- #1 Increlution
97% matchVery Positive85% of 1,248 reviews2021
Dev: Gniller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 62.5 hrsMean: 591.2 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 47.8%, Text-Based 30%, Incremental 13.8%, Resource Management 4.1%, Survival 3.1%
- #2 Adaptory
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 111 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 23.6%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Exploration 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 13.1%
- #3 SYMMETRY
96% matchMixed55% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: Sleepless ClinicPub: IMGN.PRO
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.8 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 33.2%, Space 11.8%, Sci-fi 10%, Strategy 8.2%, Management 7.4%
- #4 Neoproxima
95% matchVery Positive97% of 73 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 21.7%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Story Rich 13.3%, Exploration 13.2%, Space 12.5%
- #5 Feed the Reactor
94% matchVery Positive83% of 646 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 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 32.4%, Incremental 29.3%, Management 19.8%, Sci-fi 11%, Mystery 6.8%
- #6 The Alters
94% matchVery Positive90% of 19,420 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.
Why similar: Time Management 21.7%, Exploration 12.1%, Sci-fi 12%, Space 10.6%, Management 10.1%
- #7 The Last Caretaker
92% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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 30.4%, Exploration 17.8%, Sci-fi 16%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #8 Waking Mars
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,202 reviews2012
Dev: Tiger Style
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.4 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 25.6%, Puzzle 16.1%, Adventure 13.3%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #9 Asbury Pines
91% matchVery Positive91% of 558 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 19.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Sci-fi 11%, Story Rich 10.6%, Mystery 9.4%
- #10 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 24.2%, Exploration 18.8%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Story Rich 12.4%, Survival 11.8%
- #11 ALONE IN SPACE
91% 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%, Exploration 17.3%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Adventure 12.3%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #12 Breached
90% 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 24.8%, Story Rich 20.8%, Mystery 19.9%, Indie 5.5%
- #13 Universe Horizon
87% matchVery Positive89% of 235 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 25.9%, Exploration 21.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Incremental 12.8%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #14 The Artifact
88% matchMixed64% of 214 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 53.5%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 17.3%
- #15 Your Future Self
86% matchVery Positive81% of 97 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 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Adventure 12%, Sci-fi 10%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #16 Low Oxygen
85% matchVery Positive89% of 313 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 39.7%, Adventure 25.8%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Space 16.2%, Indie 0.7%
- #17 Temporian
84% matchVery Positive82% of 89 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 47.5%, Management 15.9%, Puzzle 15.5%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #18 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: 93%
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 21.6%, Exploration 11.9%, Space 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #19 Terraformers
83% matchVery Positive88% of 3,737 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 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 35.7%, Space 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Exploration 12%, Management 8.8%
- #20 Trimps
82% matchVery Positive90% of 1,490 reviews2022
Dev: Greensatellite
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 385.0 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 15.6%, Management 9.9%, Time Management 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%
- #21 IDLE_DIRECTIVE
81% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2026
Dev: Kevinfu510
Windows
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
Why similar: Exploration 44.5%, Incremental 28.9%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Resource Management 7.5%, Indie 3%
- #22 Lost Crew
84% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Gamecosm
Windows
Median: 3.5 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 49.7%, Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Story Rich 12.7%, Indie 4.2%
- #23 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 30.4%, Sci-fi 22.2%, Exploration 20.4%, Puzzle 13.4%, Adventure 12.9%
- #24 Astrometica
80% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 29.6%, Sci-fi 21%, Survival 15.3%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.3%
- #25 Unnamed Space Idle
79% matchVery Positive93% of 4,402 reviews2023
Dev: SylvPub: Jdog Corp
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 301.2 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 38.5%, Incremental 23.2%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #26 Prominence
81% matchVery Positive84% of 157 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Media Workshop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 18.1%, Space 17.5%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 12.8%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #27 Techtonica
79% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 23.8%, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Management 13.7%, Mystery 13.6%
- #28 Microbial Sector
78% matchVery Positive97% of 307 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 73%, Mystery 27%
- #29 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 27.3%, Space 20.6%, Survival 17.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Adventure 9.7%
- #30 Terrafactor
76% matchNo user reviews89% of 90 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 42.4%, Adventure 22.6%, Management 19.9%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 5%
- #31 Idle Research
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,898 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.3 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 39%, Strategy 15.9%, Incremental 13.3%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #32 Orb of Creation
74% matchVery Positive85% of 2,201 reviews2026
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 48.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is a non-idle 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 37.4%, Strategy 22.9%, Puzzle 15.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Mystery 6.1%
