- #1 Dead in Antares
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 201 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: Resource Management 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Management 8.5%
- #2 Starlight Drifter
96% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Create your own character and explore the universe in this sci-fi space game allowing you to choose where to explore and what to do, where your decisions will affect the universe and the ending you experience.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Space 12.4%, Character Customization 8.9%
- #3 Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,700 reviews2026
Dev: GamexcitePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
Why similar: Space Sim 34%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Management 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Space 10.2%
- #4 The Long Journey Home
96% matchMixed59% of 1,934 reviews2017
Dev: Daedalic Studio WestPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?
Why similar: Space 35.1%, RPG 20.6%, Simulation 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #5 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,851 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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+ 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #6 Citizen Sleeper
94% matchVery Positive92% of 10,638 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Space 19.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Sci-fi 15%, RPG 11.4%
- #7 Little-Known Galaxy
93% matchVery Positive88% of 755 reviews2024
Dev: Carbon & Kay
Windows · Mac
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.5%, Space 15.4%, Sci-fi 13.9%, RPG 10.4%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #8 Out There: Oceans of Time
91% matchMixed54% of 237 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: Resource Management 21%, Space 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #9 The Sentient
92% matchMostly Negative39% of 83 reviews2016
Dev: Uncaged Studios
Windows
Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.7%, Space 19%, RPG 15.1%, Management 14%, Simulation 11.3%
- #10 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Space 11.5%, Sci-fi 10%
- #11 The Captain
89% matchVery Positive93% of 328 reviews2021
Dev: Sysiac GamesPub: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Space 20.1%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Sci-fi 15.2%, RPG 11.7%
- #12 Voidship: The Long Journey
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 149 reviews2019
Dev: Cydonian Games
Windows
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!
Why similar: Space 35.2%, Sci-fi 24.9%, Simulation 20.5%, Indie 9.6%, Adventure 6.9%
- #13 Life of a Space Force Captain
89% matchVery Positive84% of 64 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: Space Sim 19.7%, Space 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%
- #14 Starcom: Nexus
88% matchVery Positive90% of 2,322 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Space 33.6%, Space Sim 27.6%, Sci-fi 15.5%, RPG 11%, Story Rich 4.5%
- #15 60 Parsecs!
87% matchVery Positive89% of 4,110 reviews2018
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.9%, LGBTQ+ 27.5%, Management 16.3%, Sci-fi 12.9%, RPG 8.3%
- #16 Space Haven
85% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 30.3%, Resource Management 17.1%, Space 17.1%, Management 15%, Sci-fi 10.7%
- #17 Times and Galaxy
86% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Copychaser GamesPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Comic Book 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #18 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
84% matchVery Positive84% of 198 reviews2026
Dev: Garan LornPub: Selenodrome
Windows · Linux
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Space 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Management 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #19 CyberHive
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
CyberHive is a strategic space travel simulator with a non-linear story, in the cosmic opera setting, and in an anime visual style.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Space 13.5%, Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #20 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
82% matchVery Positive91% of 2,726 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Space 18.5%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Multiple Endings 15%, RPG 12.1%
- #21 Sky Caravan
83% 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: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #22 Between the Stars
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,502 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.8%, Space 26%, RPG 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Simulation 7.8%
- #23 Interstellaria
84% matchMixed56% of 410 reviews2015
Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 33.9%, Space 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Management 15%, Sci-fi 12.4%
- #24 Star Traders: Frontiers
81% matchVery Positive83% of 3,816 reviews2018
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.4%, Management 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Space 14.5%, RPG 8.4%
- #25 Out There: Ω Edition
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,733 reviews2015
Dev: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Space 21.1%, Resource Management 20.1%, Comic Book 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%
- #26 Tales From The Unending Void: Season 1
79% matchVery Positive89% of 438 reviews2022
Dev: Perverteer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Camran, nobleman and smuggler, roams the galaxy. As he becomes part of sinister plans, his life is changed for good... Roam the galaxy in this erotic adventure to unravel the plot that will change the universe forever!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Space 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #27 The Expanse: A Telltale Series
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,930 reviews2023
Dev: Deck NinePub: Telltale
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Space 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, RPG 12%, Sci-fi 11.1%
- #28 Growing Up
77% matchVery Positive88% of 3,729 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 12%, Management 11%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #29 Starship Inspector
79% 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 21.1%, Space 16.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, RPG 11.3%
- #30 SYMMETRY
80% matchMixed55% of 311 reviews2018
Dev: Sleepless ClinicPub: IMGN.PRO
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?
Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Time Management 17.9%, Resource Management 16%, Space 12.5%, Management 11.6%
- #31 The Fermi Paradox
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,004 reviews2021
Dev: Anomaly Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Space 9.3%
- #32 Cold Bed on Route
76% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Multiple Endings 10%, Space 8.1%
- #33 Space Sprouts
75% matchVery Positive97% of 70 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 33%, Time Management 19.9%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #34 Journey to Foundation
77% matchMixed58% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Archiact Interactive Ltd.
