60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Sandbox, Singleplayer, Economy.
Port Aphelion is a trading-simulation and adventure game where players build their economic empire through honest trade, smuggling, bounty-hunting, or all-out piracy!
SPINDLEDRIFT
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.
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
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.
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: Pirates 20.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Space Sim 10.5%
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 23.4%, Pirates 22.2% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 11.7%, Simulation 10%
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Why similar: Space 30.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Economy 11.4%, Open World 10%, Simulation 9.3%
Build and automate your own modular space fleet in this sandbox base-building game. Mine asteroids, expand your ship, fight enemies, explore new star systems, and uncover the deepest secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Economy 17.5%, Space Sim 11.7%, Management 8.9%, Space 8.9%
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Why similar: Space 27.9%, Economy 16.9%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space Sim 9.2%
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 27.9%, Pirates 25.2% ★, Open World 13%, Strategy 8.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
Run a galactic pirate syndicate from a single screen. Raid ships, loot cargo, capture crew, and grow a fleet that raids in parallel while you watch. An incremental space-pirate idle game with tactical raids, a reputation-based black market, and a legendary endgame.
Why similar: Pirates 31.8% ★, Space 14.9%, Automation 14.1%, Space Sim 8.5%, Management 7.1%
Overproduction Crisis Simulator
Why similar: Economy 27.6%, Capitalism 26.2%, Space 15.9%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 8.3%
X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.
Why similar: Space 27.9%, Economy 17.8%, Sandbox 12%, Space Sim 11.5%, Simulation 9.1%
Star Life is a space sandbox RPG where you start on a planet and carve your own path. Develop skills through "learn by doing," influence dynamic economies, schedule your life with the "Life Planner," and face the challenges of space. Balance risk and survival in a universe shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Economy 18.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Capitalism 11.5%, Open World 10.4%, Space 10.4%
Star Haul Tycoon is a narrative logistics sim where efficiency is the only path to profit. Connect planets, manage a fleet of transport ships and optimize complex supply chains. In an economy where fuel equals money, you must pay off your massive corporate debt to a supervisor who's always watching.
Why similar: Economy 24.5%, Space 17.9%, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 9.1%
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 30.1%, Pirates 24.3% ★, Open World 9.6%, Procedural Generation 9%, Top-Down 7%
Battle through 30 years of digital agency history — optimize sales & marketing, deliver projects, grow your team and outsmart your rivals. Fully simulated market and freely chosen path to success — boutique with quality or agency group? You decide.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.4%, Economy 23.5%, Management 13.6%, Automation 12.7%, Sandbox 12.7%
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: Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 13.9%, Space Sim 12.5%, Space 12%, Automation 10.4%
Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon! Plan projects, hire a dream team, assign tasks to specialists, and monitor the budget while upgrading your office. Balance between team burnout, complex contracts, and the wrath of upper management.
Why similar: Economy 24.4%, Capitalism 23.4%, Management 13.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 9%
A real-time portfolio management sim where you build a career as a stock broker. Balance clients' trust, market timing, and your own reputation on a procedurally-generated Wall Street that never stops moving.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.8%, Economy 23.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
Why similar: Space 17.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Management 13.1%, Open World 10.7%, Space Sim 10%
Play the CEO of a multi-national conglomerate in this business simulation. Grow crops, raise livestock, build mines and oil wells to get the raw resources needed to make more than 75 types of consumer goods.
Why similar: Economy 30.8%, Capitalism 26.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
Become spacefaring merchant in a galaxy filled with diverse planets, each with its own economy, resources, and challenges. Amass wealth and reputation by trading goods, negotiating with factions, and navigating the intricacies of interstellar commerce.
Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Capitalism 18.3%, Space 15.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Space Sim 9.1%
Manage an interstellar spy business in this strategy game with lunchbreak-length runs. Release your inner math-nerd to manipulate statistical odds for stealing data and technology. Build a galaxy-wide espionage network, partner with megacorporations or sell their secrets to bankrupt them. Profit!
Why similar: Economy 16%, Capitalism 14.8%, Space 11.4%, Open World 9%, Procedural Generation 9%
Command a ship in the age of sail across a fully circumnavigable globe. Read the wind, trade for a reason, fight broadside to broadside, board and take prizes, and build a name — alone or in Steam co-op. Simulated sea, living crew, seventeen period hulls, a family to leave it all to.
Why similar: Pirates 26.3% ★, Economy 17.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 7.2%
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Why similar: Space 26.7%, Economy 16%, Simulation 14%, Space Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
An oil tycoon where half the game happens underground. Scan deposits with sonar, steer a drill that turns, haul oil with your own fleet, hold it in a warehouse for a better price and sign contracts where every day counts.
Why similar: Economy 23.7%, Capitalism 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Automation 12.2%, Simulation 10.7%
X-Tension is the eagerly awaited expansion pack to X: Beyond the Frontier. The expansion is not limited by a linear plot line but makes use of new ways to expand your empire. You can now take part in missions that are offered to you throughout the game.
Why similar: Space 25.1%, Economy 17.2%, Simulation 16.9%, Space Sim 13%, Sandbox 12%
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build your own brands, and compete in a living economy where prices are shaped by supply and demand.
Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Capitalism 19%, Automation 11.8%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9%
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Economy 25.3%, Automation 14%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 12.8%, Capitalism 11.8%
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Economy 23.6%, Automation 16.2%, Management 12.9%, Space 8%, Simulation 7.7%
Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.
Why similar: Capitalism 32.7%, Economy 22.2%, Simulation 17%, Management 14.7%, Strategy 13.3%
An open-world survival steampunk adventure where you build, manage, raid, trade, gamble, and battle across sky and land. Face the undead, rival nations, cults, the inquisition, cannibal tribes, giant spiders, monsters, renegades, pirates, and the wrath of the elements in a living procedural world.
