
ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about discovery and exploration.
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ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about discovery and exploration.

Planet Miner
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.

Roving Rovers - Australian Rover Challenge 2025
Ensure the moon is safe for man's inevitable lunar habitat. Drive and interact as a Lunar Rover with crashed ships, the natural resources and explore the nearby landscape to determine the suitability!
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Space 7.7%, Third Person 6.8%
Ensure the moon is safe for man's inevitable lunar habitat. Drive and interact as a Lunar Rover with crashed ships, the natural resources and explore the nearby landscape to determine the suitability!
Why similar: Space Sim 30.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 6.1%, Third Person 6%
Elysian Eclipse is a Sandbox Evolution Simulator, letting you evolve from an amoeba into a space traveling sentient being. Create your own creatures, buildings and vehicles to conquer procedural planets. Turn the galaxy into your personal playground!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Space Sim 20.9% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Space 12%, Open World 7.9%
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 6.9%, Space 6.4%
Explore a precisely recreated lunar surface built from real data and a JAXA-backed simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.8% ★, Space 18.4%, Third Person 11.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Exploration 10.3%
Worlds Of The Future is a sci-fi open world, action/adventure game. Explore a fully seamless solar system full of adventures, mysteries and colorful characters. Build your space delivery company, climb the company rankings and become a legend among the worlds!
Why similar: Space Sim 32.1% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Space 12.8%, Third Person 8.8%, Exploration 8.1%
The story takes place in the distant future. You will play a captain of a star ship and go into deep space. You need to manage your resources carefully. In the game, you can investigate the outliers of various planets, discover the wonders of the universe or learn the stories of lost civilizations.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.2% ★, Space 23%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Exploration 9.9%, 3D 2.6%
Master the heavy physics of your offroad hauler and upgrade it to conquer the treacherous Martian landscape. Transport vital resources to evolve your central outpost from a humble shelter into a thriving planetary hub. The frontier is hostile, it’s your job to tame it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Space Sim 27.6% ★, Simulation 8.4%, Space 8.1%, Third Person 6.4%
Bring a forgotten solar system to life in this serene space simulator. Pilot your ship to gather tech, resolve story-rich incidents, and upgrade planets to watch your civilization thrive.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Space 17%, Exploration 5.8%, Open World 4.7%
Choose your own adventure in this open-world humanity expansion space simulation. Travel beyond the constellations to new frontiers. Explore, collect resources, supply the expansion efforts, or go battle it out spaceshooter style. Do we seek Galaversal Supremacy or peace? You decide !
Why similar: Space Sim 28% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Space 14.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8%
A "small" universe simulation, where you play as a black hole and try to absorb the whole universe. You decide the size and shape of the universe. Could also be used as a less meaningful CPU benchmark.
Why similar: Space Sim 44.6% ★, Space 21.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Relaxing 8.1%
Super Space Frogs is a 2D physics-based rocket game. Design, Deploy, and Fly awesome rockets. Unlock new technology to build bigger and better ships. Explore the solar system and unlocks the mysteries it holds.
Why similar: Space Sim 31% ★, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Space 8.3%, Exploration 7.8%
Elusive Verge is a third-person space exploration game with dash of base-building, combat and survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Space Sim 26.4% ★, Sandbox 14%, Space 8.7%, Exploration 6.7%
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Space Sim 22.4% ★, Nature 16.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Space 13%, Nonlinear 10.8%
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Space Sim 28% ★, Sandbox 14%, Space 9.7%, 3D 3.9%
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Space Sim 17.2% ★, Space 16.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 6.6%
"Northrealm Tribes" offers an engaging gaming experience where you can immerse yourself in the thrilling history of the Vikings and build your own settlement in a perilous yet exhilarating world. Are you ready to establish and rule your own Viking realm?
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4% ★, Nature 17.3%, Relaxing 9.4%, 3D 7%, Casual 6.5%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Space Sim 29.1% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 7.7%, Exploration 6.4%
You find yourself in a distant galaxy full of merchants, diplomats, bandits and powerful factions. Explore unknown galaxies, trade, fight pirates or become one. Uncover mysteries and shape the universe!
Why similar: Space Sim 43.1% ★, Sandbox 21.4%, Exploration 12.3%, Space 8.1%, Open World 6.4%
A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
Why similar: Space 30.3%, Space Sim 19.5% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Open World 13%, Exploration 12.4%
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.2% ★, Space 30.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 8.6%, Simulation 7.1%
Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Space Sim 27.5% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Exploration 6.9%, Simulation 5%
Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.3% ★, Space 19.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Relaxing 8.5%, Exploration 6.1%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Space Sim 23% ★, Space 15%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 8.6%
Stellar Archipelago is a third-person base builder with a space western flair. Gather resources, build colonies on miniature planets, and grow your population to prove habitability. Unlock the warp junction and open your frontier system to future settlers.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.4% ★, Space 13.5%, Nature 13.5%, Third Person 10%, Exploration 9.7%
This cosmic walking drug enhancer doesn’t ask you for much, it just wants you to come as you are. Bring your favorite edibles, mushrooms, music, and Relax. Consider using it for meditation and reflection. A title perfect for those nights when you want to float off into space and forget about things.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.8% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Space 15.8%, Exploration 8.5%, Open World 7.5%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Space Sim 25.7% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Exploration 6%
The ultimate space simulator game, precisely modeling the space and space environment inside the International Space Station (ISS).
