- #1 Deep Rock Galactic
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 372,881 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 75.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Co-op 21.6%, PvE 14.5%, Space 13.5%, FPS 13.3%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cooperative mining experience, featuring intense PvE combat and procedural exploration in a space setting.
- #2 Lethal Company
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 503,936 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 34.9%, Co-op 20.1%, Funny 11%, First-Person 10.7%, PvE 10%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the 'evil corporation' trope, forcing players to scavenge dangerous environments for profit while facing high mortality rates.
- #3 Stationeers
96% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.1%, Co-op 22.2%, Survival 21.2%, Physics 17.9%, Multiplayer 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore simulation game that demands precise management of atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems in space.
- #4 Space Engineers
95% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 14%, Co-op 12.9%, PvP 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, PvE 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep simulation mechanics for building, mining, and surviving in the harsh vacuum of space.
- #5 Void Crew
94% matchVery Positive87% of 8,134 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Why similar: Co-op 25%, Space 18.7%, Online Co-Op 17%, Multiplayer 14.4%, PvE 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative space survival experience where players must manage ship systems together while fending off external threats.
- #6 Barotrauma
94% matchVery Positive94% of 84,235 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Co-op 39.1%, Survival 28.7%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: A tense, cooperative survival simulator set in a hostile environment where team coordination is vital to keep your vessel operational.
- #7 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
93% matchVery Positive89% of 21,702 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 43.8%, Physics 24.5%, Simulation 16.1%, First-Person 11.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial, blue-collar aspect of space work with a strong emphasis on corporate debt and hazardous working conditions.
- #8 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival 18%, Co-op 13.1%, Multiplayer 11%, Space 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that tasks players with mining and resource extraction on a dangerous, unforgiving planet.
- #9 Jump Space
90% matchVery Positive86% of 10,042 reviews2025
Dev: Keepsake Games
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.
Why similar: Co-op 22.1%, Space 19.8%, PvE 15.8%, FPS 13.9%, First-Person 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative PvE experience that emphasizes space exploration and team-based survival.
- #10 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Co-op 15.5%, Space 15%, Survival 11.8%, PvP 10.2%, PvE 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world space survival game that allows for extensive building, mining, and exploration across multiple planets.
- #11 ASTRONEER
88% 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 26.5%, Survival 21.1%, Co-op 18.5%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Exploration 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the exploration and resource gathering aspects of space travel with a unique, stylized aesthetic.
- #12 Utopia Colony
89% matchMixed67% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: GridSky Software
Windows
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 52.7%, Exploration 17.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Atmospheric 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the challenges of space colony management and survival in a post-apocalyptic context.
- #13 Unfortunate Spacemen
87% matchVery Positive86% of 7,542 reviews2020
Dev: Geoff 'Zag' KeenePub: Deep Field Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...
Why similar: Co-op 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Space 14.9%, PvP 12.9%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative space survival with social deduction elements in a tense, atmospheric setting.
- #14 Content Warning
85% matchVery Positive94% of 156,373 reviews2024
Dev: WilnylPub: Landfall
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.8%, Co-op 17.3%, Physics 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Funny 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative scavenging in dangerous environments with a focus on high-stakes, team-based exploration.
- #15 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Space 32.5%, Survival 17.7%, Exploration 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%, First-Person 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, procedurally generated universe centered on survival, mining, and exploration.
- #16 Drift: Space Survival
86% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.2%, Space 22.6%, Survival 18.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that puts players in the middle of space with limited resources.
- #17 Sketchy's Contract
84% matchVery Positive85% of 1,302 reviews2024
Dev: Dimensionless Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.5%, Co-op 19.6%, Space 10.7%, First-Person 10.4%, PvE 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative scavenging game that focuses on exploration and surviving against alien threats.
- #18 Project Winter
84% matchVery Positive83% of 19,060 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Team-Based 26.5%, PvP 14.5%, Survival 13.8%, PvE 12.3%, Funny 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes social cooperation and resource management in a harsh, isolated environment.
- #19 Satisfactory
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Co-op 34.1%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Survival 14.8%, Exploration 11.8%, First-Person 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial and automation side of resource extraction on an alien planet.
- #20 Subnautica
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Survival 41.4%, Exploration 19%, First-Person 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it shares the core loop of survival, resource extraction, and exploration in a hostile, alien environment.
