
A 4X strategy game where you start by hatching a single egg and eventually build a galactic empire to rival the greats. Craft resources, navigate politics, and shape the future of the universe in this unique space sandbox.
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A 4X strategy game where you start by hatching a single egg and eventually build a galactic empire to rival the greats. Craft resources, navigate politics, and shape the future of the universe in this unique space sandbox.

Yuri's Resolve
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.

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Lead a spaceyard: juggle contracts, design, prototype, and build all types of ships—from single-seat fighters to giant cruisers. Create custom vessels to meet precise client specs, then take the helm yourself to prove their worth.
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Space Sim 16.1% ★, Flight 12.5%, Automation 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%
Lead a spaceyard: juggle contracts, design, prototype, and build all types of ships—from single-seat fighters to giant cruisers. Create custom vessels to meet precise client specs, then take the helm yourself to prove their worth.
Why similar: Space Sim 27% ★, Flight 14.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10%, Space 9.2%
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.8% ★, Flight 19.6%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.1%, Automation 8.9%
Galactic Command Echo Squad SE is a high-end and very challenging space/planetary combat game. It offers a thrilling campaign, instant action combat sessions as well as a sandbox mode allowing you to explore the game's universe while battling hostile Insurgent forces among others.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.2% ★, Flight 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 13.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 7.6%
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Space Sim 21.2% ★, Flight 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 6.5%
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8% ★, 4X 21.8% ★, Flight 16%, Sandbox 10%, Building 6.9%
Become the ruler of the entire Galaxy: colonize planets, extract resources, build defenses and fight in planetary battles!
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Space Sim 17.4% ★, Flight 17.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 7.8%
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Space Sim 28.9% ★, Crafting 7.5%, Space 6.6%, Strategy 6.5%
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.6% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 12%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 8%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.4% ★, 4X 20.2% ★, Flight 13.8%, Sandbox 12%, Space 7%
A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!
Why similar: Space Sim 29.2% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.9%, Futuristic 8.2%
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.3% ★, Flight 21.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.3%, Space 8.3%
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Political Sim 27.5% ★, Space Sim 26% ★, Capitalism 13.2%, Building 8.3%, Space 5.3%
Build, launch and manage realistic space missions across our solar system, placing satellites and telescopes in precise orbits. Explore planets, collect valuable scientific data and sell your findings to expand your rising aerospace empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.9% ★, Flight 15.7%, Artificial Intelligence 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Political Sim 27% ★, Space Sim 26.8% ★, Building 10.2%, Space 7.8%, Simulation 6.9%
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: 4X 30.6% ★, Space Sim 19.4% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.8%
A 2D space agency simulator where every object follows the same orbital physics. Land on moons, build colonies, deploy satellites, and reshape entire planetary systems. Deorbit a moon if you want.
Why similar: Flight 24.3%, Space Sim 23.1% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Space 10.7%
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Space Sim 23.1% ★, Political Sim 20% ★, Strategy 7%, Sci-fi 5.6%
Build up a Space Empire and establish control of the Galaxy and the Universe! Nova Empire is a multiplayer space game in which the aim is to build your empire and conquer the galaxy in epic space battles against your rivals with other allies worldwide!
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Political Sim 26.8% ★, Space Sim 22.6% ★, Strategy 7.1%, Sci-fi 5.5%
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.5% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Automation 8.5%, Simulation 7.9%
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Space Sim 21.3% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9%, Automation 7.6%
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Why similar: 4X 27% ★, Space Sim 21.7% ★, Flight 14%, Sandbox 9.2%, Space 8.2%
Based on the classic history of the Three countries, the 2D grand strategy game integrates deep strategy, resource management, diplomatic game and sand table, presenting a magnificent stage for players in the turbulent world.
Why similar: 4X 43.9% ★, Political Sim 25% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 12.7%, War 5.1%
The Rebel Space Admiral is an idler/ clicker game about space exploration with battles, trade, base building, planet invasions and science research. Fight your way through hundreds of star systems, meet aliens, find powerful artifacts and defeat an ancient evil before it purges the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Space Sim 27.8% ★, Building 11.8%, Futuristic 8.9%, Strategy 7.1%
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Political Sim 26.4% ★, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.3%
Humanity is gone, but the machines never stopped producing, and now there's cargo to move. As a robot space trucker, you’ll jump between systems, navigate astronomical planetary distances, upgrade your junk-hauler, and keep the galaxy's commerce alive. People may be gone but the job's never done!
Why similar: Space Sim 33.3% ★, Flight 25.8%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Futuristic 6.5%
Voidless is a sci-fi space survival sandbox set in the near future within a realistic scale solar system. In first or third person, players can explore planets and asteroids, collect resources, and craft items. As well as building bases and ships, all with physics based flight and combat.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.6% ★, Flight 15.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 8.8%, Space 8.4%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.2% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Automation 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%
Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6% ★, Flight 21%, Lore-Rich 9.4%, Artificial Intelligence 8.6%, Building 6.4%
After a mysterious accident you are left are stranded, floating through space on a piece of a space station. Craft supplies and Hubs to expand what is now your home. But be warned space is a dangerous places where one mistake can mean certain death. Can you defy the odds and survive in space?
Why similar: Space Sim 31.6% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Simulation 8.1%
The game of survival and construction on the surface of the moon. Learn to build a base on the surface of the moon, maintain survival, explore and discover the secrets inside the moon, and solve abnormal problems.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Flight 22.3%, Building 11.5%, Futuristic 8.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
Build rockets and fly them around the Solar System in this realistic aerospace sandbox. Attempt landings, build space stations, drive rovers, perform spacewalks, explore alien worlds, and get your crew home safe.