Windows
A story-driven adventure among the stars, Journey to Foundation puts you at the center of your own sci-fi saga. Unleash your unique Mentalic abilities, gain information through diplomacy or coercion, and choose who to trust. Where will your journey lead you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Space 23.5%, Sci-fi 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Story Rich 12.7%
- #35 Universe Horizon
74% matchVery Positive89% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: Jarkem
Windows · Linux
An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.
Why similar: Resource Management 36.6%, Space 35.5%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Adventure 5.7%
- #36 Starstruck Vagabond
74% matchVery Positive86% of 573 reviews2024
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Why similar: Sci-fi 20%, Story Rich 16.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Character Customization 12.5%, Adventure 11.9%
- #37 Fields of Asphodel
73% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Character Customization 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #38 Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!
76% matchMixed67% of 986 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: Space 26.7%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 10.6%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #39 Lightracer Spark
73% matchVery Positive84% of 1,019 reviews2023
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.
Why similar: Space Sim 28%, Space 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Sci-fi 12%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #40 Titan Outpost
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: The Boar Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: Space 18.7%, RPG 17.7%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Character Customization 10%
- #41 Shortest Trip to Earth
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,437 reviews2019
Dev: Interactive Fate
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.9%, Resource Management 20.6%, Space 19.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #42 Love at The Milky Way Diner
69% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Lucky KimPub: Clumsy Cat Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
An inclusive, cozy, sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep space.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Space 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #43 Trigon: Space Story
71% matchMixed68% of 1,423 reviews2022
Dev: Sernur.techPub: Gameforge 4D GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
Why similar: Resource Management 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Space 22.5%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #44 Astrobuilder
67% matchVery Positive89% of 368 reviews2026
Dev: wastudio
Windows
An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time. Trade, run shops, build a Commerce Guild, join Military Factions, govern planets, and command fleets in war. Your every choice reshape the galaxy.
Why similar: Space 39.5%, Management 36.4%, RPG 13.4%, Simulation 10.7%
- #45 Sector Unknown
68% matchVery Positive80% of 390 reviews2026
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Sector Unknown is a solo-developed, isometric sci-fi RPG set in a shadowy expanse of space. Begin on a desolate planet, establish a stronghold, explore space, ally with or dominate local factions, and combat a despotic organization set on ruthlessly exploiting the sector's resources and inhabitants.
Why similar: Character Customization 24.3%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, RPG 18.4%, Choices Matter 18%, Story Rich 13.8%
- #46 Lodestar
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Edenic Era LLC
Windows
Lodestar sends you and your squad of friends on your own space odyssey. Traverse multiple planets in a journey to get home without losing yourself or your ship to the perils of the unknown! Solve puzzles, gather resources, mine asteroids, and survive... with your own oh-so welcoming AI sidekick!
Why similar: Space Sim 35.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Space 16.9%, Sci-fi 11.5%, RPG 7.6%
- #47 Space Cats Tactics
70% 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 40.5%, Space 18.9%, Character Customization 15.3%, RPG 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #48 Space Chef
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Blue Goo GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.9%, Space 20.7%, Management 15.9%, RPG 11.6%, Sci-fi 11%
- #49 Ostranauts
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,288 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Space Sim 50.6%, Space 24.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Simulation 8.8%, RPG 7.1%
- #50 Lilith Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Chaystar Unlimited LLC
Windows
In the wake of the Nacho Wars, your alien family embarks on a galactic journey to Lilith -- a faraway planet of new hope. Discover the history of the Mugalo galaxy. Relax to in-game radio. Grow your fishing, farming and spacefaring skills in a casual adventure across a cosmos of 1000+ unique worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 71.3%, RPG 17%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #51 Andromeda Six
67% matchVery Positive97% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Wanderlust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.7%, Multiple Endings 30.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Story Rich 18.9%
- #52 Unending Galaxy
72% matchMixed62% of 125 reviews2016
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.3%, Space 27.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Indie 7.2%
- #53 Space Court
69% matchVery Positive98% of 161 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #54 Lust Element - Season 1
68% matchVery Positive84% of 370 reviews2023
Dev: Night IconsPub: Bear in the Night
Windows · Mac
In this choice-driven sci-fi adult Visual Novel, you'll take the role of aspiring captain of the spaceship! Explore the universe, with all its mysteries, danger and pleasures!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Space 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #55 Lightracer: For Judge
66% matchVery Positive92% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Space 23.2%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Sci-fi 14.4%, RPG 13.3%
- #56 Space Prison
66% matchVery Positive84% of 296 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: Comic Book 41.5%, Space 19.6%, Sci-fi 16%, RPG 11.8%, Simulation 8.3%
- #57 RymdResa
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 305 reviews2015
Dev: Morgondag
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!
Why similar: Space 37.4%, Sci-fi 23.5%, RPG 20%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 6.2%
- #58 Into the Stars
71% matchMixed40% of 541 reviews2016
Dev: Fugitive GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Why similar: Space 58.8%, Simulation 23.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 8.2%