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This is a single player game. You play a rebooted android in a broken shuttle. You need to fly the ship, keep the energy systems functional, mine some fuel from asteroids and feed the FTL drive with energy.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.9%, Immersive Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Physics 8.4%, Exploration 8.1%

Trabacolo is a 1-16 player co-op space game in a chaotic physics-driven world. Build and control large modular spaceships alone or together. Manage resources and collect all catalyst material. Explore maps with a variety of challenges, look out for enemies, and take care: Some of the floor is lava.

Why similar: Space Sim 37.3%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Physics 12.5%, Immersive Sim 9%, Resource Management 6.7%

Moon Crashers is a 4-player online co-op game. Crash-land on the lunar surface with your squad, drift across craters, scavenge junk & rare minerals, uncover ancient ruins, build your ride, and rocket back home. Think you can make it home?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Space Sim 16.4%, Physics 15.2%, Funny 10.2%, Co-op 9.6%

Clear out space battlefields using a physics-based grappling hook. Salvage wreckage, recycle it into resources, upgrade your equipment, and grow your salvage business to unlock increasingly lucrative contracts.

Why similar: Space Sim 33.6%, Online Co-Op 13%, Space 12.2%, Simulation 10%, Physics 9.3%

Fly real astrodynamics from an Apollo-era DSKY. Plan Lambert transfers, mine asteroids, build a fleet, and survive a 38-body solar system where every trajectory is solved from Kepler's equation. No autopilot, no cheating.

Why similar: Space Sim 41.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Exploration 8.2%, Space 7.4%

Nebulis Entity is a first person spaceship crew simulator, with support for online co-op. Maintain your vessel, track down and decode alien signals, and venture as far as you can - while doing your best to prevent your ship from falling apart around you.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.8%, Space 14.1%, Survival 11.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Psychological 8.9%

A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Psychological 15.8%, Physics 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Funny 10%

Haul Yeah! is a chill co-op space trucking game. Live aboard your ship, grow food, cook meals, deploy drones, repair hull systems, trade on a player-driven market, and haul resources across 15 star systems. Play solo or with up to 3 friends via Steam.

Why similar: Space Sim 42.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Space 7.5%, Management 6.7%

A pixel-art space mining game. Dig into procedurally generated planets, chart your own route across the star map, collect rare ores, level up your gear, and grow your fortune by investing in the market.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.7%, Mining 33.3% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Exploration 6.5%, Space 6%

Alone in orbit with a corpse and no way to reach Earth, play as an astronaut who must keep a defunct space station aloft. Maintain the onboard systems, deal with the constant threat of space junk, and navigate the dark halls in zero-gravity. Day by day more systems fail, and the void draws closer.

Why similar: Space Sim 44.2%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Psychological 14.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7.6%

Dig, build rails, and survive underground as a Goblin miner for WHAAG MINING INC. Light your path or the darkness will drain your life. Explore fully destructible biomes, fight hostile creatures, and hunt the legendary Giant Crystal, solo or online co-op

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.3%, Mining 15.3% ★, Comedy 11.1%, Funny 10.2%, Co-op 8.8%

A single-player 2D top-down pixel game with space physics. Mine asteroids in the middle of an asteroid field using manual controls or by directing mining drones. Protect the outpost, buy from trading ships, mine as much ore as you can and survive as long as possible! Do you have what it takes?

Why similar: Space Sim 28.5%, Mining 25.6% ★, Physics 12.5%, Space 11%, Immersive Sim 9.3%

A fantasy space agency management game! Manage your team, design your space ship and research new technology! Reach moons, planets and the void beyond. Can you reach the void? Can you bring Galduen to the void?

Why similar: Space Sim 43.1%, Space 14.9%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Exploration 11.1%

Storm AREA 51 with your friends. Explore the most classified facility on earth. Discover what they've been hiding. Take selfies with aliens and smuggle evidence out before the military arrives.

Why similar: Psychological 18.6%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Space 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Funny 9.5%

Online 1-4 player co-op robot-bartender roguelike full of physics-driven chaos. Work together to mix drinks, manage demanding customers, and pick upgrades to hit the bar's daily quota before your shift ends - or the bar shuts down for good.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.3%, Physics 14%, Comedy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Immersive Sim 9.8%

Grab your gear and your friends for a hilarious, golden-age co-op adventure! Dive into cursed temples, hunt for the ultimate treasure, and work together to stay alive. Beware of everything and everyone... after all, only the survivors get to split the gold!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26%, Physics 17.3%, Survival 11.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Comedy 8.7%

Miner Shop Simulator is a hands-on mining and shop management sim. Dig for resources, refine raw ore into valuable goods, stock your shelves, serve customers, and grow a small mining shop into a thriving business.

Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

A sci-fi survival game with a twist. Set in a sub-orbit of a black hole, collect materials and scavenge wrecks in order to repair your damaged ship. However, time is not on your side.

Why similar: Space Sim 42.5%, Resource Management 15%, Survival 12.5%, Space 11.2%, Physics 9.5%

Take on realistic space missions, manage your economy, and explore the solar system. Build and expand your space center on Earth, accept contracts, and launch satellites into orbit. Research, adapt and collect valuable scientific data to commence your growing aerospace empire.

