Games Like SPACEPLAN

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.4%, Space 41%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: While not an idle game, it captures the same sense of space-faring wonder, mystery, and scientific curiosity found in SPACEPLAN.

Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.

Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 30%, Singleplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in narrative-driven incremental gameplay that starts simple and unfolds into a deep, mysterious story.

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Why similar: Incremental 74.4%, Idler 13.3%, Casual 6.6%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive incremental game that offers endless depth and a similar sense of satisfaction as you scale your production.

A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.

Why similar: Space 85.1%, Adventure 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric space exploration game that emphasizes a unique, meditative movement style and stunning visuals.

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Why similar: Incremental 73.1%, Space 10.6%, Idler 9.3%, Casual 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A science-themed incremental game that mirrors the cosmic scale and educational curiosity of the seed game.

Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!

Why similar: Idler 40.9%, Space 31.3%, Casual 16.5%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A pure, high-quality incremental game that focuses on complex mathematical progression and satisfying scaling.

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.5%, Casual 23.2%, Indie 15.9%, Space 10.6%, Singleplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, minimalist simulation that focuses on atmosphere and passive observation rather than traditional goals.

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: Indie 47%, Adventure 25.4%, Singleplayer 14%, Casual 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the meta-narrative humor and experimental design that makes SPACEPLAN feel like more than just a game.

To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 76.2%, Casual 6.7%, Great Soundtrack 5.3%, Space 2.8%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An incremental game that focuses on satisfying, repetitive destruction mechanics with a clean, modern interface.

Lazy Galaxy is a mix between RTS and idle/clicker game. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe!

Why similar: Incremental 40.9%, Idler 19%, Space 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed idle game that combines resource management with a lighthearted, arcade-style aesthetic.

Progressbar95 is a unique indie game with a strong nostalgic vibe. It turns vintage GUI elements like panels, buttons and icons into game elements! Simple and addictive gameplay based on dozens of mini-games and puzzles. The game will make you smile!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Why You'll Like It: A nostalgic and experimental simulation that turns basic UI interactions into a surprisingly deep and addictive experience.

This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Why similar: Incremental 63.9%, Idler 16%, Space 8.4%, Casual 8.1%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-focused incremental game that offers a unique visual style and satisfying time-management loops.

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 71.4%, Indie 11.6%, Adventure 6.8%, Casual 5.3%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative adventure that breaks the fourth wall and offers a unique, intimate connection between the player and the game world.

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Incremental 78.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Casual 6.6%, Indie 2.8%, Idler 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, highly polished incremental game that uses humor and satire to drive its progression systems.

Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 58.1%, Casual 21.6%, Indie 15.1%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric walking simulator that uses a unique time-based mechanic to tell a story about a dying world.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: Casual 51.7%, Indie 31.5%, Singleplayer 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: A purely aesthetic, minimalist building game that provides a relaxing, experimental experience similar to the 'toy-like' feel of SPACEPLAN.

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: Space 67.3%, Great Soundtrack 19.3%, Indie 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Adventure 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-building sandbox that allows for creative ship design and strategic combat in a vast, procedural galaxy.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 57.9%, Indie 22.9%, Adventure 10%, Singleplayer 8.1%, Casual 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental narrative experience that explores the relationship between the creator and the player with deep emotional resonance.

'A Game About Making A Planet' is a short, satisfying incremental game. Make a planet by merging particles together. Playtime around 1-2 hours

Why similar: Incremental 55.7%, Space 22.8%, Idler 12.9%, Casual 5.9%, Indie 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, space-themed idle game that focuses on the gradual construction of a celestial body.

Ready for some chill time in space? Astrodle has you covered. Watch the numbers soar as you upgrade your ship and travel the stars. Oh, and you might just become a god.

Why similar: Incremental 57.7%, Space 17.3%, Idler 12.5%, Casual 7.4%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced arcade-style idle game that keeps the action focused on space-themed destruction.

Embark on an interstellar journey with Galaxy Idle Clicker! Conquer galaxies, upgrade your spaceship, and face off against a myriad of enemy ships. With engaging minigames, powerful upgrades, GIC delivers an unparalleled idle space adventure. Join the cosmic conquest today and dominate the universe!

Why similar: Incremental 50.8%, Space 22.5%, Idler 12.9%, Casual 7.1%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward space-themed clicker that provides a consistent and relaxing progression loop.

An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.

Why similar: Incremental 79.3%, Idler 12.2%, Casual 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy incremental game that requires careful resource management to keep a reactor running.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 70.3%, Indie 21.6%, Singleplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-game that subverts expectations and uses simple mechanics to tell a surprisingly complex and dark story.

Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.

Why similar: Incremental 37.4%, Space 34.5%, Idler 10.9%, Casual 10.3%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi strategy game that incorporates idle elements to manage resource extraction in space.

A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.

Why similar: Incremental 72.4%, Idler 7.7%, Casual 7.6%, Space 7.2%, Indie 3.6%

A simple black hole simulator.

Why similar: Casual 79.4%, Indie 11.9%, Singleplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental simulation that allows players to manipulate gravity and space in a sandbox environment.

Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.

