Games Like I Fetch Rocks

A hardcore flight simulator for VR! Get in the cockpit, pilot a ship, and navigate hazardous environments on a journey to become an expert docker!

Why similar: Flight 32.3%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Space 13.9%, Space Sim 13.7%, Physics 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly similar VR-native experience focused on the delicate and rewarding mechanics of space docking and hauling.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Science 15.8%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features deep, complex atmospheric and electrical wiring systems that will appeal to fans of manual engineering.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 29.3%, Sandbox 22.6%, Physics 19.3%, Space Sim 17.4%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the precise, manual labor of space salvage and industrial hauling with a focus on physics-based dismantling.

VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.

Why similar: Flight 60.9%, VR 15%, Physics 10.6%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for VR cockpit interaction, requiring manual manipulation of switches and systems similar to high-fidelity engineering sims.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.2%, Sandbox 17.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 15.4%, Survival 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive sandbox for building, mining, and wiring complex space structures and ships.

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: Science 24%, Space 16.5%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Space Sim 15.5%, Physics 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-heavy space mining game that captures the tension and technical requirements of asteroid excavation.

Operate the Starship space launch system and learn how to catch a rocket to understand what it takes to colonize Mars in this ever-evolving simulation of SpaceX Starbase Texas.

Why similar: Flight 26.7%, Space Sim 14.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Immersive Sim 14%, Education 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the technical side of space simulation, offering a sandbox environment for space-based operations.

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Why similar: Programming 18.7% ★, Flight 14.6%, Science 13.6%, Education 10.7%, Automation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers advanced aerospace engineering and programming tools for those who enjoy the technical side of space flight.

Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.

Why similar: Physics 38.9%, VR 38.5%, Sci-fi 12%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-native title that emphasizes manual cockpit operation and mechanical assembly in a sci-fi setting.

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 27.7%, Sandbox 22%, VR 19.3%, Physics 18.2%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on trains, its VR-native manual interaction with complex machinery is a perfect match for the feel of we Fetch Rocks.

Interkosmos is back! Jump into a year 2000 space shuttle for an even crazier VR adventure. Grab a wrench to fix failing systems, load floppy disks, and steer your ship to safety. Experience the funny story, master the retro controls, and try not to die!

Why similar: Flight 23.1%, Space Sim 19.5%, Science 18.8%, Space 11.4%, VR 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused VR experience centered on operating a space capsule through manual systems and physical interaction.

Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

Why similar: Flight 34.2%, Space Sim 17.4%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Physics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes realistic space flight and atmosphere management, providing a grounded experience for space enthusiasts.

Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Why similar: Education 30.6%, Immersive Sim 25%, Sandbox 20%, VR 11.8%, Physics 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is an incredibly detailed VR mechanical assembly simulator that mirrors the hands-on repair aspects of the seed game.

Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.

Why similar: Science 28.6%, Space Sim 19.9%, Immersive Sim 18.2%, Space 17.1%, Physics 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It directly simulates the manual repair and maintenance of space equipment in a realistic, hands-on way.

Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?

Why similar: Flight 17.9%, Science 17.4%, Programming 11.7% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Education 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on physics-based engineering and the construction of custom drones for space exploration.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Programming 22.4% ★, Flight 18.5%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Immersive Sim 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game features an extensive logic and wiring system that allows for the creation of highly complex, functional vehicles.

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Space Sim 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Space 14.8%, VR 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This VR survival game features manual crafting and base-building mechanics within a space environment.

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Programming 23.9% ★, Science 16.1%, Automation 13.6%, Education 12.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox that allows for the building and programming of complex machines with a focus on physics.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Science 24%, Space 18.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Space Sim 13.6%, Education 13%

Why You'll Like It: The benchmark for physics-based space flight and engineering, offering endless depth for building and testing.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Survival 20.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Physics 20.1%, Co-op 5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust engine for building complex machines and automation systems using physical components.

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Why similar: Science 31.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Space Sim 18.6%, Physics 12.8%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features physics-based hauling and building, focusing on the challenge of transporting goods across difficult terrain.

Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

Why similar: Flight 20.5%, Science 19.3%, Education 14.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space Sim 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space exploration game that emphasizes physics-based building and orbital mechanics.

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 34.1% ★, Space 25.1%, Sandbox 19.4%, Space Sim 16.5%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward space mining and progression loop that complements the hauling career path.

