- #1 Earth Analog
97% matchMixed66% of 112 reviews2021
Dev: Funcraft Games
Windows
In this relaxing space flight adventure, you pilot the science vessel Eurisko XI on a quest through deep space. Explore fascinating, fractal-based exoplanets and uncover their mysteries. Analyze artifacts and upgrade your ship to unlock new pathways. Your mission: find humanity’s new home.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6%, Metroidvania 19.5%, Space 15.5%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Exploration 8.4%
- #2 Environmental Station Alpha
96% matchVery Positive83% of 1,648 reviews2015
Dev: Arvi TeikariPub: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 65.4%, Retro 7.6%, Adventure 5.4%, Sci-fi 5.2%, Exploration 5.1%
- #3 Neospace: Prologue
96% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Space 25.9%, Sci-fi 19%, Exploration 12.2%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Adventure 8.6%
- #4 Voyager-19
95% matchVery Positive88% of 1,011 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 30%
A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.1%, Space 19.1%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Retro 13.5%, Exploration 8.7%
- #5 Derelict Star
93% matchVery Positive96% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: gatePub: Luminous Tree Games
Windows · Mac
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.2%, Space 15.2%, Exploration 14.2%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Action 4.8%
- #6 De-Void
94% matchMixed63% of 144 reviews2016
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Space 22.2%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Exploration 11.2%, Adventure 10.8%
- #7 ALONE IN SPACE
94% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: Butterflyware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Why similar: Space 29.6%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Exploration 14.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #8 Exophobia
92% matchVery Positive88% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: Zarc AttackPub: PM Studios, inc.
Windows
Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, FPS 14.7%, Space 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Exploration 8.9%
- #9 Void Sails
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Ticking Clock Games
Windows
VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 27.3%, Exploration 27%, Space 23%, Adventure 10%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
- #10 Starcom: Nexus
90% matchVery Positive90% of 2,312 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Space 32.3%, Space Sim 27.7%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Action 5.2%
- #11 Quarion
89% matchVery Positive95% of 170 reviews2025
Dev: ZejoantPub: Bootleg Bytes
Windows · Linux
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.5%, Retro 14.6%, Exploration 12.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Space 6.6%
- #12 And All Would Cry Beware!
91% matchVery Positive85% of 106 reviews2019
Dev: Renegade Sector Games
Windows · Mac
90s-style shooter meets Metroidvania. Step through a portal to a mysterious alien world, and discover the fate of the Lost Expedition.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, FPS 15.2%, Exploration 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
- #13 Epitasis
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 160 reviews2019
Dev: Epitasis Games
Windows · Mac
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Why similar: Space 30.2%, Sci-fi 22.1%, Exploration 18.4%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 10%
- #14 Exo One
86% matchVery Positive90% of 5,243 reviews2021
Dev: ExbleativePub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.1%, Space 20%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #15 Red Matter
86% matchVery Positive90% of 1,181 reviews2018
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
Why similar: VR 30.7%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #16 Star Explorers
87% matchVery Positive83% of 252 reviews2018
Dev: Schmidt Workshops
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.3%, Space 16.3%, Retro 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.9%, FPS 8.5%
- #17 Space Sprouts
84% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Schleuder Games
Windows · Mac
Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Space Sim 28.7%, Space 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Exploration 8.8%
- #18 Kinetic Void
88% matchOverwhelmingly Negative17% of 1,558 reviews2014
Dev: Badland Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Kinetic Void is a 3D space adventure with a focus on customization and enjoyable space simulation. The shipyard allows players to construct their ship piece by piece. Ships can be as simplistic as a cockpit, a hull, a engine and a gun, or as complex as a player wants.
Why similar: Space 48%, Space Sim 21.4%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Action 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #19 SECTOR ZERO
83% matchVery Positive95% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Angelovic
Windows
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.
