Games like I Fetch Rocks
by SarumXR
Ostranauts and ΔV: Rings of Saturn play most like I Fetch Rocks. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its sandbox and space; 3 came out in the last year, 3 are free or under $10 and 2 have co-op. The best known is Deep Rock Galactic, with 303,464 Steam reviews.
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Ranked by how similar the games actually are, not by sales. Released and Price are remembered for next time.
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Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Flight · Sandbox · Survival
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👍 3,161ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21, 2023 · Kodera Software
Both: Space · Immersive 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 SimVehicular CombatImmersive SimOpen World👍 2,887Archean
May 16, 2024 · batcholi, FloDKSM
Both: Sandbox · Programming · Immersive Sim
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Early AccessSandboxBuildingProgrammingImmersive SimOpen WorldCraftingScienceSpaceSpace Sim👍 240Spaceflight Simulator
Feb 17, 2022 · Team Curiosity ✦
Both: Sandbox · Space · Science
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
SandboxSpace SimSpaceSimulation2DExplorationSingleplayerScienceCraftingSpaceships👍 9,463Deep Rock Galactic
May 13, 2020 · Ghost Ship Games
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
DwarvesCo-opPvEFPSProcedural GenerationClass-BasedShooterExplorationFirst-PersonLoot👍 303,464Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30, 2015 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Sandbox · Mining
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.
SpaceSimulationIndieAdventureSandboxOpen WorldMiningSpace SimSingleplayerProcedural Generation👍 446X4: Foundations
Nov 30, 2018 · Egosoft
Both: Space · Sandbox
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👍 25,327StarRupture
Jan 6 · Creepy Jar
Both: Automation · Survival
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftAutomationSurvivalCo-opOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingExploration👍 12,369Space Trash Scavenger
Nov 14, 2024 · SquarePlay Games
Both: Automation · Survival · Space
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.
Open World Survival CraftAutomationSurvivalCraftingSpaceOpen WorldSandboxShooterBuildingProcedural Generation👍 512Hardspace: Shipbreaker
May 24, 2022 · Blackbird Interactive
Both: Space · Sandbox
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👍 19,459Space Engineers 2
Jan 27, 2025 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Space · Survival
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.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSci-fiSimulationPhysicsModdableDestructionOpen World👍 5,148Code: Terraform
Sep 9 · AppsMafia
Both: Automation · Programming · Sandbox
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Early AccessAutomationProgrammingSimulationSandboxColony SimIncrementalStrategyExplorationBuilding👍 309Out of Ore
Oct 31, 2022 · North Modding Company AB
Both: Sandbox
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
SimulationSandboxExplorationFarming SimRealisticChoose Your Own Adventure3DFirst-PersonBuildingThird Person👍 3,989InfraSpace
Sep 22, 2023 · Dionic Software
Both: Automation · Space · Sandbox
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,639Out of Orbit
Oct 20, 2023 · Case Yellow Labs
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Mining
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
SandboxSpaceshipsSurvivalBuildingMiningPiratesSpaceExplorationSpace SimDestruction👍 168Spacebase DF-9
Oct 27, 2014 · Double Fine Productions
Both: Space · Sandbox · Survival
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
SimulationSpaceBase BuildingSci-fiStrategyIndieSandboxBuildingSurvivalSingleplayer👍 3,360Starship EVO
Jun 19, 2020 · Moonfire Entertainment
Both: Space · Sandbox
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
IndieActionSimulationSpaceBuildingAdventureSandboxSci-fiOpen WorldSpace Sim👍 1,332Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5, 2020 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Sandbox · Space · Education
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 Intelligence2DSpace SimSpaceEducation👍 506
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