
Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Space, Space Sim, Exploration, Simulation.

Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.

Lone Voyage
You are the last living organism in the galaxy. Adrift and alone in a cold dark world you must scavenge for resources to keep your ship running, and arm your ship to prepare for the swarms arrival.

Deep Claims
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
You are the last living organism in the galaxy. Adrift and alone in a cold dark world you must scavenge for resources to keep your ship running, and arm your ship to prepare for the swarms arrival.
Why similar: Space 20.5%, Space Sim 19.8%, Crafting 19.7%, Exploration 12.5%, PvE 9.4%
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
Why similar: Space Sim 19.7%, Crafting 19.6%, Management 18.7%, Space 16.3%, Exploration 12.4%
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 27.6%, Space 20.7%, Management 19.7%, Exploration 12.5%, Strategy 7.8%
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: 4X 26.3% ★, Space Sim 24.6%, Space 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Strategy 6.7%
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Space Sim 20.5%, Space 16.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Exploration 8.1%
Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.4%, Space 24.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 8.7%, Exploration 8.3%
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Space 18.1%, Space Sim 16.6%, Strategy 14%, Economy 10.7%
Command a crewed starship from the inside. Explore a living galaxy, answer distress calls, fight hostile ships, manage damage, craft supplies, and make captain-level choices during an interstellar war.
Why similar: Space 21.6%, Economy 17.6%, Crafting 16.3%, Space Sim 11.1%, Exploration 8.6%
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 20.3%, 4X 18.3% ★, Economy 14.6%, Space 14.3%, Management 9.6%
An incremental space mining game where you harvest resources across star systems. Discover hidden blueprints, research powerful technologies, upgrade your ship, and defend against relentless enemy waves and massive bosses.
Why similar: Space 23.5%, Management 22.4%, Exploration 14.2%, PvE 13%, Strategy 9.1%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, Space 14.5%, Economy 13.7%, Management 10.2%
Beltlife: Prospector is a GUI-based "hard" sci-fi business/work sim with economy simulation and RPG elements. Your focus is on maintaining your ship's systems and your health while prospecting for asteroid claims to auction on simulated markets.
Why similar: Economy 23.7%, Space 23.5%, Space Sim 17.7%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 9.1%
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 29.4%, Economy 12.9%, Space 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Management 9.9%
X-Tension is the eagerly awaited expansion pack to X: Beyond the Frontier. The expansion is not limited by a linear plot line but makes use of new ways to expand your empire. You can now take part in missions that are offered to you throughout the game.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.7%, Space 25.3%, Economy 15.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 11.5%
Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Economy 13.7%, Exploration 10.3%, Management 10.2%
Nebula miner puts you in control of a space mining company. A real time resource management game where you need to explore space to find resources, and then harvest them efficiently.
Why similar: Space 24%, Economy 20.8%, Space Sim 16.7%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.1%
Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.2%, Economy 14.8%, Space 13.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Management 11.3%
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 31.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Space 12%, Management 11.8%, Exploration 10.9%
Blend of planet system exploration, discovery, real time space combat, together with player needing to maintain and upgrade his space ship to overcome numerous obstacles. An experience quite unlike other games in its genre.
Why similar: Space 25.9%, Management 17.3%, Space Sim 15.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Strategy 9.9%
Customize your ship to fit your needs in the deep space. Explore the Milky Way in this ultimate open world sandbox.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Space Sim 20.3%, Space 13.9%, Economy 10.5%, Management 8.5%
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, Space 15.9%, Management 11.3%, Exploration 8.1%
Build stations above picky planets, match modules to what the locals actually want, and grow a trade empire that earns while you're away. Court the factions or cross them on the road from your first rattling fusion can to a megastructure that tames a black hole.
Why similar: Space Sim 28%, Strategy 12.5%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 10%, Exploration 9.7%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Management 17.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Economy 13.1%, Exploration 11.3%
X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.
Why similar: Space 31.2%, Space Sim 27.1%, Economy 17.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.6%
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.8%, Economy 17.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Management 10.2%, Space 9.7%
Commanding a starship, you’ll trade goods across the galaxy, evade cosmic threats, and grow your trading empire. Do you have what it takes to outmaneuver rivals and become a trading legend? Take command of your destiny in Epic Space Trader, your journey to the stars begins now!
Why similar: Space Sim 24%, Economy 22.1%, Management 16.9%, Space 14.7%, Simulation 6.9%
Stargazer's Terraforming Estate Company terraforms & sells planets for years. Be a respectful member of the family and monopolize the galaxy by building dyson spheres in the name of the company.
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Space 22.4%, Space Sim 14.1%, Economy 12.4%, Strategy 11.7%
A fast paced cooperative game where hippos run a growing space depot. Race against the clock to Scan, inspect, and ship the right materials using drones. Try to keep up. Other hipponauts such as yourself are relying on you.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.3%, Space 21.6%, Management 17.2%, Economy 12.4%, Simulation 10.8%
Space Station Continuum is a building & management sim inspired by the past, present, and future of humans in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Economy 16.6%, Space 15.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Management 14%
