Games Like Astronomics

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space 23%, Procedural Generation 16%, Physics 14.7%, Top-Down 11.9%, Sci-fi 11%

Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Mining 20.4% ★, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Top-Down 8%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Space 24.7%, Procedural Generation 19.7%, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Mining 22% ★, Space 18.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Top-Down 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Space 34.8%, Automation 23.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Exploration 7.8%, Strategy 7%

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 24.4%, Physics 15.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Mining 13.3% ★, Sci-fi 9.6%

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 46.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7.7%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 31.5%, Physics 18.9%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Procedural Generation 8.9%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Space 25.1%, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Top-Down 10.5%, PvE 9.7%

Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.

Why similar: Space 34.7%, Mining 23.9% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Simulation 6.1%

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Mining 18.8% ★, Robots 14.8%, Automation 13.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Space 12.3%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Space 41.1%, Automation 25.4%, Sci-fi 19%, Exploration 7.2%, Simulation 2.5%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Space 26.4%, Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Robots 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Space 20.5%, Physics 15.7%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%

Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.

Why similar: Space 38.1%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Automation 14.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Strategy 8%

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 37.2%, Sandbox 23%, Top-Down 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Why similar: Space 42.4%, Mining 22.5% ★, Sandbox 17%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Simulation 5.7%

Galactic Mining Corp is a unique rogue-lite, action game with crafting and base building mechanics. Head into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy work force, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything.

Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Collectathon 23.9%, Space 19.9%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Exploration 10%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Space 22.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Exploration 9.9%

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Robots 20.3%, Space 19%, Physics 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%

A 2D space mining adventure. Mine exotic resources, unlock powerful equipment, and fend off relentless enemies to build an inter-dimensional portal, the last hope of salvation for your civilization.

Why similar: Mining 26.8% ★, Space 22.9%, Top-Down 15.3%, Time Management 14.8%, Sci-fi 11.8%

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Space 18.1%, Automation 16.5%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Sandbox 22.3%, Exploration 15.6%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Strategy 8.9%

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.

Why similar: Space 25.9%, Physics 17.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Top-Down 11.9%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 38.1%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Top-Down 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Sandbox 6.4%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Space 35.2%, Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 15%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Simulation 4.2%

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 22.4%, Procedural Generation 21%, Exploration 15%, Sandbox 15%, Top-Down 12.6%

Endless Coffee is out! Build your ship, survive 21 Days and break the Universe- Astro Prospector is an incremental bullet hell about mining coffee and fighting SpaceCorp. Collect resources, upgrade your ship and become unstoppable. Return AstroCoffee to humanity!

Why similar: Top-Down 48.2%, Strategy 21.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Why similar: Space 42.1%, Sandbox 16%, Top-Down 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Strategy 5.6%

Explore asteroid fields, trade rare resources, and upgrade your ship in Cosmic Miners. Navigate faction alliances, complete missions, and rise through the ranks in a dynamic space adventure where your choices shape your path to cosmic power.

Why similar: Space 39.3%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Exploration 14.2%, 3D 9.7%, Simulation 6.2%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Mining 17.5% ★, Space 15.7%, Automation 14.8%, Top-Down 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Robots 23.2%, Space 20%, Sandbox 16.1%, Automation 14.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.

Why similar: Top-Down 24.5%, Exploration 22.6%, Space 20.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!

Why similar: Mining 37.2% ★, Physics 24.7%, Space 22.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Action 2.8%

A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.

Why similar: Space 21.3%, Procedural Generation 17%, Time Management 15.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Top-Down 12.7%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Robots 21.7%, Procedural Generation 20%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Mining 24.9% ★, Space 18%, Sandbox 13.5%, Automation 11.8%, Top-Down 11.7%

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 43.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.4%

Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.

Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, Procedural Generation 19%, Space 17.2%, Physics 14.4%, Exploration 9%

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Space 28.7%, Sandbox 20.6%, PvE 13.8%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Exploration 12.3%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Space 25.1%, Sandbox 21.4%, Exploration 20.4%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Strategy 14.1%

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 51.2%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Exploration 13.4%, Top-Down 11.1%, Action 3.4%

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Why similar: Mining 39.3% ★, Sandbox 22.7%, Procedural Generation 20.3%, Exploration 13.3%, Action 3%

A casual idle / active-idle asteroid mining game where you fly around mining and make the numbers go UP! Lasers, Drones, a dash of humor, RPG, science, research, crafting, games and more.

Why similar: Mining 38.1% ★, Automation 22.2%, Space 18.9%, Top-Down 15.4%, Strategy 5.5%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Sandbox 48.1%, Exploration 29%, Simulation 11.1%, Action 7.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Mining 27.8% ★, Procedural Generation 23.4%, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 15%, Exploration 10.2%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Space 21%, Mining 20.6% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Physics 14.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Space 24.8%, Procedural Generation 24.4%, Physics 17.9%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Exploration 10.2%

Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

Why similar: Space 21.2%, Robots 20.2%, Procedural Generation 19.3%, Sandbox 14%, Automation 13.9%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Mining 32% ★, Automation 20.8%, Physics 19.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Space 30.3%, Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Exploration 8.4%

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!

Why similar: Mining 29.7% ★, Procedural Generation 17.6%, Space 17.4%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 12%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Space 29.1%, Automation 29.1%, Physics 9.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 9%

To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.

Why similar: Mining 42.7% ★, Procedural Generation 42.5%, Space 8.8%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!

Why similar: Mining 35.4% ★, Collectathon 21.8%, Space 21.5%, 3D 7.9%, Exploration 5.5%

Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.

Why similar: Space 35.3%, Exploration 23.7%, Simulation 21.2%, 3D 14.4%, Indie 3.5%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space 38.2%, Sci-fi 26.8%, Exploration 13.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.3%

Upgrade your spaceship and conquer the stars in this thrilling space-mining adventure! Mine asteroids, battle enemies, and trade resources for powerful upgrades to customize your ship. Master the galaxy and embark on the ultimate journey!

Why similar: Space 37.9%, Exploration 24%, Sci-fi 19.9%, PvE 9.8%, Action 7.8%

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 43.7% ★, Automation 19.5%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Exploration 13.7%, Strategy 5.8%

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 27.3%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 7.8%