Games Like Space Engineers

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Moddable 18%, Space Sim 13.2%, Space 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands the same block-based spacecraft and station construction formula with modernized building tools and physics.

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 15.8%, Space 9.6%, Building 9%, Co-op 9%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person survival, planetary exploration, resource mining, and customizable hovercraft, capital ships, and orbital bases.

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: Space Sim 28.9%, Building 15.8%, Open World 13.6%, Space 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed voxel ships, stations, wiring, damage systems, and large shared universe closely mirror the engineering-focused side of Space Engineers.

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!

Why similar: Moddable 21.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 11%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: A demanding first-person space survival game centered on constructing airtight bases and managing power, atmospherics, plumbing, and automation.

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!

Why similar: Space 22.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 13.1%, Open World 12.8%, Space Sim 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox lets you build modular voxel spacecraft and stations, explore procedural galaxies, and take your creations into combat.

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.

Why similar: Space 19.3%, Building 18.7%, Space Sim 18%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers freeform block construction for ships, vehicles, and bases across planets and space, with a similarly experimental sandbox feel.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Physics 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A playful physics sandbox built around constructing vehicles, machines, and automated contraptions for survival and multiplayer experimentation.

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: Space Sim 27.5%, Space 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Design modular spacecraft piece by piece, mine resources, upgrade systems, and explore a procedural galaxy alone or cooperatively.

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Space Sim 25.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space 10.8%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Build and operate customizable starships while exploring, trading, fighting, and surviving in a multiplayer-friendly space sandbox.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Space Sim 16.8%, Space 14.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This cooperative space-survival builder emphasizes expanding automated colonies, managing resources, and constructing networks across planets.

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 19.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Space 14.5%, Physics 14.3%, Survival 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally deep modular vehicle designer and simulation-driven combat make it ideal for players who enjoy testing elaborate engineered machines.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 13%, Physics 12.9%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: From the same studio, this shifts the block-building and destruction systems to castles, siege engines, and medieval survival.

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.

Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 14.4%, Open World 12.1%, Physics 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers detailed modular construction and realistic vehicle physics for ships, aircraft, submarines, and rescue operations in an open world.

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: Space Sim 20.4%, Space 17.9%, Moddable 15.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Physics 10%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Space Engineers' love of experimental spacecraft construction and physics, but centers on orbital mechanics and mission design.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Open World 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: While planet-bound, its first-person building, resource logistics, vehicles, and enormous factories scratch a similar engineering-creation itch.

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: Space Sim 27.7%, Space 16.7%, Building 16.4%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Design practical room-by-room starships, manage their crew and systems, and put each layout through tactical space battles.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Building 22.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Build highly customizable block vehicles, harvest resources, expand bases, and battle across an open-world alien frontier.

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

Why similar: Building 26.6%, Space 25.5%, Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This space sandbox is focused on assembling modular spacecraft, scavenging parts, and evolving designs through exploration and combat.

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: Space Sim 19.2%, Moddable 16.5%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Space 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A flexible aerospace sandbox for building rockets, planes, rovers, and custom spacecraft before flying them through a simulated solar system.

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: Space Sim 19.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 12%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Design the internal layout of a starship, sustain its crew, manage resources, and travel through a hostile procedurally generated galaxy.

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: Space Sim 17%, Moddable 14.3%, Space 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its colony and interstellar ambitions build on Kerbal's rocket-design sandbox for players who want broader-scale space engineering.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Space 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gentler cooperative space-survival sandbox with terrain shaping, base building, crafting, and exploration across colorful planets.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Moddable 13.6%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces ships with factories, but its deep resource processing, automation, defense, and scalable base design reward the same engineering mindset.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 19%, Building 13.9%, Space 13.7%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Explore and survive on a hostile world while building an expanding base and transforming the planet through resource-driven terraforming.

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 27.8%, Space Sim 19.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Construct a modular spaceship directly in space, collect resources, and grow it into a heavily armed exploration vessel.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Space 21.8%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Physics 10.9%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible modular construction and strong physics let you prototype land, air, and sea vehicles with friends or solo.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build and upgrade a mobile drilling base, gather resources, and survive an erupting volcanic island filled with hostile machines.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A more grounded Mars survival simulation about building habitats, maintaining life-support systems, mining, and operating vehicles.

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 Sim 25.9%, Space 12.8%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build programmable modular drones and refine their designs for exploration, mining, combat, and survival in space.

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.9%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 9.2%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Building 19.7%, Sandbox 19.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person sci-fi construction game with voxel terrain, mining, conveyor automation, base defenses, and large-scale machinery.

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 38.7%, Space 19.6%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 6.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.4%, Moddable 23.3%, Space 13.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.2%

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Moddable 26.8%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Physics 11.1%, PvP 9.8%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Building 16%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.8%, Survival 12.7%

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Building 15.5%, Space 14.7%, Co-op 13.4%, PvP 12.3%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Open World 11.6%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Open World 20.4%, Survival 14.3%, Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 10%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 23.1%, Space Sim 21.4%, Physics 15.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 7.9%

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: Space Sim 26.9%, Space 14.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Physics 11.4%, Open World 11.3%

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 Sim 29.2%, Space 14.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Moddable 9%, Building 6.4%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.4%, Space 16.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 11.8%, Realistic 9.8%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 13.1%

Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.7%, Space 13.4%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Co-op 9.3%

Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!

Why similar: Space Sim 22.5%, Moddable 18.9%, Building 13.2%, Space 12.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Space 20.4%, Survival 14.5%, Building 8.9%, Space Sim 8.8%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Space 15.8%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Open World 11.5%

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

Why similar: Space Sim 27.2%, Space 13.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.4%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Space 19.1%, Building 14.3%, Space Sim 13.3%, Open World 11.6%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Survival 18%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Space 11.9%

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Space 21.2%, Open World 18.5%, Space Sim 16.6%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%

Blockland is a non-linear sandbox game with no set goals, giving players the freedom to design and construct elaborate structures. Styled as a tiny minifigure, players build inside of the virtual world using bricks reminiscent of toy blocks.

Why similar: Moddable 23.9%, Sandbox 22.8%, Building 18.6%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 11%

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Space Sim 24.4%, Base Building 15%, Space 13.2%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12%

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Moddable 26.7%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Physics 13.5%, Open World 12.2%

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.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 14.8%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 14.3%

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Moddable 29.8%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Physics 14.4%, Open World 8.6%