60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Economy, Space Sim, Trading, Space.
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
Starlathe
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Deep Haul
Mine a vast, lonely asteroid field at the edge of a giant solar system. Tear ore from drifting rocks, haul it back to the station, and upgrade a rust-bucket into a roaring hauler. Dodge mini-suns, the sun, and a black hole — and clear the whole field to win.
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.5%, Trading 20.4%, Mining 12.3% ★, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 7.5%
Mine a vast, lonely asteroid field at the edge of a giant solar system. Tear ore from drifting rocks, haul it back to the station, and upgrade a rust-bucket into a roaring hauler. Dodge mini-suns, the sun, and a black hole — and clear the whole field to win.
Why similar: Space Sim 30%, Mining 20.1% ★, Trading 18%, Economy 9%, Space 7.3%
Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.3%, Trading 21.5%, Diplomacy 14% ★, Economy 9.4%, Space 8%
A first-person sci-fi cargo flight sim. Pilot a physics-driven lander, plan risky routes, manage fuel and heavy cargo, and repair systems mid-flight. Explore the cabin, mine resources, and build Equilibrium Arrays. Earn credits and upgrade your ship.
Why similar: Transportation 36.1% ★, Space Sim 32.3%, Economy 8%, Sandbox 7%, Space 5.9%
Run your own supermarket in outer space. Keep shelves stocked and nicely organized. Supply your store with drone delivery. Will you take the duty of running a space supermarket?
Why similar: Trading 23.7%, Space Sim 22.8%, Economy 12.5%, Space 10.7%, Time Management 8.8%
The corporations abandoned Kepler-11 and left its stations to the people still living in them. Somebody still has to move the cargo, mine the ore, and make what nobody else can. Nobody out here asks questions. Build a fleet in a living system that keeps turning, even when you're gone.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.6%, Transportation 27.7% ★, Trading 15.9%, Space 6.6%, Economy 5.1%
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 50.8%, Space 14.3%, Trading 14.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Exploration 6.2%
Manage your very own space station in this Tycoon game. Sell fuel and repairs to the visitors. Manufacture and research new ways to defend your business and make more money while balancing your relations towards other factions. Survive against all odds.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.3%, Time Management 18.9%, Trading 14.4%, Economy 11.1%, Capitalism 10.1%
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.8%, Mining 19.9% ★, Trading 17%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 7.1%
The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.
Why similar: Space Sim 43.4%, Trading 19.6%, Space 11.2%, Exploration 6.4%, Economy 6.2%
Amidst powerful alien empires, you are among the first humans in this corner of the procedurally generated galaxy. Trade and explore. With no combat, your success hinges on mastering complex alien economies and navigating intricate politics. Can you carve out a place for humanity in the cosmos?
Why similar: Trading 31.9%, Transportation 27.8% ★, Space Sim 14.1%, Economy 8.6%, Space 7.3%
Become spacefaring merchant in a galaxy filled with diverse planets, each with its own economy, resources, and challenges. Amass wealth and reputation by trading goods, negotiating with factions, and navigating the intricacies of interstellar commerce.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.7%, Trading 20.8%, Economy 10.9%, Capitalism 10.3%, Space 8.9%
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.4%, Trading 20.5%, Mining 15.6% ★, Space 8.1%, Economy 8%
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: Transportation 26.4% ★, Space Sim 24.2%, Trading 18.1%, Economy 11.2%, Space 7.9%
Cattle Hyperdrive is a space trucking open world game that takes place across the solar system.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.2%, Transportation 22.4% ★, Trading 15.6%, Capitalism 10.2%, Economy 9.9%
Transport/ trade, build and combat your way to become the legendary Tycoon Tai-pan in this sci-fi/ cyberpunk themed space adventure. Grow your empire, design & build spaceships to deliver your cargo across the galaxy! Bring back the luxury liners & explore the cosmos in style.
Why similar: Transportation 32.1% ★, Space Sim 26.7%, Trading 22.5%, Economy 6.8%, Space 6.3%
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Trading 20.4%, Economy 12.9%, Capitalism 11.4%, Space 6.9%
This is a game about the pressure of keeping ships productive. Idle ships bleed money. Late deliveries hurt your reputation. Old hulls develop histories. Captains become known quantities. A quiet ore run can suddenly become a rescue problem, a customs problem, or a piracy problem.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1%, Trading 18.9%, Transportation 18.7% ★, Time Management 11.8%, Economy 9.1%
Flightline is an airline management sim about building an airline that has to make sense. Set routes, choose aircraft, price seats, and shape a network where passengers route themselves through real markets. Growth is not just drawing lines on a map. It is whether the whole system holds together.
