Games Like Out of Orbit

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 45.2% ★, Space 16.1%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Exploration 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a highly detailed modular ship-building system that directly impacts combat performance and crew management.

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 18.1%, Sandbox 17%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive sandbox for engineering complex ships and bases with realistic physics and survival elements.

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: Spaceships 48.3% ★, Space 16.3%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 9.1%, Exploration 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines procedural galaxy exploration with an intuitive block-based ship building system and RPG progression.

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 18.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the management of a crew and the intricate design of a ship interior to survive in deep space.

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 27.6%, Spaceships 21.5% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Open World 7.8%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a powerful creative suite for building functional, physics-based starships with complex internal systems.

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 24.4%, Sandbox 19.6%, Survival 19.6%, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a seamless transition between building ships, constructing planetary bases, and exploring diverse alien worlds.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Spaceships 35.8% ★, Space 17.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Survival 14.2%, Exploration 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival sim that emphasizes the gritty reality of scavenging and repairing ships in a realistic space setting.

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 40.3%, Sandbox 24.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Adventure 4.9%, Open World 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space simulation that challenges players to build functional ships from individual components.

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 23.6%, Sandbox 22.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the technical design of starships and the strategic management of systems and crew during missions.

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Space 30.3%, Sandbox 28.7%, Open World 21.3%, Building 10.1%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale MMO that features incredibly detailed ship construction and a fully destructible environment.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.4%, Space 25.5%, Survival 22.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in ship design and strategic combat, allowing for total control over every aspect of your vessel.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Space 19.1%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast, procedurally generated universe to explore with extensive base-building and survival mechanics.

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 42.3%, Gore 18.5%, Violent 16.5%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the tension of maintaining a ship and managing a crew while navigating a dangerous, alien environment.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 32.3%, Sandbox 27.5%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique procedural ship-building system that emphasizes tactical combat and faction-based strategy.

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: Sandbox 22.9%, Space 21.7%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 14.9%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that emphasizes ship construction and the management of complex internal systems while exploring the galaxy.

Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

Why similar: Space 39.5%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 10.3%, Building 8.5%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for creative ship building with a strong emphasis on RPG-style progression and boss encounters.

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 25.5%, Sandbox 24.4%, Survival 22%, Base Building 21%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the complex engineering and atmospheric management required to build and maintain a functional space base.

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 34.4%, Sandbox 28.2%, Open World 13.9%, Building 5.8%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based space sandbox that allows for massive ship and station construction in a multiplayer environment.

Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

Why similar: Space 34.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 11%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines modular ship building with tactical combat and a dynamic, evolving sandbox galaxy.

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: Sandbox 28.3%, Space 27.2%, Open World 17.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space simulation, sandbox exploration, and real-time strategy elements into a cohesive ship-focused experience.

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: Space 32%, Sandbox 26.3%, Open World 16.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Exploration 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space simulation that allows players to build a fleet, manage stations, and engage in a complex dynamic economy.

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 47.6%, Sandbox 30.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Open World 5.6%, Building 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mechanical intricacies of ship construction by tasking players with the careful deconstruction of derelict vessels.

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 50.8%, Sandbox 26.8%, Open World 15.2%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that offers a deep RPG progression system and a vast, open sandbox to explore and trade in.

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

Why similar: Space 30.4%, Open World 18.6%, Survival 17%, Sandbox 16.5%, Exploration 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The premier exploration game for those who want to build bases and ships while traveling through an infinite, vibrant universe.

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 21.9%, Sandbox 18.4%, Survival 18.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building mechanics with a focus on scavenging resources from debris in space.

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: Space 52.5%, Exploration 16.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 7.7%, Action 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op focused experience that emphasizes the frantic coordination required to operate and maintain a ship in combat.

A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Space 24.4%, Open World 16%, Exploration 13.5%, RPG 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based RPG that features deep ship customization and tactical combat across a vast star system.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 51.6%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Indie 6%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic roguelike that captures the intensity of managing a ship's crew and systems during desperate combat encounters.

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 41.8%, Strategy 17.5%, RPG 9.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, retro-styled space simulation that focuses on realistic navigation and ship management.

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space 50.2%, Sandbox 27.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 9.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic management and design of complex space stations in a realistic setting.

Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!

Why similar: Spaceships 56.8% ★, Space 14%, Sandbox 10.3%, Exploration 4.4%, Building 4.1%

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: Spaceships 43.2% ★, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 8.8%, Exploration 5.3%

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

Why similar: Spaceships 48% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Space 14.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 7.6%

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 8.8%, Base Building 8.1%

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 22.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 12.5%, Exploration 7.2%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Space 22.9%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 18.6%, Open World 11.9%, Exploration 6.6%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Survival 23.1%, Open World 16.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 9.4%

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Space 22.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 14.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Open World 9.9%

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 50.4%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Exploration 5%, 2D 3.7%

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

Why similar: Spaceships 37.7% ★, Sandbox 21.6%, Space 21.1%, Exploration 6.1%, Open World 4.4%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.9%, Base Building 24.9%, Space 9.7%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.4%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 40.7%, Spaceships 9.5% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.8%, Strategy 7.6%

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!

Why similar: Space 43.6%, Open World 20.3%, RPG 9.2%, Indie 6.8%, Action 6%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, Survival 26.2%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 5.3%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Space 26.6%, Sandbox 23.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Open World 14.8%, Exploration 8.2%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Survival 20%, Open World 19.5%, Exploration 7%, Building 5.2%

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.

Why similar: Space 21.2%, RPG 18.7%, Exploration 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Building 8.7%

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.9%, Open World 18.1%, Survival 16.6%, Building 10.6%, Exploration 6.1%

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 25.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 9.3%, Strategy 7.2%

Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!

Why similar: Space 28%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 9%, RPG 8.6%

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Space 29.7%, Base Building 27%, Survival 20.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 4.2%

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Space 19.8%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 7.2%, Adventure 4.9%

Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.

Why similar: Spaceships 64.6% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Space 12.2%, Building 5%, Indie 1.6%

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Why similar: Space 20.9%, Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 10.3%

Take control of a fully destructible spaceship and explore, blast or trade your way through the cosmos, alone or with friends. Every tile matters, as you dogfight, maneuver or speed your way past friendly traders, hostile aliens, and impressive space navies. What will you do, Captain?

Why similar: Space 36.6%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 16.9%, Action 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 10%

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 20.2%, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Open World 10.8%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Sandbox 20%, Base Building 17%, Space 15.6%, Open World 14.9%

Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.

Why similar: Space 37.9%, Sandbox 22.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 12.8%, Indie 5.6%