- #1 Wreckborn
97% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Flight 19.6%, Automation 13.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.5%, Space Sim 9.2%
- #2 AESOS
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SF Factory
Windows
Lead a spaceyard: juggle contracts, design, prototype, and build all types of ships—from single-seat fighters to giant cruisers. Create custom vessels to meet precise client specs, then take the helm yourself to prove their worth.
Why similar: Flight 17.2%, Space Sim 16.7%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Space 10.4%
- #3 Yuri's Resolve
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Apothecary Games
Windows
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Flight 15.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Space Sim 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #4 X Space
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: X SPACE
Windows
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Space Sim 11.7%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #5 Starvector
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.4%, Space Sim 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #6 Scraponauts
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AriaMakesGames
Windows
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: Flight 24.1%, Space Sim 18%, Sandbox 14%, Building 14%, Space 9.1%
- #7 Voidless
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Retnuh Studio
Windows
Voidless is a sci-fi space survival sandbox set in the near future within a realistic scale solar system. In first or third person, players can explore planets and asteroids, collect resources, and craft items. As well as building bases and ships, all with physics based flight and combat.
Why similar: Flight 16.4%, Space Sim 16.4%, Sandbox 13%, FPS 12%, Building 10.4%
- #8 StellarDrive
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Curious Owl Games
Windows · Linux
Mine resources, build your spaceship, and soar through the skies in this immersive space sandbox. Wire complex machinery to survive the elements, and craft the StellarDrive: a powerful engine that lets you travel faster than light.
Why similar: Flight 25.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 14.9%, Space Sim 12.2%, Space 11.4%
- #9 Launch Window
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gumptiongames
Windows
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Flight 18.2%, Automation 15.5%, Space Sim 15.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 8.7%
- #10 Untethered
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: True Anomaly Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Space Sim 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.2%
- #11 Cloud 9
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mantra Games
Windows
After surviving a gravitational anomaly, humankind must find a home among the floating rocks in the skies. Build a home in the clouds, fly an airship, battle dragons, collect supplies, and help the Cloud 9 initiative rekindle humanity in this new era of survival.
Why similar: Flight 26.9%, Sandbox 16%, Building 14%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 8.3%
- #12 Reprocessed
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Space Sim 12.5%, Crafting 12.2%
- #13 Space
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Space Sim 13.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.9%
- #14 Industronaut
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #15 9.8
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tremoço Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D space agency simulator where every object follows the same orbital physics. Land on moons, build colonies, deploy satellites, and reshape entire planetary systems. Deorbit a moon if you want.
Why similar: Flight 28.2%, Space Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Space 12.1%, Physics 10.4%
- #16 Elon
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoBehavior Games
Windows
After a mysterious accident you are left are stranded, floating through space on a piece of a space station. Craft supplies and Hubs to expand what is now your home. But be warned space is a dangerous places where one mistake can mean certain death. Can you defy the odds and survive in space?
Why similar: Space Sim 19.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8.6%
- #17 Playable Alpha
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Prime Rendering
Windows
As researcher with great ambitions, and lack of talent, you are sent to a newly discovered planet far away from civilization. In this VR first person survival, you will need to build an outpost and survive the hostile environment. While exploring the planet, unveiling its secrets.
Why similar: Space Sim 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12%, Survival 8.5%
- #18 The Maker Way
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 16%, Building 14.3%, Physics 9.1%
- #19 Spaceflight Simulator 2
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Build rockets and fly them around the Solar System in this realistic aerospace sandbox. Attempt landings, build space stations, drive rovers, perform spacewalks, explore alien worlds, and get your crew home safe.
Why similar: Flight 24%, Space Sim 20.3%, Sandbox 15%, Building 10.9%, Space 7.8%
- #20 Starlight Brigade
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spacemarine658
Windows · Linux
Starlight Brigade is a realistic space action-adventure game with a precise combat system and full 6DOF controls. You command the Wayfarer, an aging light cruiser centuries past her time. Plot missile salvos, hunt down your enemy, design munitions, manage your crew, and send engineers to fix damage.
Why similar: Flight 30.2%, Space Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Space 9.8%, Physics 9.2%
- #21 Aviassembly
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,951 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Flight 29.2%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Physics 10.7%
- #22 Outerra World Sandbox
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OuterraPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Outerra World Sandbox gives you the whole world to use as canvas to create, explore and share. Create terrain and share it online or download the creations of others and then explore it on foot or in any mode of transportation that you and the community create.
Why similar: Flight 18.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15.1%, FPS 13.7%, Crafting 10.7%
- #23 Billion Egg Farm
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yamei Games
Windows
Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16%, Physics 11.6%, Survival 11%
- #24 Autocraft
82% matchMixed56% of 297 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Building 22%, Physics 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Space 10.7%
- #25 Factory Defense
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KV4 STUDIO
Windows
Factory Defence - is a first-person shooter in which you build automated factories and defend them. Plan your factory and defensive structures to take the enemy by surprise. Explore and colonize the planet alone or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Building 14.9%, FPS 14.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12%
- #26 WormWorld
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyjmo
Windows
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: Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 15%, Space Sim 14.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #27 Center Station Simulator
78% matchVery Positive88% of 569 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Management 12.3%
- #28 Space Manager
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Build, launch and manage realistic space missions across our solar system, placing satellites and telescopes in precise orbits. Explore planets, collect valuable scientific data and sell your findings to expand your rising aerospace empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.1%, Flight 19.3%, Management 13.9%, Automation 9.2%, Space 7.9%
- #29 Black Jackal
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Galaxy Games LLC
Windows
Pilot your way through the deadly remains of derelict spacecraft, solve their mysteries, and get out with everything that isn't nailed down.
