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Top Science Games

60+ science games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Simulation, Singleplayer, Sandbox, Indie.

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  1. #1 Kerbal Space Program
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 141,003 reviews2015
    Developer: SquadPublisher: Private Division
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.4hMean: 65.8h≥1hr: 84%

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

  2. #2 Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
    97% matchVery Positive90% of 26,928 reviews2021
    Developer: Computer Lunch
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.5hMean: 82.9h≥1hr: 79%

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

  3. #3 SPORE™
    95% matchVery Positive93% of 71,309 reviews2008
    Developer: Maxis™Publisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.1hMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

  4. #4 Kerbal Space Program 2
    91% matchMostly Negative26% of 31,673 reviews2023
    Developer: Intercept GamesPublisher: Private Division
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.7hMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

  5. #5 while True: learn()
    79% matchVery Positive91% of 8,107 reviews2019
    Developer: Luden.io
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 80%

    You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

  6. #6 STEINS;GATE
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 25,836 reviews2016
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.5hMean: 66.9h≥1hr: 81%

    Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.

  7. #7 Spaceflight Simulator
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,030 reviews2022
    Developer: Team Curiosity ✦
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.3hMean: 15.0h≥1hr: 84%

    In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

  8. #8 Aviassembly
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,776 reviews2025
    Developer: Jelle Booij
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 7.4h≥1hr: 82%

    Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

  9. #9 STEINS;GATE 0
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,091 reviews2018
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 125.7h≥1hr: 88%

    If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.

  10. #10 Juno: New Origins
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,441 reviews2023
    Developer: Jundroo, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.0hMean: 13.1h≥1hr: 50%

    Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

  11. #11 Thrive
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,645 reviews2021
    Developer: Revolutionary Games Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 6.1h≥1hr: 66%

    An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.

  12. #12 OUTBRK
    66% matchVery Positive81% of 3,147 reviews2024
    Developer: Sublime
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.2hMean: 19.4h≥1hr: 83%

    Storm Chasing Simulator

  13. #13 The Sapling
    66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,887 reviews2019
    Developer: Wessel Stoop
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.9hMean: 12.0h≥1hr: 87%

    The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

  14. #14 The Powder Toy
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,628 reviews2024
    Developer: The Powder Toy Team
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances

  15. #15 MOLEK-SYNTEZ
    65% matchVery Positive89% of 682 reviews2019
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 52%

    Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

  16. #16 Terraformers
    64% matchVery Positive88% of 3,672 reviews2023
    Developer: Asteroid LabPublisher: Goblinz Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.4hMean: 9.5h≥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!

  17. #17 Sandboxels
    63% matchVery Positive95% of 954 reviews2025
    Developer: R74n
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.8hMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 59%

    Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.

  18. #18 Mars Horizon
    64% matchVery Positive84% of 3,070 reviews2020
    Developer: Auroch Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.3hMean: 9.3h≥1hr: 93%

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

  19. #19 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
    65% matchMostly Positive74% of 996 reviews2018
    Developer: Quasar
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.3hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 63%

    Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

  20. #20 Children of a Dead Earth
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 914 reviews2016
    Developer: Q Switched Productions, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.2hMean: 23.8h≥1hr: 65%

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

  21. #21 TRYP FPV: Drone Racer Simulator
    63% matchVery Positive86% of 3,080 reviews2022
    Developer: UNDEAD BATTERY
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 77%

    Fly freely and perfect your skills as an FPV pilot without the risk of breakage, with hyper-realistic visuals and flight sensations. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, TRYP FPV is the next-generation simulator that immerses you in the pure adrenaline of FPV drone flying.

  22. #22 Little Rocket Lab
    62% matchVery Positive90% of 1,252 reviews2025
    Developer: Teenage AstronautsPublisher: No More Robots
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.4hMean: 14.0h≥1hr: 85%

    Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!

  23. #23 Signal Simulator
    64% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,027 reviews2018
    Developer: Blagovest Penev
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 2.9hMean: 7.4h≥1hr: 71%

    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.

  24. #24 Tyto Ecology
    63% matchMostly Positive76% of 435 reviews2016
    Developer: Immersed Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!

