60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Space Sim, Sci-fi, Exploration, Space.
A sci-fi exploration game written in 1994, updated to use a modern 3D engine, and remains faithful to the original. The story is fully intact with only minor tweaks to gameplay and cosmetics. The original game is often compared to Star Control and Starflight.
Ironseed : Lost Chapter
Ironseed: Lost Chapter is a standalone side story built on the 25th Anniversary Edition engine. Restored from unused lore and expanded quest fragments, it explores events that were hinted at, but never fully realized, in the original Ironseed timeline.
Astrometica: Prologue
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.
Ironseed: Lost Chapter is a standalone side story built on the 25th Anniversary Edition engine. Restored from unused lore and expanded quest fragments, it explores events that were hinted at, but never fully realized, in the original Ironseed timeline.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.1% ★, Tactical RPG 14.4%, RPG 10.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Hand-drawn 7.5%
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 35.5% ★, Building 13.3%, Inventory Management 13%, Resource Management 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
MICROVERSE is a sci-fi action/adventure game. It includes weapons such as laser pistols, melee weapons and a 'merchant center' where you use in-game credits to buy new weapons and upgrades.
Why similar: Space Sim 43.9% ★, Exploration 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Open World 10.9%, Space 6.5%
The Rebel Space Admiral is an idler/ clicker game about space exploration with battles, trade, base building, planet invasions and science research. Fight your way through hundreds of star systems, meet aliens, find powerful artifacts and defeat an ancient evil before it purges the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.8% ★, 4X 21.5% ★, Building 14%, Exploration 7.9%, RPG 6%
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 31.6% ★, Building 14.2%, Inventory Management 13%, Exploration 8.9%, Space 8.4%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Space Sim 35.6% ★, 4X 17% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 11.1%, Exploration 7.5%
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.1% ★, Space 13%, Open World 12.2%, Exploration 10%, Building 9%
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 44.3% ★, Resource Management 15.4%, Open World 9.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Space 8.8%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Space Sim 30% ★, Space 18%, RPG 11.5%, Exploration 11%, Open World 10.5%
Trade to make your fortune in this lo-fi, laid back space adventure, where you'll get help from anthropomorphic animals, gear up your ship, and search for the mythical key to immortality hidden in the depths of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 51.3% ★, RPG 14.1%, Exploration 10.7%, Open World 8.5%, 2D 5%
See the galaxy through the eyes of a trader. Hundreds of years after humanity took to the stars, you're free to buy, fight, explore, and build your way to power. Shape economies, form alliances, and influence the systems that control trade, tech, and politics.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3% ★, Tactical RPG 10.2%, Space 9.6%, Building 9.4%, 4X 7.9% ★
Peddlers between Pulsars is a story focused RPG where you can play as one of five peddlers as they try to fulfill odd tasks from a frustrated researcher.
Why similar: Inventory Management 28%, Space Sim 25.2% ★, RPG 17%, Space 14%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
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 55.4% ★, Exploration 14.1%, RPG 12.2%, Open World 8.1%, Space 4.7%
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: Space Sim 46.8% ★, RPG 18%, Building 9.8%, Exploration 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.
Why similar: Space Sim 48.6% ★, Space 17.3%, Open World 10.9%, Exploration 9%, RPG 7.5%
Sequel to a sci-fi exploration game Ironseed written in 1994, the story continues in Ironseed 2 : Consensus!
Why similar: Space Sim 47.8% ★, Exploration 12.1%, Open World 10.8%, RPG 10.6%, 3D 6.1%
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 40.7% ★, Building 16.6%, RPG 13.7%, Space 13.5%, Open World 10.1%
A fantasy space agency management game! Manage your team, design your space ship and research new technology! Reach moons, planets and the void beyond. Can you reach the void? Can you bring Galduen to the void?
Why similar: Space Sim 48.9% ★, Exploration 14%, Resource Management 13.3%, Space 12.9%, 2D 5.7%
A sci-fi settlement building game with orbital mechanics. Start from a spaceship, scan asteroids, manage fuel, ore, electricity, time, and sanity, while expanding your settlement, exploring an alien solar system, and building stations and spacecraft to support your growing colony.
