Games Like Cosmonautica

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Trading 31.2% ★, Economy 15.6%, Experimental 15.1% ★, Management 11%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar focus on trading, resource management, and a lighthearted, accessible approach to exploration.

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: Trading 22.7% ★, Space Sim 15.9% ★, Economy 10.4%, Management 8.7%, Space 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep crew management and a complex economic system that will appeal to fans of space-based strategy.

Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!

Why similar: Space 43.8%, Strategy 11.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the quirky humor, diverse gameplay, and open-ended space trading found in Cosmonautica.

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 27%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the humorous tone and management-heavy gameplay loop of Cosmonautica.

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Why similar: Space 28.7%, Trading 19.9% ★, Space Sim 13.6% ★, Open World 8.7%, Sci-fi 8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic open-world space trading and combat game that offers a similar sense of freedom and exploration.

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 32.9%, Space Sim 21.2% ★, Sci-fi 15.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential space management game that focuses on crew survival and tactical decision-making during travel.

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Why similar: Space 31.8%, Space Sim 19.9% ★, Trading 11% ★, Sci-fi 10.6%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmosphere of being a space trader with a focus on ship combat and economic progression.

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 23.6% ★, Space 15.9%, Management 13.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the management of a crew and their ship, requiring careful resource allocation and survival strategy.

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 Sim 30.3% ★, Space 21.1%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep ship design and management mechanics that cater to players who enjoy building and optimizing their space vessels.

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: Trading 23% ★, Space Sim 18.4% ★, Economy 13.5%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who want a deep, complex economic simulation and large-scale space management.

Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Why similar: Trading 26.4% ★, Space 20.2%, Economy 12%, Management 10.7%, Space Sim 10.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the economic and management side of space logistics, perfect for those who enjoy the trading aspect of Cosmonautica.

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 24.6% ★, Space 23.7%, Sci-fi 13%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging roguelite that emphasizes ship maintenance, crew management, and survival in a procedurally generated galaxy.

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 Sim 20.4% ★, Trading 18% ★, Economy 13%, Space 12.1%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines building, trading, and exploration in a vast, procedurally generated space environment.

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 19.6% ★, Space 19.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Economy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox strategy game that allows for complex faction management and economic control in space.

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: Space 22.9%, Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Exploration 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep tactical RPG elements and ship management in a vast, open space setting.

Sign up to be a galaxy trucker today! An adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil’s award-winning board game is now on Steam. Already includes the ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES expansion!

Why similar: Space 38.8%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Funny 17.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the chaotic, humorous, and logistical nature of space transport and ship construction.

Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.

Why similar: Trading 21.6% ★, Space 19.2%, Space Sim 16% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space exploration game that emphasizes the trading and survival aspects of life as a space pilot.

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Why similar: Space 38.2%, Procedural Generation 21.7%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical space strategy game that features strong narrative elements and resource management similar to space-faring adventures.

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 34.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features procedural space travel and crew management with a focus on the difficulties of navigating a hostile galaxy.

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: Space 20.4%, Economy 19%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and economic development of a space station, sharing the lighthearted tone of many space management games.

Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.5% ★, Trading 25.3% ★, Space 14.2%, Sandbox 8%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more technical, simulation-heavy approach to space trading and exploration.

Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.

Why similar: Space 28.2%, Space Sim 23.6% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed simulation that focuses on the technical and economic aspects of running a ship in deep space.

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 38.8%, Open World 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that incorporates space trading and faction-based progression in an open-world setting.

In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Why similar: Trading 23.2% ★, Economy 15.1%, Space Sim 15.1% ★, Space 10.3%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A browser-based, deep economic simulation that offers the most realistic trading and resource management experience available.

Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.

Why similar: Trading 30.4% ★, Space Sim 23.1% ★, Space 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space trading and combat game that emphasizes exploration and ship customization.

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: Space Sim 29% ★, Space 22.7%, Open World 11%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Blends 4X strategy with space trading and combat, providing a broader scope for management-minded players.

FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

Why similar: Trading 23.8% ★, Space Sim 18.2% ★, Economy 17.4%, Space 12.7%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and economic challenges of transporting goods between planets in a realistic flight environment.

A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!

Why similar: Space 29.8%, Space Sim 16.9% ★, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused game that allows for seamless travel and ship management in a large, open space.

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 21.1%, Space Sim 20.8% ★, Economy 13.1%, Trading 12.5% ★, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space simulation that remains a benchmark for economic depth and fleet management.

Lean on your network of in-game friends and family to trade, mine and explore in this genre-busting space simulation.

Why similar: Simulation 35.6%, Space 33.8%, Procedural Generation 30.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses procedural generation to create a living galaxy where social interaction and trading are key to success.

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: Trading 20% ★, Space Sim 18.8% ★, Space 17.5%, Procedural Generation 11%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 Sim 25.5% ★, Space 20%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Open World 8%

3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.

Why similar: Space 24.8%, Space Sim 20.2% ★, Sci-fi 10.2%, Open World 9.8%, Simulation 8.5%

Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.7% ★, Space 21.3%, Trading 15.4% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Economy 7.4%

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: Diplomacy 23.5% ★, Trading 21.1% ★, Space Sim 16.2% ★, Space 11.7%, Management 8.3%

In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.

Why similar: Space 28.6%, Space Sim 18.4% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Trading 8% ★

The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.

Why similar: Space 27.8%, Space Sim 24.6% ★, Trading 12.3% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Space 29%, Space Sim 28.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 9.4%, Open World 5.2%

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 Sim 33.9% ★, Space 18.3%, Economy 16.1%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Open World 8.4%

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 31.3%, Space Sim 19.6% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.1%

A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.

Why similar: Space 26.9%, Space Sim 16.1% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Sci-fi 10%

Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.5% ★, Space 18.3%, Sandbox 11%, Economy 9%, Open World 7.8%

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 30.3%, Space Sim 29.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 8.9%, Open World 8.6%

2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.4% ★, Trading 20.8% ★, Space 14%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.3%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space Sim 23.5% ★, Space 21.2%, Economy 15%, Management 11.6%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

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: Space 34%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 10.9%

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.9% ★, Economy 17.2%, Space 16.8%, Management 14.3%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

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: Trading 25.2% ★, Space Sim 19.7% ★, Space 12.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 7.9%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: Space 33%, Space Sim 17.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 7.7%, Procedural Generation 7.5%

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 28.9% ★, Space 15%, Sandbox 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%

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 28.5% ★, Space 17.9%, Management 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%

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: Economy 21.6%, Space Sim 20.8% ★, Space 17.1%, Management 14.2%, Procedural Generation 9.5%

Do you know how to profit from trading cars while maintaining a good reputation? Car Trader Simulator lets you play the role of an American car dealer. Your goal is to get rich. How you do it depends entirely on you.

Why similar: Trading 37.2% ★, Economy 17.7%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 8%, Funny 6.5%

Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.

Why similar: Trading 26.6% ★, Space Sim 23.9% ★, Space 14.4%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Open World 8%

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 Sim 22.6% ★, Space 19.7%, Management 13.3%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Space Sim 39.9% ★, Management 16.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 8.6%

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: Trading 25% ★, Space Sim 24.9% ★, Space 13.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.2%

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Space 34.5%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Procedural Generation 16.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Exploration 9.8%

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 Sim 42.6% ★, Space 20.9%, Open World 13.6%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Adventure 4.4%

An open-world galaxy adventure game ✨🚀🌠 Explore a procedurally-generated universe filled with diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. 👽

Why similar: Space 27.7%, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Sci-fi 15%, Simulation 14.7%, Open World 13%