Games Like Ostranauts

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.3%, Difficult 13.7%, Space 12.7%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features realistic physics-based mining and salvage operations in a dangerous, asteroid-filled environment.

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 26.1%, Space Sim 24%, Sandbox 15.8%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes, physics-based labor of dismantling derelict spacecraft in a corporate-debt-ridden environment.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Difficult 23.1%, Space 17.2%, Exploration 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the eerie, isolated atmosphere of exploring derelict ships using remote drones to scavenge for parts.

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Trading 20.1%, Space Sim 18.1%, Difficult 13.4%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines crew management, debt, and life-sim elements within a complex, procedurally generated space sandbox.

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: Survival 36.9%, Difficult 34.3%, Sci-fi 18%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, hardcore submarine management and survival mechanics that mirror the ship-maintenance intensity of Ostranauts.

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: Flight 24.6%, Space Sim 17.4%, Trading 16.8%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive, interconnected space economy and simulation that rewards players who want to build their own fleet from scratch.

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 Sim 25%, Space 15.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a crew and a ship, requiring constant attention to life support, resource scarcity, and survival.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Spaceships 27.2% ★, Space Sim 18.8%, Difficult 15.1%, Space 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep ship-building mechanics where the layout and functionality of your vessel directly impact your survival.

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 30.2%, Sandbox 27.3%, Survival 24.9%, Sci-fi 17.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly granular level of engineering and survival simulation that appeals to fans of complex ship systems.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Flight 21%, Spaceships 19.7% ★, Space Sim 15.2%, Trading 10.4%, Space 8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space-sim that excels in ship building and exploration, allowing for significant customization of your salvage vessel.

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Difficult 22.2%, Cyberpunk 21.6%, Space 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Roguelike 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, turn-based extraction shooter that captures the high-stakes survival and scavenging atmosphere of Ostranauts.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Space 29.2%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down 15.8%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to infiltrate and hijack derelict ships using tactical gadgets and stealth, echoing the salvage gameplay loop.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Spaceships 28.9% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, Difficult 13.1%, Space 11.7%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite that forces players to manage ship systems and crew survival during a grueling journey across space.

Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

Why similar: Flight 26.6%, Spaceships 21% ★, Space Sim 17.1%, Immersive Sim 6.5%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly atmospheric and realistic flight simulation experience for landing and navigating in space environments.

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 24.5%, Trading 15.1%, Space 11.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space-sim that emphasizes ship construction and modular components in a sandbox setting.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Space 13.9%, Exploration 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that takes place on a derelict ship, requiring players to repair and manage systems to survive.

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

Why similar: Flight 23.3%, Space Sim 21.6%, Trading 17%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Blends sandbox space-sim elements with tactical combat and ship management for a comprehensive space experience.

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 24.3%, Space 20.6%, Flight 11.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG-focused space-sim that puts you in command of a ship, requiring tactical decisions and management to survive.

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Space Sim 23.9%, Trading 19.8%, Space 10.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim focused on ship construction and management, allowing players to build complex vessels from the ground up.

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Why similar: Space 27.9%, Trading 17%, Space Sim 14.8%, Open World 11.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style space trading and combat game that offers a deep, open-world experience with ship customization.

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 29.2%, Space Sim 21.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and ship modularity, allowing players to upgrade their vessel as they uncover space mysteries.

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Why similar: Space Sim 31.7%, Space 28.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 11.2%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space-sim that emphasizes mining, trading, and ship progression in a sandbox 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: Spaceships 33.1% ★, Space Sim 23.1%, Space 11.5%, Open World 9.2%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op space-sim where individual crew members must manage specific ship systems to survive in hostile space.

Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.

Why similar: Space Sim 33.6%, Space 31.1%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Exploration 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines RPG elements with space-sim mechanics, offering a personal journey through a vast, procedurally generated galaxy.

FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

Why similar: Flight 33%, Trading 14.6%, Space Sim 14.3%, Difficult 12.1%, Space 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and flight mechanics of transporting goods across a challenging planetary environment.

The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with Day 1 mod support and a planned PvP/co-op multiplayer on the Early Access roadmap. You're going to need a bigger ship.

Why similar: Flight 35.9%, Space Sim 19.4%, Space 11.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space-sim that focuses on exploration and ship-based combat in a futuristic setting.

