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Games Like Planetoid

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Indie, Action, Sci-fi.

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Planetoid is a physics based building game in which you construct facilities and protect humanoids on the planetoid. Build a facilities which can defeat the enemies on your way.

Reviews: Mixed — 54% — of 104 reviews
Released: 2017-02-24
Developer: GameWriterStudio
Publisher: Conglomerate 5
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.4 hrs
Mean playtime: 4.4 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 98%

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    97% matchMostly Negative40% of 261 reviews2016
    Dev: 4gencyPub: Versus Evil
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 31.5%, Strategy 19.4%, Indie 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Action 8.6%

  2. #2 Forbidden Planet
    96% matchMixed52% of 360 reviews2016
    Dev: Faton
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    "Forbidden Planet" is a Space Strategy and Tower Defence like Game. You control a small spaceship and your main goal is to protect your own home planet. Explore the universe for resources. Colonize other planets. Defend from the asteroids.

    Why similar: Indie 63.6%, Space 13.4%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Strategy 9.9%

  3. #3 Spoids
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 115 reviews2017
    Dev: AirWave GamesPub: BindleBot
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Spoids is a challenging throwback to the original brand of tower defense games. Command the Remote Defense Space Station and respond to distress calls of those who are being attacked by the invaders. Travel from planet to planet using your powerful arsenal to hold back the Spoids.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Strategy 29.2%, Indie 24.3%, Action 11.8%

  4. #4 The White Laboratory
    95% matchMostly Positive78% of 361 reviews2019
    Dev: Laboratory Systems
    Windows

    The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 21.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Physics 10.9%

  5. #5 City Siege: Faction Island
    94% matchMixed68% of 252 reviews2017
    Dev: Ish GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    The ultimate 2D Physics War Game - War just got fun, build your army with tanks, guns, spies, flame tanks and helicopters. Then embark on battles of mass destruction and tactical rescues. Bring peace to faction island by destroying all your enemies!

    Why similar: Physics 35.6%, Indie 31.1%, Action 20.6%, Strategy 12.7%

  6. #6 Celestial Command
    94% matchMixed63% of 687 reviews2014
    Dev: Romenics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    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 33.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Indie 11.4%

  7. #7 Reassembly
    92% matchVery Positive94% of 4,066 reviews2015
    Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 27.1%, Building 26.4%, Sandbox 18%, Strategy 11.7%, Indie 7.9%

  8. #8 Farlight Explorers
    93% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
    Dev: Farlight Games Industry
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

    Why similar: Building 26.9%, Sandbox 20.9%, Space 19.6%, Indie 16.9%, Strategy 15.6%

  9. #9 Bee Island
    90% matchVery Positive86% of 1,584 reviews2023
    Dev: Lemma Arts
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Building 22.1%, Physics 17.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Action 8.9%

  10. #10 Block Fortress 2
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 260 reviews2025
    Dev: Foursaken Media
    Windows · Mac

    Choose a planet, build your fortress, and prepare for war. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, deploy troops, and defend your stronghold against relentless attacks. In this action-packed block-builder, survival is earned, and only the strongest will remain.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 46.8%, Sandbox 30.1%, Action 16.4%, Strategy 6.8%

  11. #11 ROD: Revolt Of Defense
    91% matchMostly Positive80% of 546 reviews2016
    Dev: Rock Wale
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!

    Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Indie 32.1%, Action 21.3%

  12. #12 Bomb Defense
    91% matchVery Negative18% of 116 reviews2017
    Dev: Mitorah Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 12 minMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 25%

    A completely different take on the tower defense genre. Combining it with the Puzzle genre, making for a difficult game. Buy traps, bombs, turrets and walls and place them in optimal positions to defend against enemies.

    Why similar: Strategy 30.4%, Tower Defense 26.8%, Indie 16.9%, Building 14.3%, Physics 11.5%

  13. #13 Artificial Extinction
    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 262 reviews2020
    Dev: 100Hr Games Inc
    Windows

    You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Strategy 18.7%, Indie 15.6%, Action 10.5%, Adventure 10.2%

  14. #14 Space Run
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,123 reviews2014
    Dev: Passtech GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 44.3%, Space 26.6%, Strategy 16.4%, Indie 8.7%, Adventure 2.3%

  15. #15 Realistic Tower Destruction
    87% matchMixed65% of 51 reviews2020
    Dev: Nikita Markin
    Windows

    Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.

