Games Like Piperspace

Voidless is a sci-fi space survival sandbox set in the near future within a realistic scale solar system. In first or third person, players can explore planets and asteroids, collect resources, and craft items. As well as building bases and ships, all with physics based flight and combat.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, FPS 10.8%, Base Building 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%

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 33.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 9%, Building 8%, Exploration 6.9%

Perihelion lets you run your own rocket engine shop. Take over an abandoned desert airfield, design realistic, unique engines, then test them!

Why similar: Space Sim 35.4%, Sandbox 22.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Building 6.8%

You find yourself in a distant galaxy full of merchants, diplomats, bandits and powerful factions. Explore unknown galaxies, trade, fight pirates or become one. Uncover mysteries and shape the universe!

Why similar: Space Sim 47.1%, Sandbox 22.4%, Exploration 10.8%, Simulation 6.8%, Futuristic 5.9%

MOSS Becoming Human is an AI science game where players develop and deploy AI agents to build a Martian civilization. Customize, evolve, and test AI in various modes, shaping diverse outcomes. Agents can also interact with the real world, including social platforms like X.

Why similar: Space Sim 39%, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Exploration 5.5%

Boötes is a Space Sim where you get to jump on astroids. Collect Crystals, Unlock New Abilities, Find Secrets to Unlock New Suits, and Much More. You are all alone in The Boötes Void where you find mysterious crystals that can help fuel your space shuttle so you can visit the Cold Dark.

Why similar: Space Sim 50.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Futuristic 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Exploration 8.7%

Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Exploration 7.3%, Futuristic 6.5%

Lead an expedition into an unexplored solar system. Build rockets, aircraft, and other vehicles, discover new worlds, gather resources, complete missions, unlock technology, and grow a colony of tiny purple Klorps in this spaceflight sandbox.

Why similar: Space Sim 40.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 16.6%, Building 7.9%, Exploration 5.9%

SurviRail is a game about exploration and managing your own space train. Expand your train cars, upgrade your engines, collect resources, and discover new locations in the unknown space.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.1%, FPS 14.2%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 7.5%

Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.

Why similar: Space Sim 22.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Building 8.6%, Exploration 8.4%

Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!

Why similar: Space Sim 37.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Immersive Sim 11%, Simulation 8.7%, Futuristic 7.6%

Explore a seed-driven galaxy where every ship, planet, and dungeon is generated at runtime. Dogfight pirate wings, land on 20 kinds of worlds, raid surface sites on foot, and build a fleet from salvaged hulls, solo or in Steam co-op. The same seed rebuilds the same galaxy, every time.

Why similar: Space Sim 45.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Futuristic 6.3%

In celebration of the 25 yr anniversary of the first release, this compendium contains all 4 games in the Battlecruiser 3000AD series which was first released in 1996.

Why similar: Space Sim 37.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 10%, Futuristic 9.7%, Immersive Sim 9.6%

Ensure the moon is safe for humanity’s lunar settlement! Explore the moon as a Lunar Rover and interact with crashed ships, natural resources, and the nearby landmarks to determine if humans can live here!

Why similar: Space Sim 39.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 6.8%

Go to the Moon to explore its harsh nature and mysterious anomalies. Build your own lunar base, craft equipment, extract valuable resources and make many discoveries. Overcome the challenges of extreme lunar conditions, an oxygen-free atmosphere and much more unknown...

Why similar: Space Sim 24.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

A bright afternoon, perfect weather. With your parents away, you’re left with a rocket toy you received as a birthday gift. Build your own rocket and launch it high into the sky! Enjoy delicious homemade meals and work part-time jobs to upgrade your rocket. Can your rocket reach outer space?

Why similar: Space Sim 36.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Simulation 7.7%

A co-op starship bridge sim for 6–25 players. Man a station — helm, weapons, sensors, engineering, comms or command — and no one can fly the ship alone. Communicate, coordinate, and survive together.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Sandbox 19.3%, Simulation 13.7%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Futuristic 6.9%

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 38.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 9.1%, Sci-fi 4.6%

A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!