Why similar: Transportation 21% ★, Time Management 17.1%, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Trading 13.7%, Capitalism 8.5%
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 25.7%, Space Sim 17.9%, Space 16.2%, Transportation 13% ★, Economy 9.9%
A fast paced cooperative game where hippos run a growing space depot. Race against the clock to Scan, inspect, and ship the right materials using drones. Try to keep up. Other hipponauts such as yourself are relying on you.
Why similar: Space Sim 40%, Time Management 19.4%, Space 12.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Economy 7.9%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 31.9%, Trading 19.3%, Mining 18.8% ★, Space 7.4%, Sandbox 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: Space Sim 23.6%, Trading 18.4%, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Economy 10.1%, Capitalism 8.7%
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: Space Sim 26.8%, Trading 20.7%, Space 15.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Mining 11.1% ★
From rags to riches, build your merchant empire in this space trader tycoon. Haul cargo, mine asteroids, run factories, trade stocks, command a fleet or even colonize an entire planet. Grow to become a gazillionaire as you outsmart the competition and expand your business across the planets.
Why similar: Trading 24.4%, Space Sim 23.4%, Capitalism 12.9%, Economy 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 Sim 27.2%, Mining 18.9% ★, Trading 18.8%, Time Management 14.5%, Space 8.4%
A tiny airline management game where you buy planes, choose routes and try to stay ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Transportation 41.8% ★, Time Management 15.6%, Economy 14%, Capitalism 11.4%, Management 7.6%
An oil tycoon where half the game happens underground. Scan deposits with sonar, steer a drill that turns, haul oil with your own fleet, hold it in a warehouse for a better price and sign contracts where every day counts.
Why similar: Transportation 19.8% ★, Mining 16.6% ★, Trading 15.2%, Economy 14.7%, Capitalism 7.9%
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.9%, Trading 22.9%, Space 16.5%, Economy 9.8%, Simulation 8.6%
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 30.3%, Space 20.6%, Trading 19.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Economy 7.7%
Orbital Traffic Controller is a sci-fi spaceship management game set in the Solar System. Become an interstellar traffic controller, directing vessels from planetary holding patterns and warp gates to atmospheric reentry, all while avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and planetary bodies.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.8%, Transportation 29.5% ★, Time Management 14.2%, Space 6.8%, Simulation 5.6%
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 39%, Space 18.8%, Trading 13.5%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.
Why similar: Space Sim 44.5%, Mining 15.6% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 9.6%, Exploration 8.5%
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 Sim 39.9%, Mining 21.2% ★, Space 19.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 6.6%
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 41.1%, Mining 32.6% ★, Economy 8.7%, Exploration 6.7%, Space 5.8%
Take the helm of a cutting-edge space agency with the mission to explore and exploit the Solar system. Realize the historical, and futuristic mission to establish humanity as the Interplanetary species.
Why similar: Transportation 32.7% ★, Space Sim 24.7%, Trading 21.3%, Exploration 6%, Management 5.3%
Stranded in the asteroid belt with a broken ship and one working drill. Repair the ship part by part, mine your way back to the stars and grow a lifeboat into an empire. Offline counts exactly like online — no timers, no microtransactions, buy once.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.2%, Mining 22.3% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Diplomacy 15% ★, Sandbox 6.9%
A first-person space courier sim. Haul cargo between planets and stations, fuel and repair your ship by hand, and navigate by instruments through a forgotten star system where nobody is coming to help.
Why similar: Space Sim 37%, Transportation 26.8% ★, Economy 8.8%, Space 8.5%, Survival 6.9%
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.5%, Trading 20.7%, Space 19%, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 7.4%
Galactic Merchant is sci-fi business simulator (a.k.a space tycoon game). Starting from single ship startup you can grow it to intergalactic monopoly. To do so, you could trade, mine, produce goods, smuggle, rob, give bribes, engage in politics, save planets and use many other options.
