Games Like Prosperous Universe

Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.

Why similar: Trading 21.5%, Economy 19.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A browser-based economic simulation that mirrors the market-focused, business-management gameplay of the seed game.

Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Why similar: Trading 20.1%, Space Sim 17.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, Economy 11.3%, Space 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive player-driven economy MMO where market fluctuations and industrial logistics are central to the 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: Trading 18.9%, Space Sim 16.8%, Economy 13.5%, Space 11%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a deep, living space economy where players can influence market prices and build massive industrial supply chains.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Space 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and resource management across multiple star systems, perfect for fans of complex production chains.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Economy 19.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.7%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly complex logistics and supply chain simulation that rewards meticulous economic planning.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Economy 20%, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Space 11%

Why You'll Like It: An intense real-time strategy game where the primary goal is to dominate the market through economic warfare and resource trading.

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: Trading 18.9%, Space Sim 16.9%, Economy 14%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space-based resource extraction and the economic growth required to expand your industrial footprint.

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 Sim 20.9%, Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Open World 11.7%, Building 11.5%, Space 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer space game with a focus on engineering, ship building, and a player-driven economy.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Economy 33.6%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 15%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, macro-level simulation of global trade and economic systems that challenges players to manage complex national markets.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 28.4%, Resource Management 20.6%, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 8.2%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The benchmark for supply chain optimization and production automation, requiring constant balancing of resource inputs and outputs.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 27.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Open World 14.9%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines complex factory building with resource logistics in a sci-fi setting, emphasizing efficiency and production scaling.

Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.

Why similar: Space Sim 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Space 11.3%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy approach to the space industry that requires careful planning of research and production.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Trading 17.3%, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that focuses entirely on supply chain optimization and responding to fluctuating market demand.

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: Base Building 19.9%, Space Sim 14%, Space 13.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and colony management with a strong emphasis on resource logistics in space.

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: Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Space 13.4%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-fidelity engineering and resource management systems that require a deep understanding of complex mechanics.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: Economy 30.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features intricate production chains and trade route management that require careful economic balancing to succeed.

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 30.2%, Management 22.5%, Inventory Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed business management simulator that allows players to build a commercial empire from the ground up.

E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe. Build, buy resources to create products and complete contracts, invest in the stock market to become rich and popular!

Why similar: Trading 27.4%, Economy 20.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox business management game that focuses on the challenges of market competition and company growth.

The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Why similar: Economy 21.4%, Management 16.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on building complex logistics networks and managing the flow of goods to drive economic growth.

Star Sonata 2 is a space sandbox MMO that combines elements of action, RPG, and empire creation into a truly unique MMO. Explore the sandbox style universe, build persistent bases, construct trade ships, and even fight your way to the top and claim the Emperor’s Throne!

Why similar: MMORPG 23.4% ★, Trading 19.2%, Space Sim 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Space 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A persistent space MMO that features a player-driven market and significant base-building elements.

🚀 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 Sim 18.2%, Space 15.5%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that focuses on resource efficiency and the technical aspects of orbital production.

Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.

Why similar: Trading 22.9%, Space Sim 15.4%, Economy 14.5%, Space 10.6%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A trading and management game set in space that balances economic strategy with quirky crew management.

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 26.9%, Space 14.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Open World 11.6%, Trading 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a massive, player-influenced galactic economy where trading and resource hauling are viable career paths.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Building 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes large-scale factory building and complex production networks.

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 27.4%, Trading 18.6%, Space Sim 13.9%, Open World 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space trading game that allows players to build a fleet and participate in a dynamic galactic economy.

Andromeda is a hybrid between a Space 4X and an MMO. An online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players, or just sit and chat with the friendly community.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.7%, Massively Multiplayer 16.2%, Space 10%, Trading 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategy and colony management with a focus on long-term economic sustainability.

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: Massively Multiplayer 16.2%, Space Sim 16.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%

Entropia Universe is a unique massively multiplayer online game (MMO) where virtual assets hold real-world value and players can participate in a thriving virtual sandbox economy.

