- #1 The Spatials
97% matchMixed69% of 329 reviews2015
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Why similar: Simulation 20.1%, Space 19.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.5%
- #2 Galactic Mining Corp
96% matchVery Positive84% of 931 reviews2021
Dev: Windybeard
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Mining 33.3% ★, Space 15.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 9%
- #3 GeoDepths
96% matchVery Positive87% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Mining 46.4% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Indie 6.2%
- #4 Star Ores Inc.
95% matchVery Positive83% of 293 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 28.2% ★, Space 12.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 9.8%
- #5 Mercury Fallen
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Mining 29.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Space 12.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 11.7%
- #6 Star Crafter
94% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Space 13.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%
- #7 The Last Starship
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 33.2% ★, Space 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #8 Prospector
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Space 21.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Adventure 10.6%
- #9 Spacebase DF-9
93% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,324 reviews2014
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.5%, Simulation 24.3%, Base Building 21.7%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Indie 7.7%
- #10 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
91% matchVery Positive84% of 454 reviews2015
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Space 23.1%, Simulation 20.8%, Indie 9.5%, Adventure 9.3%
- #11 Digger: Galactic Treasures
89% matchVery Positive88% of 631 reviews2025
Dev: RainStyle games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!
Why similar: Mining 47.8% ★, Simulation 16.9%, Space 15.5%, Adventure 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #12 Planet Miner
90% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Simulation 48.4%, Adventure 28.5%, Space 15.7%, Indie 7.5%
- #13 StellarHub
89% matchMixed60% of 277 reviews2017
Dev: CasualogicPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
StellarHub is a starbase management game where your job is to build a safe and functional space station. Deal with the challenges of managing a station crew while taking care of everyone’s needs. Your tasks include construction, extraction of resources, defense, trade, and more.
Why similar: Simulation 51.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Space 12%, Management 12%, Sci-fi 7%
- #14 To The Core
86% matchVery Positive93% of 5,073 reviews2023
Dev: SomethingExtra
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 64.1% ★, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 13.1%, Space 7%
- #15 Out of Ore
86% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Simulation 27.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 13.2%, Crafting 11.9%
- #16 Celestial Command
88% matchMixed63% of 687 reviews2014
Dev: Romenics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 35.2%, Simulation 30.8%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Indie 10.5%, Adventure 10.4%
- #17 Titan Outpost
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: The Boar Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: Simulation 28.4%, Space 17.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Indie 14%, Sci-fi 12.9%
- #18 AETHUS
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 38% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Space 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Sci-fi 12%
- #19 Facteroids
85% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 38.9% ★, Base Building 21.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #20 Starship Theory
84% matchMixed50% of 1,100 reviews2017
Dev: Reconnect Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Space 21.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Management 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #21 Drill Core
79% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Base Building 36.7%, Space 21.9%, Management 21.9%, Sci-fi 19.4%
- #22 Space Station Manager
84% matchMixed45% of 77 reviews2020
Dev: Ondrej Hroch
Windows
Space Station Manager is an exciting game where you own a space company, your main goal is to build a space station, make profit, grow your business, build an economical network, and expand beyond the solar system.
Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, Indie 23.6%, Space 14.7%, Management 10.7%
- #23 orbit.industries
82% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 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 47.1%, Simulation 28.1%, Management 24.8%
- #24 Gaia Beyond
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 258 reviews2020
Dev: Warp Turtle
Windows
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: Mining 41.9% ★, Space 19.2%, Sci-fi 15%, Simulation 12.4%, Adventure 6.8%
- #25 Deep Space Exploitation
78% matchVery Positive96% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: JuhrJuhr
Windows
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
Why similar: Mining 63.3% ★, Space 19.5%, Sci-fi 17.1%
- #26 SpaceKraft!
79% matchVery Positive91% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Game Dev Garage
Windows
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Why similar: Mining 54.2% ★, Simulation 21%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Adventure 11.1%
- #27 Gold Mining Simulator
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 16,043 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Why similar: Mining 55.5% ★, Simulation 32.2%, Indie 6.5%, Management 4.2%, Adventure 1.7%
- #28 Tiny Space Academy
81% matchMixed63% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: Full Orbit Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Tiny Space Academy is a 2D space sim where you can grow your own space agency and explore our solar system with rockets you design! Learn basic orbital mechanics, run science experiments, and get your astronauts back to Earth safely.
Why similar: Space 36.7%, Simulation 35.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Indie 12%
- #29 Click Space Miner 2
81% matchMostly Negative32% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: PIxelssoftworks
Windows
In Click Space Miner II you take control over a mining company in space. There is a big market, a lot of customers, but therefore also a lot of concurrents so you have to mine fast.
Why similar: Simulation 47.1%, Indie 28.7%, Crafting 24.2%
- #30 Exogate Initiative
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Simulation 21.8%, Management 18.9%, Space 18.8%, Sci-fi 16.1%
- #31 Astro Colony
75% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Base Building 28.8%, Space 24.2%, Simulation 19.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Adventure 8.4%
- #32 Sector Space
74% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Why similar: Simulation 49.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Space 11.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Adventure 8.4%
- #33 Farlight Explorers
78% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Space 30.8%, Indie 23.3%, Crafting 11.2%
- #34 Boppio
77% matchMixed51% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Boppy Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home. In order to succeed you will need to automate and optimize your base. Mine minerals and combine them into new items that will help you build your return vessel.