Why similar: Sci-fi 18.3%, Space 17.4%, FPS 16.1%, Action-Adventure 14.1%, First-Person 11.2%
- #20 Xeodrifter
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 862 reviews2014
Dev: Atooi
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Retro 14.6%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Space 9.4%, Exploration 9.3%
- #21 EXOTERRA: A Space Journey
82% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: ManuHerreraDev
Windows
EXOTERRA: A Space Journey is a first-person science fiction puzzle game set aboard a stranded ship in the vast, dark expanse of outer space. Explore the HOPE-03 and uncover the mysteries it holds as you solve fully interactive escape-room-style chambers powered by a physics-based system.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.5%, FPS 15.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Exploration 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11%
- #22 Waking Mars
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,201 reviews2012
Dev: Tiger Style
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, Sci-fi 26.2%, Exploration 15.2%, Puzzle 10%, Adventure 8.7%
- #23 Moon Mystery
82% matchMixed65% of 711 reviews2024
Dev: CosmoscoutsPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Space 20.8%, FPS 18.1%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Exploration 10.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #24 Lost Nova
80% matchVery Positive92% of 425 reviews2022
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Space 23.9%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Exploration 18.3%, Adventure 7.4%
- #25 Venineth
81% matchVery Positive81% of 267 reviews2020
Dev: Venineth TeamPub: mort-art
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.
Why similar: Space 22%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Adventure 15.5%, Action 15.2%, Exploration 14.1%
- #26 ROUTINE
76% matchVery Positive92% of 8,057 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar SoftwarePub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Why similar: Space 18.7%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Walking Simulator 16%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 9%
- #27 Space Expedition
78% matchVery Positive93% of 191 reviews2023
Dev: Mobirate
Windows · Mac
Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.
Why similar: Space 36.6%, Exploration 29.8%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #28 Stardiver
79% matchMixed51% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Green Planet Games
Windows
You're a Stardiver on a mission. Descend into the depths of an underwater world filled with wonder, mysteries, and peril. Discover the story behind the abandoned base. Explore this submerged planet and learn its history.
Why similar: Space 28.9%, Sci-fi 23.3%, Action-Adventure 16.5%, Exploration 13.6%, Adventure 7.1%
- #29 Into the Void
81% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2015
Dev: Mozg Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Into the Void is a strategy RPG and exploration sci-fi game with an epic story and intense battles. Travel through space and discover the origin of a cosmic threat which destroyed Earth centuries ago. Fight or cooperate with the different factions; be a leader !
Why similar: Space 64.4%, Adventure 18.6%, Exploration 13.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #30 Xanthiom Zero
77% matchVery Positive95% of 146 reviews2023
Dev: MathanGames
Windows
Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Space 17.2%, Retro 12.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #31 Ascent DX
76% matchVery Positive99% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: Johan PeitzPub: Apskeppet
Windows · Mac
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.5%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Exploration 13.4%, Retro 8.3%, Adventure 8%
- #32 Voidship: The Long Journey
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 148 reviews2019
Dev: Cydonian Games
Windows
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!
Why similar: Space 34.4%, Sci-fi 27.8%, Action 15.4%, Exploration 11.3%, Adventure 8%
- #33 Perilous Warp
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 386 reviews2020
Dev: Crystice Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!
Why similar: FPS 23.2%, Action 18%, Retro 15.8%, Space 15%, Sci-fi 14.4%
- #34 MIO: Memories in Orbit
73% matchVery Positive83% of 4,644 reviews2026
Dev: Douze DixièmesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.6%, Exploration 14.7%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #35 Exographer
75% matchVery Positive95% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: SciFunGamesPub: Abylight Studios
Windows · Mac
Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Exploration 21.1%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 9.5%
- #36 Memorrha
77% matchMixed65% of 153 reviews2019
Dev: StickyStoneStudio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Puzzle 12.9%
- #37 Metal Garden
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,241 reviews2025
Dev: Tinerasoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.
Why similar: FPS 27.1%, Sci-fi 24.1%, Exploration 14.9%, First-Person 8.3%, Action 6.5%
- #38 Year Unknown
74% matchVery Positive95% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Julian Heuser
Windows · Linux
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Why similar: Sci-fi 24.7%, Walking Simulator 24.6%, Exploration 19.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Adventure 6.9%
- #39 Jitter
73% matchVery Positive85% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.1%, Space 16.5%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Retro 11.4%, Exploration 9%
- #40 Axiom Verge
74% matchVery Positive90% of 6,588 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Happ Games LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 67.4%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Retro 8.8%, Exploration 5%, Action 4.1%
- #41 AGOS - A Game Of Space
75% matchMixed63% of 104 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.
