Games like Close Encounters

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

53% User Score Based on 125 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 6 reviews

A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SYMMETRY.

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

50% User Score Based on 796 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 12 reviews

The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver friends? Attempt to make allies with everyone, or pin your hopes on the tougher races, and hope they never turn on you? Jump by jump, make hard decisions and live with the consequences, in a uni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Long Journey Home.

53%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

53% User Score Based on 15,950 reviews

Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Osiris: New Dawn.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story

78% User Score Based on 97 reviews

The Great Nacho Wars have ended. A corrupt galactic government saps life and resources from the many war-weary planets it controls. Your alien family risks everything across an open-world galactic odyssey to find a mysterious land of new beginnings. And they’re all aware of their simulated nature. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lilith Odyssey.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

75% User Score Based on 32 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 4 reviews

Explore an uncharted world of forgotten alien tech & lore, while crafting your way to freedom and stopping the spread of the ooze, a tenacious galactic menace! Brought to you by Apogee, THE original indie publisher, famous for Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad, Prey & Max Payne. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Residual.

44%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

44% User Score Based on 219 reviews

The ultimate space capital ship combat compendium is the evolution of hard core space combat sims. The only game of its kind currently in existence. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Universal Combat CE.

54%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

54% User Score Based on 354 reviews

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellaria.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

90% User Score Based on 895 reviews

Atomic Space Age was a blast! Until it became the Post-Apocalyptic Space Age. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 60 Parsecs!.

53%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, optimization

90% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Explore, build, craft and survive on a mysterious forest island. - Explore the open world - Collect resources for crafting & construction - Find food and water while you build a shelter - Hunt for food or just for fun - Plan & construct shelters, campfires, defences, traps and more - Craft weapons, tools or materials for construction - Escape the island or stay and make a … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Woods.

50%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

71% User Score Based on 21 reviews

Nightmare on Azathoth is a dark game, in which you might not want to find the truth. Manage your base, scavenge, collect memory fragments, and collect resources to power up your spaceship to escape this planet. Death only brings an endless time loop, that restarts everything on the 4th day. You know you have to escape this planet, and this endless time loop. Yet there is something itching your min… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nightmare on Azathoth.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music

69% User Score Based on 342 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

UFO: Afterlight takes us to Mars, where a human colony has been built with the help of the Reticulans not long before the events of UFO: Aftershock took place. The Martian base is self-sustainable and provides all the necessities for the survival of humans on a foreign planet, mainly breathable air, water and food. Although the people inhabiting this colony have the technologies and knowledge requ… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to UFO: Afterlight.

50%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

50% User Score Based on 1,558 reviews

Have you ever wanted to make a fresh start on an alien world? Eden Star is a survival game that drops you onto the alien landscape of Pharus 7, free to explore and gather resources, but you’ll want to be careful: death is permanent. You need to use resources to construct defences, craft weapons and build up outposts to protect your vital Eden Kit. With physics-based combat, free-form construction … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EDEN STAR.

64%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

66% User Score Based on 626 reviews

Critic Score 63%Based on 7 reviews

You play ION, a young exploration unit on a mission to secure natural resources. When you crash-land on an alien planet your ship is almost completely destroyed. Not only do you have to survive in a strange new world full of dangers, but to have even a hope of escape you must find a way to contact your home planet for help. With only your ship’s A.I. for company, you set out to explore your new h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Phoning Home.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

98% User Score Based on 96 reviews

You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Notrium.

51%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

51% User Score Based on 770 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

A Sci-Fi First Person Shooter with Base Building, Resource Management, and elements of Survival. You play as an AI Overseer sent from Earth entrusted with the future of humankind, and tasked with establishing a habitat that can sustain human life on a mysterious alien world.​ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Outpost Zero.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

64% User Score Based on 1,473 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 20 reviews

Explore a vast universe in this roguelike, ship building, FPS Genesis Alpha One mixes thrilling roguelike mechanics with a deep ship builder and fast first-person action, putting you in the role of an interstellar pioneer. As the Captain of a Genesis starship, you journey into uncharted space on the ultimate mission. Build and manage a space vessel, farm resources, deal with terrifying alien inf… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Genesis Alpha One.