Why similar: Space Sim 27.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.3%

Explore a seamless endless universe with an uncountable number of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons. Make friends or enemies with unique alien civilizations. Research upgrades for your vessel with scientific phenomena and alien tech that you've acquired.

Why similar: Space Sim 40.6%, Sandbox 18.6%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Exploration 8.1%

Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.2%, Simulation 8%, Immersive Sim 6.2%

This is a single player game. You play a rebooted android in a broken shuttle. You need to fly the ship, keep the energy systems functional, mine some fuel from asteroids and feed the FTL drive with energy.

Why similar: Space Sim 44%, Immersive Sim 19.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Exploration 9.9%, Resource Management 7.6%

Build and manage your own space company. Design missions, launch satellites, and expand your influence across Earth’s orbit.

Why similar: Space Sim 37.7%, Sandbox 20.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Futuristic 7.4%

A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!

Why similar: Space Sim 23.8%, Sandbox 20.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Futuristic 9%, Building 8.6%

A futuristic sci-fi persistent universe exploration game with one million stars and 18 million planets and moons. Fly your ship to any star and explore its solar system. Claiming stars, planets and moons will make them yours forever - other players will see your discoveries and you will see theirs.

Why similar: Space Sim 51%, Simulation 19.7%, Exploration 10%, Futuristic 9.3%, Sci-fi 5.2%

Build your space station, design your own ships, and explore relaxed sci-fi sectors in Astrosphere. Gather resources, research new technologies, and shape your journey through the cosmos at your own pace.

Why similar: Space Sim 34.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 10%, Simulation 8.1%

Spiritus Astrum is a persistent, open-world roleplaying sandbox with multiplayer support. It features an infinite, procedurally generated universe which players are free to explore without restriction. Spiritus Astrum is more than a game, it is a world.

Why similar: Space Sim 32.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, FPS 12.8%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Exploration 6.9%

Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!

Why similar: Space Sim 42.4%, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 6.7%, Futuristic 4.4%

A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively achieve project phase goals and ultimately accomplish the ultimate goal of constructing a Mars colonization spacecraft.

Why similar: Space Sim 46.4%, Simulation 19.7%, Exploration 9%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 6.9%

A short cinematic survival experience where you attempt to survive on a failing satellite. Worry about all the survival essentials along with a ever growing blackhole named Ebon Void pulling lethal debris your way.

Why similar: Space Sim 32.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Exploration 6.6%

In "Space Mechanics: Repair | Hiring | Craft" you are the owner of a space repair station in which you have to work. Repair spaceships, get money for it, hire them and create items for sale or for your own purposes.

Why similar: Space Sim 48.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Futuristic 12.4%, First-Person 7.3%, 3D 5.3%

A space exploration and crafting game set in a fully simulated N-body small scale solar system, where you build space infrastructure to progress and figure out the misteries of the cosmos.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Simulation 14%, Exploration 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%

Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?

Why similar: Space Sim 31.5%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 11%, Base Building 9.1%, Exploration 8%

Venture into the depths of space and leave your legacy among the stars. In Star Legacy, explore galaxies, upgrade your ship, and survive on unknown planets.

Why similar: Space Sim 47.8%, FPS 18.3%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Exploration 8.7%, First-Person 5%

Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.

Why similar: Space Sim 32.3%, Sandbox 25.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Exploration 8%

A 2D space trading game with a real economy. NPC ships haul cargo between 78 stations and prices move whether you're there or not. Good routes die as other traders catch on, so you keep hunting new ones. No quest markers, no "best trade" arrows. Just you, a map, and the prices.

Why similar: Space Sim 44.1%, Sandbox 23.3%, Simulation 17.1%, Exploration 8.7%, Sci-fi 4.1%

Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.

Why similar: Space Sim 27.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 7.1%

Lead a spaceyard: juggle contracts, design, prototype, and build all types of ships—from single-seat fighters to giant cruisers. Create custom vessels to meet precise client specs, then take the helm yourself to prove their worth.