Why similar: Space Sim 48.5%, VR 22.8%, Space 9.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 7%
- #42 Exo One: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive94% of 744 reviews2020
Dev: Exbleative
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 10%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.2%, Space 23%, Walking Simulator 20.7%, Space Sim 18.5%, Adventure 7.8%
- #43 Red Matter 2
72% matchVery Positive92% of 700 reviews2022
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.
Why similar: VR 32.8%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Puzzle 11%, Adventure 7.1%
- #44 Microbial Sector
70% matchVery Positive97% of 302 reviews2024
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
It's your first day as a lifeform researcher, and while you don’t know much about the job, you're desperate for the paycheck. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Space Sim 52.3%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Exploration 13.3%, First-Person 9.3%, 3D 6.1%
- #45 Project Liminal 2
71% matchVery Positive85% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: FPS 20.5%, Puzzle 15.4%, Exploration 14.3%, Adventure 14%, Action 12.7%
- #46 Void War
67% matchVery Positive94% of 3,882 reviews2025
Dev: Tundra
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Why similar: Space 55.9%, Sci-fi 31.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #47 Sector Space
69% matchVery Positive93% of 132 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Why similar: Space Sim 57.2%, Exploration 13.1%, Space 9.2%, Retro 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #48 PULSAR: Lost Colony
69% matchVery Positive90% of 5,727 reviews2021
Dev: Leafy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Why similar: Spaceships 38.3% ★, Space Sim 23.4%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 7.8%, FPS 6.8%
- #49 PSYCRON
71% matchVery Positive94% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Mothware
Windows
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Space 14.3%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 8.2%
- #50 Infinitum
72% matchMixed81% of 312 reviews2017
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.
Why similar: Action 41.5%, Space 36.8%, Adventure 21.6%
- #51 Within the Backrooms
70% matchVery Positive94% of 230 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Display
Windows
You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.
Why similar: Retro 26.1%, Multiple Endings 24.3%, Exploration 20.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Walking Simulator 5.6%
- #52 Void Crew
67% matchVery Positive86% of 8,410 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Why similar: Space Sim 42.2%, Space 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Exploration 7.5%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
- #53 Within the Cosmos
70% matchMixed45% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: debdev
Windows
Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: FPS 20.1%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Space 17.1%, Exploration 13.5%, Action-Adventure 11.7%
- #54 Space Accident VR
66% matchVery Positive82% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: VR-WRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Step into the future with our groundbreaking VR game set in the year 2119, where humanity embarks on a historic journey into space. Join the "CCM-1" (Callisto Colonization Mission) expedition, aimed at the enigmatic moon of Jupiter - Callisto.
Why similar: VR 33.7%, Exploration 16.7%, Action-Adventure 16.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Adventure 9.4%
- #55 no signal
66% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Space 30.6%, Sci-fi 22.6%, Exploration 17.1%, Puzzle 14%, 3D 6.9%
- #56 The Station
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,121 reviews2018
Dev: The Station Game ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
Why similar: Space 26.5%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Adventure 11.1%, First-Person 8.7%
- #57 Salvage Protocol
65% matchVery Positive100% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: IAmDirt
Windows
A short horror about exploring abandoned space stations and collecting junk in order to pay off your S.R.P.O debt.
Why similar: Space 22.8%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Retro 12.4%, Exploration 10.6%
- #58 Space Trash Scavenger
65% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.8%, Space 26.6%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 5.7%
- #59 Arcade Moonlander
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,214 reviews2017
Dev: Daniel Paul GriffinPub: Back Of Nowhere Studios
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.
Why similar: Spaceships 31.8% ★, Space 17.9%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Exploration 13.7%, Retro 9.6%
- #60 VoidExpanse
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 768 reviews2015
Dev: AtomicTorch Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!
Why similar: Space 49%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Action 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%