Why similar: MMORPG 27% ★, Trading 19.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Space 10.2%, Open World 9.8%

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 37.4%, Space 21%, Trading 16.1%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space simulation that emphasizes fleet logistics and the management of trade routes in a realistic setting.

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.

Why similar: Trading 20.4%, Economy 16.3%, Inventory Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.8%

Manage and grow your own virtual airline in this business simulation. Plan operations by acquiring aircraft and scheduling flights. Monitor finances using realistic tools as you cooperate and compete with other players on a real-time market and turn your company into a flourishing business.

Why similar: Economy 18.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

Explore a living galaxy in Stars Reach. Discover new planets, build settlements, and shape environments that react to everything you do. Players work together to transform untamed worlds into thriving civilizations across a single shared universe.

Why similar: MMORPG 26.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Base Building 14%, Trading 12.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space Sim 19.5%, Space 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.5%

Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Why similar: Trading 22.6%, Space 17.6%, Economy 12.5%, Management 9.8%, Space Sim 9.7%

Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.8%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.9%, Space 8.9%

Island Market Simulator – In this strategy and economy simulation game set in an island town, build your trade empire by starting with a small market. Produce your goods through farming, livestock, and supply chain management, and expand your business with seasonal dynamics and festivals!

Why similar: Trading 24.7%, Economy 17.8%, Inventory Management 14.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.6%

Milky Way Idle: A multiplayer idle RPG where automation replaces grinding. Level up skills, gather resources, craft powerful items, and battle monsters—all while AFK. Trade in the marketplace, join a guild, team up for party combat, and socialize in chat as you progress effortlessly.

Why similar: MMORPG 29.8% ★, Trading 28%, Economy 14.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Resource Management 10%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Trading 20.7%, Economy 17.6%, Inventory Management 12.1%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

Why similar: Trading 21%, Economy 19.7%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.

Why similar: Trading 19.6%, Economy 16.3%, Inventory Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%

Space MMORPG where players can fly on different ships, collecting devices, subsystems and navigations or finding new weapons that will serve in battles. Take part in battles, explore the world, mine ore, trade, fight and build your own clan with a station.

Why similar: Trading 25%, Massively Multiplayer 22%, MMORPG 19.9% ★, Space 13.2%, Inventory Management 8.6%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: Trading 12.9%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%

An Idle Space MMORPG where you progress at your own pace, but the universe is built together. Explore a procedural galaxy of nearly 50 million star systems alone — or join a Squadron to pool resources, raise space stations, upgrade shared buildings, and expand across the stars as one.

Why similar: MMORPG 23.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.8%, Economy 16.1%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 9.6%

Fly through Subspace, build your own ship, and engage in epic battles. Mine asteroids and research new technologies. Uncover the origins of the alien homeworld by solving weekly events in this Co-op PvE MMO.

Why similar: MMORPG 28.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.3%, Space 16.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Set up stalls with fresh vegetables, fruits, and fish. Deliver customer orders, set prices, and expand your bazaar. Catch your own fish to sell and enjoy fishing's thrill. Collaborate with friends in multiplayer mode to manage the bazaar together. Much more is coming soon!

Why similar: Trading 20.8%, Economy 17.2%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Economy 21%, Trading 18.2%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Space Sim 17.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9%

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 20.9%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 13.1%, Building 11.3%, Space Sim 9.7%

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Trading 26.5%, Economy 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 10%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Space 14.8%, Inventory Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.1%

With Music Store Simulator Prologue you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!

Why similar: Economy 17.1%, Sandbox 17%, Trading 15.5%, Building 12%, Realistic 11.4%

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: Base Building 31.6%, Space 20.5%, Management 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Simulation 8.9%

A competitive multiplayer real-time stock market investment game where players compete globally to achieve maximum investment returns. Trade live stocks in a simulated economy and manage your portfolio in a real-time virtual stock exchange.

Why similar: Trading 26.3%, Economy 19.1%, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Management 9.6%, Text-Based 9.1%

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Trading 17.2%, Management 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Simulation 10%

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 15.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Space 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%

Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.

Why similar: Space 23.7%, Text-Based 22.8%, Management 19%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Strategy 9.9%