Why similar: Space Sim 43.8% ★, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Open World 8.1%, Exploration 7.2%
Captain your own starship in this 2D, open-world space-sim. Explore, trade, mine, smuggle, steal and fight your way across the milky-way galaxy with real-time, tactical combat.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.4% ★, Open World 12.3%, Inventory Management 11.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
Stellar Archipelago is a third-person base builder with a space western flair. Gather resources, build colonies on miniature planets, and grow your population to prove habitability. Unlock the warp junction and open your frontier system to future settlers.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.9% ★, Building 12.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Space 8%
Explore the galaxy through the eyes of an android pilot. Enjoy a mix of relaxing planetary scanning and arcade-style combat as you upgrade your fleet. A slow-paced space sim for those who love the hum of an engine and the glow of distant suns.
Why similar: Space Sim 68.2% ★, Exploration 14.7%, 3D 8.2%, 2D 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 Sim 42.9% ★, Space 16.1%, RPG 14.7%, Tactical RPG 7.6%, Open World 6.6%
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 43.3% ★, Open World 13.4%, RPG 9.8%, Space 9.1%, Building 8.7%
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 55.3% ★, Open World 14%, Space 12.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 4.4%
A cozy space-trucking game about hauling cargo, docking at industrial stations, and cruising between planets at your own pace. Take on delivery contracts, manage your ship, and enjoy the quiet life of an interstellar transport pilot.
Why similar: Space Sim 60.1% ★, Exploration 13%, Resource Management 12.5%, 3D 8%, Sci-fi 5.3%
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 46.7% ★, Inventory Management 16.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Space 8.2%
A futuristic sci-fi persistent universe exploration game with one million stars and 18 million planets and moons. Fly your ship to any star and explore its solar system. Claiming stars, planets and moons will make them yours forever - other players will see your discoveries and you will see theirs.
Why similar: Space Sim 58.6% ★, Exploration 12.8%, Open World 8.6%, 3D 7.7%, Space 7.6%
You are alone in space. Reality is torn apart by anomalies, and space obeys its own incomprehensible laws. To survive, you must adapt, using advanced technology to gather resources, build a ship and setup a base. Will you be able to find your way home?
Why similar: Space Sim 37.2% ★, Inventory Management 18.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Exploration 8.4%, Space 8.4%
Sequel to a sci-fi exploration game Ironseed written in 1994, continued in Ironseed 2: Consensus, and now in Ironseed 3 : Vigil!
Why similar: Space Sim 43.4% ★, Tactical RPG 17.8%, RPG 13.4%, Exploration 12%, Space 5.4%
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.5% ★, Building 16.1%, Space 10.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Open World 6.1%
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.8% ★, Inventory Management 18.2%, Resource Management 12%, Space 8.6%, Exploration 8.4%
Explore a precisely recreated lunar surface built from real data and a JAXA-backed simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 60.3% ★, Exploration 13.5%, Open World 12.4%, Space 12.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign. Balance tactics, crew, and limited resources in a dynamic forever-war. Retro pixel art meets deep strategy fifteen minutes into the future of 1989.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.9% ★, Tactical RPG 20.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Space 10.2%, Open World 8%
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 46.3% ★, Inventory Management 13.6%, Open World 13%, Resource Management 9.7%, Space 8.9%
OnSlaught is a combat driven space game, but plays like a classic boomer shooter! Rip through fleets of horrifying alien ships and obliterate destructible environments as you shoot, grapple, and bring carnage to your creators.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.4% ★, RPG 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Space 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%
Station Commander is an economy strategy game that has you take control of a futuristic space station. Your goal is to build ships, gather resources, and trade with neighboring planets to upgrade your station and ships. Upgrading your station gives you access to better ships and ship abilities.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.2% ★, 4X 19.9% ★, Tactical RPG 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 8.5%
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 36.8% ★, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Space 8.7%
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 41.7% ★, Open World 12.9%, Space 10.7%, Exploration 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
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 36.6% ★, Building 18%, Exploration 11.6%, Space 10.2%, Open World 8.8%
Subdivision Infinity is an immersive and pulse pounding sci-fi space shooter featuring stunning graphics and tight spaceship game play. Hunt down and destroy enemy spacecraft, crush capital ships, mine asteroids for rare minerals, and find blueprints to craft amazing new vessels!