- #21 Planet Miner
83% 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 43.6%, Space 31.2%, Exploration 22.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-focused game that leans into the colony management and mining aspects of space exploration.
- #22 Lost Fleet
82% matchMixed62% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: InfinityNan Studios
Windows
Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.4%, Team-Based 21.2%, PvP 15.8%, PvE 14.6%, Space 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike with cooperative elements set in a dangerous space environment.
- #23 Raft
78% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 31.1%, Co-op 26.6%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, First-Person 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game centered on gathering resources from a dangerous, isolated environment.
- #24 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
81% 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 61.9%, Simulation 25.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space simulation game that focuses heavily on mining and sandbox progression.
- #25 Bunker Invaders
79% matchVery Positive81% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: Kelecik
Windows
A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.7%, Co-op 19.5%, PvE 14.2%, First-Person 11.3%, Funny 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival-horror game that emphasizes team-based exploration in dangerous, enclosed spaces.
- #26 The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
80% matchMixed68% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Supercube
Windows
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Why similar: Survival 44.5%, Realistic 35.1%, Simulation 20.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and management game set on a hostile planet that requires careful resource allocation.
- #27 PULSAR: Lost Colony
79% matchVery Positive90% of 5,694 reviews2021
Dev: Leafy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 16.6%, Co-op 16.5%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, PvE 12.5%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative space simulation where players must work together to operate a starship.
- #28 Cosmic Miners
78% matchMixed58% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: bitByte Games
Windows
Explore asteroid fields, trade rare resources, and upgrade your ship in Cosmic Miners. Navigate faction alliances, complete missions, and rise through the ranks in a dynamic space adventure where your choices shape your path to cosmic power.
Why similar: Space 28.8%, Shooter 17.4%, Realistic 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Exploration 11.3%
- #29 Subterranauts
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 220 reviews2025
Dev: Asa Longino
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Subterranauts is a 1-6 player multiplayer horror game with proximity voice chat and terrifying creatures. Your job is to complete assignments by gathering scrap for the Association of Scrap Allocation. Work together with your team to complete assignments, earn company Bucks, and survive!
Why similar: Team-Based 27.4%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, FPS 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Funny 8.9%
- #30 Astronomics
75% matchVery Positive90% of 645 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.
Why similar: Space 45.5%, Physics 25.9%, Exploration 19%, PvE 7%, Simulation 1.9%
- #31 Space Station: Beyond
74% matchVery Positive85% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: DEATHB4DEFEATPub: Pspritechologist
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as a variety of creatures or characters and try to survive either maintaining or attacking a space station while everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong.
Why similar: Space 34.6%, PvP 28.3%, PvE 24.9%, Simulation 12.2%
- #32 Interstellar Marines
77% matchMixed54% of 7,874 reviews2013
Dev: Zero Point Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
UPDATE 28 AVAILABLE - Interstellar Marines is an immersive tactical sci-fi First Person Simulator in the making, offering a unique blend of tactical gameplay, dynamic environments and non-scripted AI. Play Singleplayer or Co-op/PvP on servers around the world.
Why similar: Co-op 20.7%, FPS 18.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Team-Based 8.8%
- #33 Deep Space Exploitation
73% 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: Physics 50.7%, Space 49.3%
- #34 Stayin' Alive
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 287 reviews2018
Dev: IndieGala
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Do your best to die or save your enemies from death in this frantic team multiplayer game about health issues. Death is in the air.
Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 19.7%, Funny 16%, First-Person 12.8%, Co-op 10.9%
- #35 Saints and Sinners
75% matchVery Positive81% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: threeW
Windows
Give a life to Sinner in Dark Medieval Era or join the Saints to find Sinner among them and execute him front of others. With your 4-8 friends or other players use in-game chat or voice chat to find who is Sinner or prove that you are not a Sinner!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.2%, Space 17.7%, PvP 12.6%, Co-op 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #36 Nuclear Nightmare
71% matchVery Positive81% of 17,749 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 31.3%, Co-op 20.6%, PvE 9.9%, First-Person 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #37 Jitter
72% 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 46.8%, Physics 28.9%, Exploration 20%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #38 Miner Wars 2081
77% matchMostly Negative36% of 386 reviews2012
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
Why similar: Space 49.8%, Simulation 33.6%, Shooter 16.7%
- #39 Bum: Revenge
72% matchMixed63% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: Patologgia Interactive
Windows
First-person homeless crime sandbox. Steal, drink, hallucinate and crush rival bums in chaotic online co-op.
