60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Simulation, Space, Open World.
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Mechanic Miner
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Star Crafter
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Steampunk 33.4% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Old School 12.4%, Building 12.3%, Retro 8.7%
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 44.7% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11%, Open World 10.3%, Simulation 7.4%
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 43.9%, Sandbox 21.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Physics 7.7%, Building 7.5%
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 Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 15.3%, Building 15.2%, Sci-fi 8.6%
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 26.2%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Physics 16.1%, Open World 9.7%
Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!
Why similar: Space Sim 35.7%, Flight 18.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Open World 5.9%
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Why similar: Mining 29% ★, Space Sim 26.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 10.6%, Simulation 9.5%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.4%, Physics 26%, Open World 13.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.5%, Difficult 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Physics 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%
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 Sim 24%, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Open World 8.9%
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 39.4%, Sandbox 19.5%, Open World 16.3%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Simulation 8%
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: Space Sim 26.5%, Flight 18.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 11.9%, Building 11.7%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.2%, Flight 20.6%, Difficult 14.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 6.1%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Building 19.6%, Physics 18.6%, Space Sim 17.1%, Simulation 11.5%
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: Sandbox 44%, Building 39.8%, Simulation 16.1%
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Space Sim 39.6%, Mining 39.1% ★, Open World 13.7%, Adventure 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?
Why similar: Space Sim 29.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Physics 13.4%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Puzzle 10.9%
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 27.9%, Mining 24.8% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
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: Building 27.5%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 24%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Adventure 6%
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 Sim 29.4%, Sandbox 22.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Building 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%
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 31.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 14.9%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.6%
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: Sandbox 26%, Mining 21.8% ★, Building 21%, Open World 12.6%, Simulation 7.3%
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 40.6%, Open World 19.7%, Building 18.3%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.9%, Open World 21.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Atmospheric 4.2%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.1%, Sci-fi 19%, Open World 18.3%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 7.6%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.1%, Open World 11.8%, Simulation 10.3%
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: Sandbox 28%, Building 23%, Open World 21.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?
Why similar: Building 31.5%, Sandbox 21.1%, Simulation 19.1%, Puzzle 16.7%, Adventure 8.8%
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 Sim 33.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Physics 13.3%, Open World 12.8%, Retro 11%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World 34.4%, Sandbox 33.5%, Building 18.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Singleplayer 4.5%
Space. Ships. Resources. Trading. Production. Combat. Mine ore, haul cargo, and find profitable trade routes. Buy and capture ships, build your fleet, construct stations, and develop your production. Start with your first ship. Build your empire!
Why similar: Space Sim 43.7%, Flight 17.7%, Open World 16.9%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Simulation 6.1%
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.7%, Mining 20.5% ★, Flight 12.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 8.9%
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 57.9%, Open World 20.2%, Sci-fi 11%, Adventure 5.9%, Simulation 3.2%
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: Mining 22.9% ★, Space Sim 19.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.4%, Physics 10.5%
Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.
Why similar: Space Sim 52.2%, Flight 18.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Open World 10.5%, Adventure 6.9%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Open World 49.1%, Sci-fi 29.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Singleplayer 7.3%
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: Open World 29.2%, Sandbox 26.1%, Building 19.1%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Adventure 5.7%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Steampunk 24% ★, Sandbox 22.4%, Open World 15.2%, Atmospheric 5.9%
In this relaxing space flight adventure, you pilot the science vessel Eurisko XI on a quest through deep space. Explore fascinating, fractal-based exoplanets and uncover their mysteries. Analyze artifacts and upgrade your ship to unlock new pathways. Your mission: find humanity’s new home.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Flight 23.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Simulation 7.9%
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Building 20.6%, Physics 17.2%, Open World 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.1%
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Space Sim 59.9%, Simulation 18.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Stylized 8.9%, Singleplayer 1%
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 Sim 24.6%, Physics 17.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Puzzle 9.3%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.6%, Open World 25.1%, Building 25.1%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Adventure 6.9%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Building 17.7%, Physics 17.2%, Open World 14.5%, Sci-fi 10.7%
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.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5%, Physics 14.1%, Difficult 13.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
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 30.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Open World 12.5%, Physics 12%
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 31.6%, Mining 25.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Open World 10.5%, Simulation 8.3%
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Building 23.8%, Open World 22.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Adventure 8.2%
Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible environments and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets. Use explosives to mine metal ores or watch your newly constructed home get smashed to pieces by a meteorite impact.
Why similar: Sandbox 56%, Simulation 44%
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 33.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 14.6%, Open World 12.1%, Sci-fi 9.3%
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: Mining 35.6% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 16.5%, Building 14.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.2%, Building 24.5%, Open World 23.2%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Adventure 6.5%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Steampunk 42.6% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.7%
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 43.1%, Physics 20.2%, Building 16.5%, Simulation 11%, Open World 4.6%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Steampunk 53.5% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Adventure 1.9%
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 33.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.1%, Physics 10%, Puzzle 9.8%
Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?
Why similar: Mining 51.9% ★, Sci-fi 16.8%, Open World 15.1%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Adventure 4.5%
Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!
Why similar: Space Sim 44.6%, Mining 39.3% ★, Simulation 6.5%, Adventure 4.9%, Atmospheric 3.6%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Building 27%, Open World 23.9%, Simulation 11%, Atmospheric 8.4%
Fight, trade, mine, and explore the galaxy in this old-school space combat simulator. You are a freelance pilot who survived an assassination attempt. Travel the open world, chase bounties, get new ships, upgrade your gear, and, why not, maybe even save humankind!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.1%, Mining 25% ★, Flight 18.2%, Old School 11.3%, Open World 8.1%
