Games like Astronomics
by Numizmatic
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
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$9.99ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21 · Kodera Software
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Physics
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
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Sandbox · Procedural Generation
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
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Space · Exploration · 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👍 25,274
Planet Nomads
May 3 · Craneballs
Both: Sci-fi · Procedural Generation · Physics
There's a whole planet of diverse biomes waiting for you to explore. Gather enough materials to build a mobile base that will carry everything a Nomad needs on a journey through an unknown land.
Sci-fiProcedural GenerationPhysicsOpen World Survival CraftDrivingSandboxIndieSurvivalVoxelDestruction👍 1,772
-60%$7.99Terraformers
Mar 9 · Asteroid Lab
Both: Procedural Generation · Sci-fi · 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
$49.99Stellaris
May 9 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Exploration
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
SpaceStrategyGrand StrategySci-fi4XExplorationSandboxSimulationMultiplayerReal-Time with Pause👍 142,911
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Space · Sandbox
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$14.99Heat Signature
Sep 21 · Suspicious Developments
Both: Space · Top-Down · Sci-fi
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
SpaceStealthIndieTop-DownRoguelikeActionStrategySci-fiProcedural GenerationReal-Time with Pause👍 6,851
$24.99Interstellar Transport Company
May 24 · MT Worlds
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Sandbox
Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.
SpaceSimulationManagementTradingStrategyEconomySci-fiMultiplayerSandboxEarly Access👍 395
-20%$23.99Space Engineers 2
Jan 27 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Space · Sci-fi
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👍 5,102
$9.99BORE BLASTERS
Mar 8 · 8BitSkull
Both: Exploration · Procedural Generation · Collectathon
Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.
DwarvesMiningExplorationLootActionProcedural GenerationRogueliteAction RoguelikeCollectathonCasual👍 709
$19.99Final Upgrade
Dec 6 · TaosX
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Sandbox
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementSimulationSci-fiManagementSandboxStrategy👍 437
-50%$9.99Space Engineers
Feb 28 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Space · Physics
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.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSimulationPhysicsOpen WorldMultiplayerBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 102,609
$29.99ASTRONEER
Feb 5 · System Era Softworks
Both: Space · Exploration · Sandbox
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldSpaceSurvivalExplorationBase BuildingCo-opSandboxAdventure👍 118,872
$14.99Rebots
Oct 7 · FlatPonies
Both: Space · Sandbox · Procedural Generation
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
SpaceAutomationFirst-PersonSandboxResource ManagementProcedural GenerationRobotsSpace SimCraftingStylized
$4.99Space Outpost Sigma
Apr 21 · SigmaReels
Both: Space · Physics · Top-Down
A single-player 2D top-down pixel game with space physics. Mine asteroids in the middle of an asteroid field using manual controls or by directing mining drones. Protect the outpost, buy from trading ships, mine as much ore as you can and survive as long as possible! Do you have what it takes?
SpaceMiningPhysics2DTop-DownPixel GraphicsFlightSingleplayerSpace SimSci-fi
$14.99StarMade
Dec 4 · Schine GmbH
Both: Space · Sandbox · Sci-fi
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
SpaceSandboxOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayerSci-fiVoxelAdventureIndieAction👍 2,199
$19.99Dyson Sphere Program
Jan 20 · Youthcat Studio
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Sandbox
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementOpen WorldSimulationSci-fiManagementSandbox👍 83,546
$5.99Space industrial empire
May 24 · 游戏养家工作室
Both: Space
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
AutomationSpaceIndieManagementIdlerStrategyLootCasualSingleplayerWord Game👍 1,022
-70%$8.99Deep Rock Galactic
May 13 · Ghost Ship Games
Both: Procedural Generation · Exploration
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👍 303,204
$14.99Astrox Imperium
Mar 22 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Sandbox
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
$39.99Galactic Civilizations IV
Oct 19 · Stardock Entertainment
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Exploration
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
SpaceGrand StrategySimulation4XStrategySci-fiExplorationSandboxMultiplayerTurn-Based Strategy👍 2,210
$24.99Star Valor
Aug 3 · Rafael Burgos
Both: Space · Sandbox · Exploration
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
SpaceSandboxActionRPGLootExplorationOpen WorldMiningTop-Down ShooterSci-fi👍 3,277
$24.99Starship EVO
Jun 19 · Moonfire Entertainment
Both: Space · Sandbox · Sci-fi
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.
IndieActionSimulationBuildingSpaceAdventureSandboxSci-fiOpen WorldEarly Access👍 1,322
$34.99Stationeers
Dec 12 · RocketWerkz
Both: Physics · Sandbox
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!
Early AccessBase BuildingAutomationSurvivalPhysicsColony SimLogicBuildingSandboxCrafting👍 8,601
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: Space · Sandbox · Sci-fi
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👍 1,638
$14.99Reassembly
Feb 19 · Anisoptera Games
Both: Space · Sandbox · Top-Down
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
BuildingSpaceSandboxStrategy2DActionIndieSingleplayerTop-DownOpen World👍 3,611
-30%$17.49Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Sandbox · Physics · Space
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
$14.99Spaceflight Simulator
Feb 17 · Team Curiosity ✦
Both: Sandbox · Space · Exploration
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
$7.99Swarm Grinder
Apr 22 · Last Bite Games
Both: Procedural Generation
An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.
RoguelikeRogueliteAction RoguelikeBullet HellMechsProcedural Generation2DPixel GraphicsControllerAction RPG👍 1,164
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Sandbox · Space · Exploration
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
$24.99Avorion
Mar 9 · Boxelware
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Space
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
SandboxExplorationSpace SimBuildingSpaceOpen WorldFlightPvEChoose Your Own Adventure3D👍 13,003
$14.99Farlanders
Jan 17 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Procedural Generation · Sandbox
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Turn-Based StrategyPixel GraphicsColony SimCity BuilderResource ManagementProcedural GenerationPuzzleStrategyBase BuildingSandbox👍 510
$19.99Autonauts
Oct 17 · Denki
Both: Sandbox
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
AutomationProgrammingSimulationIndieCasualBase BuildingColony SimCraftingCuteSandbox👍 3,596
$6.99Ad Fundum
Jun 13 · Oldbut Gold
Both: Collectathon · Exploration · Sci-fi
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
MiningCollectathonUndergroundSteampunkMechsCharacter CustomizationExplorationSci-fiProcedural GenerationSimulation👍 431