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Automation 21%, Science 19.1%, Space 16.9%, Space Sim 13.8%, Immersive Sim 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and construction of space stations, requiring careful resource and system planning.

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 30%, Sandbox 15.4%, Space 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival mechanics with the scavenging and automation of space debris.

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Science 26.8%, Space Sim 22.5%, Sandbox 22.4%, Space 18.1%, Physics 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible yet deep space building and flight simulator that focuses on the fundamentals of orbital mechanics.

Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.4%, Flight 24.5%, Immersive Sim 22.4%, VR 11%, Space 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-native space exploration game that relies on physics-based movement and resource management.

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Programming 32.3% ★, Automation 20.8%, Education 20.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game highlights the automation and programming aspects of engineering in a puzzle-like format.

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Science 22.3%, Mining 13.4% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Space 12.5%, Space Sim 11.6%

Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!

Why similar: Mining 34.6% ★, Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

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 39% ★, Sandbox 21.1%, Space 16.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 5%

Become a real car mechanic in a very realistic, highly detailed simulator in a fully VR World. REPAIR, PAINT, TUNING with dozens of different tools and almost thousands of parts. BUY old vehicles, restore them, and SELL them at a profit. DRIVE and test all rebuilt cars.

Why similar: Education 51.9%, VR 24.6%, Physics 16.2%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the satisfying, manual loop of mechanical assembly and repair into a fully immersive VR space.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Flight 30.8%, Space Sim 16.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Space 13.3%, Survival 10.4%

Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Mining 34.5% ★, Automation 28.1%, Sandbox 27.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 2.5%

As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Why similar: Science 24.6%, Education 23.3%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Space Sim 14.2%, Space 13%

Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.

Why similar: Mining 27.4% ★, Space 20.3%, Sandbox 17.4%, Automation 15.4%, Physics 14%

Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.

Why similar: Mining 36.1% ★, Sandbox 30.9%, Base Building 16%, Physics 8.1%, Simulation 6.1%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Mining 34.7% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 5.1%

Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.

Why similar: Mining 39.9% ★, Education 27%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 11.1%, Simulation 3.5%

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 30.8% ★, Flight 23.9%, Space Sim 15.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Physics 10%

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.7%, Space 17.2%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Physics 13%

Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.

Why similar: Mining 40.1% ★, Education 27.2%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 10.8%, Simulation 3.4%

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 21.5%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 16.8%, Automation 16.7%

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: Mining 33.5% ★, Space Sim 20%, Sandbox 17%, Space 13.3%, Survival 10.8%

Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Why similar: Mining 36.6% ★, Automation 21.7%, Immersive Sim 19.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 5.2%

Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Programming 23% ★, Science 18.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.9%

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 33.9% ★, Flight 21.8%, Space Sim 15.7%, Physics 12.4%, Space 10%

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: Sandbox 57%, Space 34.6%, Simulation 8.4%

Space Mechanic Simulator: Prologue is a story prelude to the full version, which will introduce you to the world of cosmic repairs, greedy corporations, and cutting-edge technology.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 19.2%, Space Sim 19%, Education 18.2%, Science 16.2%, Space 14.1%

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: Automation 24.4%, Mining 23.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Space Sim 8.7%

Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market. Automate the Network with Delivery Drones. Enjoy the Grind. Enjoy the Future. Enjoy the PROFITS.

Why similar: Mining 52.6% ★, Automation 40.2%, Resource Management 7.3%

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Flight 36.3%, Space Sim 20.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, Space 16.7%, Sci-fi 3.5%

In this project you can become an astronaut on the first moon base in human history. You can drive a rover, do some jobs with drilling devices, figure out how solar panels work and walk on the moon surface.

Why similar: Space 49%, VR 37.7%, Simulation 13.3%

Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator inspired by the early NASA space programs, from orbiting Earth in Mercury and Gemini, to the moon landing in project Apollo. Learn the procedures. Operate the spacecraft. Complete the mission.

Why similar: Flight 23.7%, Science 17.2%, Space Sim 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Education 11.2%

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!

Why similar: Space 68.7%, Simulation 22.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Built from the ground up, Rock Life is the next generation of immersion and simulations. Live, do, and experience what it is like to truly become one with nature... as a rock!

Why similar: Sandbox 57.3%, VR 32.7%, Simulation 10.1%

Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

Why similar: Automation 49.3%, Sandbox 39.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 4.3%