Why similar: Flight 29.7%, Space Sim 19.4%, FPS 14.4%, Physics 9.6%, Exploration 8%
- #30 Junkyard Space Agency
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nullterm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build ships from scrap and fly them in a gritty space sim. Venture solo or team up. Hunt for parts, haul vital resources, and keep your space agency afloat.
Why similar: Flight 22.7%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Space Sim 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%
- #31 Deep Claims
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Promination Studios
Windows
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
Why similar: Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 17.7%, Management 17.2%, Space Sim 16.4%, Exploration 11.9%
- #32 Tiny Pixel Planets
76% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: SP Possibilities
Windows
Explore the pixel cosmos, jumping from star system to star system. Land on fully procedural planets, and make them your home.
Why similar: Building 17.4%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 16.4%, Space Sim 16.2%, Space 10.1%
- #33 Stellar Shipyard
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Flight 19.1%, Automation 15.3%, Space Sim 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.2%
- #34 Rocket Science
76% matchVery Positive80% of 172 reviews2020
Dev: unbeGames
Windows
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.
Why similar: Flight 23.7%, Space Sim 15.4%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 14%, Space 9.8%
- #35 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,243 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Space Sim 13.5%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, FPS 9.9%
- #36 Space Sim Tycoon
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: SuperChicken Productions LLC
Windows
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Automation 13.9%, Building 13.9%, Management 10.6%
- #37 Initial Civilization
73% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sun Peiyi
Windows
A vast 6 handred-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Why similar: Building 19.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 16.4%, Space 13.2%, Space Sim 12.7%
- #38 Krasnaya Factory
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11%, Management 8.6%
- #39 Rover Mechanic Challenge - ERC Competition
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Pyramid Games S.A.
Windows
𝗘𝗥𝗖 𝗥𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 is an e-tournament based on the world's only simulator for repairing Mars Rovers. Take part in solving challenging tasks and become the master of leader board.
Why similar: Space Sim 16.8%, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Management 12.7%, Building 11.6%
- #40 SuperKraft: Open World Survival Crafting Game
73% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: RedRockGS
Windows
Welcome to "SuperKraft," an immersive 3D survival crafting game! Explore stunning landscapes, hunt animals, and craft powerful tools. Encounter creatures, battle foes, and earn legendary rewards!
Why similar: Building 15.6%, FPS 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 10.7%
- #41 Jaden Industries: Cozy Automation Puzzler
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pushka Studios
Windows
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 15.9%, Management 12.6%
- #42 Shuttle World
72% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.1%
- #43 Triton Survival
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Family Devs
Windows
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Why similar: Space Sim 16.3%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 10.3%
- #44 No End
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas Martin
Windows
Explore a seamless endless universe with an uncountable number of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons. Make friends or enemies with unique alien civilizations. Research upgrades for your vessel with scientific phenomena and alien tech that you've acquired.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.7%, Flight 18.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Exploration 8.8%
- #45 Aetheria
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Nick Mead
Windows
Aetheria is a survival crafting game where you explore islands in a vast ocean, gather resources, build bases and physics-driven vehicles, catch fish, slay monsters and unlock recipes in a procedurally generated voxel world.
Why similar: Flight 27.8%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Automation 12.6%, Survival 11.1%
- #46 Main Sequence
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tumbling Dumpling StudioPub: Mythwright
Windows
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Space Sim 19.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Space 9.2%
- #47 Engineer Alpha
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Aaron Worcester
Windows
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Management 9%
- #48 Gobs & Gears
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GOBLINTEK
Windows · Mac
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 17%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 12%
- #49 Space Trash Scavenger
68% matchVery Positive84% of 520 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: Automation 20.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Survival 10.3%
- #50 Piperspace
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tom Mason - wheybagsPub: Ben Buckton
Windows
A first person building game where every problem is solved with pipes.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.4%, Sandbox 20.4%, FPS 17%, Building 12%, Exploration 9.3%
- #51 Wayward Beyond
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bitfish
Windows
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 15%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 9.9%
- #52 AlterSpace
69% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Freeworld DevelopmentsPub: Studio Grandis
Windows
Explore a vast universe, uncover the mystery of humanity's demise, gather resources, build bases, and scan the unknown. Your journey awaits in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Flight 23.1%, Crafting 13.5%, FPS 12.8%, Space 10.8%, Survival 10.6%
- #53 Automation Station
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Building 17%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Management 10.2%
- #54 Astrometica: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,293 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.5%, Automation 17.1%, Building 16%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.4%
- #55 Everlost
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Building 22.4%, Crafting 20.1%, Exploration 13.7%, Survival 13.3%
- #56 The Last Seed
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 16%, Building 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%
- #57 PoliPlanet
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13%, Space Sim 11.1%
- #58 INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
68% matchMixed53% of 43 reviews2022
Dev: T-Bull
Windows
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
Why similar: Flight 24.8%, Space Sim 17.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 10.1%, Space 9%
- #59 Hands On Builder
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Good Movement Studios
Windows
Hands On Builder is a cozy first-person building simulation where you gather materials, prepare them yourself, and construct your home piece by piece. Cut logs into panels and studs, plan your worksite, and build at your own pace in a relaxed sandbox world.
Why similar: Building 22.7%, Crafting 19.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Physics 12%, Management 11.9%