Why similar: Space Sim 34% ★, Flight 20.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 8%
See the galaxy through the eyes of a trader. Hundreds of years after humanity took to the stars, you're free to buy, fight, explore, and build your way to power. Shape economies, form alliances, and influence the systems that control trade, tech, and politics.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.8% ★, Flight 18.2%, 4X 12.1% ★, Space 9.1%, Building 7.7%
Build and upgrade your personal ship to travel around a strange planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.9% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Flight 11.1%, Space 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Command any nation in a modern grand strategy simulation set in 2026. Manage diplomacy, economy, espionage, and warfare while shaping the global balance of power. Lead a superpower or build a small state into a global force in a dynamic geopolitical sandbox.
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Political Sim 24.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Capitalism 10.4%, Strategy 9.8%
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Space Sim 22.5% ★, Flight 14.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Strategy 5%
A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively achieve project phase goals and ultimately accomplish the ultimate goal of constructing a Mars colonization spacecraft.
Why similar: Space Sim 38.1% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 14.8%, Building 9.9%, Space 7.7%
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Space Sim 19.6% ★, Capitalism 13.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.2%
Step into the cockpit of creativity in AeroSpace Engineering | Sandbox – the ultimate physics-based simulation where your imagination meets the laws of aerodynamics.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Flight 19.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11.2%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 45.4% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Futuristic 6.7%
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using Newtonian orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.9% ★, Flight 17.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Automation 9.4%, Space 7%
Un gioco di strategia spaziale su larga scala che mira a costruire e mantenere il potere in una galassia simulata. Costruisci, sviluppa e sopravvivi in una galassia plasmata dalla storia e conseguenze.
Why similar: 4X 37.6% ★, Political Sim 18.8% ★, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Futuristic 9.2%
Mardori is a spaceshooter game with aspects of ARPG's. Upgrade your ship with various materials from missions, craft your equipment with damage or defense mods., create new weapons using blueprints, unlock new missions with Stargate.
Why similar: Space Sim 32% ★, Flight 23.6%, Crafting 15.8%, Space 10.5%, Simulation 10.1%
Lunar Camp Glenn is a STEM education simulation based on NASA plans and technology for ARTEMIS mission lunar base. It is the only first-person player game to explore the moon for resources to survive and meet with different characters to cooperate or not.
Why similar: Political Sim 41.5% ★, Space Sim 37% ★, Space 8.5%, Strategy 6.4%, 3D 5%
OnOrbit is a virtual space lab lets you assemble and operate space hardware as if you were actually in space. Make your own craft in a sandbox mode, then simulate its operation as part of the Supernational Space Cooperative (SSC). Climb the ranks and head out to the planets.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Flight 12.4%, Futuristic 9.2%
Explore a unique, procedurally generated galaxy filled with alien artifacts and resources to extract and exploit. Mine asteroids, harvest nebula, pilot unique ships and find new and strange things in the void between stars as you struggle to survive long enough to find another home.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.5% ★, Flight 22.3%, Building 10%, Futuristic 8.4%, Strategy 7.6%
MMO Real-time strategy star game.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Political Sim 25.2% ★, Space Sim 16.1% ★, Strategy 6.7%, War 6.1%
X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.
Why similar: Space Sim 32% ★, Space 15.7%, Flight 14.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 9.2%
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Space Sim 26.5% ★, Strategy 7.2%, Futuristic 6.8%, Stylized 5.6%
Run a district in a 12-million Latin American megacity in a political strategy about power, compromise, and dirty deals. 100+ starting combos, 75 population groups, and no decision without consequences. Can you do better than those you love to hate?
Why similar: Political Sim 46.4% ★, Capitalism 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 8.3%
Starbase Gunship places you in the seat of a weapons officer on a state-of-the-art Gunship as you defend a remote outpost from an Alien invasion fleet. With access to laser cannons, missiles, miniguns and nuclear warheads, you are the last line of defense between humanity and the alien invaders.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Flight 22.9%, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%, War 8.4%, Futuristic 7.9%
Control your aerial and ground units using Real-Time-Strategy, OR switch during battle and join your comrades yourself in high-action dogfights and ground battles in Novastride. Dominate enemy civilizations throughout the galaxy and be the great strategist to lead your nation to victory.
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Flight 18.6%, Space Sim 16.9% ★, Space 8.2%, Strategy 7.9%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Space Sim 23.5% ★, 4X 21.4% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Flight 9.8%, Building 8.7%
Zenith Frontier is a simulation-strategy game about the exploration and colonisation of space. Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions of autonomous citizens and private companies.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Political Sim 29.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 14.6%, Space 6.6%, Strategy 5.4%
An unforgettable journey of discovery, hope, and survival, as you strive to unlock the secrets of the universe and pave the way for humanity's destiny. By intertwining Exploration, Adaptive Gameplay, and Survival, ETERNITY offers a rich and immersive experience.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Space Sim 23.4% ★, Political Sim 15.9% ★, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5.8%
Empires of a Tiny Universe is a relaxed single-player RTS where you build and expand your empire across space. Manage planetary infrastructure, develop new technologies for your fleet, and conquer the galaxy - all from a clear, minimalist perspective.
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Building 10.4%, Artificial Intelligence 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Futuristic 8%
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Why similar: Space Sim 25.8% ★, Space 18%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 6.7%
Mine resources, build your spaceship, and soar through the skies in this immersive space sandbox. Set up complex machinery to survive the elements, and craft the StellarDrive: a powerful engine that lets you warp to new worlds.
Why similar: Flight 24.9%, Space Sim 22.6% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 13.2%, Space 11.4%
We have built a mini universe with real physics basis, simulation and imagination. The game uses realistic environments and models to tell a story of a mini universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.2% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Flight 13.8%, Space 10.7%, Simulation 7.6%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 61% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Space 10.9%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Lore-Rich 6.1%