60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sci-fi, 2D, Space, Action.
Pilot your spaceship and out smart hostile aliens to traverse deep space, mine asteroids, explore alien cave systems, make friends, level up and upgrade your tech to save humanity from extinction. Learn what became of Earth and possibly still prevent it!
Veridian Expanse
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
One Time In Space
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Space Sim 16.6%, Futuristic 9%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.9%, Space Sim 13.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sci-fi 9.5%
A relaxed space mining incremental. Build your own ship. Drift through a neon-lit megastructure. Pick it clean, tile by tile. Trade your haul for parts, experiment with your ship's build, and enjoy the quiet satisfaction of leaving nothing behind.
Why similar: Mining 35.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Arcade 8.8%, Strategy 6%
A grid-based arcade shooter where you battle aliens and your constantly changing controls. After every control scramble, time slows down to allow you to react, but you'll need to quickly scramble if you want complete each level before your energy runs out!
Why similar: Time Travel 18.7% ★, Time Manipulation 18.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Arcade 9.6%
BLACKBEAM is a light top-down sci-fi action adventure. Drive a rover, smash crystals, battle alien wildlife, expand your base, and venture ever farther. Explore more freely by day. At night, darkness, energy demands, and hostile creatures raise the stakes.
Why similar: Mining 25.2% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Aliens 11.2%, Sci-fi 11.1%
AstroMiner is a game about building a mining colony in an asteroid field, starting as a small space station and growing to a sprawling space port.
Why similar: Mining 35.3% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Space Sim 16%, Strategy 13.9%, Sci-fi 12.1%
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 38.2% ★, Base Building 22.2%, Space Sim 13.5%, Strategy 12%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Put your Steam Deck trackpads to intense use as you fight endless enemies, bosses, and difficulties in this old-school, arcade-like shoot out. With a play area mapped as a 1:1 of your right trackpad for targeting, experience the fun of the most precise and intense use of Deck trackpad aiming.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.9%, Aliens 19.9%, Arcade 15.6%, Futuristic 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%
Seize control of hostile planets in this nostalgic space sim and tower defense hybrid inspired by classic Flash games. Fight for orbital supremacy in starship combat, then land on the surface to build bases, deploy defenses, and shred enemies. Relax aboard your ship with farming, mining, and more.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Space Sim 16.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Sci-fi 11.4%
When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears is a story-rich, retro space shooter inspired by DOS-era space games. Blast your way through fast-paced arcade combat, build out modular, upgradable ships, and explore a galaxy torn by war.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Space Sim 18%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Arcade 10.4%, Exploration 8.2%
Top-down space trading and combat on a working frontier. Run cargo, hunt salvage, fight pirates, and build a corporation that survives twenty cycles of pressure from the Cryos Foundation, the Frontier Allegiance, and the Sable Syndicate.
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.4%, Space Sim 16.1%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Exploration 7%
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 36.5% ★, Base Building 18%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Exploration 6.7%
Halo: Spartan Strike makes you a Spartan supersoldier battling evil forces. Delve into 30 challenging missions through cities and jungles using a devastating arsenal of weapons, abilities and vehicles including the iconic Warthog against the Covenant and Promethean enemies. *DirectX feature level 10 required*
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 38.4%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Aliens 18.4%, Action 10.1%, Strategy 5.8%
Blue Jay Joyride is a fast-paced 2D space shooter. Go through waves of enemies and fight progressively harder bosses. Collect one of the many unique powerups to give your ship a fighting chance in this intense game.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.4%, Aliens 17.6%, Arcade 17.4%, Action 11.4%, Sci-fi 10%
Take to the stars and harvest precious ore from wild asteroids! ASTRALODE Freeminers is asteroid mining puzzle action with an interstellar support crew of colorful misfits.
Why similar: Mining 34.3% ★, Space Sim 15.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Arcade 12.4%
Fairspace is an amateur developed open-ended space exploration, trading and combat game. A full and rich persistent universe awaits your discovery.
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Aliens 11.1%, Strategy 8.7%
Where is Earth is a top-down vehicular combat game. Traverse planets, evading threats and obstacles, in search of your crew. Gather resources to assemble upgrades, landing vehicles, space craft, weaponry and support modules to aid you in your fight against an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 18.4%, Space Sim 17.4%, Aliens 9.9%, Exploration 8.1%
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 32.6% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Exploration 11%
Time and Space Legacy is a top-view puzzle game where you design and build your own space stations. Manage scarce resources, lay out buildings accordingly, and use advanced time-traveling technologies to save the future of humankind !
Why similar: Time Travel 36.1% ★, Time Manipulation 24.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Futuristic 9.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%
PvP keyboard share space shooter, you and you buddy's duke it out on the same keyboard with a last assortment of vessels from light fighters up to capital ships, all with unique special abilities and weapon arrays.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.3%, Strategy 19.5%, Action 12.7%, Futuristic 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.4%
A.I. Space Corps is a top-down space shooter, telling a new story of mankinds struggle against the merciless A.I. machines ruling over the universe.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 43%, Sci-fi 24.4%, Strategy 12%, Action 10.9%, Arcade 9.2%
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Travel 59.3% ★, Time Manipulation 30.8% ★, Action 9.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Embark on an epic space adventure in AstroMiner, where you must build a base, overcome challenges, and construct a space ship to return home from the asteroid belt.