Why similar: Pirates 28.6% ★, Capitalism 15.6%, Economy 12.1%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 8.8%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Economy 28.4%, Capitalism 23.2%, Management 17.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.
Why similar: Economy 22.3%, Capitalism 20.3%, Space 11.9%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
Why similar: Space 36.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space Sim 9.9%, Economy 9.4%
🚀 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 19.5%, Economy 14.3%, Automation 12.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Space Sim 9.1%
A space sim where you build the industry that produces your rockets, then fly them. Genuinely integrated orbits, aerodynamics solved part by part, procedural planets you can walk. From first mine to first interstellar flight.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Space 14.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Space Sim 10.7%, Open World 9.1%
Build your own armaments empire. Develop customised weapons, build and expand factories, manage staff, production and finances, and sell your products on the global market. Transform a run-down family business into the world’s most valuable corporation.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.6%, Economy 24.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 12.3%
Oldschool action open-world sci-fi with a unique storyline, frenetic battles, crude humor, loose morals and cows.
Why similar: Pirates 32.9% ★, Space 15.2%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Space Sim 9.5%
Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
Why similar: Economy 18.2%, Space 15.4%, Open World 8.9%, Space Sim 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
From rags to riches, build your merchant empire in this space trader tycoon. Haul cargo, mine asteroids, run factories, trade stocks, command a fleet or even colonize an entire planet. Grow to become a gazillionaire as you outsmart the competition and expand your business across the planets.
Why similar: Capitalism 21.9%, Economy 21.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Space 14.4%, Management 9.7%
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 17.8%, Open World 13.9%, Space Sim 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%
The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.
Why similar: Space 20.2%, Open World 16%, Space Sim 15.6%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%
Master hyperspace trade in this sci-fi sim! Manage tariffs on 5 exotic resources, grow your Ecumenopolis, and outwit smugglers. Strategic fun for all!
Why similar: Economy 34.1%, Capitalism 24.8%, Simulation 15%, Futuristic 9.4%, Management 8.9%
Terachain is a short incremental game about generating the largest possible chain reaction in a weird alien machine. What's the biggest reaction possible with a single click? Earn billions or trillions of points by increasing the attributes of these strange spinning pieces.
Why similar: Economy 26%, Capitalism 21.4%, Space 19.3%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 8%
Build and run your own kebab restaurant in a single-player management simulation. Set prices, hire staff, serve customers, keep the shop clean, upgrade the interior, and turn a small counter into a thriving food business.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Capitalism 18.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Economy 15.4%
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Capitalism 13.5%, Open World 12.5%, Automation 11.9%
Build an investment firm, trade fictional markets, acquire income-producing property, and create your own ETFs as you grow from a small office into a financial empire in this player-paced management simulation.
Why similar: Economy 26.9%, Capitalism 24.9%, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 8.7%
A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
Why similar: Space 32.6%, Open World 21.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Exploration 10%, Space Sim 7.8%
1978, a garage, one machine. Milesyon is a demanding tycoon spanning 48 years of video game history, where luck does not exist: same seed, same world. In the end, your run becomes an illustrated book, written and painted on your machine. To play is to write.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Capitalism 16.7%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 13.6%, Economy 12%
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Economy 20.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Capitalism 12.7%, Management 9%
Command a crewed starship from the inside. Explore a living galaxy, answer distress calls, fight hostile ships, manage damage, craft supplies, and make captain-level choices during an interstellar war.
Why similar: Space 23.3%, Economy 21.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Exploration 6.3%
As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.
Why similar: Space 17.1%, Automation 15.7%, Economy 15.6%, Space Sim 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
Business simulator with strategy elements, where you manage a network of order delivery points in the conditions of severe competition, gray schemes and unexpected risks. Develop your business, improve points, defend against competitors' attacks, conduct risky transactions in the gray market.
Why similar: Capitalism 19.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 18%, Economy 16.4%, Strategy 14.6%
From Mogadishu to Calcutta, master the bustling trade networks of the Indian Ocean during the golden age of maritime commerce.
Why similar: Pirates 26.2% ★, Economy 20.5%, Capitalism 16.5%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.2%
Build cars step-by-step in a factory sim. Design vehicles, build your garage layout, hire and train workers, manage parking inventory, and sell cars through customer orders or walk-in buyers as you expand your operation.
Why similar: Economy 24.3%, Automation 22.6%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 12.9%
Island Miner is an automation game about expanding your factories across a vast island empire. Mine and refine ore into advanced materials, connect islands into a production network, then buy new ones with profit from a shifting galactic market. No enemies, no timers, just smart logistics.
Why similar: Economy 21.7%, Capitalism 19.8%, Automation 17.6%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Management 8.2%
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: Economy 26.3%, Capitalism 20.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 9.8%
Trade, fight and explore. Build a fleet, level your captain and dive through wormholes for rare loot — a single-player 2D space RPG of free corsairs.
Why similar: Pirates 28.1% ★, Space 17.6%, Economy 14.4%, Space Sim 14.1%, Open World 12.7%
Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.
Why similar: Economy 36.9%, Capitalism 29.7%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 8.5%
AutoMaker is an automotive business simulator. Start at the dawn of the automotive history, build your factory, research technologies and design cars as you progress through the ages to the current era and beyond.
Why similar: Economy 26.5%, Capitalism 18%, Sandbox 14.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 10.6%
Run your own supermarket in outer space. Keep shelves stocked and nicely organized. Supply your store with drone delivery. Will you take the duty of running a space supermarket?
Why similar: Economy 24.5%, Space 21%, Simulation 13.5%, Capitalism 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%
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 39.3%, Open World 18.1%, Space Sim 7.9%, Economy 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