Why similar: Space Sim 52.5% ★, Space 14.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Open World 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.2%
A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively achieve project phase goals and ultimately accomplish the ultimate goal of constructing a Mars colonization spacecraft.
Why similar: Space Sim 54.2% ★, Building 13.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Space 9%, 3D 7.2%
Stellaxy is a space exploration immersive sim with alien cultures, boss battles, and massive Universes containing billions of planets to explore! Discover the mysteries of the Universes and find collectibles while completing quests.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.3% ★, Hand-drawn 13.6%, RPG 10.1%, Space 10%, Exploration 8.7%
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 Sim 32.8% ★, Space 15.9%, Open World 14%, Exploration 8.7%, 2D 5.9%
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 52.7% ★, Inventory Management 13.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Resource Management 7.3%, 3D 7.2%
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 Sim 34.4% ★, Space 21.7%, Open World 15.3%, RPG 9.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Why similar: Space Sim 62.6% ★, Exploration 13.5%, Space 11.5%, Open World 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 51.2% ★, Inventory Management 13.3%, Tactical RPG 13.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Space 7.4%
The story takes place in the distant future. You will play a captain of a star ship and go into deep space. You need to manage your resources carefully. In the game, you can investigate the outliers of various planets, discover the wonders of the universe or learn the stories of lost civilizations.
Why similar: Space Sim 58.7% ★, Space 15.4%, Exploration 13.2%, Resource Management 5.9%, 3D 3.8%
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.6% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Open World 9.6%, Space 8.9%
A space-taxi-sim / open-world-RPG with a seamless transition between planetary and in-space flight set in a large galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 44.9% ★, Open World 12.5%, RPG 11.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Space 6%
The game of survival and construction on the surface of the moon. Learn to build a base on the surface of the moon, maintain survival, explore and discover the secrets inside the moon, and solve abnormal problems.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.4% ★, Building 15.9%, Open World 12.3%, Space 9.7%, RPG 8%
Explore a galaxy of 300 systems as you control your fleet in a top-down 3D style, navigating through Star-lanes, Warp gates, and Black holes. Customize and upgrade your fleet, complete missions, trade, hire your crew, wage war and determine the fate of the galaxy in this grand sim saga.
Why similar: Space Sim 54.2% ★, RPG 11.8%, Exploration 10.5%, Space 7.8%, Open World 5.9%
beyond.frontiers is an open-world space adventure with 30+ ships, 125+ sectors, and fully voiced stories. Trade, explore, or fight — your choices shape the galaxy as three empires clash and ancient secrets await discovery.
Why similar: Space Sim 53.6% ★, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 13.3%, 3D 8.2%, Story Rich 7.4%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.4% ★, 4X 16.1% ★, Building 9.5%, Space 9.1%, Exploration 9%
Join the war in the depths of space with Space Shooter 24! Customizable ships, realistic graphics, and breathtaking action await you. Take action now to save the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.2% ★, Open World 16.2%, RPG 13.8%, Space 13.5%, Exploration 11%
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: Space Sim 47.1% ★, 4X 27.7% ★, Space 8.8%, Exploration 7.8%, Sci-fi 4.1%
Pulse sweep is a short incremental game where enemies are only visible when the radar sweeps them.
Why similar: Space Sim 50.8% ★, Building 24%, Space 13.6%, 2D 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Starborne: Frontiers is a free-to-play tactical autobattler with hundreds of unique ships. Form your fleet, customize it with a variety of equipment, and use strategy to create the perfect battlefield formation. Take on bounties, engage in the PvP arena, and bring order to the Frontier.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.4% ★, Tactical RPG 15.9%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, RPG 7.3%
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.5% ★, Open World 17.6%, Space 15.8%, RPG 13.4%, Exploration 10.5%
