
The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.
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The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.

Bouncekraft
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.

The Last Starship
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 28.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Space Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 21.9% ★, Space Sim 13%, Space 11.7%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Mining 20.5% ★, Automation 14.5%, Space Sim 12.5%, Space 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.
Why similar: Mining 18.6% ★, Automation 17.2%, Space 12%, Space Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 23.5% ★, Automation 19.3%, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Space Sim 8.7%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 6.4%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Space 10.7%, Base Building 8.5%
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Mining 23.1% ★, Automation 19.3%, Space 15.5%, Space Sim 11.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Automation 17.5%, Space 15.7%, Space Sim 12.4%, Building 8.8%
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Space 11.2%, Space Sim 10.2%, Physics 8%
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Mining 23.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Physics 8.9%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 31.2% ★, Automation 24.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 7.5%
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 28.3%, Mining 24.3% ★, Space Sim 18.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 7.8%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Mining 23.2% ★, Space Sim 14%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 8.6%
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Why similar: Mining 20.6% ★, Automation 20.3%, Space 12.8%, Space Sim 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
Fly from planet to planet, build automated bases, and take on alien swarms on foot or in vehicles. Master your ship’s momentum in a seamless 2D solar system.
Why similar: Mining 21.2% ★, Automation 17%, Space Sim 12.5%, Space 12.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Mining 23.1% ★, Automation 18.7%, Space Sim 15.4%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 7.4%
Mesmerizing incremental idle clicker game about space. When objects collide, you receive matter. Use this matter to unlock and upgrade objects in your star system. Use powerful Abilities. Dive into the Prestige system (Warp) with a wide Skill Tree, and discover new star systems with new bonuses.
Why similar: Mining 23.5% ★, Space 15.3%, Space Sim 15%, Incremental 14.7%, Automation 6.7%
Harness the riches of a star system in this incremental game. Unlock new technologies, transform raw materials, build warships and win an interstellar war !
Why similar: Mining 27.4% ★, Automation 20.5%, Space Sim 18.1%, Incremental 13.5%, Space 13.1%
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: Mining 27.3% ★, Automation 21.5%, Incremental 14.2%, Space 11.2%, Building 7.9%
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 22.4% ★, Automation 19.6%, Space Sim 11.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Mining 36.7% ★, Automation 13%, Physics 11%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%
Shatter towering crystals with real physics and vacuum up the rewards in this relaxing incremental salvage game. Build a robot crew with distinct personalities, upgrade your ship, and follow sonar to richer finds. Awaken an alien companion and uncover a story of discovery and unlikely friendship.
Why similar: Mining 33.5% ★, Automation 20.2%, Incremental 16.6%, Physics 7.1%, Relaxing 7%
Lead an expedition into an unexplored solar system. Build rockets, aircraft, and other vehicles, discover new worlds, gather resources, complete missions, unlock technology, and grow a colony of tiny purple Klorps in this spaceflight sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.4%, Space 21.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 12%, Physics 11%
A space sim where you build the industry that produces your rockets, then fly them. Genuinely integrated orbits, aerodynamics solved part by part, procedural planets you can walk. From first mine to first interstellar flight.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Space Sim 16.7%, Space 13.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Physics 11.1%
Off-World Prospecting is a game about exploring and striking out on your own on an alien planet, and becoming the ultimate prospector as you survey the land for valuable fauna, minerals, artifacts and more, and search for your long missing sister in an uncaring yet endlessly enticing landscape.
Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Physics 11.9%, Sci-fi 7.1%
A physics-driven 2D incremental space-mining sim. Help a family herd cosmic dust, automate production, unlock research, and turn a single inherited station into a vast operation. Enjoy a relaxing, colourful journey to heal Zoveka.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Space 19.8%, Incremental 17.9%, Physics 10.5%, Space Sim 10.5%
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 28.4% ★, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.6%
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 22.5% ★, Automation 21%, Sandbox 11.1%, Space Sim 9.8%, Space 9.2%
A single-player 2D top-down pixel game with space physics. Mine asteroids in the middle of an asteroid field using manual controls or by directing mining drones. Protect the outpost, buy from trading ships, mine as much ore as you can and survive as long as possible! Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Mining 31.7% ★, Space 16.6%, Space Sim 15.6%, Physics 10.6%, Top-Down 6.2%
Crush asteroids. Optimize every pickup. Beat your own best run. A fast arcade incremental where every session is a skill-based profit run. Randomized spawns, explosive power-ups, and deep upgrade trees let you push efficiency further every time you play.
Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Automation 20.5%, Incremental 13.1%, Space 12.6%, Physics 7.1%
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 31.5% ★, Space 16.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 6.8%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Space 20%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.3%
An open world survival game set in space.
Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Space 16.8%, Space Sim 16.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 8.4%
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Incremental 15.9%, Mining 14.4% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, Base Building 9.5%
Deep Space Tavern is a clicker management game. Command your cantina with an arsenal of trash-guns, booze-drones and a Scottish AI.
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Space 13.6%, Incremental 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Space 15.5%, Space Sim 13%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Space 15.5%, Space Sim 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 10.9%
Build your own spaceship. Protect ship's core, manage Hull & Pressure to survive. Fight pirates. Explore themed sectors of the Syntar System. Uncover the mysterious of the Syntarian Empire!
Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Space Sim 13.8%, Space 12.5%, Sandbox 10%, Physics 8.2%
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Mining 29.5% ★, Automation 16.7%, Space 13.6%, Space Sim 12.4%, Incremental 9%
Swarmfeed is a sci-fi incremental game where you build a swarm of drones and feed them with cosmic metals. Upgrade futuristic factories, mine and harvest cosmic metals, and automate production to fuel your swarm's growth.
Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Automation 27%, Incremental 19.5%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 6.3%
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Mining 18.6% ★, Space 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.5%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Automation 23.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 7.7%, Simulation 7%
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8%, Space 17.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 7.2%
Startron is an ASCII-based space colony sim where you can mine, harvest, build and automate your way across a procedurally generated cosmos. Lead a crew of sentient cats, dogs, monkeys or rats as they take their first steps out and discover the mysteries of the cosmos.
Why similar: Mining 25.8% ★, Automation 20.1%, Space 15%, Space Sim 14.7%, Building 8.5%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Space 17.3%, Space Sim 14.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%
You are the supreme commander who directing the construction of a galactic space base. You need to manage the living and administrative needs of the space base residents, establish the industrial chain for space docks and starship, and ultimately complete a dream starship.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Space Sim 22.4%, Space 12.8%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 11.2%
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 29.4% ★, Automation 17.8%, Space 14.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 27.3% ★, Automation 16.4%, Space 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%
A relaxed space mining incremental. Build your own ship. Drift through a neon-lit megastructure. Pick it clean, tile by tile. Trade your haul for parts, experiment with your ship's build, and enjoy the quiet satisfaction of leaving nothing behind.
Why similar: Mining 37.5% ★, Space 17.8%, Incremental 16.5%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.3%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Space 19.1%, Mining 16.7% ★, Space Sim 16.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Physics 11.1%
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Space 19.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Physics 11.3%, Automation 10.9%
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
Why similar: Space 25.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Mining 15% ★, Space Sim 14.8%, Simulation 9.4%
Every pixel simulated, including the machines. Dig into alien planets, build a factory from real blocks, and carve it into any shape you want. Ore sinks and sand rises in the greatest competition in the galaxy. Move it, grind it, melt it, freeze it, sell it, and strip the planet to bedrock.
Why similar: Mining 23.7% ★, Automation 18.9%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.7%
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 35.6% ★, Automation 18.6%, Incremental 13.9%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Space Sim 18.2%, Space 14%, Sandbox 12%, Physics 10.7%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 30.3% ★, Automation 25.8%, Physics 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.9%
Build and automate your own modular space fleet in this sandbox base-building game. Mine asteroids, expand your ship, fight enemies, explore new star systems, and uncover the deepest secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Space Sim 22.2%, Base Building 11%, Space 10.2%, Simulation 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 20.8%, Space Sim 19%, Sandbox 13.4%, Physics 12.4%, Relaxing 8%
A "small" universe simulation, where you play as a black hole and try to absorb the whole universe. You decide the size and shape of the universe. Could also be used as a less meaningful CPU benchmark.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.6%, Space 23.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Physics 10.1%