Why similar: Trading 30.5%, Space Sim 30%, Economy 12%, Space 10.9%, Management 6.8%
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.8%, Mining 23% ★, Trading 20.3%, Space 8.6%, Economy 7.3%
Core Logistics is a management sim about growing a transport company from a single van into a network across the whole map. Choose which contracts to take, match the right trucks and licenses to each load, and chain jobs together so your trucks never drive empty. When you need to think, hit pause.
Why similar: Transportation 45.2% ★, Time Management 22.4%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.8%
2.5 million light-years separate you from a civilization sending a signal. This incremental space odyssey will take you across the universe, all the way to Andromeda. The adventure continues. Safe travels, Commander.
Why similar: Space Sim 46.1%, Time Management 24.1%, Trading 14.2%, Space 7.5%, Management 3.7%
Space Hauler is a space flight sim set around Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Fly your spacecraft using realistic aerodynamics and orbital mechanics, take on contracts, and build your career as a pilot-for-hire.
Why similar: Space Sim 43%, Transportation 36% ★, Space 7%, Exploration 5.2%, Sandbox 5.1%
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.2%, Trading 20.1%, Mining 15.6% ★, Economy 10.3%, Space 8.1%
Haul Cargo in Space! Manage placement of modules and make builds for fighting pirates. Explore and finish missions to uncover the secrets and mysteries of this universe.
Why similar: Transportation 40.4% ★, Space Sim 31.2%, Space 11.9%, Exploration 7.1%, Management 5%
Star Life is a space sandbox RPG where you start on a planet and carve your own path. Develop skills through "learn by doing," influence dynamic economies, schedule your life with the "Life Planner," and face the challenges of space. Balance risk and survival in a universe shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7%, Trading 20.7%, Economy 13%, Sandbox 9.3%, Capitalism 7.8%
Drive a lil tug boat, haul cargo with a crane, and manage your warehouse storage, all while taking on some side-jobs when you can! Unlock and purchase upgrades to make tuggin it go a little smoother, and apply cosmetics so you're always tuggin it with style!
Why similar: Transportation 46.4% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, Time Management 10.4%, Economy 10%, Simulation 6.5%
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 37.9%, Trading 27.7%, Economy 12.6%, Space 11.8%, Simulation 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: Space Sim 32.3%, Mining 20.8% ★, Trading 20.6%, Space 9.2%, Choices Matter 6.6%
A casual airline management game set on Earth and Mars. Supports singleplayer and Steam co-op.
Why similar: Transportation 35.9% ★, Time Management 19.4%, Diplomacy 16.1% ★, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.6%, Trading 27.5%, Space 13.9%, Mining 10.1% ★, Exploration 6.3%
An open world survival game set in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.6%, Mining 19.4% ★, Space 11%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 7.6%
An in-depth space and economy simulation meets simple twin-stick controls. Iskhaari people have been exiled by the Khanid Emperor to a contested region of the galaxy. Through the means of military, economy and politics conquer this region for the House of Iskhaar.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.7%, Trading 23.5%, Economy 12%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Top-down space trading and combat on a working frontier. Run cargo, hunt salvage, fight pirates, and build a corporation that survives twenty cycles of pressure from the Cryos Foundation, the Frontier Allegiance, and the Sable Syndicate.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.3%, Trading 25.2%, Mining 21.5% ★, Space 8.3%, Exploration 6.7%
Survive the void in Null Hørizøn. Trade, fight, and explore a retro-futuristic 3D galaxy with 2D sprites. Upgrade your ship, smuggle goods, and travel across the universe. Tactical Real-Time combat meets Grid-based exploration in this atmospheric space sim. The Null Hørizøn calls, Captain.
Why similar: Space Sim 47.2%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Fly a rented corporate vessel in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Why similar: Space Sim 56.8%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Trading 8.6%, Space 7.4%
This is a Sky Island simulation game. To prevent your Sky Island from falling, you need a large amount of float stones to maintain the production of float energy. Trade, missions, robbery—do whatever it takes to survive...
Why similar: Space Sim 36.9%, Trading 22.9%, Time Management 18.8%, Survival 7.4%, Exploration 6%
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 33.3%, Trading 22.6%, Economy 11.2%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 7.7%
