Games like Watch Your Helmet
by Johann Stoltz
A simulator of a space suit with a jetpack in worlds with real physics, zero gravity and gravitational anomalies. Your main enemy is Newton's first law.
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$14.99Spaceflight Simulator
Feb 17 · Team Curiosity ✦
Both: Space Sim · Space
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
SandboxSpace SimSpaceSimulation2DExplorationSingleplayerScienceCraftingSpaceships👍 9,440
$19.99Juno: New Origins
Jan 26 · Jundroo, LLC
Both: Space Sim · Flight · Realistic
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.
BuildingScienceSpace SimProgrammingFlightEducationBase BuildingRealisticSandboxPhysics👍 3,088
$19.99PULSAR: Lost Colony
Jun 22 · Leafy Games
Both: Space Sim · Space
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
Space SimOpen WorldCo-opSimulationFirst-PersonPvESpaceExplorationSci-fiMultiplayer👍 4,409
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Flight · Space Sim · Space
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.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
$19.99EVERSPACE™
May 25 · ROCKFISH Games
Both: Space · Space Sim · Flight
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
SpaceAction RoguelikeActionIndieSci-fiSpace SimRogueliteSingleplayerFlightShooter👍 9,807
$2.99Project Freedom
Oct 14 · City Interactive
Both: Space · Flight · Space Sim
Get your dream job with a company called Project Freedom. Become a space pilot and serve for the corporation. You're going to get all the excitement and adventure you've ever wanted. Perhaps even more... 21 missions in the campaign Outstanding 3D graphics and special effects Original storyline with unexpected turns and surprises A...
ActionSimulationSpaceSci-fiSingleplayerFlightSpace SimShooter👍 180
$29.99SpaceEngine
Jun 11 · Cosmographic Software
Both: Space · Space Sim · Realistic
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Early AccessOpen WorldSci-fiCasualSandboxSpaceSpace Sim3DRealisticScience👍 15,848
$9.99ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21 · Kodera Software
Both: Space · Space Sim
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.
SpaceSci-fiPhysicsSingleplayerExplorationTop-DownSpace SimImmersive SimVehicular CombatOpen World👍 2,883
$34.99Hardspace: Shipbreaker
May 24 · Blackbird Interactive
Both: Space · Space Sim
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!
SpaceSci-fiSimulationPhysicsSingleplayerDestructionSandboxPuzzleFirst-PersonSpace Sim👍 19,442
$4.99NEW TERRA®
May 5 · WINTERYEAR Studios Los Angeles
Both: Space · Flight · Space Sim
NEW TERRA is a challenging and addictive multi-directional gravity-based space shooter. Fuel goes fast and is hard to come by. Hauling cargo makes your ship very heavy and mobility becomes limited. Strategy and resource conservation is key to completing your missions or you won't survive.
SpaceShooterFemale Protagonist2D PlatformerFlightSpace SimArcade2.5D2DTop-Down
$9.99Thrust & Shoot : Flight School
Feb 14 · Hellride Games
Both: Space Sim · Realistic
Master a new way to fly and fight. Control every movement and engine burn. Simple controls, realistic flight: a game for space fans by a space fan.
Space SimCombat6DOFRealisticSingleplayerPhysicsMilitarySci-fi3DSimulation
$0.99Clear the Space
Feb 14 · NotGameYet
Both: Space · Space Sim · 2.5D
Deal with a semi-intelligent cloud of asteroids which don't let your starship through. You have 7 ultra-hard projectiles and the ability to collect what remains after each destroyed asteroid. And djenty soundtrack will set just the right vibe.
ActionCasualSpaceSpace SimArcadeShooterColorfulTop-Down2.5DIndie
$14.99Lunar Flight
Apr 10 · Shovsoft
Both: Space · Flight · Realistic
A modern take on the classic arcade game, Lunar Lander, Lunar Flight extends the experience to a fully fictionalized and accessible lunar module simulator
SimulationVRSpaceIndieFlightPhysicsRealisticSingleplayerMultiplayerDifficult👍 518
-75%$9.99Kerbal Space Program
Apr 27 · Squad
Both: Space · Space Sim
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.
SpaceSimulationSandboxPhysicsScienceSpace SimBuildingModdableEducationIndie👍 120,709
$4.99Star Explorers
May 8 · Schmidt Workshops
Both: Space Sim · Space
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
Space SimSpaceRetroOpen WorldProcedural GenerationAtmosphericIndieExplorationOld SchoolSandbox👍 244
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Space · Space Sim
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
SpaceSimulationOpen WorldSpace SimExplorationSandboxSci-fi4XStrategyEconomy👍 25,274
$9.99Wrath and Retribution
Apr 2 · Mad Vulture Games
Both: Space · Loot · Flight
Become an unstoppable force in this intense high-speed space combat roguelike. Master the Specter Drive’s displacement dash, build a devastating arsenal with your companion Merlin, and grow more lethal with every mission as you spearhead the counter attack across a solar system under siege.