Why similar: Mining 31.9% ★, Space Sim 16.6%, Aliens 13.5%, Arcade 12.9%, Exploration 9.3%
Future Weapon is an online space shooter where you can host a server for you and your friends to annihilate the universe together. Grab a gun, grab a spaceship, punch rocks, upgrade everything, and wreck the world. Join The Fleet! https://discord.gg/WN4UJaEc
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Space Sim 18.6%, Aliens 16%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Futuristic 9%
Asteroids are headed directly towards Earth. Destroy asteroids before they can slam into Earth. Earn medallions to purchase ship upgrades to help in the fight to save Earth.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.3%, Arcade 20.2%, Space Sim 15.1%, Aliens 11.3%, Action 10.5%
As one of the survivors and humankind's first “Achronal” being, you must piece together what happened and unravel the mysteries surrounding the alien invasion.
Why similar: Time Travel 49.8% ★, Time Manipulation 20.5% ★, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%
Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!
Why similar: Time Travel 36% ★, Aliens 16.9%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Futuristic 13.3%, Time Manipulation 9.9% ★
Work together with your friends in this stressful 4-player couch co-op game as you defend against hordes of enemies trying to destroy your base. Manage both your time and your resources in an effort to balance all the needs of your base. Are you and your friends up for the task?
Why similar: Mining 30% ★, Aliens 16%, Futuristic 11%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Arcade 10.7%
Take to the asteroid belt and fly as a rookie mining ship pilot, exploring space and mining asteroids, earning money to save your community on Mars in this story-driven space action game. Your choices and actions will shape the unfolding story, changing the fate of all those you meet.
Why similar: Mining 36.6% ★, Space Sim 14%, Sci-fi 11%, Exploration 9.4%, Futuristic 8.5%
Take to the stars and harvest precious ore from wild asteroids! ASTRALODE is asteroid mining puzzle action with an interstellar support crew of colorful misfits.
Why similar: Mining 35.7% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Arcade 12.3%, Strategy 10%
"A Timely Intervention" is an innovative RPG featuring animated battle visuals, polished gameplay mechanisms, an intricate storyline and a cast of colourful characters. Developed by the team behind "The Tale of a Common Man", it's a must-have for fans of the genre!
Why similar: Time Travel 46.1% ★, Time Manipulation 14.3% ★, Futuristic 10.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Exploration 7.8%
A 2D side-scrolling sandbox survival game featuring pure random exploration and mining. Mine, gather, study alien life, and build bases. Battle harsh environments and rival alien miners. Embrace unpredictable roguelike survival challenges in an infinitely generated universe.
Why similar: Mining 27.6% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Aliens 16.5%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Futuristic 11.1%
This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use these mechanics, including reality overlap, to checkmate the king in the present or the past!
Why similar: Time Travel 53.2% ★, Time Manipulation 23.7% ★, Sci-fi 12.6%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A warm welcome to a fresh take on classic Asteroids — blast through escalating waves of rocks, mines, drones, and alien fleets, chain combos for huge scores, and dive into a story-driven mining campaign. Full controller support. Local co-op & online multiplayer coming soon!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Mining 24.4% ★, Arcade 12.5%, Aliens 11.3%, Sci-fi 11%
Mine deeper than your fuel can carry you, while solar flares scramble your instruments. Strip an ore belt with the same guns that fight the pirate swarm, race your fuel home, and push each run deeper toward a dying star. A top-down mining-survival score chase.
Why similar: Mining 39.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 30%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Arcade 8.4%, Space 4%
A quick arcade-style shooter where you constantly have to weigh choices between improving your stats, expanding your mines, building your defenses or going on the attack, before the enemies either take your resources or overrun you
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Strategy 18.2%, Arcade 16.5%, Aliens 15%, Action 11.7%
Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?
Why similar: Time Travel 53.7% ★, Time Manipulation 14.7% ★, Arcade 10.2%, Futuristic 7.3%, Action 7.3%
Dig to the center of the Earth before time runs out. Mine gems to sell on the black market, build up your infrastructure, uncover relics of forgotten civilizations, and upgrade to face the dangers of the deep. Don't get caught by bandits or authorities while you drill into your last dig.
