
Cyber Scouts is a space simulator. Build your ship block by block, script your autopilot in Lua, and battle the rogue AI NEXUS in a story campaign. Play solo or co-op with up to 10 friends — no accounts, no global servers.
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Cyber Scouts is a space simulator. Build your ship block by block, script your autopilot in Lua, and battle the rogue AI NEXUS in a story campaign. Play solo or co-op with up to 10 friends — no accounts, no global servers.

SpaceCraft
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

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.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Space Sim 19.3%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Space 9.3%
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: Automation 30%, Space Sim 16.4%, Artificial Intelligence 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 45.8%, Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Strategy 3.6%
Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.6%, Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 21.3%, Space 13%, Crafting 9.6%
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
Why similar: Automation 46.5%, Space Sim 33.2%, Space 14.4%, Indie 2%, Strategy 1.8%
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: Automation 35.6%, Space Sim 29.4%, Sandbox 11%, Space 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%
Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Space Sim 23.9%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Wargame 9.9%, Space 9.8%
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: Automation 33%, Space Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Space 10.7%
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 32.3%, Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 19.8%, Space 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Command the resources of the stars through automation on an unprecedented scale. Establish an autonomous megafactory, the Forge World of the rising Megacorporation, to outproduce the Empire in a galactic war of attrition. Defend it against all odds. The Factory Must Survive!
Why similar: Automation 34%, Artificial Intelligence 23.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Space 7.8%, Crafting 7.4%
Construct, maintain, manage and upgrade the fleet of your space robots in this sandbox crafter. Build the base, gather resources and automate to succeed in your mission in a unique robotic spacesim.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Space Sim 19.6%, Artificial Intelligence 19%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 47.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Space 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.2%
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: Automation 35.4%, Space Sim 21.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Space 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%
Desktop and VR interactive space experience/game. Fan homage to SpaceX's efforts of inspiring humanity to finally become a spacefaring civilization! Experience launches, flights and landings of starships first-hand, engage with challenging mini-games, explore funny memes and more. :-)
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Space Sim 23.3%, Artificial Intelligence 22.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Space 10.8%
First Glimpse on Steam Next: Build, Configure, and Manage every aspect of your own Starship. An FTL-esque game in a MMO setting. Pre bundled with deep strategy, exploration, PVP, market economy, trading, mining. Basically everything a star captain wants to do after a day at the office :)
Why similar: Automation 28%, Space Sim 21.2%, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Wargame 11.5%, Space 10.9%
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 33%, Automation 25.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Adventure 5.4%
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Space Sim 20.6%, Sandbox 17.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Space 9.7%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Space Sim 23.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Space Sim 20.7%, Space 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Space Sim 23.7%, Sandbox 16%, Space 10.5%, Crafting 10%
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Automation 29%, Space Sim 23.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Space 11.3%
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 Sim 33.9%, Automation 28.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Space 11.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Space Sim 19.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Space 11%, Crafting 8.2%
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 42.2%, Space 16.7%, Massively Multiplayer 15.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Space Sim 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Space 9.9%
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 33.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Artificial Intelligence 12.7%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%
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: Space Sim 26.2%, Automation 22%, Sandbox 11.3%, Space 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Space Sim 23.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Space 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%
A base-building and automation game about restoring a ruined planet. Mine resources, build factories, deploy AI drones, and revive a living world.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Space Sim 33.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Space 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.8%
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: Automation 35.9%, Space Sim 19.2%, Space 13%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 8.9%
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Automation 68.2%, Sandbox 31.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
A cozy explovival game where you play a wounded raccoon and his helper drone, cleaning a polluted 4×4 km island, recycling trash, gathering plants and surviving weather, seasons and hunger while slowly rebooting nature.
Why similar: Automation 41.5%, Sandbox 22.4%, Artificial Intelligence 22.1%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Adventure 3.9%
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 27.8%, Artificial Intelligence 21.1%, Sandbox 17%, Space 13.2%, Sci-fi 11.9%
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: Automation 33.4%, Space Sim 16.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Space 11.6%
Infinity: Battlescape is a multiplayer space combat sim supporting hundreds of players on a single server. Join one of the corporate factions and fight for domination of a seamless, true-to-scale procedural star system. Participate in massive space and planetary battles involving hundreds of ships.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.1%, Massively Multiplayer 28%, Space 20%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Action 3.4%
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: Automation 45.6%, Space 15.6%, Space Sim 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Sci-fi 9%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 55.2%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Sci-fi 9.7%, 2D 1.3%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 43.5%, Artificial Intelligence 26.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 4.2%
You have been commissioned to collect and research space minerals by destroying asteroids near your space shuttle. With your growing inventory of materials and new knowledge you build additional modules on your shuttle continuously expanding it into a self sustaining space station eco system.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, Wargame 16.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Space 7.9%
A desktop idle-style game inspired by Factorio. Free from constant monster attacks, you can focus purely on construction. Start by mining resources to build bases and factories, then assemble fleets to explore more planets.
Why similar: Automation 46.4%, Space Sim 34.8%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 1.6%
Get ready to embark on a thrilling space adventure across the cosmos, where you'll explore new planets, engage in thrilling space battles, and shape the fate of humanity among the stars.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.1%, Automation 23.3%, Spectacle fighter 17.6% ★, Space 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.9%
Build and manage your own space company. Design missions, launch satellites, and expand your influence across Earth’s orbit.
Why similar: Space Sim 35%, Sandbox 21.5%, Automation 18.9%, Artificial Intelligence 10.1%, Space 8.3%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 39%, Space Sim 18.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind. Play how you like in this open world space-sim developed by Pixelfactor.
Why similar: Space Sim 38.1%, Sandbox 24.1%, Space 12%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Strategy 6.4%
Command a UGA heavy cruiser against the Krellan Empire. Navigate space, manage resources, and coordinate defense strategies. Use starbases and outposts to protect colonies while engaging in tactical ship combat. Your decisions will determine the fate of sectors in this military space simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 44.3%, Wargame 22.1%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Strategy 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Space Sim 27.7%, Space 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%
🚀 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: Automation 27.4%, Space Sim 24.7%, Artificial Intelligence 18%, Space 15.1%, Sandbox 12.1%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.5%, Automation 29.2%, Space 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Sci-fi 9%
Survive against a relentless horde in a single-player space sandbox blending factory automation, RTS combat, and deep RPG progression. Pilot humanity's last ark, the Mothership, on a desperate mission back in time to build a fleet powerful enough to change the destiny of the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.5%, Automation 30.1%, Sandbox 19%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Space 5.2%
An incremental journey through space. Manage your ship's capsules, choose your path through the stars, and watch your crew and automation do the rest.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Space Sim 16.5%, Space 16.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%
Construct sprawling factories in the void of space, unlock new eras of technology, and expand your influence from a single planet to the vastness of multiple solar systems. From survival to galactic domination—mine, build, trade, and expand across solar systems.
Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Space Sim 32.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Adventure 3.9%, PvP 3.6%
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 53.5%, Sandbox 19.2%, Crafting 17.9%, Strategy 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.2%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Space 21.8%, Space Sim 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
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 36.9%, Sandbox 20.1%, Space 14.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Automation 8.6%
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.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6%, Artificial Intelligence 20.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Automation 13.6%, Crafting 8.5%
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 35.6%, Space 22.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Adventure 5.2%
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
Why similar: Space Sim 29.9%, Sandbox 24%, Crafting 16.8%, Space 14.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Space Sim 25.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 10%, Space 9.4%
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: Automation 40.5%, Sandbox 16%, Space 14.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%