SpaceAction RoguelikeLootFlightSpace Sim6DOFLooter ShooterRoguelikeSingleplayerThird Person
$9.99Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut
Apr 8 · Born Ready Games
Both: Space · Flight · Space Sim
The Director's Cut of Strike Suit Zero delivers the ultimate version with a graphical overhaul, restructured campaign and all its DLC. Pilot the mecha Strike Suit across massive fleet battles where your dogfighting skills will decide Earth's fate.
ActionSpaceMechsSci-fiIndieFlightSpace SimGreat SoundtrackShooterSimulation👍 363
$14.99Evochron Mercenary
Jan 16 · StarWraith 3D Games LLC
Both: Space · Space Sim · Flight
The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.
SpaceSimulationIndieSci-fiSpace SimActionOpen WorldSandboxMultiplayerFlight👍 403
$7.99SimpleRockets
Jun 3 · Jundroo, LLC
Both: Space Sim · Space
I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.
SimulationSandboxPhysicsSpace SimIndieSpace2D👍 280
-50%$9.99Tin Can
May 12 · Tin Can Studio
Both: Space · Realistic · Space Sim
You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?
SimulationSpaceSurvivalIndieRealisticSci-fiFirst-PersonStrategySingleplayerSpace Sim👍 1,074
HELLION
Oct 21 · Zero Gravity
Both: Space · Realistic · Space Sim
After a century in cryosleep you find yourself stranded amidst the ruins of mankind’s first interstellar colony. Explore derelict ships and stations and harvest raw resources in search of air, fuel and other equipment. Or loot and pillage what you need from other survivors. The choice is yours!
SimulationMultiplayerSpaceSurvivalOpen WorldSci-fiRealisticMassively MultiplayerActionSpace Sim👍 3,005
$29.99Universe Sandbox
Aug 24 · Giant Army
Both: Space · Space Sim
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Early AccessSimulationSandboxIndieSpaceEducationSpace SimRelaxingPhysicsOpen World👍 27,857
$24.99Starcom: Unknown Space
Sep 2 · Wx3 Labs, LLC
Both: Space · Space Sim
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
SpaceExplorationOpen WorldSpace SimAction RPGTop-Down ShooterSci-fiStory RichIndieRPG👍 4,465
$6.99The Infinite Black 2
Jun 16 · Spellbook
Both: Space Sim · Space
Command a fleet of ships to hunt aliens, trade resources and loot treasure! Form corporations with your friends while fighting a never-ending intergalactic war in this open-world online space adventure!
Space SimOpen WorldPvPSpaceAdventureActionMMORPGExplorationImmersive SimSci-fi👍 201
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Space Sim
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
SimulationSpaceIndieAdventureSandboxOpen WorldMiningSpace SimSingleplayerProcedural Generation👍 446
$14.99Astrox Imperium
Mar 22 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Space Sim
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.
SpaceSimulationEarly AccessIndieSpace SimSandboxOpen WorldSingleplayerMiningAtmospheric👍 1,236
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
Both: Space Sim · Space
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
RTSBuildingSpace SimStrategyBase BuildingSpaceReal-TimeFPSActionSingleplayer👍 1,604
$19.99Interstellar Rift
Sep 24 · Split Polygon
Both: Space Sim
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!
Space SimBuildingOpen WorldExplorationCraftingSandboxPvPMiningSurvivalFirst-Person👍 1,411
$12.99Void Cargo: Equilibrium
Aug 28 · Hammer&Hammer
Both: Space Sim · Flight
A first-person sci-fi cargo flight sim. Pilot a physics-driven lander, plan risky routes, manage fuel and heavy cargo, and save deliveries by repairing system failures mid-flight. Earn credits and upgrade your ship.
TransportationSpace SimSimulationRelaxingSandboxExplorationControllerFlight3DFirst-Person
-75%$4.99Starcom: Nexus
Dec 12 · Wx3 Labs, LLC
Both: Space · Space Sim
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
SpaceSci-fiRPGExplorationActionAdventureIndieOpen WorldSpace SimTop-Down👍 2,295
$19.99Underspace
Apr 10 · Pastaspace Interactive
Both: Flight · Space
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.
Early Access3DFlightFuturisticActionSpaceAdventureIndieThird PersonRPG👍 435
$19.99SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
Jun 23 · EA - Maxis
Both: Space
Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.
SimulationActionSpaceAdventureExplorationOpen WorldSandboxSingleplayerStrategySci-fi👍 7,250
Strike Suit Zero
Jan 23 · Born Ready Games
Both: Space · Flight
Pilot the mecha Strike Suit across massive fleet battles where your dogfighting skills decide Earth's fate. Fast, frantic space combat with capital ship destruction, multiple endings, and a universe that's anything but empty. This is space combat reborn.
SpaceActionMechsSci-fiIndieSimulationShooterFlightSingleplayerGreat Soundtrack👍 1,211
-30%$17.49Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Space · Space Sim
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
SimulationSandboxPhysicsEarly AccessIndieArtificial Intelligence2DSpaceSpace SimEducation👍 501
