- #1 Lone Voyage
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ethan C (CMD_NU11)
Windows
You are the last living organism in the galaxy. Adrift and alone in a cold dark world you must scavenge for resources to keep your ship running, and arm your ship to prepare for the swarms arrival.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.9%, Crafting 18%, Space 15.4%, Survival 14.8%, PvE 12.9%
- #2 Main Sequence
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tumbling Dumpling Studio
Windows
Main Sequence is a space-sim factory builder where your goal is to build an interstellar industrial empire. Collect resources, automate production, and expand your fleet of ships in order to survive and leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.7%, Crafting 11%, Space 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, PvE 6.9%
- #3 Unconquered Sun
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pat Traynor
Windows
3D hard sci-fi grand strategy across a procedural galaxy. Build colonies, forge fleets, and command an interstellar empire with information constrained by the speed of light.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9% ★, Space Sim 26.2%, PvE 10.5%, Space 7.9%, Simulation 6.9%
- #4 Haul Yeah!
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FunkMunki
Windows
Haul Yeah! is a chill co-op space trucking game. Live aboard your ship, grow food, cook meals, deploy drones, repair hull systems, trade on a player-driven market, and haul resources across 15 star systems. Play solo or with up to 3 friends via Steam.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Space 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
- #5 Nebulis Entity
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FOUFY SOFTWARE
Windows · Linux
Nebulis Entity is a first person spaceship crew simulator, with support for online co-op. Maintain your vessel, track down and decode alien signals, and venture as far as you can - while doing your best to prevent your ship from falling apart around you.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7%, Space 15.6%, Survival 15%, PvE 14.2%, Exploration 9.3%
- #6 Galaxicus
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Crimson Leaf LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
An MMO experience that's perfect for solo or team play. Join the adventure and become the ultimate Emperor of the galaxy. Conquer Planets, Manage Economies, Optimize Production, Upgrade Technology while exploring a Randomly-Generated Galaxy, and compete Seasonal PVP.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Space Sim 20.9%, Space 12.3%, PvE 10.9%, Online Co-Op 6.4%
- #7 Starvector
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Starvector is a massive story-driven procedural universe where you aren't the main character. Collect resources, craft technology, build custom spaceships and bases, and so much more in a universe that existed long before you arrived, complete with pre-existing factions, conflicts, and history.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Space 9.9%
- #8 Don't die in space!
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mezza9Games
Windows
Welcome to our sci-fi space adventure, where players take on the roles of a crew aboard a spaceship as they work together to survive in the vast and dangerous universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.3%, Space 13.1%, PvE 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Survival 12.4%
- #9 Island of the Lost
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JR_Development
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island, gather resources, craft tools, and build a ship to escape—or explore freely in a larger open-world survival mode.
Why similar: PvE 19.1%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 16.5%, Exploration 8%, Immersive Sim 7.4%
- #10 Wayward Beyond
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bitfish
Windows
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 20.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 11.4%, PvE 10.9%, Space 10.2%
- #11 Strata
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SMGAMES
Windows
Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Space Sim 13.7%, Space 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #12 SurviRail: Deep Space
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AstroGlitchStudio
Windows
Survirail is a survival game from a first-person perspective. Travel through space by train, explore space stations, collect resources, fight enemy androids and develop your mobile base to survive and discover the truth.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Space 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9%
- #13 Suborbital
89% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Pat Traynor
Windows
A sci-fi survival game with a twist. Set in a sub-orbit of a black hole, collect materials and scavenge wrecks in order to repair your damaged ship. However, time is not on your side.
Why similar: Space Sim 32%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Space 12.9%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #14 No End
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas Martin
Windows
Explore a seamless endless universe with an uncountable number of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons. Make friends or enemies with unique alien civilizations. Research upgrades for your vessel with scientific phenomena and alien tech that you've acquired.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.4%, Crafting 18.5%, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #15 Playable Alpha
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Prime Rendering
Windows
As researcher with great ambitions, and lack of talent, you are sent to a newly discovered planet far away from civilization. In this VR first person survival, you will need to build an outpost and survive the hostile environment. While exploring the planet, unveiling its secrets.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 11.1%, PvE 10.7%, Space 10.7%
- #16 Spiritus Astrum
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phoenix Game Development
Windows
Spiritus Astrum is a persistent, open-world, multi-player, roleplaying sandbox. It features an infinite, procedurally generated universe which players are free to explore without restriction. Spiritus Astrum is more than a game, it is a world.
Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, PvE 11.8%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
- #17 WormWorld
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyjmo
Windows
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.7%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 12.7%, PvE 12.3%, Space 11.4%
- #18 Survival In Space Is Not Guaranteed
84% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Wondersoft Studio
Windows
Survive and Escape! Crash-landed on an asteroid, your oxygen is running out. Explore, mine precious resources, build a base, and repair your ship to survive the dangers of space. Do you have what it takes to escape?
Why similar: PvE 16.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Space 11.8%
- #19 Gedel Escape
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Bantik Games
Windows
Survival game in a space setting with resource manager elements and puzzles
Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Survival 14.1%, Space 13.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #20 WarpedSpace
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarpedSpaceGame
Windows
WarpedSpace is a sci-fi survival adventure game set in deep space. A massive, open environment full of wonder and peril awaits you!
Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 13.2%, Space 11.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #21 Piperspace
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tom Mason - wheybagsPub: Ben Buckton
Windows
A first person building game where every problem is solved with pipes.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Simulation 9%
- #22 PowerCorp
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: byteZorroPub: byteZorro Games
Windows
A hard sci-fi survival sim where each decision costs power. Every system drains your dying reactor. Pilot a crippled spacecraft across a real-scale solar system using true orbital mechanics, manage critical systems, and fight to reach Earth — where space itself is the only enemy you need.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8%, Survival 19.2%, Space 18%, Simulation 12.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #23 Patched Conic
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Perilune Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fly real astrodynamics from an Apollo-era DSKY. Plan Lambert transfers, mine asteroids, build a fleet, and survive a 38-body solar system where every trajectory is solved from Kepler's equation. No autopilot, no cheating.
Why similar: Space Sim 36%, Simulation 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Space 10%, Survival 9.5%
- #24 Elon
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoBehavior Games
Windows
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 31.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 8.8%, Survival 8%
- #25 Battlecruiser Generations
81% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: 3000AD
Windows
In celebration of the 25 yr anniversary of the first release, this compendium contains all 4 games in the Battlecruiser 3000AD series which was first released in 1996.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.8%, Space 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
- #26 Stars End
79% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.8%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Space 11.1%
- #27 Tiny Pixel Planets
79% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: SP Possibilities
Windows
Explore the pixel cosmos, jumping from star system to star system. Land on fully procedural planets, and make them your home.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.4%, Crafting 20.4%, PvE 14.4%, Space 14.3%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #28 Null Hørizøn
78% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: HopefullyHeroic
Windows
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 34.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 9.3%
- #29 Triton Survival
78% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Family Devs
Windows
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Crafting 18.6%, Space 13.6%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #30 Initial Civilization
77% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sun Peiyi
Windows
A vast 6 handred-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Crafting 21.6%, Space Sim 19.8%, Space 18.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #31 Pokon Factory Survival
80% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: rukusu
Windows
Pokon Factory Survival is a 3D infinite world game. Mining resources, creating materials for spaceships, and escaping.
Why similar: Crafting 30.9%, Survival 25.6%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, Simulation 8.1%, 3D 6.9%
- #32 Planet Factory
76% matchPositive86% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: SupremeGuardianGames
Windows
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 31.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #33 SpaceCraft
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
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: Space Sim 23.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Space 13.2%, PvE 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #34 Astro Raid
76% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Coding Alpaka
Windows · Mac
Fly around, mine resources, expand your ship, build weapons and fight off aliens!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.9%, PvE 15.5%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%
- #35 Survindust
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Crafting 21.6%, Survival 21.1%, PvE 13.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 11.3%
- #36 CyberHive
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Survival 16.7%, Space 16%, Strategy 6.6%
- #37 Trabacolo
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnaut
Windows · Linux
Trabacolo is a 1-16 player co-op space game in a chaotic physics-driven world. Build and control large modular spaceships alone or together. Manage resources and collect all catalyst material. Explore maps with a variety of challenges, look out for enemies, and take care: Some of the floor is lava.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.8%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Immersive Sim 8.2%, Space 8.1%, PvE 7.8%
- #38 Astrodition
75% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Astrodition Development
Windows
Astrodition is a story-based adventure-survival game set in space! Go head-to-head with your friends in Space Dodgeball and Capture The Flag or play alongside them in the Story and Free Play gamemodes!
Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Crafting 16.8%, Space 15.1%, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 14.5%
- #39 RESBS
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RESB
Windows
RESBS is a first-person space survival simulation where you and your friends cooperate to survive in zero gravity on a space station!
Why similar: Space Sim 30.7%, Space 18.2%, Survival 17.6%, Exploration 10.9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #40 PlanetS
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Philseque Software
Windows
PlanetS is a space-themed open world game, allowing the player to explore the mysteries of the universe and various planets. First or third person camera, Craft system, flight simulation and online multiplayer.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Space 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.9%
- #41 Stick Happens
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wait, Wait... JUMP!
