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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Space, Space Sim, Simulation, Sandbox.

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Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

Reviews: Very Positive — 80% — of 160 reviews
Released: 2020-02-20
Developer: unbeGames
Genres: Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 133,317 reviews2015
    Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 65.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    Why similar: Science 17.7%, Space 16%, Space Sim 15.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Physics 8.6%

  2. #2 Spaceflight Simulator
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    Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
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  3. #3 Universe Sandbox
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
    Dev: Giant Army
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

    Why similar: Science 21.3%, Space 15.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Physics 10.7%, Space Sim 10.6%

  4. #4 Juno: New Origins
    95% matchVery Positive89% of 3,369 reviews2023
    Dev: Jundroo, LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%

    Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

    Why similar: Science 16.2%, Space Sim 15.1%, Flight 12.1%, Building 8.8%, Education 8.6%

  5. #5 Mars Horizon
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,058 reviews2020
    Dev: Auroch Digital
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    Why similar: Science 20.9%, Space Sim 19.7%, Space 13.4%, Education 13.2%, Building 10.3%

  6. #6 Solargene
    92% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
    Dev: Alexander Semenov
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    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 23.6%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Space 11.1%, Flight 10%

  7. #7 Celestial Command
    94% matchMixed63% of 687 reviews2014
    Dev: Romenics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

    Why similar: Space 29.9%, Space Sim 19%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10.1%

  8. #8 orbit.industries
    93% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
    Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
    Windows · Linux

    🚀 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 19.4%, Space 17.3%, Science 17%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

  9. #9 Kerbal Space Program 2
    91% matchMostly Negative27% of 31,135 reviews2023
    Dev: Intercept GamesPub: Private Division
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

    Why similar: Science 19.4%, Space Sim 14.4%, Space 11.5%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

  10. #10 SpaceEngine
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 14,936 reviews2019
    Dev: Cosmographic Software
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

    Why similar: Space Sim 16.1%, Science 16.1%, Flight 13%, Space 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%

  11. #11 Tiny Space Academy
    91% matchMixed63% of 54 reviews2021
    Dev: Full Orbit Games LLC
    Windows · Mac

    Tiny Space Academy is a 2D space sim where you can grow your own space agency and explore our solar system with rockets you design! Learn basic orbital mechanics, run science experiments, and get your astronauts back to Earth safely.

    Why similar: Space Sim 25.1%, Space 18.3%, Education 13.4%, Physics 13.4%, Building 13.2%

  12. #12 StarbaseSim
    89% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2025
    Dev: AshtorakSimGames
    Windows · Linux

    Operate the Starship space launch system and learn how to catch a rocket to understand what it takes to colonize Mars in this ever-evolving simulation of SpaceX Starbase Texas.

    Why similar: Space Sim 25.1%, Flight 20.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Education 10.2%, Space 8.4%

  13. #13 Space Engineers 2
    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
    Dev: Keen Software House
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

    Why similar: Science 15.9%, Space Sim 12.8%, Space 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%

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    88% matchVery Positive88% of 236 reviews2024
    Dev: batcholi
    Windows · Linux

    Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

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  15. #15 Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,212 reviews2025
    Dev: Lyra Creative
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    87% matchVery Positive93% of 3,305 reviews2023
    Dev: Kodera Software
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

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  17. #17 Space Engineers
    85% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
    Dev: Keen Software House
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    84% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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    Dev: Stormtide
    Windows

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  20. #20 Stationeers
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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!

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  21. #21 X4: Foundations
    83% matchMostly Positive80% of 27,985 reviews2018
    Dev: Egosoft
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 94.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

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    81% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

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    82% matchMixed63% of 117 reviews2023
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    Windows

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  24. #24 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
    80% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
    Dev: Eleon Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

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  25. #25 Aviassembly
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
    Dev: Jelle Booij
    Windows
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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  26. #26 Flight Of Nova
    79% matchVery Positive94% of 513 reviews2022
    Dev: Aerovery Lab
    Windows · Linux

    Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

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  27. #27 SpaceBourne
    81% matchMostly Positive77% of 805 reviews2020
    Dev: Burak Dabak
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%

