- #1 Among The Stars
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hidden Universe Games
Windows
You find yourself in a distant galaxy full of merchants, diplomats, bandits and powerful factions. Explore unknown galaxies, trade, fight pirates or become one. Uncover mysteries and shape the universe!
Why similar: Space Sim 30.9% ★, Sandbox 22%, Exploration 8.9%, RPG 8%, Open World 7.9%
- #2 SpaceCraft
96% matchNo user reviews
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 17.4% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Space 13.5%, Automation 11.4%, Open World 10%
- #3 Reprocessed
96% 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 15.8% ★, Automation 15.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Space 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%
- #4 Starvector
95% 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: Sandbox 16.8%, Automation 14.9%, Space Sim 14.8% ★, Space 11.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #5 Main Sequence
94% 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 22.4% ★, Automation 17.1%, Space 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #6 Triton Survival
94% 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 18.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Space 14.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%
- #7 X Space
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XSPACE
Windows
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: Space Sim 16.4% ★, Sandbox 15%, Space 13.7%, Automation 12.7%, Open World 11%
- #8 Yuri's Resolve
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Apothecary Games
Windows
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 17.2%, Space Sim 14.7% ★, Space 13.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #9 Space
91% 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 17% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Space 13.6%, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #10 Wreckborn
91% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.4% ★, Sandbox 15%, Automation 14.4%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 9.6%
- #11 No End
90% 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 25.8% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 13.1%, Space 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%
- #12 Deep Claims
89% 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: Sandbox 20.7%, Space Sim 19.9% ★, Space 16.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.1%
- #13 Rodina
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,329 reviews2014
Dev: Elliptic Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Space Sim 15.1% ★, Exploration 9.7%
- #14 Moonshot
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BeardedBrothers.games
Windows
In Moonshot, blend survival and tycoon gameplay in a 2027 space colonization race. Build rockets, lead a team, and be the first astronaut on the Moon since 1972. Navigate lunar landscapes with realistic, near-future technology. A thrilling, realistic space venture awaits!
Why similar: Space Sim 19.6% ★, Space 14.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%
- #15 Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
88% matchMixed68% of 536 reviews2016
Dev: Reason Generator Inc.
Windows
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 24.7% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Space 14.7%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 7%
- #16 Celestium
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: alex197
Windows · Linux
An open world survival game set in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.5% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Space 15.7%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%
- #17 Between the Stars
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,427 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 26.1%, Space Sim 24.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, RPG 9.9%, Simulation 7.3%
- #18 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
86% matchVery Positive94% of 1,148 reviews2017
Dev: Bird in SkyPub: Crunchy Leaf Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25%, Space Sim 18.1% ★, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.5%, Adventure 9.8%
- #19 XenoHaven
84% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Space 10.2%
- #20 Calling Home
84% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Crystal Fox GmbH
Windows
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 25.6% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Automation 12.8%, Adventure 7%, Crafting 6.9%
- #21 Astrometica
83% 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 Sim 26% ★, Space 14.3%, Automation 14%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%
- #22 Astro Colony
82% 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: Automation 17%, Space 15.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Space Sim 14% ★, Sandbox 11.6%
- #23 Jitter
81% matchVery Positive86% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.3% ★, Space 16.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%
- #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 25.6% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Adventure 6.7%
- #25 Celestial Command
82% 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 30.7%, Sandbox 21.3%, Space Sim 17.1% ★, Simulation 9.8%, RPG 6.9%
- #26 Space Trash Scavenger
79% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 16%, Space 14.5%, Sandbox 14%, Space Sim 12.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%
- #27 Super-Spatial
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Interline Studios LC
Windows
Explore, build, and master the art of automation. Build your base, discover colorful new worlds, and develop new technologies as you tame the far reaches of space and search for a way to return to Earth.
Why similar: Space 17.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Automation 11.8%
- #28 Star Horizon
80% matchMixed60% of 150 reviews2015
Dev: Orbital Knight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre.