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 Sim 21.2%, Difficult 20.5%, Space 15.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Exploration 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based ship building and orbital mechanics, appealing to those who enjoy the technical side of Ostranauts.

The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.

Why similar: Space 21.6%, Space Sim 21.6%, Flight 16.8%, Sandbox 9%, Trading 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, physics-driven space-sim that offers a realistic flight and trading experience.

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: Flight 25.2%, Space Sim 23.6%, Space 11.3%, Cyberpunk 9.6%, Open World 7.1%

Fight, trade, mine, and explore the galaxy in this old-school space combat simulator. You are a freelance pilot who survived an assassination attempt. Travel the open world, chase bounties, get new ships, upgrade your gear, and, why not, maybe even save humankind!

Why similar: Flight 27.6%, Space Sim 18.7%, Trading 18.4%, Space 9.5%, Exploration 7%

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

Why similar: Spaceships 44.9% ★, Space 13.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Space Sim 16.9%, Space 15.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Procedural Generation 12.5%

Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.

Why similar: Space Sim 17.2%, Trading 15.5%, Space 14.8%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Exploration 9.7%

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 30.5%, Space Sim 21.6%, Sandbox 17.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.

Why similar: Space 22.9%, Sandbox 16.9%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Exploration 11.8%

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.8%, Space 14%, Open World 10.2%, Exploration 9.9%, Immersive Sim 9.4%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Space 22.8%, Space Sim 20.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Spaceships 15.1% ★, Simulation 8.6%

Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast expanse of space. Collect resources and search for a new world to call home in this minimalist space exploration and survival game.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.3%, Flight 21.3%, Space 15%, Exploration 11%, Survival 9.9%

Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator inspired by the early NASA space programs, from orbiting Earth in Mercury and Gemini, to the moon landing in project Apollo. Learn the procedures. Operate the spacecraft. Complete the mission.

Why similar: Flight 30.3%, Space Sim 19.9%, Difficult 11.9%, Space 11.8%, Immersive Sim 8.3%

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.5%, Spaceships 22.3% ★, Space 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Exploration 9.4%

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: Space Sim 31.4%, Space 17.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Top-Down 10.3%, Sci-fi 10.2%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Difficult 31.2%, Space 23.9%, Procedural Generation 16.9%, Roguelike 13.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%

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 Sim 26.3%, Space 26.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 11.6%, Procedural Generation 11%

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 43.1%, Space 22.8%, Trading 15.7%, Exploration 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Exploration 44.7%, Sci-fi 33.6%, Simulation 21.8%

A hardcore flight simulator for VR! Get in the cockpit, pilot a ship, and navigate hazardous environments on a journey to become an expert docker!

Why similar: Flight 37.4%, Space Sim 20.2%, Space 13.4%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Procedural Generation 6.6%

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 22.4%, Procedural Generation 21%, Exploration 15%, Sandbox 15%, Top-Down 12.6%

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 31.5%, Space 16.4%, Open World 10.8%, Trading 9.3%, Exploration 8.7%

Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.

Why similar: Space 29.2%, Space Sim 27.6%, Simulation 15%, RPG 14.2%, Open World 7.1%

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 29.2%, Space 16.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.3%, Exploration 11.4%

Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Why similar: Space 23.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 15.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Roguelike 10.3%

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Survival 26%, Difficult 18%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Roguelike 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Space Sim 28.3%, Space 22.9%, Survival 17.4%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%

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: Flight 35.2%, Space Sim 24.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Space 7.4%

A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.

Why similar: Space Sim 17.7%, Trading 14.7%, Space 14.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%

Take flight in a seaplane flight simulator through a rugged world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Deliver cargo between far-flung communities in a flooded landscape that challenges your piloting skills! Fix your plane and keep flying!

Why similar: Flight 47.6%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Life Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 7.4%

Detached is a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive. Separated from your unit you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space. Strap yourself into your spacesuit for thrilling gameplay designed for VR headsets.

Why similar: Flight 22.1%, Exploration 12.8%, Space Sim 12.3%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.1%

Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

Why similar: Flight 29%, Space Sim 19.9%, Space 12.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 8.7%

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Why similar: Space 23.4%, Exploration 11.4%, RPG 10.9%, Roguelike 10.7%, Simulation 9.9%