Windows
Jump into Stick Happens™, a chaotic co-op adventure! Team up with friends to explore vibrant islands and whack goofy monsters. Master floppy physics, wear ridiculous hats, and fight together. Can your wobbly squad survive the mayhem?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.2%, PvE 19.4%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #42 Space City - Build Your Empire
73% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: GoToYourGame
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy that will make you immerse yourself in a new world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.4% ★, Crafting 23.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, PvE 6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #43 The Joy of Mining
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: spielepk
Windows
Mine, loot, craft, build, fight, and explore the open world in this Minecraft/Terraria-inspired game. It includes quests from NPCs, farming and fishing, as well as a variety of arcade games to play in-game.
Why similar: Crafting 28.4%, Survival 18.7%, PvE 16%, Sandbox 14.5%, Exploration 12%
- #44 Survivance
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Endless Worlds Studio
Windows
Stranded on an uncharted alien world with a broken ship and no rescue coming. Scan the wildlife, uncover the truth behind abandoned human outposts, and build the technology you need to escape, before this planet becomes your grave.
Why similar: Survival 25.1%, PvE 19.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Exploration 11.4%
- #45 MineEngineer
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoonBuninni
Windows · Mac
Mine. Build. Survive. Engineer your way through the cosmos in this 2D space engineering sandbox!
Why similar: Space 20.7%, Space Sim 17.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, PvE 10.6%
- #46 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.3%, Space 12.2%, PvE 10.2%
- #47 Space
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
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: Space Sim 23%, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 13.8%, Space 13.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #48 Lodestar
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Edenic Era LLC
Windows
Lodestar sends you and your squad of friends on your own space odyssey. Traverse multiple planets in a journey to get home without losing yourself or your ship to the perils of the unknown! Solve puzzles, gather resources, mine asteroids, and survive... with your own oh-so welcoming AI sidekick!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Space 12.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #49 Space Mechanics: repair | hiring | crafting
68% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: MintCat
Windows
In "Space Mechanics: Repair | Hiring | Craft" you are the owner of a space repair station in which you have to work. Repair spaceships, get money for it, hire them and create items for sale or for your own purposes.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.4%, Space 15.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #50 Adrorium
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Beholder
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your ship, defend against drone waves and explore hundreds of sectors filled with stations, asteroids and planets with lots of POIs. The ship systems can be controlled via consoles with several hundred buttons. Craft equipment and blocks, loot the POIs and disabled drones.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.3%, Crafting 20.3%, Survival 15.8%, Space 13%, Exploration 7.5%
- #51 Evolution Survival
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DrierWhisper729Pub: DrierWhisper Games
Windows
Evolution Survival is a survival game where the universe evolves around you. The plants and animals you saw at the beginning will be different at the end, They may not even be there, the star may have gone supernova or shrunk into a white dwarf. Who knows when Natural Selection is at the wheel!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 12.1%, PvE 11.9%, Space 11.1%
- #52 Cosmic Armada
69% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Charged Software
Windows
A fleet combat and space exploration game. Pilot ships, control a fleet, build and upgrade colonies, mine resources, craft items, trade, upgrade your ships and fleet, carry out missions, board ships, destroy ships and get revenge on the empire that conquered your home planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.1%, Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Space 14.3%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%
- #53 Deep Claims
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Promination Studios
Windows
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 26.8%, Crafting 23%, Space 15.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 11.9%
- #54 Reprocessed
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
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 22.1%, Crafting 17.2%, Space 13.3%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #55 Gravitation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoldenEggs Workshop
Windows
Gravitation is a sandbox simulation set in the vastness of the cosmos and built on the laws of real-world physics.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 10.5%
- #56 Age of Ascent
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Illyriad Games
Windows
Age of Ascent: Arrival is a new space co-op and combat game featuring direct-piloting solo and co-op missions and real-time PvE and PvP battles set in stunning space scenes.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Space 10.8%, PvE 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #57 Let's Build Wonders: Galaxy
66% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Sunjoy Meta
Windows
Let’s Build Wonders:Galaxy is a multiplayer cooperative space-building game. In the game, members within each alliance achieve efficient resource sharing and division of labor through trade transportation means. They work to expand their alliance's galactic territory to resist pirate harassment.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.9%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Space 12.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #58 Space Sim Tycoon
66% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: SuperChicken Productions LLC
Windows
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 33.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Space 10.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #59 Interstellar Pilot 2
67% matchVery Positive91% of 155 reviews2023
Dev: Pixelfactor Ltd.
Windows
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 35.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Space 13.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.3%