Why similar: Space Sim 43.7%, Management 10.4%, Space 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%

C.H.I.M.P. is a cooperative multiplayer game where players work together to control a spaceship. On the spaceship, each player must perform their assigned role, such as piloting, shooting, or reloading. Can you reach your destination without fighting with your crewmates?

Why similar: Space Sim 28.2%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Comedy 8.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Funny 8.2%

A space sim survival where each decision costs power. Every system drains your dying reactor. Pilot a crippled spacecraft across a real-scale solar system using true orbital mechanics, manage critical systems, scavenge for resources, while you try to uncover why humanity seems to have disappeared.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.1%, Space 15.1%, Survival 13.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.2%

A co-op horror rescue game for 2-4 players. Locate injured hikers in dangerous forests and carry them with your friends to the rescue point before you get eaten.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.6%, Physics 13.5%, Funny 13.2%, Co-op 11.5%, Comedy 9.9%

Shark Mart is a crazy co-op simulator about sharks undercover disguised as friendly dolphins. Run the shop, and scrub whales to secretly kidnap unsuspecting fish and cook up tasty delicacies! But beware - the Fish Police are out to expose your toothy secret...

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Funny 11.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 9.3%

Launch. Slingshot. Crash. Repeat. Slingshot is a pixel-art orbital mechanics arcade about gravity, fuel, and perfect timing. Chain flybys across eight planets, reach escape velocity, and tune in to Spacify : 12 destinations, 12 soundtracks, 100+ achievements.

Why similar: Space Sim 52.5%, Physics 19.6%, Space 16.8%, Exploration 11.1%

SurviRail is a game about exploration and managing your own space train. Expand your train cars, upgrade your engines, collect resources, and discover new locations in the unknown space.

Why similar: Space Sim 42%, Immersive Sim 13%, Space 9.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Survival 8%

A casual space simulation game where you perform orbital manoeuvres on satellites to change their orbit and complete missions.

Why similar: Space Sim 49.6%, Physics 20.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Space 13.1%, Casual 1.6%

Livestream the war. Don't die. You and your friends are in New York City during a missile war. You could hide in the bunker. Or you could pull out your phone and start livestreaming outside. The crazier it gets, the more your stream blows up. One life. No respawn. Just like real life.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Psychological 15.6%, Funny 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Comedy 9.2%

You and your friends are fearless space couriers delivering cargo to bizarre and exotic planets. Pilot the trusty old Croakpit, parkour across asteroids in zero gravity, and avoid getting bonked into the cold, dark void of space. Ready to tackle the universe's most dangerous delivery job?

Why similar: Space Sim 31%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Physics 11.8%, Space 9.7%, Comedy 8.4%

You don't pilot the ship-you run it. Manage power, fuel, gravity, life support and other systems, repair failures and engineer your way through a hostile solar system.

Why similar: Space Sim 37.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Physics 10.5%, Management 9.5%, Space 9.3%

SHEEPSTERS is a 1-4 player co-op about redneck shepherds and a flock of very cute, very stupid sheep. Herd them with a megaphone, throw them over chasms, and try not to walk half the flock onto a minefield. Get them home – as many as you can!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.7%, Funny 13.5%, Physics 12.7%, Comedy 12%, Co-op 9.8%

The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.

Why similar: Space Sim 27.5%, Mining 20.8% ★, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Space 9.8%

Online co-op horror for 1-4 players. Mine nearby asteroids for gems to pay for your company's new spaceship. Time your orbits, day-trade the minerals market, and avoid deadly monsters at night.

Why similar: Mining 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 20.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Space 7.7%, Exploration 7.4%

Real-time planetary collision sandbox powered by SPH physics: smash planets together and watch the destruction and its aftermath!

Why similar: Space Sim 50.7%, Physics 15.4%, Space 14.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%

Take to the stars and explore the solar system. Master the orbital mechanics of N-body physics. Plot a careful course to complete your mission.

Why similar: Space Sim 52.7%, Physics 18.1%, Simulation 15%, Space 14.2%

Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.

Why similar: Space Sim 50.7%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Space 6.5%, Exploration 6%

RESBS is a first-person space survival simulation where you and your friends cooperate to survive in zero gravity on a space station!

Why similar: Space Sim 38.2%, Space 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Exploration 11%, Simulation 8.1%

Choose your own adventure in this open-world humanity expansion space simulation. Travel beyond the constellations to new frontiers. Explore, collect resources, supply the expansion efforts, or go battle it out spaceshooter style. Do we seek Galaversal Supremacy or peace? You decide !

Why similar: Space Sim 30.3%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%

Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.

Why similar: Space Sim 39.2%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Immersive Sim 7.1%

An online game for four players in which you and your friends will need to deliver packages and escape from monsters. Deliver packages, level up, and try to deliver everything.

Why similar: Space Sim 31.7%, Physics 10.7%, Space 9.2%, Comedy 8.7%, Funny 8.6%

The existence of all mankind is under threat. You are the only hope!