Why similar: Space Sim 40.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 6.5%

Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.

Why similar: Space Sim 42.1%, Sandbox 23.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 4.6%

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 45%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 5.6%

Destruction Physics | Everything is Destructible

Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Simulation 20.8%, FPS 18%, Exploration 10.3%, Futuristic 8.2%

A sci-fi settlement building game with orbital mechanics. Start from a spaceship, scan asteroids, manage fuel, ore, electricity, time, and sanity, while expanding your settlement, exploring an alien solar system, and building stations and spacecraft to support your growing colony.

Why similar: Space Sim 41%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%

Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?

Why similar: Space Sim 28.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Exploration 7.7%

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 47.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Exploration 9.3%, Crafting 6.6%, First-Person 6.2%

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 Sim 41.5%, Sandbox 21.1%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Simulation 12%, First-Person 5.5%

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 Sim 30.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Exploration 6.8%

Welcome to your new career as a gas station attendant in the deepest, darkest corner of space! Serve adorable ships, count your cash, and expand your diesel empire. It's a simple, satisfying job. Just... ignore the whispers in the vents. Everything is fine. Probably.

Why similar: Space Sim 50.8%, Simulation 19.1%, Immersive Sim 17%, First-Person 7.2%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Space Trucker is a "realistic" space simulator where you fly your cargo ship to different places within the solar system. Configure your ship, maneuver for departing and docking, plan your high speed flight, and execute it all without breaking space rules - or killing yourself!

Why similar: Space Sim 57.2%, Simulation 17.6%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Futuristic 10.8%

You have been commissioned to collect and research space minerals by destroying asteroids near your space shuttle. With your growing inventory of materials and new knowledge you build additional modules on your shuttle continuously expanding it into a self sustaining space station eco system.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.3%, Sandbox 18.4%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 8.4%

An open world survival game set in space.

Why similar: Space Sim 32.2%, Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Building 8.7%

A small game about running a floating pizzeria in deep space. Serve customers, earn credits, and upgrade your equipment—nothing more, nothing less.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.7%, Simulation 21.1%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Building 9.3%, First-Person 9%

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 34.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 10%, Futuristic 7%, Crafting 7%

I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.

Why similar: Space Sim 51.9%, Sandbox 28.1%, Simulation 20%

Time and space foam island, unknown biological resources, construction base, adventure trip. 1. Build roads. 2. Arrive at space-time foam to obtain rare materials and advanced equipment. 3. Don't leave the road. 4. Demolition or PK. 5. Continuously opening up more features.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.6%, Sandbox 17.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.5%, Exploration 7.4%

Embrace the final frontier and bend it to your will in Project Voidcraft - a space entrepreneurship sim set in the early days of space colonization. Experience a free-form MMO-grade Solar System sandbox where logistics is king, and everything else is up to you.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Building 7.8%, Futuristic 7.2%

In Delos, you are the space traffic controller managing the flow of ships at a bustling space station. Direct docking, allocate resources, and prevent collisions in a real-time strategy setting. Balance efficiency and safety to maintain order in the interstellar hub.

Why similar: Space Sim 56%, Simulation 15%, Immersive Sim 10%, Sci-fi 8.3%, 3D 5.7%

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 34%, Sandbox 23.6%, Exploration 12.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Space Sim 48%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Immersive Sim 9%, Sci-fi 4.7%

World Climate Lab is a real-time planetary climate simulator. Import your own terrain or sculpt a world in the topography editor, then watch a living climate emerge from physics: winds, oceans, cloud bands and ice. Every climate is calculated, not painted.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.4%, Sandbox 20.4%, Simulation 16.6%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Exploration 7.3%

You are the supreme commander who directing the construction of a galactic space base. You need to manage the living and administrative needs of the space base residents, establish the industrial chain for space docks and starship, and ultimately complete a dream starship.

Why similar: Space Sim 43.4%, Simulation 16%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Immersive Sim 8.9%