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Games Like Reassembly

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

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A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Reviews: Very Positive — 94% — of 4,066 reviews
Released: 2015-02-19
Developer: Anisoptera Games
Publisher: Indie Voyage
Genres: Action, Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 5.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 26.1 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 84%

Overview

Reassembly is a unique blend of modular, block-based ship construction and emergent, physics-driven fleet combat within a procedurally generated galaxy. These recommendations focus on games that capture that same satisfaction of building custom vessels from scratch and testing them in tactical, top-down or sandbox space environments.

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    Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

    Why similar: Building 33.2%, Space 31.7%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%, 2D 5.9%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers the most similar experience to Reassembly, focusing on detailed modular ship design and tactical fleet combat in a 2D space environment.

  2. #2 BossConstructor
    96% matchMostly Positive73% of 217 reviews2016
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

    Why similar: Space 35.7%, Building 29.2%, Action 6.6%, Indie 4.8%, Top-Down 4.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual relative that focuses on procedural ship building and combat with a heavy emphasis on modular component design.

  3. #3 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

    Why similar: Space 25.8%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Sci-fi 6%

    Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the physics-based engineering aspect of Reassembly, allowing you to build complex drones to survive hazardous environments.

  4. #4 Captain Forever Remix
    95% matchVery Positive81% of 377 reviews2016
    Dev: Pixelsaurus Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 54 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.

    Why similar: Space 56%, Building 24.3%, Action 4.4%, Indie 3.4%, Sci-fi 3.2%

    Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core loop of destroying enemy ships to scavenge parts and instantly snapping them onto your own vessel to grow stronger.

  5. #5 Space Pirates and Zombies
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 3,143 reviews2011
    Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 47.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 7%, Sci-fi 5.9%

    Why You'll Like It: This classic top-down space game captures the fleet-building and resource-gathering loop that makes Reassembly so addictive.

  6. #6 Avorion
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
    Dev: Boxelware
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

    Why similar: Building 29.6%, Space 27.9%, Sandbox 23.9%, Open World 8%, Sci-fi 5.5%

    Why You'll Like It: It combines modular, block-based ship building with large-scale fleet management and exploration in a 3D sandbox universe.

  7. #7 StarMade
    93% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
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    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!

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    Why You'll Like It: It brings the block-based building philosophy of games like Minecraft into a space-faring sandbox environment with massive ship construction potential.

  8. #8 Endless Sky
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 6,938 reviews2015
    Dev: Michael Zahniser
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    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 57.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.9%, 2D 4.1%

    Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the exploration and fleet-building aspects of space games, offering a classic 2D top-down perspective and deep ship customization.

  9. #9 From the Depths
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 12,523 reviews2020
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    Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

    Why similar: Building 35.4%, Sandbox 26.5%, Space 24.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Physics 3.8%

    Why You'll Like It: For players who love the engineering depth of Reassembly, this game offers unparalleled complexity in building ships, planes, and fortresses from individual blocks.

  10. #10 Celestial Command
    92% matchMixed63% of 687 reviews2014
    Dev: Romenics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    Why similar: Space 39.7%, Sandbox 21%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 8%, Sci-fi 4.3%

    Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on realistic physics and modular construction, challenging you to build functional space stations and ships from individual parts.

  11. #11 Star Valor
    90% matchVery Positive89% of 3,325 reviews2022
    Dev: Rafael Burgos
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    Why similar: Space 38.7%, Sandbox 26.6%, Open World 8.2%, Top-Down 5.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%

    Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that focuses heavily on ship customization and modular upgrades, perfect for those who enjoy the progression system in Reassembly.

  12. #12 Voidship: The Long Journey
    89% matchMostly Positive74% of 148 reviews2019
    Dev: Cydonian Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Space 34.4%, Strategy 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, Action 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
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    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,362 reviews2015
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    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.

    Why similar: Space 64.6%, Strategy 16%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

  47. #47 Starbase
    70% matchMixed56% of 6,702 reviews2021
    Dev: Frozenbyte
    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Building 32.5%, Space 25.8%, Sandbox 21.3%, Open World 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.1%

  48. #48 Farlight Explorers
    71% 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 35.7%, Sandbox 27.2%, Space 22.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 4%

  49. #49 Space Trash Scavenger
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
    Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 28.4%, Building 24.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Open World 7.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%

  50. #50 Gratuitous Space Battles 2
    73% matchMostly Negative39% of 307 reviews2015
    Dev: Positech Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Have you ever wanted to be admiral of a huge, sprawling space battle-fleet of your own design? Ever wanted to design a fleet of battle-cruisers so powerful they can rip all who oppose them into space-dust? Ever wanted to build a battleship with purple rotating radars and 64 engines? Well we have good news for you...

    Why similar: Space 50.6%, Strategy 26.4%, Indie 7%, Great Soundtrack 6.9%, Sci-fi 6.7%

  51. #51 Nova Drift
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 14,407 reviews2024
    Dev: ChimericPub: Pixeljam
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

    Why similar: Space 50%, 2D 9.8%, Shooter 9.4%, Bullet Hell 7.4%, Action 7.2%

  52. #52 Final Factory
    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

    Why similar: Building 27.2%, Space 24.9%, Sandbox 22.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%

  53. #53 Spaceflight Simulator
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,486 reviews2022
    Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

    Why similar: Space 34%, Sandbox 30.1%, Building 15.2%, 2D 5.9%, Exploration 4.3%

  54. #54 EVERSPACE™
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 11,373 reviews2017
    Dev: ROCKFISH Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

    Why similar: Space 69.3%, Action 8.3%, Sci-fi 8%, Indie 4.4%, Shooter 3.6%

  55. #55 Out of Orbit
    67% matchVery Positive80% of 125 reviews2023
    Dev: Case Yellow Labs
    Windows

    Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

    Why similar: Space 25.7%, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 18.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Open World 6.5%

  56. #56 Jitter
    65% matchVery Positive86% of 153 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 32%, Sandbox 24.1%, Open World 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Top-Down 6.4%

  57. #57 Run Build Pew!
    68% matchMostly Positive73% of 560 reviews2022
    Dev: Knight Owl Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

    Why similar: Space 37.5%, Building 24.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Shooter 5.7%, 2D 5.2%

  58. #58 Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
    70% matchMixed66% of 297 reviews2015
    Dev: Blazing Griffin
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX

    Why similar: Space 45.9%, Strategy 15.4%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Action 6.7%, Indie 5.7%

  59. #59 Subdivision Infinity DX
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 105 reviews2019
    Dev: MistFly GamesPub: Crescent Moon Games
    Windows

    Subdivision Infinity is an immersive and pulse pounding sci-fi space shooter featuring stunning graphics and tight spaceship game play. Hunt down and destroy enemy spacecraft, crush capital ships, mine asteroids for rare minerals, and find blueprints to craft amazing new vessels!

    Why similar: Space 49.4%, Action 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Indie 6.7%, Open World 5.3%

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