Why similar: Co-op 20.5%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Online Co-Op 11%, First-Person 9.6%
- #40 Rocket Squad: Infinity
71% matchMixed49% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Rocket Squad is a team-based first-person shooter. Infiltrate perilous planets, gather resources, and return safely to your shelter. Utilize each character's unique abilities and strategically form your team to restore order to the universe.
Why similar: Team-Based 24.9%, Online Co-Op 17.8%, Co-op 13.6%, PvE 12%, FPS 11.7%
- #41 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.4%, Space 21.9%, Co-op 21.1%, Survival 20.3%, Exploration 9.4%
- #42 Project Asteroids
71% matchMixed56% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Survival 24%, FPS 18%, Multiplayer 15.7%, PvP 13.5%, Space 10.1%
- #43 BLASTRONAUT
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 47.3%, Survival 28.8%, Exploration 21.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #44 A.R.M. PLANETARY PROSPECTORS EP1 Asteroid Resource Mining
73% matchMixed40% of 67 reviews2015
Dev: Nefarious Dimensions Interactive GamesPub: Nefarious Dimensions Inc.
Windows
An expedition finds an artifact in an asteroid, teleporting the crew to an alien realm. Enslaved on a mining barge, they wield mech suits to survive, scavenging and scheming to escape—and wield the device that could rewrite Earth’s fate.
Why similar: Space 55%, Simulation 45%
- #45 Moon Runner
69% matchVery Positive86% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: Fractal Interactive
Windows
You are tasked with urgent maintenance on a small moon. Find the monoliths and manage your survival to complete your mysterious assignment.
Why similar: Space 29.9%, Shooter 24.4%, Exploration 20.7%, Survival 15.7%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #46 R.E.P.O.
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 370,836 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.5%, Co-op 18.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Physics 10.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #47 Roadside Research
66% matchVery Positive87% of 2,520 reviews2026
Dev: Cybernetic WalrusPub: Oro Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Roadside Research is a 1 to 4 player co-op gas station simulator. Except you’re aliens. And undercover. Do very human things like restocking shelves while preparing for the invasion. Just don’t get caught.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.6%, Co-op 18.8%, Funny 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Physics 10%
- #48 Nemesis: Distress
70% matchMixed52% of 348 reviews2022
Dev: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
NEMESIS DISTRESS is a unique multiplayer Sci-Fi horror experience that aims at creating unforgettable, cinematic moments. Remember – this is NOT a shooter, in Nemesis you are not the hunter. You are the PREY.
Why similar: Team-Based 21.6%, FPS 14.3%, Space 11.9%, Shooter 10.2%, Realistic 8.9%
- #49 StarbaseSim
67% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: AshtorakSimGames
Windows · Linux
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 21.3%, Realistic 21.1%, Simulation 18.8%, First-Person 15.2%, Physics 9.7%
- #50 EGG RAIDERS
70% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 933 reviews2024
Dev: Misoge Inc.
Windows
EGG RAIDERS is a cooperative horror game where four players work together to infiltrate an area teeming with aggressive monsters. You must survive for three days, gather valuable loot, and escape before more monsters come after you. Teamwork and strategy are the keys to success!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.4%, Team-Based 19.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.1%, PvE 10.1%
- #51 Saleblazers
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 34.1%, Survival 25.8%, Exploration 14.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Atmospheric 12.5%
- #52 This Means Warp
68% matchMixed69% of 665 reviews2023
Dev: OutlierPub: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.9%, Space 20%, Survival 19%, Co-op 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #53 Marauders
67% matchMixed68% of 21,287 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: PvP 21.8%, Space 18.5%, FPS 18.3%, Realistic 13.1%, Shooter 12.3%
- #54 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
66% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Bolverk GamesPub: Impact Inked
Windows
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Space 31.2%, Survival 24.5%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Exploration 10%
- #55 Stellar Survivor
69% matchMixed66% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Sticks & Stones
Windows
Stranded on an alien planet, you must defend your Powercore! Use your weapons to fight hordes of alien enemies and strategically use traps in this new FPS tower-defense survival game!
Why similar: Co-op 23.8%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Survival 14%, Space 10.9%, FPS 9.5%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
68% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Co-op 19.5%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Space 15.4%, PvP 13.3%, Survival 12%