Why similar: Mining 43.5% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Simulation 19.6%, Management 11.7%, Sci-fi 3.7%
- #35 ΔV: Rings of Saturn
73% matchVery Positive93% of 3,305 reviews2023
Dev: Kodera Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 43%, Sci-fi 30%, Simulation 27%
- #36 Starship EVO
75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,210 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Simulation 29.3%, Space 28.4%, Indie 14.9%, Adventure 14.6%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #37 Planet Driller
77% matchMixed63% of 91 reviews2016
Dev: Oryzhon StudiosPub: Immanitas Entertainment GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Planet Driller is a mining game where you need to find DarkMatter in order to save the earth. To do this, drill your way through a procedurally generated planet full of minerals that you can sell for cash, then use the cash to upgrade your ship and make the job a lot easier!
Why similar: Adventure 52.6%, Indie 47.4%
- #38 Astrox Imperium
74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,210 reviews2019
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 31.1%, Mining 30.7% ★, Simulation 21.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Indie 8.3%
- #39 Space Architect
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Management 13.2%, Sci-fi 11.5%
- #40 Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars
76% matchMixed69% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Eel
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike, a sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat. Travel from star to star, upgrade your ship with new systems and weapons, build up your flotilla with allies and mercenaries, and take on a variety of alien menaces.
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Space 31.1%, Indie 30.6%
- #41 Solargene
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Base Building 31.2%, Space 22.4%, Management 20.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%
- #42 Oxygen Not Included
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 40.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Management 14.8%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #43 Astrometica
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 22.4%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Sci-fi 15%, Adventure 11.6%
- #44 Rebots
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Space 27.7%, Base Building 24.7%, Simulation 22%, Crafting 18.3%, Adventure 7.2%
- #45 Infinitum
73% matchMixed81% of 312 reviews2017
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.
Why similar: Simulation 38.2%, Adventure 21.1%, Space 20.4%, Indie 20.3%
- #46 A Planet of Mine Legacy
73% matchMixed63% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: Mining 40.2% ★, Base Building 21.5%, Space 16.8%, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 4.9%
- #47 ASTRONEER
68% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Space 30.5%, Base Building 24%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #48 Outpath
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Simulation 23.4%, Crafting 18%, Management 14.6%, Adventure 10.6%
- #49 Surviving Ceres
68% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Simulation 27.1%, Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 19.5%, Management 17.2%, Sci-fi 12.6%
- #50 EarthX
68% matchVery Positive88% of 905 reviews2023
Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!
Why similar: Space 25.1%, Simulation 23.8%, Base Building 21%, Management 19%, Indie 11.1%
- #51 Reassembly
69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,066 reviews2015
Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
Why similar: Space 61.7%, Indie 15.7%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Simulation 4.7%, Adventure 2.5%
- #52 Space Miner - Idle Adventures
69% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: FrontRunnerTek
Windows · Linux
A casual idle / active-idle asteroid mining game where you fly around mining and make the numbers go UP! Lasers, Drones, a dash of humor, RPG, science, research, crafting, games and more.
Why similar: Mining 63.7% ★, Crafting 19.9%, Space 16.4%
- #53 Underminer
66% matchVery Positive93% of 957 reviews2024
Dev: Team GongMyeongPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Welcome to Underminer, an underground adventure game set in a subterranean world. Mine minerals, earn money, upgrade your drill machine and descend deeper into the earth. The truth about 'legendary minerals' and an exciting underground world are waiting for you!
Why similar: Simulation 48.5%, Mining 32.2% ★, Indie 9.8%, Adventure 9.4%
- #54 ReFactory
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Simulation 33.3%, Base Building 25.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Management 13.1%, Indie 10.6%
- #55 The Planet Crafter
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Space 24.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Sci-fi 16%, Adventure 9.8%
- #56 Eventide Matter
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 772 reviews2025
Dev: Ottropi Games
Windows
A 2D space mining adventure. Mine exotic resources, unlock powerful equipment, and fend off relentless enemies to build an inter-dimensional portal, the last hope of salvation for your civilization.
Why similar: Mining 41.1% ★, Space 18.3%, Crafting 16.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Adventure 7.4%
- #57 The Final Earth 2
67% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Space 23.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Sci-fi 14.6%
- #58 Hazeron Starship
67% matchVery Positive84% of 104 reviews2023
Dev: Hazeron Freehold LLC
Windows · Linux
Explore and colonize a vast universe. Discover resources. Build cities. Make spacecraft. Walk aboard them. Operate their controls. Command a crew of NPCs. Lift off. Fly up through the atmosphere to outer space. Land on other worlds, anywhere, not at designated places. Build an empire.
Why similar: Mining 45.5% ★, Space 22.4%, Management 17.3%, Crafting 14.8%
- #59 Spaceflight Simulator
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,486 reviews2022
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Why similar: Space 40%, Simulation 34.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Indie 6.5%, Sci-fi 3.8%