    Why similar: Indie 50.3%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Physics 14.5%

  16. #16 Space Engineers
    83% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
    Dev: Keen Software House
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 23.8%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 17.6%, Physics 15.9%, Strategy 13.7%

  17. #17 Project Astra Dominium
    84% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2024
    Dev: Snob Entertainment UG
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 39.3%, Space 29.2%, Strategy 16%, Indie 15.6%

  18. #18 StellarHub
    86% matchMixed60% of 277 reviews2017
    Dev: CasualogicPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%

    StellarHub is a starbase management game where your job is to build a safe and functional space station. Deal with the challenges of managing a station crew while taking care of everyone’s needs. Your tasks include construction, extraction of resources, defense, trade, and more.

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  19. #19 Cosmic Dust & Rust
    85% matchMixed65% of 563 reviews2016
    Dev: 16bit NightsPub: Back To Basics Gaming
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space. Upgrade your ship, build turrets and defence systems, undergo side missions and take control of your ship manually and use its cannons and super weapons to destroy your enemies.

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  20. #20 Planetbase
    82% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

    Why similar: Space 42.2%, Strategy 22.7%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Indie 7.2%

  21. #21 Event Horizon - Frontier
    84% matchMixed57% of 58 reviews2019
    Dev: Pavel Zinchenko
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build an invincible starbase and protect it from enemies. Choose your fleet from an expanse of ships to suit your playstyle, and use the best weapons and modules you have to hand to destroy invaders.

    Why similar: Indie 58.9%, Action 41.1%

  22. #22 Artificial Defense
    82% matchVery Positive82% of 210 reviews2016
    Dev: Thiemo Bolder, ONEMANGAMES
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.

    Why similar: Strategy 32.3%, Indie 27.7%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Action 15.7%

  23. #23 Dig or Die
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 26%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Physics 9.2%

  24. #24 Broken Universe - Tower Defense
    79% matchVery Positive91% of 311 reviews2023
    Dev: Jinthree Studio
    Windows

    Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack. A variety of stages that change each time depending on how you play them.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Space 21.4%, Building 20.7%, Strategy 15%, Indie 11.9%

  25. #25 Starport Delta
    81% matchMostly Positive72% of 75 reviews2020
    Dev: Cloudfire Studios
    Windows

    Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

    Why similar: Strategy 30%, Indie 24.7%, Space 19.3%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.6%

  26. #26 Particle Fleet: Emergence
    79% matchVery Positive92% of 1,261 reviews2016
    Dev: Knuckle Cracker
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

    Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Space 30.3%, Indie 24.1%, Tower Defense 12%

  27. #27 Microcosmum 2
    78% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2024
    Dev: Satur Entertainment
    Windows

    A relaxing strategy game featuring unconventional gameplay. Your objectives include development, evolution, border expansion and protection of your hive.

    Why similar: Strategy 20.5%, Indie 16%, Space 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Adventure 10.5%

  28. #28 Mars or Die!
    81% matchMixed53% of 74 reviews2018
    Dev: 34BigThings srl
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, Space 18.6%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 11.9%

  29. #29 Space Engineers 2
    74% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
    Dev: Keen Software House
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

    Why similar: Space 23.6%, Building 22.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 15.2%, Strategy 11.7%

  30. #30 ReFactory
    77% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

    Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

    Why similar: Strategy 48.7%, Indie 26.3%, Sandbox 25%

  31. #31 PolyCore Defense
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
    Dev: TorksGame
    Windows

    PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 47.8%, Strategy 21.1%, Building 14.9%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 6.9%

  32. #32 Vectorio
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 388 reviews2023
    Dev: BN Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build. Automate. Defend.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 45.8%, Sandbox 25%, Strategy 20.4%, Action 8.9%

  33. #33 BuildMoreCubes
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 141 reviews2016
    Dev: HA Studio Ltd.Pub: SA Industry
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    It is an army vs army game.You need to constantly rebuild and grow your army in order to survive or win the battle.

    Why similar: Strategy 35.4%, Indie 28.2%, Adventure 18.4%, Action 18%

  34. #34 Astro Colony
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 28.4%, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 10.2%

  35. #35 Planet Miner
    76% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
    Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
    Windows

    Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.

    Why similar: Adventure 44.1%, Space 36.2%, Indie 19.7%

  36. #36 McDROID
    77% matchMostly Positive73% of 215 reviews2014
    Dev: Elefantopia
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Farm, Build, Defend, in the Galaxy's only Arcade-Tower-Defense.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 49.2%, Strategy 20.4%, Indie 15.3%, Action 10.2%, Adventure 4.9%

  37. #37 Stellar Initiative
    72% matchMostly Positive77% of 390 reviews2024
    Dev: Five Head Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 50.8%, Strategy 21.8%, Space 17.8%, Building 9.7%

  38. #38 Planetka
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 178 reviews2024
    Dev: TeTerka
    Windows

    You play as a tiny sentient planet. Maintain your ecosystem, create new plant species and discover the hidden powers inside you. You’ll need them soon, because there is a human spaceship approaching with the intention to mine all your resources and they don’t care if it kills you in the process.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Strategy 32.5%, Space 22.6%, Indie 9.2%

  39. #39 Trashed
    75% matchMixed47% of 147 reviews2021
    Dev: Josh PresseisenPub: Crescent Moon Games
    Windows

    Take over a disfunctional Waste Management Facility on a distant planet. Build incinerators, recyclers, robots, turrets, and more. Battle vicious creatures on the planet's surface with powerful weapons!

