Games Like SPACEPLAN

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Why similar: Incremental 81%, Idler 11.7%, Casual 4.3%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends incremental progression with a charming, emergent narrative that feels very similar to the experimental nature of SPACEPLAN.

Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!

Why similar: Incremental 83.1%, Idler 7.5%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, satisfying incremental experience that focuses on building a universe from scratch, mirroring the creative progression of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Incremental 74.9%, Space 9.6%, Idler 8.8%, Casual 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grand, evolutionary narrative that makes the incremental process feel like a journey through time and space.

Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Why similar: Incremental 78.1%, Idler 14%, Casual 3.5%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title prioritizes a narrative-driven approach to the incremental genre, making the passage of time feel meaningful and story-focused.

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

Why similar: Space 84.8%, Adventure 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the atmospheric, meditative experience of traveling through space, matching the aesthetic vibe of SPACEPLAN.

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

Why similar: Idler 40.6%, Space 31%, Casual 16.9%, Indie 7.5%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: As a gold standard of the genre, it offers the deep, addictive number-crunching mechanics that fans of SPACEPLAN will appreciate.

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

Why similar: Space 65.4%, Casual 18.3%, Indie 12.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game captures the space-faring, physics-based wonder of the seed game with a relaxing, atmospheric tone.

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

Why similar: Incremental 77%, Casual 6.6%, Great Soundtrack 5%, Indie 2.7%, Space 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on incremental upgrades and procedural destruction, providing a satisfying sense of scale and power.

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41.9%, Casual 23.7%, Indie 16.3%, Space 10.5%, Singleplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This experimental, minimalist simulation evokes the same sense of quiet, contemplative wonder found in the quieter moments of SPACEPLAN.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.9%, Indie 27.4%, Casual 21.2%, Singleplayer 4.9%, Adventure 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric, and free-to-play experience that captures the same sense of space-themed curiosity and brevity.

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 65.1%, Idler 15.4%, Casual 8%, Space 8%, Indie 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique, visually pleasing incremental loop that feels both relaxing and intellectually stimulating.

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

Why similar: Incremental 73%, Casual 7.6%, Idler 7.4%, Space 6.9%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: The thematic focus on cosmic phenomena and simple, relaxing mechanics makes it a strong companion to the seed game.

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 53.4%, Space 23.4%, Idler 12.9%, Indie 4.8%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This idler focuses on space exploration and automation, aligning perfectly with the core themes of the seed game.

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 42.3%, Idler 18.4%, Space 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed idle strategy game that combines resource management with a lighthearted, casual approach.

Synergism is a free-to-play Idle game about... well, Synergy! Explore that concept through hundreds of upgrades, many reset layers and probably thousands of hours of content that allows both idle and active play.

Why similar: Idler 53.2%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex, multi-layered incremental system that will satisfy players looking for more depth after finishing the seed game.

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Incremental 80.1%, Casual 6.5%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%, Indie 2.7%, Idler 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished, satirical incremental game that shares the humorous, tongue-in-cheek tone of SPACEPLAN.

Idle Slayer is an incremental game with idle and active playstyle mechanics, medieval pixel art visuals and retro 8-bit sounds and music.

Why similar: Incremental 67.3%, Idler 16.9%, Casual 11.1%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds action-oriented mechanics to the traditional idle formula, keeping the gameplay loop engaging and fresh.

A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Why similar: Idler 48.9%, Casual 26.7%, Incremental 17.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic of the genre, it provides a deep, strategic incremental experience that rewards long-term planning.

"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.

Why similar: Incremental 68.7%, Idler 24.8%, Adventure 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a narrative-heavy incremental game that uses text and progression to tell a compelling story, much like the seed game.

A simple black hole simulator.

Why similar: Casual 79.6%, Indie 12%, Singleplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the space-sim aspect of the genre, allowing players to experiment with gravity and mass in a sandbox environment.