Why similar: Mining 40.1% ★, Vehicular Combat 19%, Arcade 10.7%, Dark 9%, Exploration 8.8%
Blast aliens to pieces and start a rebellion in this fast paced pixel art top down shooter where sprinting kills.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Aliens 19.4%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Futuristic 11.9%, Dark 10%
In this highly addictive top-down arcade shoot-em-up from 1982, originally for the ZX Spectrum, defend yourself from wave upon wave of deadly alien combatants using your Ion Thrust Drive and dual Plasma Disruptors.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 46.6%, Arcade 12.5%, Aliens 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Action 8.9%
Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Travel 47.9% ★, Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Futuristic 5.7%
IFF is a top-down action-packed shooter where you play a railgun-equipped tank against an army of invading hostiles. Clear each area and move on to the next until your mission is done!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 41.1%, Arcade 22.4%, Sci-fi 19.9%, Action 15.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Build a massive physics-driven fortress on wheels in this sci-fi survival game. Mine resources, bolt on new modules, fight off solar-powered machines, and keep moving across the hostile surface of Venus.
Why similar: Mining 30.9% ★, Vehicular Combat 18.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Space Sim 10.2%
Will you be the greatest space pirate? Build your ship, plunder enemies, and conquer the galaxy in Zrust!
Why similar: Mining 43.6% ★, Vehicular Combat 18.3%, Space Sim 18.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Build towers and learn abilities to defend against swarms of hundreds of on-screen hostile alien creatures. Choose between sets of randomized upgrades that both upgrade you and the alien swarm. From enormous explosions to far-reaching flamethrowers, no two games are the same.
Why similar: Aliens 21.2%, Base Building 19.8%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Arcade 13.4%, Futuristic 11.9%
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Vehicular Combat 21.7%, Aliens 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Futuristic 8.6%
A cargo full of 99 Pixel cats crashed on Venus. Abort your asteroids mining mission. Your priority is now to rescue the cats by digging your way down into the puzzling underground caves of an old hazardous industrial planet.
Why similar: Mining 33.6% ★, Aliens 15.5%, Arcade 13.7%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Exploration 9.1%
Dig deep, die often, come back stronger. Mine, fight, and gamble your way through roguelite runs to build the ship that blasts you off a dying Earth to richer worlds.
Why similar: Mining 45.9% ★, Aliens 14.4%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%
Slimestoppers is a top down horde shooter that pits the technology of man against a relentless army of sentient slimes from space. Choose from an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, abilities, perks, and equipment to forge the perfect Slimestopper. Supports multiplayer up to 4 players!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.1%, Aliens 16.1%, Arcade 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Futuristic 10.8%
Make robots and spaceships,explore the space,fight with aliens.
Why similar: Mining 22.5% ★, Space Sim 18.1%, Aliens 15.8%, Futuristic 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Trank Reborn is a top-down arcade shooter: take command of a tank, blast through fields with armored enemies, and take down massive multi-phase bosses. Collect Tokens, unlock upgrades in the Garage, and roll back into battle stronger.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Arcade 24.8%, Sci-fi 23.4%, Action 12.1%, Futuristic 11.7%
XEL is an epic 3D sci-fi fantasy action-adventure. Explore the mysterious world of XEL and help protagonist Reid to uncover her enigmatic past. Make new friends and foes along the way and collect exciting gadgets to master challenging dungeons and solve time bending puzzles.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Time Manipulation 25.3% ★, Sci-fi 14.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Futuristic 5.1%
Retro pixel-art top-down space shooter. Battle waves of alien invaders across world landmarks, upgrade your ship, collect power-ups, tackle events & missions, defeat epic bosses, and chase high scores.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 43.9%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Aliens 11.7%, Action 10%, Arcade 9.8%
Join Captain Rijk as he attempts to escape from the clutches of one of the most villainous species in the galaxy. Help to uncover the horrors that are being carried out on the fringes of the civilised galaxy and become the divine being prophesised to inspire an uprising and destroy The Domain.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.8%, Aliens 21.6%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Action 6.6%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 33.6% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Space Sim 16.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Strategy 8.1%
Narcissus is an adrenaline-pumping, top down, action-horror game that puts you in the shoes of the last survivor on a doomed spaceship. The clock is ticking, and danger lurks around every corner.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.3%, Aliens 20.4%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Arcade 14%, Dark 11%
Fight, explore the stars, trade, and lead your fleet across the galaxySpace Commander: War and Trade is an ultimate single player space-sim featuring spectacular graphics, intuitive combat and deep mechanics.
Why similar: Base Building 25%, Space Sim 21.3%, Aliens 15.8%, Exploration 10%, Futuristic 9.2%
Steel shadows arena - Top down shooter tank arena game done in a 90s style. Fight AI tanks in 1v1s death match style arenas to unlock levels and Upgrade points.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 38.3%, Vehicular Combat 25.5%, Arcade 20.9%, Action 14.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
In this unique top-down shooter with text adventure elements from the 1980s, take on the role of a time traveller seeking wealth and adventure across a number of different eras of time. Play with 1 or 2 players. Players can choose to work together, or against each other!
Why similar: Time Travel 39.2% ★, Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Arcade 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
Defender Zed-001 is a fast-paced arcade space shooter where you battle endless waves of enemies, upgrade your ship between rounds, and push your skills to the limit.
Why similar: Aliens 23.1%, Vehicular Combat 19.2%, Arcade 16.9%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Futuristic 14.2%