    Why similar: Indie 31.2%, Strategy 23.5%, Action 20.4%, Adventure 12.8%, Building 12.1%

  40. #40 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    70% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    Why similar: Building 28.6%, Space 26.8%, Strategy 19.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Physics 10.7%

  41. #41 Satellite Repairman
    74% matchMixed68% of 168 reviews2017
    Dev: Nuno DonatoPub: Conglomerate 5
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    All the planets in the system have suddenly decided that the galaxy isn’t big enough for all of them! You’re not sure who launched the first missile and it doesn’t really matter! You’ve got nothing to do with it… you are just… the satellite repairman!

    Why similar: Space 53.8%, Indie 27.6%, Action 18.6%

  42. #42 Planetoid Pioneers
    73% matchMixed61% of 398 reviews2018
    Dev: Data Realms
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Explore deep circular worlds in this Physicsvania with couch Co-Op combat, crafting, and ridiculous physics fails! Also bring your own game ideas to life with the powerful engine and integrated game development tools. Each Planetoid is a whole separate game mode that you can fully edit and easily share!

    Why similar: Indie 32.2%, Physics 26.3%, Adventure 22.2%, Action 19.3%

  43. #43 Facteroids
    71% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: by Jan Zizka
    Windows

    Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

    Why similar: Building 38.4%, Sandbox 32.9%, Space 28.7%

  44. #44 Sandbox Anything
    73% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 reviews2019
    Dev: Fizzostia
    Windows

    A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, Sandbox 25.4%, Strategy 19.7%, Indie 14.5%, Action 10.2%

  45. #45 Taur
    70% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,078 reviews2020
    Dev: Echo Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 49.3%, Strategy 21.8%, Indie 11.4%, Space 9.5%, Action 7.9%

  46. #46 Mindustry
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 41.5%, Building 18.6%, Strategy 17.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Indie 4.8%

  47. #47 Dome Keeper
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 19,233 reviews2022
    Dev: BippinbitsPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Space 27%, Physics 18.1%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 8.6%

  48. #48 Planetaries
    70% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
    Dev: EY-Studio
    Windows

    Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 34.8%, Building 29%, Sandbox 20.3%, Adventure 8.7%, Action 7.2%

  49. #49 Rogue Station
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 228 reviews2023
    Dev: Quint Studio
    Windows

    This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

    Why similar: Space 40%, Building 35.8%, Strategy 24.2%

  50. #50 Stationeers
    68% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 29.3%, Building 27.7%, Sandbox 22.2%, Physics 20.9%

  51. #51 ABRISS - build to destroy
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 545 reviews2023
    Dev: RandwerkPub: astragon Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%

    ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.

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  52. #52 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    72% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
    Dev: Jim Offerman
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%

    Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

    Why similar: Space 30.5%, Building 26%, Sandbox 18.4%, Strategy 18.3%, Indie 6.7%

  53. #53 Galactic Glitch
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 853 reviews2025
    Dev: Crunchy Leaf Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    A physics-powered action roguelike. Grab asteroids, catch missiles, and hurl them back at swarming enemies. Build wild loadouts, defeat colossal bosses, and push deeper into a collapsing galaxy.

    Why similar: Space 44.8%, Physics 39.1%, Action 16.2%

  54. #54 Astro Looter: Survivor
    66% matchMostly Positive71% of 423 reviews2024
    Dev: Soda Game Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 66.3%, Adventure 17.5%, Action 16.2%

  55. #55 Space Station Tycoon
    67% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
    Dev: Lunheim Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 34.5%, Space 29.2%, Building 23.4%, Strategy 12.9%

  56. #56 Sleep Tight
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2018
    Dev: We Are Fuzzy
    Windows

    Sleep Tight is an adrenaline pumping arcade-style, twin-stick shooter with base-building elements and wrapped in blankets of nostalgia. Construct your strongest pillow fort during the day to defend your bedroom from endless hordes of monsters each night.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, Strategy 28.9%, Indie 25.1%, Action 16%

  57. #57 Tower Dominion
    62% matchVery Positive86% of 4,827 reviews2025
    Dev: Parallel 45 Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 52.4%, Building 25.5%, Strategy 22.1%

  58. #58 Maia
    69% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

    Why similar: Strategy 27.8%, Space 27.1%, Indie 19.9%, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.2%

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