Why similar: Space Sim 39.6%, Space 15.2%, Physics 10.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

Survive and explore space in Astrobound! Visit strange planets, encounter cosmic calamities, and keep your crew alive as you journey through the stars in a retro-inspired whimsical space adventure.

Why similar: Space Sim 34.8%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Space 12.6%, Management 10.8%, Survival 10.6%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space Sim 31.3%, Mining 13.8% ★, Physics 13.4%, Space 13%, Resource Management 9.5%

DARES REALITY GAME SHOW — WITH CAMERAS, NEIGHBORS, AND ESCALATION. Your friends dare you. Then lie, sabotage, and bet on your failure. Fail a dare and you’re sent OUTSIDE — escalating into strangers, neighbors, or real-world dares on camera (optional, phone supported).

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Psychological 17.8%, Physics 15.5%, Funny 12%, Comedy 9.3%

Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.

Why similar: Space Sim 27.7%, Mining 19.7% ★, Physics 10.8%, Space 10.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

Blow up mountains with your friends in this chaotic online co-op game. Collect minerals, buy bigger explosives, build chains of explosions, and experiment with bomb-loaded drones, explosive baseballs, and a launcher that can send your friends flying.

Why similar: Mining 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 24.7%, Physics 15.6%, Funny 8.1%, Resource Management 6.6%

It's basically like summer vacation but you don't have to physically go to the beach! Hang out with friends, or strangers - with voice chat. Build sand castles. Ruin sand castles. Sell ice cream. Eat ice cream. Surf. Play volleyball with bad physics. Everything is interactable (not really, you wish)

Why similar: Mining 22% ★, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Physics 11.5%, Comedy 7%

Boötes is a Space Sim where you get to jump on astroids. Collect Crystals, Unlock New Abilities, Find Secrets to Unlock New Suits, and Much More. You are all alone in The Boötes Void where you find mysterious crystals that can help fuel your space shuttle so you can visit the Cold Dark.

Why similar: Space Sim 56.7%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Exploration 9.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Psychological 7.7%

You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Space Sim 30%, Space 14.4%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Immersive Sim 10.5%

A multiplayer space simulator to play with friends. Control your planet's gravity to pull in rare gases, absorb space dust, and increase your mass. Progress through all stages of cosmic evolution: from a gas giant and a blazing star to a supermassive black hole.

Why similar: Space Sim 39.8%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Space 13.6%, Exploration 10.9%, Simulation 7.3%

Build and upgrade your personal ship to travel around a strange planet.

Why similar: Space Sim 44.5%, Space 13%, Simulation 11.9%, Physics 11.7%, Resource Management 6.9%

Enter an infinite‑loop laboratory and retrieve uncontaminated extraterrestrial samples, and ultimately achieve your mission objectives.

Why similar: Space Sim 34%, Immersive Sim 18%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Physics 10.4%, Exploration 9%

ROMUL is a co-op looting horror game. Together with a voice-controlled robot with early-stage AI, explore abandoned space stations with unstable gravity and use it to your advantage. Survive among monsters and extract valuable cargo.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.1%, Physics 13.9%, Comedy 9.6%, Space 9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

Build rockets and shoot them into space. Once you reach orbit, you are halfway to explore anywhere in the Solar System.

Why similar: Space Sim 47.9%, Space 19.1%, Simulation 12%, Exploration 11%, Physics 9.9%

A physics-based online co-op game where you and your friends play as the world's worst renovation crew. Drag the couch up the stairs, water down the paint and throw the trash out the window - but don't work too hard. Cracking open a cold one with the boys is also part of the job.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Physics 14.5%, Funny 12%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Comedy 8.4%

TeepyTime is a shared ambient application. You appear as a glowing orb in space alongside other connected players. There are no objectives. Each player's orbit is procedurally generated and unique.

Why similar: Space Sim 45.6%, Immersive Sim 22.1%, Space 15.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Casual 3.6%

3D space multiplayer party game. Crews need to move the spaceship to the final within 40 minutes. Imposters need to stop crews from doing that.

Why similar: Space Sim 29%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Space 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9.3%

How much do you trust your eyes—and your friends? Anomaly Sector is an online co-op game for 1-8 players. Work together to spot anomalies, make the right decisions, and clear every sector. Look carefully. One mistake - immediate reset.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.7%, Psychological 19.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Funny 9.2%

Move the hands and arms of an astronaut and push, pull and turn through a physically simulated space, where without gravity nothing is immobile, nothing is safe and nothing is easy.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.2%, Space 17.6%, Physics 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Funny 8.4%

Our goal is to depict the possibilities of space exploration & combat within a realistic environment- to emphasize the "science" in science-fiction. Key features to include: proper orbital mechanics for all objects in space, detailed ship system control, functionality, inter-dependency & damage reaction.

Why similar: Space Sim 70.7%, Simulation 16.9%, Space 12.4%

A multi-friend-group social survival crafting game. It's your friends against their friends. Survive, gather, craft, build. Then steal, kidnap, ally, betray, negotiate, and convert. SOCIETY. 1-4 players per crashed plane.

Why similar: Psychological 18.3%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Physics 10.4%, Funny 10%, Survival 8.6%