- #1 Increlution
97% matchVery Positive85% of 1,233 reviews2021
Dev: Gniller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 58.7 hrsMean: 571.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Time Management 53.9%, Text-Based 31.5%, Incremental 5.7%, Resource Management 4.3%, Survival 3.5%
- #2 The Alters
96% matchVery Positive90% of 17,492 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Time Management 22%, Exploration 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Space 10.8%, Management 10.2%
- #3 SYMMETRY
96% matchMixed55% of 306 reviews2018
Dev: Sleepless ClinicPub: IMGN.PRO
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?
Why similar: Time Management 34.5%, Space 12.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 7.8%
- #4 Adaptory
95% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Story Rich 24.1%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Exploration 13.8%, Management 13.6%, Survival 13.2%
- #5 Neoproxima
94% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Story Rich 13.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Space 12.7%
- #6 Waking Mars
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,197 reviews2012
Dev: Tiger Style
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.
Why similar: Sci-fi 31%, Exploration 25.7%, Puzzle 16.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #7 Feed the Reactor
92% matchVery Positive82% of 507 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Strategy 40.5%, Management 24.7%, Incremental 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Mystery 8%
- #8 The Last Caretaker
91% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 31.5%, Exploration 17.4%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Management 13.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #9 ALONE IN SPACE
93% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: Butterflyware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Why similar: Space 25.4%, Exploration 17.1%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Adventure 12.3%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #10 Asbury Pines
89% matchVery Positive92% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: Chaystar Unlimited LLC
Windows
A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Exploration 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Mystery 9.6%
- #11 Breached
91% matchMixed55% of 128 reviews2016
Dev: HRA INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unveil the truth in a genre-blending sci-fi mystery. Awaken from cryogenic slumber you find your shelter damaged by unknown circumstances. Scavenge your surroundings, repair the shelter and explore the ruins in hopes of uncovering – or perhaps avoiding – the uncomfortable truth of what has transpired.
Why similar: Sci-fi 29%, Adventure 25.1%, Story Rich 21.2%, Mystery 20.7%, Indie 4%
- #12 Event[0]
89% matchVery Positive80% of 2,275 reviews2016
Dev: Ocelot Society
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Why similar: Space 21%, Sci-fi 17.4%, Text-Based 17.1%, Mystery 11.6%, Exploration 11.3%
- #13 Universe Horizon
87% matchVery Positive89% of 227 reviews2025
Dev: Jarkem
Windows · Linux
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: Space 28.7%, Exploration 22.9%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #14 The Artifact
88% matchMixed64% of 213 reviews2017
Dev: Colin WrenPub: Enigma Games LTD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Why similar: Puzzle 56.3%, Adventure 30.6%, Indie 13.2%
- #15 Astrometica
84% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 30.3%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Survival 15.6%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.3%
- #16 Your Future Self
86% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Story Rich 10%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #17 Low Oxygen
85% matchVery Positive89% of 303 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle 40%, Adventure 25.7%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Space 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #18 The Planet Crafter
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Space 24.5%, Exploration 18.8%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Story Rich 12.7%, Survival 11.9%
- #19 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Space 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #20 Temporian
83% matchVery Positive83% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: ChallAcc
Windows · Linux
Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?
Why similar: Text-Based 47.3%, Management 16.4%, Puzzle 15.5%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #21 Neospace: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Space 31%, Sci-fi 21.9%, Exploration 20.3%, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 12.9%
- #22 Unnamed Space Idle
81% matchVery Positive93% of 4,158 reviews2023
Dev: SylvPub: Jdog Corp
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 293.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Space 46.1%, Sci-fi 24.6%, Resource Management 17.4%, Incremental 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #23 Lost Crew
84% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Gamecosm
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time. You will have to take care of the rescue of the station's crew, and lots of complicated riddles and situations will make this adventure even more interesting.
Why similar: Adventure 50.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Story Rich 13%, Indie 3.1%
- #24 Terraformers
80% matchVery Positive88% of 3,672 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Nonlinear 35.8%, Space 15.8%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Exploration 11.9%, Management 9.1%
- #25 Techtonica
79% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Exploration 23.7%, Strategy 19.1%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Mystery 13.9%
- #26 Prominence
81% matchVery Positive85% of 155 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Media Workshop
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?