36%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

36% User Score Based on 628 reviews

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fifth Day.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

90% User Score Based on 73 reviews

Team up with your friends and go explore the peculiar universe of ADIOS Amigos. A game with serious astrophysics in a comic setting for 1-4 players. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Adios Amigos.

36%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

57% User Score Based on 14 reviews

Where Time Stood Still is an isometric 3D arcade adventure game released by Ocean in 1988 for the Sinclair Spectrum 128K, MS-DOS and Atari ST. The game has since been released on the Amiga in July 2014, and on Amiga CD32 in December 2014 and was converted from the Atari ST version with some enhancements which were not present in other iterations. The game was produced by Denton Designs as a follow… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Where Time Stood Still.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

83% User Score Based on 777 reviews

Critic Score 63%Based on 4 reviews

Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Capsized.

Sand in your lungs. Scrap in your pack. Storm at your back. The wreck is half buried. Wind's picking up. Your pack's almost full... but there's a sealed compartment you haven't cracked yet. Open it and you might find xenotech worth a week of runs. Or you might find nothing, and the storm catches you carrying a full pack you'll never get home. This is the scavenger's life. A desert planet tha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shifting Sands.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

65% User Score Based on 31 reviews

By 2060, Earth will be uninhabitable. The discovery of a 9th planet – Persephone – at the edge of the solar system, is humanity's best hope. The European Space Agency is dispatching the Hope-01 scientific mission, consisting of 2 of their accomplished astronauts, Ariane and Thomas. Their mission: to survey the planet and determine whether humanity can prosper anew here. Your adventure begins i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aphelion.

Come chat with the devs! About the GameAs a novice space miner, you have been assigned to work on an unexplored, distant planet. With little local fauna and a poisonous atmosphere, it shouldn't be much of a problem to expand your base and extract valuable resources. It shouldn't... Throughout the day, discover new deposits of raw materials, mine and process them in advanced refineries. From the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cosminers.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability

89% User Score Based on 85,786 reviews

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Engineers.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

92% User Score Based on 44,980 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 10 reviews

Explore and exploit distant worlds in a game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration. With your gun you can reshape the landscape around you and gather resources. On your journey you come across special artifacts that will provide you with research points, in order to unlock new technologies. These include rovers and spaceships, in order the expand your reach on the planets in the sol… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ASTRONEER.

59%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

59% User Score Based on 6,096 reviews

Planet Explorers is an open world voxel based sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planet Explorers.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

77% User Score Based on 1,771 reviews

Critic Score 58%Based on 1 reviews

Submarine is an "Air-Sea-Battle"-style game designed for 1st generation consoles. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Convoy.

43%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

50% User Score Based on 56 reviews

Critic Score 10%Based on 1 reviews

You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Helium.

Explore a planet with your friend or alone, upgrade yourself and try to return to Earth in your adventure that begins with your spacecraft sent by "Space-T" to explore other planets! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Robowork.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

77% User Score Based on 451 reviews

Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it? Accept the challenge…let this gripping EARTH 2150 RTS trilogy thrust you into the far future… and YOU will decid… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Earth 2150 Trilogy.

51%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

52% User Score Based on 1,282 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 2 reviews

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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Take On Mars.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability

93% User Score Based on 1,122 reviews

MewnBase is a cute, 2D exploration/survival game. You land on an uncharted world only to realize you didn't bring any snacks and forgot half your luggage. But hey, at least you brought this workbench thing. You'll need to collect resources in order to construct a make-shift base. Craft a variety of different base modules, from airlocks to rain-water collectors in order to make your new home on thi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MewnBase.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

82% User Score Based on 71 reviews

Critic Score 71%Based on 18 reviews

Alone With You is a sci-fi game for people who love adventure, exploring and maybe even a little romance. You play the sole remaining member of a doomed terraforming colony. Your planet will crumble and implode in less than a month, and you must use your remaining time to try to escape. The catch? There is only one escape pod left, and it isn’t functioning. Even worse, the only people who special… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alone With You.