Why similar: Space 23.8%, Space Sim 19.6% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 9.5%, Simulation 8%
- #29 Untethered
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: True Anomaly Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Space Sim 18.8% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Automation 14.9%, Space 13.8%, Base Building 11%
- #30 Rebel Galaxy
78% matchVery Positive85% of 8,230 reviews2015
Dev: Double Damage Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 34.9%, Space Sim 19.4% ★, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, RPG 6.6%
- #31 Initial Civilization
76% 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: Space 21.6%, Space Sim 16.3% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.8%
- #32 Final Upgrade
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 18.3%, Space Sim 16.9% ★, Space 16.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%
- #33 Astrox Imperium
77% 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 30.7%, Space Sim 26.6% ★, Sandbox 19%, Open World 11.9%, Simulation 7.7%
- #34 StarMade
77% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: Space 26.6%, Sandbox 24.9%, Open World 14.2%, Space Sim 10.3% ★, Crafting 7%
- #35 Tiny Pixel Planets
75% 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 21.1% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Space 16.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 8.9%
- #36 Wayward Beyond
74% 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 18.9% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Space 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #37 Kardashev
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
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 24.5%, Space 19%, Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 9.6%
- #38 Dyson Sphere Program
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.1%, Space 19.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 11%
- #39 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
75% 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: Space 25.5%, Space Sim 20.2% ★, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 11.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #40 WebCraft
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tofubur
Windows
Webcraft is a claw machine mixed with open world crafting game in space. Catch resources floating by, craft and expand your base from a single square!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Automation 16.6%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 10.8%
- #41 Astrometica: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 24.8% ★, Space 14.3%, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 12.4%
- #42 PoliPlanet
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
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 18.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 11.6%
- #43 Industronaut
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains to survive alone on a radiation heavy planet with no rescue and no external support.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.8% ★, Automation 23.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9%, Space 7.5%
- #44 Endless Sky
73% matchVery Positive92% of 6,938 reviews2015
Dev: Michael Zahniser
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 37.5%, Space Sim 15.8% ★, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 8.7%, RPG 5.1%
- #45 Worlds Of The Future
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonmen Games
Windows
Worlds Of The Future is a sci-fi open world, action/adventure game. Explore a fully seamless solar system full of adventures, mysteries and colorful characters. Build your space delivery company, climb the company rankings and become a legend among the worlds!
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Sandbox 21.2%, Space 14.4%, Open World 9.8%, Adventure 7.2%
- #46 Space
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Traveller
Windows
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Why similar: Space Sim 27.5% ★, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 12.3%, Exploration 6.3%
- #47 Profectus
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Alrek Studios
Windows
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 14.3%, Simulation 12.7%
- #48 WormWorld
70% 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 19.3% ★, Sandbox 18.9%, Space 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%
- #49 Rebots
69% 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 Sim 19.3% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Automation 15.1%, Space 14.5%, Base Building 10.1%
- #50 Elite Dangerous
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 105,113 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.4 hrsMean: 146.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 33.8% ★, Space 22.4%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Exploration 6.4%
- #51 Project Substrata
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Substrata
Windows
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: Space Sim 27.1% ★, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Space 11.7%
- #52 Landinar: Into the Void
69% matchMixed57% of 243 reviews2019
Dev: Convoy Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Landinar: Into the Void is a top-down space-adventure-RPG. You are recruited as a rookie bounty hunter in the oppressive Landinar Empire. On your journey through the quadrant you will meet diverse characters, build your own spaceship and choose your battles.
Why similar: Space Sim 26% ★, Space 24.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11.3%, RPG 10.2%
- #53 Astral Divide
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Automation 17.5%, Space 11.3%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #54 The Maker Way
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 13.6%
- #55 Interstellar Pilot 2
67% matchVery Positive92% of 153 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 29.4% ★, Sandbox 24.1%, Space 15.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Open World 10.1%
- #56 SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
68% matchVery Positive89% of 7,556 reviews2009
Dev: EA - MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.
Why similar: Space 25.1%, Sandbox 20.9%, Open World 16.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Exploration 8.3%
- #57 Minicology
66% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Space Sim 25% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.2%
- #58 Spaceflight Simulator
66% 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 Sim 29.6% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Space 19.9%, Crafting 7.4%, Exploration 6.7%
- #59 SkyRig
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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 18.1%, Space Sim 16.3% ★, Space 15.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 12.8%
- #60 REAL MOON
64% matchMixed68% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: historia Inc.
Windows
Explore a precisely recreated lunar surface built from real data and a JAXA-backed simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.2% ★, Space 21.4%, Open World 13.4%, Simulation 13%, Exploration 9.5%