Why similar: Incremental 58.8%, Space 17.2%, Idler 13.5%, Casual 7.9%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A mining-focused incremental game that provides a satisfying feedback loop of resource collection and upgrades.

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Space 43.6%, Incremental 37.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%

An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.

Why similar: Incremental 51.9%, Space 24.3%, Idler 13.4%, Indie 4.7%, Adventure 3.2%

A sci-fi idler. Upgrade your ships, get new items, and conquer the stars.

Why similar: Incremental 55.3%, Idler 15.9%, Space 15.9%, Casual 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy game that blends fleet management with idle progression mechanics.

Upload Simulator Silicon is an incremental game about uploading, making money, hacking, and ascending as a powerful entity that controls the very laws of the universe using powerful technologies you discover throught your journey.

Why similar: Incremental 68.5%, Idler 16%, Casual 14.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click style incremental game that focuses on software development and digital progression.

Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.

Why similar: Incremental 53.4%, Space 20.5%, Idler 15.5%, Casual 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Space Rock Breaker is a short incremental game about mining asteroids in space. Mine asteroids with guns, unlock new materials, process the ore by dropping it into a Plinko machine, and spend your credits on upgrades in a massive skill tree.

Why similar: Incremental 68.4%, Space 12.6%, Casual 10.2%, Idler 7.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

How To Grow a Black Hole is about... well... how to grow a black hole. Manage your black hole, feed it to gain mass, and prevent catastrophic collapses. Compete globally or against your friends to achieve the biggest black hole. Maybe you'll be #1.

Why similar: Incremental 27.8%, Space 27.2%, Casual 20%, Idler 18.7%, Indie 4.2%

A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!

Why similar: Incremental 58.8%, Space 18.2%, Idler 13.9%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.

Why similar: Idler 58.4%, Adventure 19%, Indie 17.3%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Fly between incomprehensible galaxies in this experimental micro game!

Why similar: Space 76.3%, Casual 19.7%, Adventure 4%

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 63.5%, Indie 14.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Singleplayer 8.5%

A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.9%, Indie 26.7%, Casual 20.8%, Singleplayer 4.9%, Adventure 3.7%

A nostalgia-infused pixel clicker in a comedy wrapper.

Why similar: Space 45.9%, Idler 33.6%, Casual 17.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Your hero is Andy Freeman, a technical engineer of the Zeus-M700 spacecraft, sent on an expedition to the satellite of Jupiter to colonize it. However, what is conceived does not always go according to plan…

Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Casual 24.1%, Indie 17.7%, Singleplayer 9.7%

Come with us now on a journey through music and space... To the world of VOYAGER ◯∘ A minimalist, relaxing & atmospheric experience to chill out to for a while…

Why similar: Space 66.4%, Casual 19%, Adventure 11%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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 69.8%, Casual 21.8%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.

Why similar: Space 70.1%, Adventure 16.3%, Casual 13.5%

An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...

Why similar: Incremental 33.5%, Great Soundtrack 24%, Casual 13.3%, Idler 12.3%, Adventure 8.6%

A walking sim in which you can explore all kinds of mysterious places and dive into a world full of atmosphere. Let this experience unfold in your head. Let it inspire you.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.2%, Casual 27.3%, Indie 18.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Stranded for unknown reasons in the lower orbit of a purple gas giant, you are kind of just chilling out. You should probably get on with your mission. There's still plenty of time, though.

Why similar: Space 51.9%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 10.6%, Adventure 8.9%, Singleplayer 5.5%

MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Space 42.8%, Great Soundtrack 33.1%, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: Space 66.1%, Casual 17.9%, Indie 12.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: Space 71.9%, Indie 25.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.

Why similar: Incremental 63%, Space 10.6%, Casual 10.4%, Idler 7.7%, Indie 6.9%

Manipulate the look, sound, and feel of more than a dozen mesmerizing landscapes in this immersive musical adventure through space and time.

Why similar: Indie 74.6%, Singleplayer 25.4%

Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.7%, Space 33.2%, Indie 9.5%, Adventure 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.7%

A sci-fi themed incremental game which allows you to expand your capitalistic empire across the galaxy! Hire mercenaries to pillage alien planets for resources, with the singular goal of making as much money as possible as quickly as possible! Totally not a playful commentary on real Terran society.

Why similar: Incremental 55%, Idler 14.4%, Casual 12.2%, Space 10.6%, Indie 7.2%

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.5%, Casual 30.3%, Indie 18.5%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Adventure 4%

3D first-person walking simulator with a side of exploration/interaction with the environment. The game tells the story of the Space Lemmings from Space who, after running many experiments with breakfast alphabet and the space-time continuum, got blocked between dimensions (or something).

Why similar: Casual 75%, Adventure 25%

A incremental game about downloading files, uploading, and upgrading your setup. This is the official PC version of Upload Simulator.

Why similar: Incremental 75.3%, Idler 20.6%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.

Why similar: Incremental 67.3%, Idler 14.8%, Casual 9.4%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Experience life in space using cutting edge drone simulation technology. You can never fail — build ships, make friends, live forever.

Why similar: Space 51.2%, Great Soundtrack 27.3%, Indie 8.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%