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 67.1%, Great Soundtrack 19.2%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Adventure 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: This space sandbox game allows for creative ship building and exploration, appealing to the sci-fi enthusiast.

Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

Why similar: Incremental 78.5%, Idler 11.1%, Casual 8.3%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strategic, simulation-based incremental experience that keeps the player engaged with constant upgrades.

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 59.9%, Space 16.6%, Idler 13%, Casual 7.9%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This mining-focused incremental game provides a satisfying, repetitive loop that is perfect for casual play.

A nostalgia-infused pixel clicker in a comedy wrapper.

Why similar: Space 45.6%, Idler 33.5%, Casual 18%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, minimalist clicker that focuses on the absurdity of space travel, echoing the lighthearted spirit of the seed game.

Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

Why similar: Incremental 72.6%, Idler 17.7%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a clean, satisfying incremental loop focused on scientific discovery and resource management.

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 75.1%, Idler 12.7%, Casual 6.6%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive classic of the genre, it remains an essential recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the core mechanics of SPACEPLAN.

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

Why similar: Incremental 56.7%, Idler 15.3%, Space 15.2%, Casual 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space-themed strategy with idle mechanics, offering a different but complementary take on the genre.

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 69.7%, Space 11.3%, Casual 10%, Idler 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%

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 59.1%, Space 16.5%, Idler 12.1%, Casual 7.3%, Indie 3.3%

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 79.9%, Idler 11.9%, Casual 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 57.7%, Incremental 18.6%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

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 58.1%, Adventure 19%, Indie 17.7%, Singleplayer 5.2%

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 54.7%, Space 19.7%, Idler 14.9%, Casual 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%

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 52%, Space 21.8%, Idler 12.4%, Casual 7.1%, Indie 5.6%

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: Space 36.2%, Incremental 34.3%, Casual 11.2%, Idler 11%, Indie 3.7%

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 69.5%, Idler 15.2%, Casual 14%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Fly between incomprehensible galaxies in this experimental micro game!

Why similar: Space 75.8%, Casual 20.2%, Adventure 4%

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 34.7%, Great Soundtrack 23.2%, Casual 13.4%, Idler 12%, Adventure 8.4%

Stunning sphere-themed idle/incremental game. Experience simplicity's beauty.

Why similar: Incremental 64%, Space 19.9%, Idler 16.1%

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 65.8%, Casual 19.5%, Adventure 11%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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%, Casual 24.4%, Indie 18%, Singleplayer 9.5%

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%, Indie 14.8%, Adventure 13.6%, Singleplayer 8.6%

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 57.3%, Casual 22.1%, Indie 15.5%, Adventure 5.2%

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 69.2%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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

Why similar: Incremental 64.1%, Casual 10.2%, Space 10.1%, Idler 7.4%, Indie 6.8%

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 70.6%, Indie 26.5%, Singleplayer 3%

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 69.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Casual 13.9%

A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.

Why similar: Space 53.7%, Idler 28%, Casual 18.3%

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 75.1%, Singleplayer 24.9%

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 51.2%, Casual 23.5%, Indie 10.9%, Adventure 8.8%, Singleplayer 5.5%

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 75.4%, Adventure 24.6%

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 44.2%, Space 40.9%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

A slow and meditative incremental idler where you manage colorful snakes. Watch them collect food, then spend the food on upgrades and abilities for your colony.

Why similar: Incremental 58.5%, Idler 14.6%, Space 11.3%, Casual 8.6%, Indie 5.5%

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 58%, Indie 23.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Singleplayer 8.1%

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 42.5%, Great Soundtrack 32.9%, Indie 13.7%, Adventure 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

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 40.8%, Casual 31.4%, Indie 19.3%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Adventure 3.8%

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 43.4%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 18.6%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 4.9%

A rock's solar system odyssey.

Why similar: Casual 49.7%, Idler 32.5%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 7.6%

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 56.2%, Idler 13.8%, Casual 12.1%, Space 10.2%, Indie 7.2%