- #33 Dead in Antares
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 199 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 19.6%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Survival 14%, Management 12%
- #34 Anomaly Loop
75% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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 50.6%, Adventure 44.7%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #35 Don't Let Me Fade
73% matchVery Positive99% of 137 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 34.4%, Text-Based 25.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 8.3%, Space 5.6%
- #36 i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
74% matchVery Positive94% of 144 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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 19.4%, Sci-fi 14%, Mystery 10.4%
- #37 Event[0]
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,287 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 28.6%, Exploration 17.5%, Mystery 16.5%, Sci-fi 14%, Story Rich 12.4%
- #38 EXOTERRA: A Space Journey
72% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: ManuHerreraDev
Windows
EXOTERRA: A Space Journey is a first-person science fiction puzzle game set aboard a stranded ship in the vast, dark expanse of outer space. Explore the HOPE-03 and uncover the mysteries it holds as you solve fully interactive escape-room-style chambers powered by a physics-based system.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Puzzle 17.6%, Exploration 16.5%, Adventure 8.9%
- #39 ASTROBOTANICA
73% matchMixed68% of 98 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 33.8%, Survival 19.6%, Adventure 12.4%
- #40 Citizen Sleeper
71% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 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 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #41 Oxygen Not Included
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 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 18.4%, Resource Management 16.9%, Space 15.9%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 12.7%
- #42 Starmancer
73% matchMixed62% of 1,047 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 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%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Exploration 16.8%, Management 15.2%, Strategy 14.3%
- #43 How We Got Here
72% matchVery Positive85% of 567 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Bros
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 27.3%, Lore-Rich 25.1%, Story Rich 13.9%, Exploration 13.2%, Mystery 11.3%
- #44 no signal
70% matchVery Positive99% of 76 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 21.1%, Exploration 16.8%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Story Rich 13.8%, Puzzle 13.1%
- #45 Incremental Factory
71% matchMixed68% of 247 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 42.8%, Strategy 28.8%, Resource Management 21.7%, Management 6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #46 Flux Empyrean
69% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: ChillCash
Windows · Linux
The Flux is not keen on giving away its secrets, and you’re one of them. Sail a vast planet under a blanket of stars and use your tools and wits to remind yourself of what was lost and what could come next. An open world mystery about understanding the end of the world.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.4%, Lore-Rich 17.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Space 9.3%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #47 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 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 42.3%, Exploration 21.9%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Survival 12.1%, Indie 1.6%
- #48 The Pale Beyond
69% matchVery Positive89% of 2,234 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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%, Story Rich 16.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Exploration 14.5%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #49 Lumberjacked
68% matchVery Positive83% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: Inner Realm StudiosPub: Dumb Duck Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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: Incremental 35%, Adventure 22.8%, Exploration 21.2%, Space 18.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #50 Wayward
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,366 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.6 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 65.5%, Adventure 28.7%, Indie 5.8%
- #51 Year Unknown
69% matchVery Positive95% of 62 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%, Exploration 27%, Sci-fi 24.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #52 Arctic Awakening
67% matchVery Positive85% of 364 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 21.2%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Story Rich 18.9%, Mystery 16.5%, Survival 10.8%
- #53 Mercury Fallen
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 318 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 20.6%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Exploration 18.9%, Management 15%, Strategy 13.1%
- #54 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
66% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: Garan LornPub: Selenodrome
Windows · Linux
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Space 14.1%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Story Rich 11%
- #55 Terraforming Titans
66% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: terraforming.titans
Windows · Linux
Terraforming Titans is an incremental colony builder with a moderate focus on realism and scale. Terraform increasingly challenging and large worlds and guide humanity to complete control over the Milky Way.
Why similar: Text-Based 51.8%, Space 23.1%, Incremental 12.5%, Mystery 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #56 JUNKPUNK
68% matchMixed62% of 687 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 46.1%, Management 29.6%, Adventure 22.4%, Singleplayer 2%
- #57 (the) Gnorp Apologue
63% matchVery Positive95% of 9,927 reviews2023
Dev: MycoPub: (Myco)
Windows
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Why similar: Incremental 39.1%, Strategy 26.7%, Management 21.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Indie 1.5%
- #58 Incremental Adventures
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 821 reviews2020
Dev: Gniller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 63.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lead your heroes in their neverending adventures! A minimalistic Idle game where combat is fully automated. It's up to you to make the most of that automation to reach extremely high numbers!
Why similar: Text-Based 49.3%, Time Management 36.8%, Management 8.8%, Incremental 2.9%, Adventure 1%