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 18.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Sim Companies offers a deeply engaging, text-based business simulation focused purely on supply chains and free-market player trading, closely mirroring the core economic loop of Prosperous Universe.

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 18%, Space 14.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Dyson Sphere Program challenges you to construct vast interplanetary industrial empires, perfectly capturing the grand-scale logistics and automated supply chain management of sci-fi colonization.

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 18.7%, Space Sim 16.9%, Economy 13.4%, Space 11%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: X4: Foundations provides a fully simulated living economy where every station, ship, and resource contributes to a massive sandbox universe that players can influence and exploit.

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 19.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 14%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Space 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offworld Trading Company delivers a fast-paced economic RTS where mastering market manipulation, resource acquisition, and hostile takeovers is the key to victory.

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 28%, Open World 15.2%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Satisfactory translates complex supply chain management and factory building into a stunning first-person alien world begging to be industrialized.

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 22.4%, Space 17.7%, Economy 12.3%, Space Sim 9.8%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Interstellar Transport Company puts you in charge of a cosmic logistics empire, competing with rivals to dominate space trade routes and resource distribution.

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 28.6%, Resource Management 20.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 8.3%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Factorio is the ultimate test of logistical engineering, requiring you to optimize massive, automated resource-gathering and manufacturing networks.

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 19.8%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Space 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Starbase combines massive multiplayer space exploration with intricate building and economic systems where resource gathering and trading drive player interaction.

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 21.3%, Management 16.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Transport Fever 2 focuses on establishing intricate cargo and passenger networks to fuel the economic growth of cities and industries.

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 18.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: AirlineSim provides a realistic, spreadsheet-heavy airline management experience centered on complex scheduling and market economics.

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 30.6%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Anno 1800 challenges players to balance sprawling production chains, complex trade routes, and citizen demands in a deeply detailed economic strategy framework.

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 18.7%, Space Sim 17.1%, Economy 13.8%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Starminer features real-time space mining and fleet logistics where you extract resources while defending against hostile threats in a sci-fi setting.

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 18.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic features an intensely realistic economic simulation where every single resource, vehicle, and citizen must be managed through a planned supply chain.

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 26.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Trading 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Stars Reach offers a sci-fi MMORPG environment focused on crafting, base-building, and collaborative exploration of a living universe.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 27%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Oxygen Not Included tests your colony management skills through complex thermodynamic and resource-distribution mechanics in an alien subterranean environment.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Space 22.2%, Resource Management 18%, Base Building 17.8%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: IXION combines dark sci-fi survival with station management and resource logistics, forcing you to keep a massive space metropolis supplied.

🚀 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 18.3%, Space 15.7%, Economy 13%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Orbit.industries challenges you to design and manage space stations with a strong emphasis on efficient resource production and layout optimization.

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 23.6% ★, Trading 19%, Space Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Space 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Star Sonata 2 delivers a persistent universe space MMO featuring deep player-driven economies, empire building, and strategic base ownership.

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Economy 30.8%, Management 27.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox where you build, manage, and scale a software enterprise in a competitive digital market.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Economy 27.8%, Management 17.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Software Inc. offers deep business management mechanics, letting you design buildings, manage employees, and manipulate tech markets.

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 27.6%, Trading 18.3%, Space Sim 13.9%, Open World 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Endless Sky lets you trade, fight, and explore a vast open-source sci-fi galaxy while upgrading your fleet with cargo and combat configurations.

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 16.8%, Base Building 15%, Space 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Space Company Simulator focuses on the corporate and logistical realities of running a space exploration firm from the ground up.

In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

Why similar: Economy 21%, Trading 19.6%, Management 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Railway Empire lets you build and manage vast logistics networks across historical eras to dominate regional trade and cargo transport.

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Management 19.8%, Economy 19.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Big Pharma combines puzzle-like production line mechanics with pharmaceutical market trading and corporate strategy.

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 16.4%, Space Sim 16.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 10.9%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 16.2%, Inventory Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.8%

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 52.5%, Management 23.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Capitalism 2 is a classic, deeply comprehensive business simulation dealing with retail, manufacturing, supply chains, and corporate competition.

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 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 8%

Why You'll Like It: Project AURA challenges you to manage resource scarcity and futuristic production chains in a flooded post-apocalyptic world.

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 27.2% ★, Trading 19.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Space 10.3%, Open World 9.9%

Space. Ships. Resources. Trading. Production. Combat. Mine ore, haul cargo, and find profitable trade routes. Buy and capture ships, build your fleet, construct stations, and develop your production. Start with your first ship. Build your empire!

Why similar: Space Sim 21.2%, MMORPG 18.3% ★, Economy 16.2%, Open World 11.7%, Space 10.9%

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Why similar: Economy 20.7%, Management 17.6%, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Simutrans challenges you to build robust passenger, mail, and cargo delivery networks across complex terrains.

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% ★, Trading 19.4%, Economy 14%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%

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 21%, Economy 14.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Space 9%, Building 9%

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 19.6%, Space 14.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Realistic 9.5%

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 17.7%, Inventory Management 14.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 16.2%, Inventory Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%

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 30.2% ★, Trading 27.8%, Economy 14%, Text-Based 11.3%, Resource Management 9.8%

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 26.8%, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Space 10.1%, Trading 9.3%, Strategy 8.7%

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 35.6%, Space 20.1%, Trading 15.9%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 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 19.5%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 17.4%, Inventory Management 12.1%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%

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 20.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%

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 24.6%, Massively Multiplayer 22.2%, MMORPG 20.1% ★, Space 13.3%, Inventory Management 8.5%

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 28.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.4%, Space 16.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Sci-fi 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: Trading 22.7%, Space Sim 15.5%, Economy 14.3%, Space 10.7%, Management 8%

Welcome to Biztopia! A unique trading city full of business and opportunities awaits you! Start with a small delivery, build your own trading world, and team up with friends to shape the city and discover the next big venture!

Why similar: Economy 15.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Inventory Management 13%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

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 20.7%, Economy 17.1%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 9%

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 19.8%, Space Sim 14.1%, Space 13.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 9%

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 17.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 20.8%, Trading 18.1%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 19.8%, Space Sim 17.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Economy 11.1%, Space 9.8%

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 17.9%, Open World 13.3%, 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 26.4%, Economy 16.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 10%

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 20.6%, Management 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Simulation 8.8%

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 26.2%, Economy 18.9%, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Management 9.5%, Text-Based 9.1%

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Trading 24.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Open World 10.7%