  25. #25 Beecarbonize
    61% matchVery Positive94% of 2,119 reviews2023
    Developer: Charles Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.

  26. #26 Boson X
    62% matchVery Positive92% of 1,583 reviews2014
    Developer: Ian MacLartyPublisher: Shape Shop
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.9hMean: 4.6h≥1hr: 77%

    Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.

  27. #27 Take On Mars
    63% matchMixed55% of 2,030 reviews2017
    Developer: Bohemia Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 10.8h≥1hr: 87%

    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.

  28. #28 Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
    60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,275 reviews2025
    Developer: Lyra Creative
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.0hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 69%

    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.

  29. #29 The Light Remake
    60% matchVery Positive88% of 1,503 reviews2020
    Developer: Носков Сергей
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 4.7h≥1hr: 78%

    There is only you, the abandoned remains of a former life and the flourishing nature that feels great in the absence of man. This world is both gloomy and empty, but so incredibly beautiful.

  30. #30 Planetary Life
    59% matchVery Positive94% of 821 reviews2025
    Developer: Sotenbox
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.5hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 86%

    Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

  31. #31 Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
    59% matchVery Positive87% of 941 reviews2026
    Developer: SpaceOpsPublisher: Games Operators
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 12.3h≥1hr: 80%

    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.

  32. #32 Lightmatter
    60% matchVery Positive91% of 2,873 reviews2020
    Developer: Tunnel Vision GamesPublisher: Aspyr
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 85%

    A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

  33. #33 Odyssey - The Story of Science
    61% matchMostly Positive75% of 305 reviews2017
    Developer: The Young Socratics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.5hMean: 9.1h≥1hr: 62%

    Odyssey is an enchanting and innovative science adventure game. Help Kai and her family escape their captors on the Wretched Islands - and learn the history of astronomy, mechanics, and scientific reasoning as you read Kai's journal and solve puzzles along the way!

  34. #34 Gem Defender: Soyjak Survivors
    59% matchVery Positive94% of 1,118 reviews2023
    Developer: Coby DoxPublisher: GoonCorp Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.6hMean: 2.6h≥1hr: 60%

    Follow Chud on his fight against Dr Soystein's 'jak army in this spine-tingling survival shooter. NOW FEATURING BADLANDSCHUGS

  35. #35 SpaceChem
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 5,063 reviews2011
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.8hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 66%

    Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

  36. #36 My Furry Protogen 🐾
    59% matchVery Positive88% of 1,162 reviews2023
    Developer: Dirty Fox Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.0hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 64%

    When your fate is determined by the universe itself, you don’t have many options. You can either oppose it until the very end or accept it for the rest of your life, but neither choice can change your destiny.

  37. #37 Gravity Field
    59% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,013 reviews2023
    Developer: Kazakov Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 93%

    Gravity Field is a spatial-logic puzzle game with time inverted objects, with no top or bottom.

  38. #38 Genome Guardian
    59% matchVery Positive92% of 776 reviews2024
    Developer: Alpherior
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 84%

    COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic roguelite turret shooter with macroscopic depth. Survive 6 modes using an astounding array of turrets, perks, mutations and power-ups on this psychedelic journey to the heart of the abyss. Shmup Mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!

  39. #39 Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World-
    59% matchVery Positive88% of 769 reviews2022
    Developer: Laplacian
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 16.5hMean: 53.6h≥1hr: 80%

    Kaito wakes to find himself in a strange room, with no memories, and a taciturn girl named Yonagi by his side. Upon learning of his role, he immerses himself into three wondrous dream worlds with her. When all three stories meet a bitter end, Kaito recovers his memories, and the true story unfolds.

  40. #40 Sokobond
    59% matchVery Positive93% of 694 reviews2014
    Developer: Alan HazeldenPublisher: Draknek & Friends
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.5hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 57%

    Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

  41. #41 Nucleares
    58% matchVery Positive84% of 1,078 reviews2023
    Developer: Iván Marcelo PrettiPublisher: MicroProse Software
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 21.5h≥1hr: 86%

    Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.