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  28. #28 Take On Mars
    82% matchMixed55% of 2,023 reviews2017
    Dev: Bohemia Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    79% matchVery Positive88% of 905 reviews2023
    Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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  30. #30 Starbase
    78% matchMixed56% of 6,702 reviews2021
    Dev: Frozenbyte
    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    75% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
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  32. #32 Dyson Sphere Program
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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  33. #33 Space Company Simulator
    78% matchMostly Negative28% of 178 reviews2019
    Dev: IntermarumPub: All in! Games
    Windows

    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 25.7%, Space 18%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9%

  34. #34 Starship EVO
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,210 reviews2020
    Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

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  35. #35 Space Simulation Toolkit
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 475 reviews2020
    Dev: Pavel Kudinov
    Windows

    Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

    Why similar: Space Sim 20.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 16.1%, Space 12.6%, Education 12.2%

  36. #36 Avorion
    73% 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.

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  37. #37 The Last Starship
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
    Dev: Introversion Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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  38. #38 Starship Corporation
    76% matchMixed42% of 555 reviews2018
    Dev: Coronado GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    A sci-fi simulation game, in which players must design, assemble and test spaceships, in a bid to build a supreme Galactic Mega-Corporation. Gain your reputation by engineering and selling your own spacecraft, testing them to the limit in RTS missions and simulated emergency and combat situations.

    Why similar: Space 41%, Simulation 30.5%, Strategy 22.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%

  39. #39 Rover Builder
    73% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2022
    Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
    Windows

    Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!

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  40. #40 Nimbatus - Drone Creator
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 270 reviews2020
    Dev: Stray Fawn Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?

    Why similar: Science 16.5%, Space Sim 16%, Flight 12.7%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.8%

  41. #41 InfraSpace
    69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    Why similar: Science 23.3%, Space 16.1%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13%, Moddable 9%

  42. #42 REAL MOON
    69% matchMixed68% of 112 reviews2025
    Dev: historia Inc.
    Windows

    Explore a precisely recreated lunar surface built from real data and a JAXA-backed simulation.

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  43. #43 Astrometica
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
    Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

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  44. #44 Final Upgrade
    70% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

    Why similar: Space Sim 21.4%, Space 18.4%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.6%

  45. #45 StarMade
    72% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
    Dev: Schine GmbH
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    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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  46. #46 Between the Stars
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,427 reviews2024
    Dev: Isolated Games
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%

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  47. #47 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 12,431 reviews2022
    Dev: Walternate Realities
    Windows
    Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

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  48. #48 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
    67% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
    Dev: Geometa
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

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  49. #49 Star Rangers™ XE
    72% matchMostly Negative40% of 153 reviews2016
    Dev: Project Whitecard Studios Inc.Pub: Awestruck Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.

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  50. #50 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    71% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
    Dev: Jim Offerman
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

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  51. #51 SpaceBourne 2
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,992 reviews2025
    Dev: Burak Dabak
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

    Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Flight 20.1%, Science 19.3%, Space 11.5%, Open World 8.2%

  52. #52 Reassembly
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 4,066 reviews2015
    Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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

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    70% matchMixed56% of 297 reviews2017
    Dev: Alientrap
    Windows · Mac
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    Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

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    Dev: PixFrozePub: Blowfish Studios
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    Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!

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  55. #55 Space Simulator
    71% matchMostly Negative36% of 162 reviews2018
    Dev: Stuka Games IncPub: Brixton Dynamics Ltd
    Windows

    Realistic simulation of spaceflight in a full sized Solar System, with all the planets and their major moons. using real forces, distances, velocities and time. Chapter 1: The Apollo Days. Incredibly detailed Apollo Program missions starting with Apollo 8 lunar orbit missions.

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  56. #56 SimpleRockets
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 363 reviews2015
    Dev: Jundroo, LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.

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  57. #57 Next Space Rebels
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 354 reviews2021
    Dev: Studio Floris KaaykPub: Balor Games
    Windows · Mac

    SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.

    Why similar: Science 30.4%, Building 21.8%, Simulation 15.2%, Space 13.7%, Physics 11.7%

  58. #58 Mars First Logistics
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,474 reviews2025
    Dev: Shape Shop
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

    Why similar: Science 22.4%, Space Sim 20.6%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Physics 10.1%

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