Games Like Moonbase Alpha

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: Space 56.4%, Simulation 15.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 6%, Funny 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the authentic NASA-inspired physics and space exploration focus that defines the core of Moonbase Alpha.

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 32.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Simulation 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep cooperative base-building and physics-based engineering in a space environment.

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Space 33.2%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Open World 11.5%, Simulation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly cooperative space-sim experience where players must work together to manage ship systems.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Space 64.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Open World 5.9%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistical challenges of managing a self-sustaining colony on a remote planet.

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 40.4%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on cooperative planetary exploration and base-building with a charming, accessible aesthetic.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Multiplayer 40.6%, Co-op 32%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the chaotic, high-stakes cooperative management and physics-based interactions found in Moonbase Alpha's multiplayer sessions.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Space 60.8%, Co-op 32.8%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same level of cooperative camaraderie, mission-based objectives, and meme-worthy social interactions as Moonbase Alpha.

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.

Why similar: Space 66.2%, Adventure 10.2%, Walking Simulator 6.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven adventure captures the atmospheric, lonely, and technical feel of lunar exploration.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space 35.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 12.3%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space survival, base construction, and exploration in a way that mirrors the colonization goals of Moonbase Alpha.

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: Space 49.6%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Co-op 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore approach to space station management, focusing on complex systems and survival mechanics.

Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.

Why similar: Space 47.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Sandbox 7%, Co-op 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic simulation of Martian exploration and base development with a focus on scientific accuracy.

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 56.8%, Simulation 16.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 4.6%, Open World 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes realistic physics and technical simulation within a space-industrial setting.

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 57.8%, Simulation 20.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Comedy 2%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on the management and expansion of a space station, similar to the goals of Moonbase Alpha.

Explore. Strategize. Conquer.In the far future, Mankind has nearly exhausted all of earth’s natural resources. Fragile alliances between nations are tested to their limits as fierce wars ignite across land and space.MoonBase Commander puts you in charge of your own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire in space.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A classic strategy game that shares the lunar colonization theme and tactical base-building elements.

Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

Why similar: Space 40.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Open World 10.5%, Funny 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the original's physics-based space flight and colonization mechanics with modern features.

Explore a precisely recreated lunar surface built from real data and a JAXA-backed simulation.

Why similar: Space 46.3%, Simulation 28.2%, Open World 12.5%, Third Person 8.6%, Adventure 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a realistic simulation of the lunar surface and space exploration.

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 67.8%, Simulation 31%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: This VR-focused simulation allows players to experience the challenges of lunar base management firsthand.

Disasters, enemies, and incompetence conspire to make each shift aboard the station a unique and hellish experience. Sign up today to explore intricate game mechanics and enjoy limitless player interaction! (Nanotrasen Inc. is not responsible for injury, death, or worse).

Why similar: Space 39.4%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer game excels at chaotic, social, and physics-based station management that feels very similar to the spirit of Moonbase Alpha.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Space 49.9%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers vast space exploration and base-building capabilities that allow for extensive cooperative play.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Space 22.4%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Open World 11%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game requires players to work together to complete missions on a hostile planet.

IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.

Why similar: Space 83.5%, Strategy 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the strategic elements of managing a space-based outpost.

Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars. At its core, the game was derived from a simulator where everything is interactively tied together.

Why similar: Space 56%, Simulation 37.4%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation title focuses on the early challenges of establishing a human presence on Mars.

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Multiplayer 44.4%, Funny 28.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the social deduction and survival elements that often emerge in chaotic multiplayer cooperative games.

MoonMiners is a cooperative survival simulator of miners in space, in an alternative dystopian future. You take on the role of space miners working for an evil corporation far from home, and it will be much easier for you to die than to do your job.

Why similar: Space 30.7%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Co-op 10.1%

Realistic simulation of spaceflight in a full sized Solar System, with all the planets and their major moons. using real forces, distances, velocities and time. Chapter 1: The Apollo Days. Incredibly detailed Apollo Program missions starting with Apollo 8 lunar orbit missions.

Why similar: Space 63.8%, Simulation 36.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a realistic simulation of space flight and orbital mechanics.

Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

Why similar: Space 54.8%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a historical and management-focused look at the space race and lunar missions.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Simulation 19%, Open World 17.3%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on large-scale base building and resource management in a sci-fi setting.

Double Action is a free stylish multiplayer game about diving, flipping, and sliding your way into action movie mayhem.

Why similar: Multiplayer 41.8%, Open World 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Funny 11.2%, Co-op 10.2%

Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!

Why similar: Multiplayer 41.2%, Simulation 15.1%, Funny 14.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 11.1%

Turn your entire digital life into a game. AArcade is a 3D desktop that launches shortcuts to absolutely anything you like. Join the anarchy of the persistent online metaverse, or remain in your own private reality. Casual in-game building features, plus hundreds of thousands of addons.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.4%, Sandbox 22.3%, Simulation 18%, Funny 10%, Co-op 6.9%

Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Why similar: Space 48%, Simulation 25.3%, Realistic 13.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Singleplayer 1%

The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.

Why similar: Space 64%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 8.1%, Third Person 7.5%, Adventure 5%

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Why similar: Space 47.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15%, Multiplayer 11%, Open World 9.5%, Online Co-Op 6.5%

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 39.8%, Simulation 18%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 9%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30%, Multiplayer 24.9%, Massively Multiplayer 21.2%, Co-op 11%, Adventure 6.4%

Battle other 2D stickfigures online while jumping around like a lunatic and getting blown up into smithereens. With over 70 weapons, Boring Man is the most chaotic and hilarious 2D online shooter on the internet.

Why similar: Multiplayer 41.8%, Co-op 25.3%, Funny 24%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%

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 42.8%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%

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: Online Co-Op 27.5%, Open World 16%, Simulation 14.3%, Co-op 13.7%, Sandbox 13.7%

World of Guns: Gun Disassembly lets you delve into the inner workings of guns from the largest gears to the smallest screws

"Journey to the Moon" is an interactive game that combines lunar exploration with art, culture and science popularization. The core of its development is "space life is coming eventually".

Why similar: Space 52.4%, Simulation 16.4%, Third Person 9.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Adventure 5.5%

Join the ESS Starseeker crew to explore strange new worlds, working together with friends to complete planet-wide objectives before the station journeys on to new planetary destinations. Collect and unlock powerful tech to help the crew tackle the perils of space!

Why similar: Space 41%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 7.1%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Space 48.2%, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Strategy 8.5%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Multiplayer 26.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Co-op 12.1%

Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!

Why similar: Multiplayer 19.4%, Simulation 18%, Sandbox 16.3%, Funny 14.5%, Co-op 11.7%

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: Space 43.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Simulation 12%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Why similar: Space 36%, Simulation 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Funny 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

Take to the skies in the World’s favourite flight simulator! The multi award winning Microsoft Flight Simulator X lands on Steam for the first time. Take off from anywhere in the world, flying some of the world’s most iconic aircraft to any one of 24,000 destinations.

Why similar: Simulation 32.7%, Multiplayer 21.4%, Open World 15.9%, Realistic 12.4%, Massively Multiplayer 4.1%

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: Space 27.6%, Simulation 19.7%, Sandbox 15%, Realistic 8.8%, Open World 7.6%

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: Space 36.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.1%

You play as an astronaut in a colony on Mars and you need to upgrade your colony, build new constructions and collect resources

Why similar: Simulation 65.2%, Strategy 34.8%

The ultimate space simulator game, precisely modeling the space and space environment inside the International Space Station (ISS).

Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Space 28.1%, Walking Simulator 24.7%, Realistic 7.1%, Third Person 6.3%

Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?

Why similar: Multiplayer 41.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 8%, Third Person 7.5%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Simulation 72.3%, Funny 13.5%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Adventure 7%

Blockland is a non-linear sandbox game with no set goals, giving players the freedom to design and construct elaborate structures. Styled as a tiny minifigure, players build inside of the virtual world using bricks reminiscent of toy blocks.

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.6%, Sandbox 25.1%, Open World 16.3%, Funny 9.1%, Co-op 8.1%