulation with strategy elements and humorous writing that fits the sci-fi tone.
- #27 Deep Sixed
81% matchVery Positive84% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.
Why similar: Strategy 36.5%, Funny 22.8%, Sci-fi 20.6%, Comedy 20%
Why You'll Like It: A space simulation game where managing your ship's failing systems is the primary survival challenge.
- #28 Roadwarden
78% matchVery Positive94% of 5,039 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 69.6%, RPG 19.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based survival RPG that excels at making every choice feel significant and potentially fatal.
- #29 Nonentity Galaxy
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 567 reviews2026
Dev: Brick-Up StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.2%, Dark Humor 31.1%, Management 16.3%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #30 Dead in Antares
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 189 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.5%, Management 22.4%, RPG 14.9%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Strategy 13.4%
- #31 Space Cats Tactics
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 130 reviews2023
Dev: Mitzi Games
Windows
Fight nerve-wracking spaceship battles in this turn-based tactical space opera RPG! Manage your crew of feline warriors to adapt to every strategic situation and dive into a thrilling space opera story where your choices will determine your path.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Funny 9.3%, Exploration 7.2%
- #32 Flotilla
79% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2010
Dev: Blendo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
Why similar: Space Sim 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Funny 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based space strategy game that emphasizes exploration and quick tactical decisions.
- #33 Peace, Death! 2
75% matchVery Positive95% of 898 reviews2021
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.9%, Comedy 20.4%, Dark Humor 19.7%, Point & Click 16.1%, Funny 15.3%
- #34 Element Space
78% matchMixed55% of 296 reviews2019
Dev: Sixth VowelPub: Inca Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity. Face overwhelming odds with strategy. Make your choices and save us from extinction.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.1%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Funny 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical combat and narrative choices within a sci-fi universe.
- #35 My Sweet! Housemate
73% matchVery Positive98% of 371 reviews2024
Dev: sourmilk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area. Luckily, it seems you've found the perfect rental, but something is very off about your landlord...
Why similar: Dark Humor 29.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Romance 14.3%, Comedy 14.1%, Funny 12.6%
- #36 General Horse and the Package of Doom
76% matchVery Positive96% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Studio spektar
Windows · Linux
General Horse and the Package of Doom is a space travel adventure with choice-based resource management, simple yet risky barter system, and full motion video sequences that feature awesome special effects and Oscar-worthy method acting.
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.9%, Space Sim 21%, Comedy 12.9%, Point & Click 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #37 CosmoPirates
74% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: BlackMoon Design
Windows · Linux
Build your deck using cards, ships, items and crew! Explore a generated galaxy roguelike style. Fight gruesome battles against the medley of space scum!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.7%, Comedy 15.3%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Exploration 9.8%
- #38 Neoproxima
73% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Cold War 44.4% ★, Point & Click 16.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Exploration 7%
- #39 Out There: Oceans of Time
75% matchMixed55% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Mi-Clos StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 40.8%, Sci-fi 21.5%, Exploration 12.9%, RPG 12.6%, Strategy 12.2%
- #40 Wolfstride
72% matchVery Positive89% of 870 reviews2021
Dev: OTA IMON StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past.
Why similar: Cold War 32.4% ★, Dark Humor 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Funny 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #41 Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,107 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dark Humor 29.6%, Life Sim 20.6%, Management 16%, Funny 13%, Sci-fi 10%
- #42 Starship Inspector
73% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Vedanta Team
Windows
Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.8%, Strategy 23.5%, Sci-fi 20.1%, RPG 16%, 2D 6.6%
- #43 Project Tarvotan
74% matchMixed59% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: FlagmanJeremy
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Project Tarvotan allows you to explore the depths of the Milky Way and local universe. Use your wit and resources at hand to plan out your path through each sector. Your demise lurks around every decision. Can you survive long enough and restore balance to the universe?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 57.4%, Strategy 42.6%
- #44 Dark Moon
70% matchMixed48% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Management 43.8%, Sci-fi 20%, Exploration 16.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Funny 6.4%
- #45 Jumplight Odyssey
70% matchMixed59% of 990 reviews2023
Dev: League of Geeks
Windows
Keep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.5%, Management 22.9%, Comedy 16.1%, Funny 15.3%, Strategy 10.2%
- #46 OUTTA GAS
71% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Trevor KelloggPub: Good Steward Games
Windows
OUTTA GAS is a post-apocalyptic RPG featuring a turn-based SHOOTING GALLERY combat mechanic where blasting away body tiles damages monster health and decreases their combat stats. Explore four unique acts to find gas and get back on the road to the Party at the End of the World!
Why similar: RPG 45%, Comedy 14.2%, Funny 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Exploration 6.6%
- #47 Space Sprouts
68% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Schleuder Games
Windows · Mac
Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?
Why similar: Space Sim 48.3%, Funny 16.3%, Sci-fi 16%, Exploration 12.9%, 2D 6.4%
- #48 Organs Please
69% matchVery Positive83% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Point & Click 38.4%, Management 37.1%, Strategy 15%, 2D 9.4%
- #49 Sky Caravan
69% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Management 28.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, RPG 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #50 Effulgence RPG
67% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Andrei Fomin
Windows
Effulgence RPG is a party-based RPG set in a unique character-based world where enemies are more than just obstacles - they ARE the resource. 💀 Destroy them to forge better gear!
Why similar: Dark Humor 29.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Comedy 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.3%
- #51 Hiveswap Friendsim
69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,390 reviews2018
Dev: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.Pub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 52.1%, RPG 29.9%, Funny 18%
- #52 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
67% matchVery Positive94% of 12,445 reviews2018
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dark Humor 34.6%, Point & Click 19.6%, Management 19.2%, Funny 14.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #53 Lost Crew
71% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Gamecosm
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time. You will have to take care of the rescue of the station's crew, and lots of complicated riddles and situations will make this adventure even more interesting.
Why similar: Space Sim 100%
- #54 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,676 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.5%, Life Sim 31.9%, Sci-fi 17.4%, RPG 10.6%, Management 5.6%
- #55 Approaching Infinity
64% matchVery Positive95% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: IBOL
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 29.1%, Space Sim 28%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Exploration 10.6%, RPG 9.2%
- #56 SuperQuest
65% matchVery Positive100% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: HyperShrimp
Windows
Depart on a life-changing turn-based adventure to save the President!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.1%, Comedy 28%, Funny 24%, RPG 12.8%, 2D 6.1%
- #57 Renowned Explorers: International Society
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,891 reviews2015
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 37%, Strategy 15.4%, RPG 13%, Exploration 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%
- #58 Mushroom Musume
63% matchVery Positive97% of 220 reviews2025
Dev: Mortally Moonstruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Dark Humor 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Life Sim 16.4%, Comedy 9.1%
- #59 Spacebase DF-9
71% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,331 reviews2014
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Why similar: Sci-fi 44.1%, Strategy 22.7%, Management 21.1%, Comedy 9.8%, 2D 2.3%
- #60 Mewgenics
60% matchVery Positive91% of 49,931 reviews2026
Dev: Edmund McMillen
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 40.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Why similar: Dark Humor 32%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.7%, Funny 11.1%, RPG 6.5%