  42. #42 Primitier
    57% matchVery Positive94% of 315 reviews2025
    Developer: Ota Mato
    Platforms: Windows

    Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.

  43. #43 My Furry Protogen 2 🐾
    57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 536 reviews2024
    Developer: Dirty Fox Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 15.8h≥1hr: 84%

    After every night comes a new dawn, filled with hope and light. As the adventure of our heroes continues, let’s discover what lies ahead!

  44. #44 Beyond Blue
    57% matchVery Positive88% of 1,474 reviews2020
    Developer: E-Line Media
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.9hMean: 28.6h≥1hr: 68%

    Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.

  45. #45 Size Matters
    57% matchVery Positive87% of 512 reviews2021
    Developer: Mazen GamesPublisher: GrabTheGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.9hMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 69%

    You play as a scientist who is shrinking every second in a race against time! Find all the ingredients and formulas scattered around the laboratory, which are necessary for producing the life-saving antidote. But beware, your time is very precious.

  46. #46 Science Girls
    59% matchMixed67% of 164 reviews2014
    Developer: Spiky CaterpillarPublisher: Hanako Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 54mMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 47%

    Schoolgirls fight aliens with the power of science! Gather a team of science-themed specialists and defend your homeworld in classic turn-based combat.

  47. #47 Monster Lab Simulator
    56% matchMostly Positive77% of 533 reviews2026
    Developer: Round 3 Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 76%

    Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!

  48. #48 Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue
    57% matchVery Positive80% of 704 reviews2020
    Developer: ▲ Pyramid GamesPublisher: Pyramid Games S.A.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 52%

    Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a story telling simulator where you play as a paleontologist, exploring different lands and searching for dinosaur fossils. The Prologue tells a story about a young Paleontology enthusiast and his passionate pursuit of success and self-determination.

  49. #49 Virtual Circuit Board
    56% matchVery Positive93% of 305 reviews2023
    Developer: Reverie Foundry
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 1.5hMean: 20.7h≥1hr: 55%

    Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

  50. #50 Schrodinger's Cat Burglar
    55% matchVery Positive99% of 292 reviews2026
    Developer: Abandoned Sheep
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    Portal with cats - Become entangled in a quantum puzzle adventure! Mittens gains the incredible power to be in two places at once. Explore twisted test chambers, make mischief and evade capture by a whisker! 🐈🐈‍⬛

  51. #51 Lab Rat
    55% matchVery Positive98% of 350 reviews2025
    Developer: Chump SquadPublisher: Klei Publishing
    Platforms: Windows

    A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.

  52. #52 STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
    56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,255 reviews2019
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 128.9h≥1hr: 88%

    A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.

  53. #53 ChromaGun
    57% matchVery Positive83% of 639 reviews2016
    Developer: Pixel Maniacs
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 89%

    Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!

  54. #54 CAR TUNE: Project
    56% matchVery Positive84% of 609 reviews2020
    Developer: Vertices Software
    Platforms: Windows

    CAR TUNE: Project is a detailed car tuning simulator where every bolt, screw, and gear matters. Build your dream machine, fine-tune every parameter, and test it on the track.

  55. #55 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
    56% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2025
    Developer: Prof. SchererPublisher: PlayWay S.A.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 1.9h≥1hr: 41%

    Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

  56. #56 Next Space Rebels
    56% matchVery Positive86% of 355 reviews2021
    Developer: Studio Floris KaaykPublisher: Balor Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.4hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 96%

    SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.

  57. #57 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
    58% matchMixed50% of 675 reviews2020
    Developer: Appeal StudiosPublisher: Microids
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.6hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 67%

    Put your general knowledge to the test in « Who wants to be a millionaire? », the official game!

  58. #58 Breaking Good
    57% matchVery Positive88% of 159 reviews2017
    Developer: SeekSick6
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 27.7h≥1hr: 63%

    1 puzzle, 4 views. Grab your test tubes and enter the lab to solve a unique puzzle game based on chemical compounds. Match the chemical elements to get more than 900 different compounds and see how far you can go. Do you have what it takes?

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