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Why similar: Space 31.9%, Space Sim 22.2%, Economy 17.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 7.8%
Auto-Astra blends voxel-based construction with deep 4X automation. Design ships and stations, then write or use pre-made LUA scripts to automate your galactic empire. Strip asteroid belts, manage trade routes, and program tactical responses to enemy threats. Your logic, your empire.
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Space Sim 20.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Economy 12.8%, Management 10%
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
Why similar: 4X 38.3% ★, Space 25.1%, Strategy 20.1%, Management 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Fly a rented corporate vessel in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Why similar: Space Sim 38.1%, Economy 18.1%, Simulation 13%, Space 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%
Build, launch and manage realistic space missions across our solar system, placing satellites and telescopes in precise orbits. Explore planets, collect valuable scientific data and sell your findings to expand your rising aerospace empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.9%, Management 18.1%, Space 14.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Why similar: Space 28.9%, Space Sim 23.5%, Economy 15.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10%
Kron Wars is a persistent browser-based sci-fi MMO where players trade, mine, build corporations, wage wars, hunt bounties, and control entire sectors across massive player-driven universes with dynamic economies and tactical space combat.
Why similar: 4X 23% ★, Space Sim 20.3%, Economy 15.4%, Space 13.5%, Management 10.2%
Explore the galaxy, trade in simulated economies, and hunt down pirates in this handcrafted 2D space simulator. Work from a scrappy shuttle to grand capital ships.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.4%, Economy 21.8%, Crafting 18.4%, Space 14.6%, Simulation 5.3%
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Why similar: Space 36.3%, Space Sim 22.4%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7%
Haul Cargo in Space! Manage placement of modules and make builds for fighting pirates. Explore and finish missions to uncover the secrets and mysteries of this universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8%, Space 19.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Management 12.7%, Exploration 9%
A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.
Why similar: Space 28.8%, 4X 28% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Space Sim 7.2%
Rule a living interstellar empire in this real-time 4X grand strategy. Make decisions that shape civilian lives, manage fragile supply lines, lead military conquests, and decide whether your civilization thrives or collapses under its own expansion.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Space Sim 19.5%, Economy 14%, Space 13%, Management 11.6%
Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.9%, Space 22.5%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 12.1%
Tech Corp. is a game where you try to become the biggest tech company in the world . Your goal is to become the next big shot in the tech industry. The game also takes place through history. Starting in the early 90's and going to present time.
Why similar: Management 26.3%, Economy 23.1%, Strategy 16.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Simulation 13.2%
Choose your own adventure in this open-world humanity expansion space simulation. Travel beyond the constellations to new frontiers. Explore, collect resources, supply the expansion efforts, or go battle it out spaceshooter style. Do we seek Galaversal Supremacy or peace? You decide !
Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Crafting 21.2%, Space 14.4%, PvE 11.6%, Exploration 9.4%
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.3%, Management 14%, Space 13.8%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 9.8%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 37.5%, Economy 29.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Crafting 8%
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Space 17.6%, Space Sim 14.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 6.6%
A strategy game about space (location) in space (cosmic). Colonise the galaxy with a thousand clicks of a mouse. Winner of DreamHack Austin Jam!
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Space Sim 23.6%, Space 19.5%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 5.2%
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Space Sim 24.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Space 10.1%, Simulation 9.3%
Interstellar Inn is a 2D hotel building and management sim in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.1%, Management 21.3%, Economy 19.1%, Space 16.4%, Simulation 7%
After a mysterious accident you are left are stranded, floating through space on a piece of a space station. Craft supplies and Hubs to expand what is now your home. But be warned space is a dangerous places where one mistake can mean certain death. Can you defy the odds and survive in space?
Why similar: Space Sim 29.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Management 12%, Space 11.7%, Exploration 10.7%
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 24%, Crafting 22.3%, Space 19.1%, Exploration 12%, PvE 10.5%
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
Why similar: Space 39.6%, Space Sim 22.8%, Simulation 13%, Economy 9.1%, Sci-fi 5.7%
Captain a space freighter on its perilous voyage to deliver vital supplies to the Parvin Frontier! Select your crew, then lead and command their efforts to manage the ship's navigation, engineering, weapons, and more on the fly as crises and obstacles arise in real time.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.9%, Space 22.6%, Management 19.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 4.5%
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 27%, Space 20%, Economy 19.3%, 4X 10.3% ★, Strategy 7.5%
Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.
Why similar: Space 30.4%, Management 18%, Economy 16.6%, Space Sim 14.1%, Simulation 8.6%
Rebuild a fallen species in this dark sci-fi 4X strategy game. Extract and refine real elements, command drone swarms, and make tough choices as you guide The Exalted Descendant toward resurgence—or extinction—in a procedurally generated galaxy. No diplomacy. No mercy.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Economy 13.9%, Space 13.5%, Management 13%, Crafting 13%
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 45% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Space 15.6%, Economy 13.2%, Sci-fi 4.3%