Games Like Tin Can

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Science 21.7%, Space 20.3%, Survival 16.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most comparable experience to Tin Can by requiring players to manage complex, realistic electrical and atmospheric systems through manual intervention.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 30.6%, Space Sim 19.9%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Physics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the technical, hands-on feeling of interacting with complex machinery and space-faring equipment in a dangerous setting.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Tin Can, this game forces you to manage failing systems and perform emergency repairs in a high-pressure, claustrophobic environment.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.3%, Space 17.9%, Survival 14.5%, Resource Management 10%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of life-support and ship systems in a survival context, emphasizing the fragility of life in space.

The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Why similar: Space 23.9%, Science 17%, Realistic 14.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Space Sim 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deeply realistic simulation of space combat and systems that appeals to players who enjoy the technical depth of Tin Can.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Space 35%, Survival 24.6%, Sci-fi 14.8%, First-Person 10.5%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines the first-person space survival experience with a focus on crafting and maintaining equipment to stay alive in the void.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 35.2%, Space Sim 18.1%, Sci-fi 15%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully replicates the stress of managing ship systems and crew survival during a desperate, high-stakes journey through space.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Space 36.2%, Survival 25.7%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on remote system management and the tension of exploring derelict ships, echoing the claustrophobic atmosphere of Tin Can.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Space 47.2%, Sci-fi 24.8%, Indie 17.6%, Atmospheric 5.4%, First-Person 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: You play as the station's AI, requiring you to monitor and manipulate complex systems to survive, mirroring the technical focus of Tin Can.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.3%, Space 22.9%, Survival 17.4%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a hardcore focus on ship maintenance and the gritty reality of surviving in a broken-down vessel.

Detached is a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive. Separated from your unit you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space. Strap yourself into your spacesuit for thrilling gameplay designed for VR headsets.

Why similar: Survival 12.5%, VR 10.9%, Space Sim 10.7%, Realistic 10.7%, Space 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a visceral, first-person space exploration experience that emphasizes the danger and isolation of being stranded.

Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.

Why similar: Space 33.2%, Survival 24.7%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the high-stakes, turn-based management of a failing space mission where every decision is a matter of life and death.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Space 23.1%, Space Sim 19.1%, Survival 17.2%, Resource Management 13%, Sci-fi 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite emphasizes ship management and survival against overwhelming odds, much like the desperate situation in Tin Can.

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Space Sim 37.4%, Space 26.3%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Simulation 11.6%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed simulation of ship systems that requires constant attention and maintenance to keep the vessel operational.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Space 21.8%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Survival 14.2%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for deep customization and management of ship systems, appealing to players who enjoy the technical side of space survival.

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Space 29.3%, Survival 19.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a ship's crew and systems, requiring players to adapt to constant threats and failures.

ADR1FT is the story of an astronaut who wakes up floating silently in space amongst the debris of destroyed space station…the only survivor of a catastrophic event, left with no memory, a critically damaged EVA suit leaking oxygen and no way home.

Why similar: Space 38.5%, Survival 16.1%, VR 15.2%, First-Person 9.7%, Sci-fi 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the first-person perspective of a survivor drifting in space, focusing on oxygen management and environmental hazards.

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Space 38.6%, Space Sim 18.8%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Indie 7.8%, Survival 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a highly atmospheric, narrative-driven space survival experience that emphasizes the isolation of the cosmos.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.3%, Space 20.6%, Survival 16%, Realistic 12.9%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features complex engineering mechanics that require players to understand and maintain their own ship systems.

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Space 17.6%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a complex colony simulation that requires careful management of life-support and environmental systems to ensure survival.

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: Space 18.2%, Space Sim 17.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Realistic 9.1%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the strategic management of space station systems and the constant need for maintenance.

Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Space 16.8%, Science 14.9%, Realistic 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the technical repair aspect, allowing players to focus on the hands-on maintenance of space equipment.

Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

Why similar: Space 40.2%, Survival 21.3%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a desperate space journey where resource management and survival are the primary goals.

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 16.9%, Space Sim 16.8%, Science 15.9%, Realistic 8.7%, Sci-fi 7%

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: Space Sim 18%, Space 16.8%, Survival 14.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on time and resource management in a survival scenario, requiring players to keep their crew alive through careful planning.

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Space Sim 31.6%, Space 19.6%, Survival 15.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a detailed ship-building and management system that requires players to understand how their vessel functions.

Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.

Why similar: Space Sim 37%, Simulation 13.5%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Space 11.4%, VR 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation offers a realistic approach to space travel and the management of a ship in a hazardous environment.

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: Survival 19.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Management 11.1%

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 Sim 30.8%, Space 18.9%, Survival 17.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%, First-Person 8.7%

Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.

Why similar: Space 31.9%, Space Sim 26.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Strategy 7.7%

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 40%, Space Sim 20%, Simulation 16.3%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a physics-based approach to ship building and system management that rewards technical knowledge.

The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Space 18.5%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Immersive Sim 9.8%

A hardcore flight simulator for VR! Get in the cockpit, pilot a ship, and navigate hazardous environments on a journey to become an expert docker!

Why similar: Space Sim 23.3%, Space 21.9%, Immersive Sim 12%, VR 10.1%, Simulation 10%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Space 17%, Space Sim 15.9%, Science 15.2%, Survival 13.4%, Realistic 9.2%

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.6%, Space 20.3%, Science 15.6%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.8%, Space 18.3%, Survival 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Immersive Sim 8.1%

Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR is the first hardcore Rogue-like in Virtual Reality with a Sci-fi atmosphere and AAA graphics. It features a hard but rich gameplay focused on resources management, craft and strategy.

Why similar: VR 18.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Survival 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Space 12.1%

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Survival Horror 18.1%, Sci-fi 17.1%, First-Person 12.1%, Simulation 10.2%

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 37.1%, Survival 19.5%, Sci-fi 16%, First-Person 12.2%, Simulation 6.9%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Space 19.7%, Survival 15.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%

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 27.6%, Survival 22.3%, Realistic 15.6%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Physics 7.3%

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: Space Sim 24%, Space 20.5%, Survival 16.9%, VR 13.6%, Resource Management 9.2%

Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 41.9%, Space 31.4%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Indie 4.1%

Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.

Why similar: Space 31.6%, Simulation 27%, Science 26.6%, Indie 7.8%, First-Person 4%

Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.

Why similar: Space 43%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Indie 6.3%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Space 29.5%, Survival 23.3%, Space Sim 22.3%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator inspired by the early NASA space programs, from orbiting Earth in Mercury and Gemini, to the moon landing in project Apollo. Learn the procedures. Operate the spacecraft. Complete the mission.

Why similar: Space Sim 22.7%, Space 19%, Science 15.6%, Realistic 10.6%, Immersive Sim 8.8%

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 28.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Space 13.6%, Management 9.4%, Space Sim 7.3%

Detached, a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive, is now available in a non-VR version! Separated from your unit, you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.8%, Space 18.2%, Realistic 14.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 29%, Space 15.8%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.6%, VR 10.6%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Space 29.2%, Survival 20.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Space Sim 8.5%

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 23.7%, Survival 16.1%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Management 12.9%, Space Sim 8.3%

Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.

Why similar: Space 27.8%, Space Sim 19.3%, Science 17.3%, Simulation 13.7%, Survival 13%

Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.

Why similar: Survival 21%, Space 19.3%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Sci-fi 16.2%, VR 15.8%

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: Survival 33.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 11%, Management 10.6%

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Why similar: Space 28.8%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Simulation 17.8%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space 21.8%, Space Sim 19.2%, Science 13%, Resource Management 9.3%, Realistic 8%