Why similar: Sci-fi 17.9%, Space 17.8%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 12.8%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #27 Microbial Sector
78% matchVery Positive97% of 284 reviews2024
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
It's your first day as a lifeform researcher, and while you don’t know much about the job, you're desperate for the paycheck. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Exploration 72.5%, Mystery 27.5%
- #28 Trimps
78% matchVery Positive91% of 1,450 reviews2022
Dev: Greensatellite
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 389.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Text-Based 53.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Management 10.3%, Time Management 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #29 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: Exploration 27.2%, Space 20.9%, Survival 18%, Story Rich 13.7%, Adventure 9.7%
- #30 Idle Research
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,854 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Text-Based 42.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 11%, Adventure 9%
- #31 Dead in Antares
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Strategy 20.2%, Resource Management 15%, Survival 14.2%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Management 12.4%
- #32 Anomaly Loop
76% matchVery Positive89% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: DidOne
Windows
You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.
Why similar: Puzzle 51.2%, Adventure 45%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #33 i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
76% matchVery Positive94% of 139 reviews2023
Dev: Ricardo Cancela
Windows
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Why similar: Nonlinear 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 19.3%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Mystery 10.7%
- #34 ASTROBOTANICA
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.
Why similar: Puzzle 34.3%, Exploration 33.5%, Survival 19.9%, Adventure 12.3%
- #35 Terrafactor
73% matchNo user reviews90% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: randy
Windows
You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.
Why similar: Exploration 42%, Adventure 22.6%, Management 20.5%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #36 Oxygen Not Included
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Space 16.2%, Resource Management 16%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 13%
- #37 Orb of Creation
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,494 reviews2022
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Strategy 31.6%, Puzzle 21.2%, Resource Management 18.3%, Incremental 17.9%, Mystery 8.6%
- #38 no signal
73% matchVery Positive99% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Space 21.5%, Exploration 16.6%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Story Rich 13.9%, Puzzle 13%
- #39 Starmancer
74% matchMixed63% of 1,034 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Space 23.3%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Exploration 16.7%, Management 15.6%, Strategy 14.6%
- #40 Lumberjacked
71% matchVery Positive83% of 661 reviews2025
Dev: Inner Realm StudiosPub: Dumb Duck Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You wake up in a strange cabin deep in a mysterious forest, axe in hand, with only one way forward—through. Chop trees, sell logs, purchase and upgrade gear, and uncover the secrets hidden deep in the forest.
Why similar: Adventure 28.9%, Exploration 26.8%, Space 25%, Incremental 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #41 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Time Management 47.7%, Exploration 19.9%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Survival 11.2%, Indie 1.1%
- #42 Arctic Awakening
70% matchVery Positive86% of 336 reviews2025
Dev: GoldFire Studios
Windows · Mac
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
Why similar: Exploration 21.1%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Story Rich 19.2%, Mystery 17%, Survival 11%
- #43 How We Got Here
72% matchVery Positive85% of 552 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Bros
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Lore-Rich 25.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, Exploration 13%, Mystery 11.5%
- #44 Year Unknown
71% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Julian Heuser
Windows · Linux
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Exploration 27%, Sci-fi 24.3%, Adventure 8.8%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #45 Mercury Fallen
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 312 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Space 20.8%, Sci-fi 19.9%, Exploration 18.7%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 13.3%
- #46 Life Not Supported
71% matchMixed67% of 172 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
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: Space 46%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Survival 20.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #47 The Pale Beyond
69% matchVery Positive89% of 2,165 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Story Rich 16.7%, Strategy 15%, Exploration 14.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #48 Skyformer
68% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Space 24.2%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Exploration 14.6%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 12.2%
- #49 Don't Let Me Fade
67% matchVery Positive99% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Text-Based 26.4%, Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 8.8%, Space 5.9%
- #50 Nobody Nowhere
67% matchVery Positive94% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
Windows
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #51 Incremental Factory
69% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Text-Based 42.9%, Strategy 29.6%, Resource Management 20.6%, Management 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #52 Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
70% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Antler Interactive
Windows
Follow Nova Dune, a space explorer in her quest to find out about the unfamiliar distress signal she received aboard her ship. Determined to investigate it, she finds herself on a desolated planet where all civilization has vanished.
Why similar: Sci-fi 22%, Puzzle 19.8%, Space 18.9%, Mystery 18.8%, Adventure 12.9%
- #53 Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
64% matchVery Positive80% of 4,118 reviews2026
Dev: GamexcitePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Space 11.4%, Management 10%
- #54 Stranded: Alien Dawn
65% matchVery Positive84% of 11,043 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Strategy 28.8%, Survival 23.6%, Management 16.7%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #55 Wayward
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Survival 66.9%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 4.2%
- #56 Starstruck Vagabond
65% matchVery Positive86% of 561 reviews2024
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Why similar: Story Rich 26.9%, Sci-fi 24.6%, Adventure 19.9%, Exploration 19.8%, Resource Management 6%
- #57 JUNKPUNK
68% matchMixed63% of 678 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Exploration 45.6%, Management 30.3%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #58 Citizen Sleeper
64% matchVery Positive93% of 10,020 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Space 13%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 10.6%