Nightfall You must make crucial decisions and do whatever it takes to survive. You have been stranded on an alien planet, all by yourself. Nothing ever goes your way and you must use your limited oxygen efficiently and effectively in order to gather materials so you can make it to the next day. Unfortunately, your work does not end when the sun sets and the unfamiliar stars rise. A diverse array o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nightfall.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, story

62% User Score Based on 170 reviews

PlanetariesPrepare to dive into a sci-fi open world survival adventure. Set in a time when humanity has expanded its reach beyond the confines of Earth, immerse yourself in a rich galaxy. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and fight your way through a living universe filled with alien life, mysteries, pirates, droids, and much more.Progression and MechanicsExplore, gather resources, and complete … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planetaries.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

75% User Score Based on 1,369 reviews

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cubic Odyssey.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

84% User Score Based on 1,432 reviews

Immerse yourself in Astrometica, a space exploration and base-building survival game. After an explosion at a mining space station, you awaken inside an emergency pod adrift in the vastness of space. To survive, you must harness your skills, explore the endless universe, and search for other survivors’ emergency pods or outposts. Space Exploration: Experience the thrill of exploring the vast… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrometica.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

90% User Score Based on 20 reviews

Beyond the Chiron Gate is a text-based space exploration roguelike. Explore an endless universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers and upgrade their ship with new technology. Brave dangerous worlds to gather the data you need to reach the home system of the mysterious Gatebuilders. The middle of the 23rd Century. A space pro… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond the Chiron Gate.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

92% User Score Based on 94,936 reviews

Give Me Basic is a poorly/cheap version of "ASTRONEER" on steam. The game may not be as realistic as the actual inspiration of the game. Instructions: How to Install "Give Me Basic" - YouTube If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Give Me Basic [Early Pack].

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization

92% User Score Based on 26 reviews

"Our ambition was…quantum. We truly believed we were prepared to explore the deep universe. The hubris."

 Welcome to Castaway Station, an exciting survival game that takes you on an unintended journey on a hostile planet after a catastrophic accident on your space cruiser. Stranded on an unknown planet with limited resources, you must use all your wits and skills, along with any tools … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Castaway Station.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story

71% User Score Based on 121 reviews

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Outerstellar.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability

63% User Score Based on 2,678 reviews

SLG space game. Move around freely to explore the Infinite Galaxy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Infinite Galaxy.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

69% User Score Based on 312 reviews

You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to StarsOne.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

63% User Score Based on 4,640 reviews

A thousand years ago, a cataclysmic event shattered a world into floating islands scattered across an endless skyline. Civilizations tumbled, societies collapsed, and all seemed lost. From the rubble emerged ragtag bands of nomads, who fly cobbled-together skyships from island to island, scavenging for resources to keep moving. These are the players of Worlds Adrift: Explorers of a new world and … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Worlds Adrift.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

79% User Score Based on 20,953 reviews

Get a great start into Empyrion - Galactic Survival with the Complete Edition! It includes the base game plus the Dark Faction DLC, where you must survive a terrible new threat to the galaxy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Empyrion: Galactic Survival.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding

90% User Score Based on 3,658 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 3 reviews

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Duskers.

44%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

44% User Score Based on 334 reviews

Welcome to Corma. You find yourself stranded on the beach on the Island Of Corma. In order to survive you have to find food and clean water. Explore the island and its story, but be carefull.. The wildlife on Corma is watching you.. Collect resources to build a shelter or a home. Find old towns or hidden places and look for rare items. Maybe you find something you can use? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Corma: The Next Level.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

86% User Score Based on 112 reviews

Slice through the dark and own the night in your Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to utilize stealth technology in its design. This isn’t your typical attack fighter, you’ll be flying sorties under the cover of night, avoiding detection by enemy radar and striking high-value targets with precision weaponry. You’ll want to haunt the battlefield like a ghost, menacing the ene… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story

94% User Score Based on 172 reviews

An open-world galaxy adventure game about fixing your TV. Explore a procedurally generated universe full of diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. Find new parts for your spaceship and collect resources to craft weapons, tools and upgrades. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to helionaut.

58%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

58% User Score Based on 419 reviews

Ragnorium is a planet recolonization simulator where players are tasked with leading clone colonists in a self-sustainable settlement while attempting to survive the oncoming Holy Crusade. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ragnorium.