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by Sokpop Collective
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!
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$19.99SPORE™
Dec 19 · Maxis™
Both: God Game · Sandbox · Exploration
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.
God GameOpen WorldSandboxColony SimSimulationExplorationSpaceCasualCuteScience👍 66,890
$4.99Galimulator
Mar 16 · Snoddasmannen
Both: Sandbox · God Game · Space
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.
SimulationSandboxStrategyGod GameSpaceIndieSingleplayer👍 478
$19.99Birthdays the Beginning
May 9 · Arc System Works, TOYBOX Inc.
Both: God Game · Sandbox · Creature Collector
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
SimulationGod GameSandboxDinosaursSingleplayerCuteCreature CollectorFamily FriendlyCasualVoxel👍 901
$7.99Creature Crafter
Dec 23 · Daniel Lochner
Both: God Game · Sandbox · Creature Collector
Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!
God GameOpen WorldSandboxCharacter CustomizationCreature CollectorSimulationSurvivalMultiplayerSingleplayerCollectathon👍 745
$19.99WorldBox - God Simulator
Dec 2 · Maxim Karpenko
Both: Sandbox · God Game
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
SandboxGod GameSimulationPixel GraphicsColony SimDestructionLife SimBuildingArtificial IntelligenceFantasy👍 51,109
-60%$3.99Reus
May 16 · Abbey Games
Both: God Game · Sandbox
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
God GameStrategyIndieSimulationSingleplayerSandboxCasual2DPuzzleResource Management👍 4,891
$29.99Universe Sandbox
Aug 24 · Giant Army
Both: Sandbox · 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
$17.99The Sapling
Dec 12 · Wessel Stoop
Both: Sandbox · God Game
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!
Life SimSandboxGod GameScienceNatureArtificial IntelligenceSimulationProcedural GenerationDinosaursAliens👍 1,925
$14.99Spaceflight Simulator
Feb 17 · Team Curiosity ✦
Both: Sandbox · 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
$0.99Spacetime Dimension
Aug 31 · GraphPhysical
Both: God Game · Space Sim · Sandbox
A physics simulation software that simulates planetary motion and objects that obey Newton's laws,build slopes and connect geometries with sticks or springs and observe their trails.Observe the interaction and gravitational energy of planets.
CasualSimulationSoftwareGod GameSpace SimUtilitiesEducationSandboxExplorationSouls-like
$7.99SimpleRockets
Jun 3 · Jundroo, LLC
Both: Sandbox · 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
$14.99Planet Centauri
Dec 12 · Permadeath
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Creature Collector
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
SandboxExploration2DPixel GraphicsCreature CollectorOpen WorldColorfulMiningIndieCrafting👍 2,102
$4.99Simmiland
Nov 30 · Sokpop Collective
Both: God Game
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
SimulationIndieGod GamePixel GraphicsCard GameCasualStrategyPuzzleSingleplayer2D👍 1,801
$6.99Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
Feb 17 · JoySpark Games
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
SandboxSimulationGod GameAlternate HistoryPolitical SimWargameIdlerLevel EditorArtificial IntelligenceStrategy👍 8,925
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Sandbox · 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
$34.99Starbase
Jul 29 · Frozenbyte
Both: Space Sim · Sandbox · Space
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Open WorldBuildingMassively MultiplayerSpace SimSimulationSandboxSpaceSci-fiActionEarly Access👍 6,219
$14.99My Little Universe
Oct 5 · Estoty
Both: Exploration · Sandbox · Space
Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!
MiningExplorationDungeon CrawlerSandboxCraftingSurvivalCharacter CustomizationSpace3DAction👍 1,503
$29.99SpaceEngine
Jun 11 · Cosmographic Software
Both: Sandbox · Space · Space Sim
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
-30%$17.49Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Sandbox · 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
Godus
· 22cans
Both: God Game · Sandbox
If you’ve not had the chance to play our delightful, Zen-like re-genesis of the god game on Windows PC or Mac OS X, there’s never been a better time to do so! Now more than ever, as we’re currently making full use of our opt-in branch by running a rapid build release schedule during our PC-focused sprint.
God GameStrategySimulationIndieEarly AccessSandboxCasualSingleplayerOpen WorldMultiplayer👍 5,893
-60%$9.99Reus 2
May 28 · Abbey Games
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
God GamePuzzleColony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingManagementStrategyResource ManagementSandboxNature👍 2,137
$4.99The Sandbox
Jun 29 · PIXOWL INC.
Both: Sandbox · God Game
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
SandboxSimulationIndiePixel GraphicsCasualGod GameStrategy2DPhysicsEarly Access👍 524
$14.99Starbound
Jul 22 · Chucklefish
Both: Sandbox · Space
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen World👍 120,674
$19.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Oct 24 · Walternate Realities
Both: Space · Space Sim · Exploration
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!
Sci-fiSingleplayerBuildingSpace2DIndieStrategySpace SimExplorationMultiplayer👍 12,019
-60%$23.99No Man's Sky
Aug 12 · Hello Games
Both: Space · Exploration · Sandbox
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Open WorldSpaceOpen World Survival CraftExplorationSci-fiSurvivalMultiplayerProcedural GenerationAdventureSandbox👍 315,407
$4.99Hexfactory
Aug 24 · Aquila Industrial
Both: Space Sim · Exploration · Space
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
SimulationCity BuilderColony SimSpace SimExploration3D Platformer3DAutomationBuildingSpace
Dual Universe
Sep 27 · Novaquark
Both: Space Sim · Sandbox
Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
Massively MultiplayerMMORPGSpace SimBuildingSci-fiVoxelSandboxCity BuilderOpen WorldBase Building👍 533
-60%$7.99Terraformers
Mar 9 · Asteroid Lab
Both: Space
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!
SimulationProcedural GenerationSurvivalAtmosphericRoguelikeSci-fiSingleplayerSpaceChoices MatterScience👍 3,031
$9.99ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21 · Kodera Software
Both: Space · Exploration · 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