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, Space Sim 32.9% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Space 9.1%, Third Person 7%
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: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Space Sim 22.4% ★, Space 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 6.9%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Space Sim 23.7% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Space 10.9%, Simulation 4.8%
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
Why similar: Space 24.7%, Space Sim 23.3% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Open World 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.6% ★, Space 17.4%, Sandbox 17%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Exploration 6.3%
stardust lets you travel through space, collect colorful sparkles and paint the canvas that is the universe with your trails of stellar dust.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.6% ★, Nature 17.5%, Space 14.9%, Third Person 8.1%, Relaxing 8%
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, Space Sim 33.9% ★, Space 14%, Simulation 5.8%, Aliens 4.4%
Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.1% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Space 19.6%, Open World 10.3%, Exploration 8.3%
Conquer the heights of space by navigating treacherous landscapes. Battle gravity and test your skill to reach the top. Get ready for the climb of your life.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.2% ★, Space 20.5%, Nature 12.3%, Open World 9.3%, Exploration 7.4%
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Nature 14.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Relaxing 6.1%
Sci-Fi Builder is a sandbox construction sim where you design a space station, build a colony, and control aliens, robots & NPCs. No grids, no limits — just creative freedom in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Space 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Third Person 9%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, Space Sim 21.4% ★, Space 14%, Sandbox 12.2%, Exploration 7.8%
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 42.6% ★, Space 22.2%, Open World 10.9%, Exploration 8%, Sandbox 7.8%
A futuristic sci-fi persistent universe exploration game with one million stars and 18 million planets and moons. Fly your ship to any star and explore its solar system. Claiming stars, planets and moons will make them yours forever - other players will see your discoveries and you will see theirs.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.1% ★, Space 13.1%, Simulation 12%, Exploration 11%, Open World 6.7%
Mine rocks, gather materials, and craft crystals in a calm, system-driven world. A relaxing single-player experience focused on mining, progression, and discovery.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Nature 15.1%, Exploration 12.5%, Third Person 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
Space Tourist is a chill, mechanic-lite, easy space exploration game designed for tired gamers who love to discover beautiful worlds without overwhelming systems or steep learning curves. Explore space. Land on new worlds. Plant flags. Take photos. Relax.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Space 10.6%, 3D 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
Travelers in Space Crack is a survive game in deep space. Explore in different galaxy through space cracks. To find and gather useful resource, to trade and make money are all important to develop your own fleets. And only through build massive fleets, you triumph over the unknown evil forces.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, Space Sim 35.7% ★, Space 10.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Exploration 6.5%
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using Newtonian orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Space 13.5%, Third Person 6.5%
Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.
Why similar: Space Sim 40% ★, Space 31.8%, Open World 9.1%, Exploration 8.2%, Sci-fi 5.9%
Welcome to Anima mundi! Build an ecosystem, populate your planet, & immerse in the lives of its creatures as they grow and evolve. Each planet holds unique species. Will you be able to uncover the mysteries of each one?
Why similar: Space Sim 20% ★, Nature 18.2%, Sandbox 16%, Space 14.1%, Exploration 7.1%
Explore and unravel the mysteries of Rheksetor!
Why similar: Space Sim 33.4% ★, Space 18.7%, Exploration 9.8%, Third Person 9.6%, Open World 8.5%
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
Why similar: Space 36.3%, Space Sim 26.3% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%
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 47.3% ★, Space 19.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Open World 8.5%
In celebration of the 25 yr anniversary of the first release, this compendium contains all 4 games in the Battlecruiser 3000AD series which was first released in 1996.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.3% ★, Space 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Exploration 9%, Simulation 6.5%
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 32.1% ★, Space 17.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Nonlinear 10%, Open World 9.3%
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Why similar: Space Sim 35.6% ★, Space 17.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 9.2%, Exploration 8%
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind. Play how you like in this open world space-sim developed by Pixelfactor.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Space 15.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Open World 7.5%
Space adventure with open world, FPS shooter and a lot of missions. Choose your own carrier. Are you a space pirate or a brave space ranger? Choose your destiny. The galaxy needs you, commander! Openworld game with multiple worlds to explore.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Space Sim 20.9% ★, Space 15.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 8.9%
Plentiful is a Human Terrarium — Sculpt the land, redirect rivers, and grow food as you nurture your tribe. Guide your people through a perilous Stone Age and protect them from nature’s whims.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, Nature 20.8%, Sandbox 19%, Simulation 5%, 3D 4.4%
Real-time planetary collision sandbox powered by SPH physics: smash planets together and watch the destruction and its aftermath!
Why similar: Space Sim 44.3% ★, Space 21.1%, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Casual 3.4%
Pilot your ship across a procedurally generated star map as corruption spreads inward. Each sector holds a stabiliser; protect it from raiders and pump energy into its shields. Jump between nodes, prioritise threats, and manage energy. Hold the line until time runs out, or be consumed by corruption.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.6% ★, Space 28.6%, Third Person 11.4%, 3D 6.2%, Simulation 4.7%