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Looking for games like Cosmic Ascent? Here are top casual management recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Desktop Colony, Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager or ExoColony: Planet Survival.

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  1. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
    100% User Score Based on 16 reviews

    Desktop Colony is a cosy, incremental, semi-idle colony simulator designed to sit on top of your desktop allowing you to work on other tasks while growing your space colony! Asteroid MiningSend out probes to search for resources to mine. Every asteroid increases your resources generated per minute. Build Ships and StructuresBuild habs to house more colonists and watch the ships fly around y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Desktop Colony.

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  2. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    88% User Score Based on 868 reviews

    In Solar Expanse, you take the lead of one of the early XXI century space exploration companies. Your goal will be to reach the planets, moons and asteroids of the system in order to mine and colonize them. Optimize the costs and schedule of the flights. Mind that each object is in constant motion, so exact planning is crucial. Utilize the gravity effects and slingshot your rockets further b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.

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  3. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    88% User Score Based on 32 reviews

    Welcome to an exciting survival colony simulation game that takes you into the vastness of the cosmos! Starting with a small group of colonists, you're tasked to mine resources, refine materials, build structures, and innovate with new technologies. Across generations and centuries, you'll expand your settlement into a thriving civilization and terraform the planet to make it your new home. Prospe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ExoColony: Planet Survival.

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  4. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 1,191 reviews

    Introversion Software, the indie legends behind Prison Architect, Darwinia, DEFCON and Uplink, present to you the broken, unfinished and bug filled Alpha of The Last Starship. Pick a ship hull, kit her out with engines, life-support, sensors and rail guns and start your galactic adventure! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Starship.

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  5. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    84% User Score Based on 764 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 1 reviews

    Galactic Mining Corp is a game about building and expanding an intergalactic mining corporation. Head out into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your ever-growing profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy workforce, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything. Galactic Mining Corp is the highly anticipated successor to Geo! Charity A percentage o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Galactic Mining Corp.

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    70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
    70% User Score Based on 115 reviews

    Reshaping Mars is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Reshaping Mars.

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  7. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 164 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 3 reviews

    The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Spatials: Galactology.

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    78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    78% User Score Based on 360 reviews

    Build and manage colonies on the surfaces of planets and satellites, as well as space stations. With realistic physics of orbital flights. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solargene.

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  9. Arcbound is a colony simulation game set entirely on a single evolving starship. Everything is connected. And everything can fail at any moment. Design and expand your ship room by room, manage oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide a fragile civilisation from Earth’s final evacuation into deep space. WHAT YOU DO Design and expand your Arcship room by room Manage oxygen, power, water, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Arcbound.

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  10. EarthX 2 is a tycoon game about running your own space company. Start with a launch pad, take on contracts, and grow your operation until you're sending crews and cargo to the Moon and Mars. Build rockets and take on missionsManufacture rockets, orbiters, capsules, and ships. Choose the right vehicle for each payload, assemble compatible launch configurations, and prepare the infrastructure for y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EarthX 2.

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  11. Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Each technology unlocks new capabilities for your ships to go through more hazardous environments, enabling you to make new discoveries and explore new worlds. Design the best ships for the job, with the fastest ships being the smalle… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rionag: Survey Fleet.

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  12. 37%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization
    56% User Score Based on 18 reviews

    Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening is a sci-fi idle progression game where you rebuild a shattered colony ship, restore lost systems, automate production, and uncover the mystery hidden within the Ark’s damaged memory. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening.

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    92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 2,288 reviews

    Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plan B: Terraform.

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  14. An idle incremental adventure in space! Mine Asteroids Buy Upgrades Mine even more asteroids Buy even more upgrades Fight off enemy AI drones who are attempting to interrupt your mining operations. Build friendly AI drones, Helper Drones, Mining Lasers, and Human Crew members Make your mining vessel stronger through Masteries, Affinities, Temperaments, Compute, Recycling, and more … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Little Asteroid Miner.

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  15. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    92% User Score Based on 471 reviews

    The Great Gate has opened; adventure and riches await!Welcome to the Canis Major dwarf galaxy! We hope that your trip through the Great Gate was a safe one; many of the fortune-seekers that embark on this dangerous journey never make it this far. After all, an unauthorized jump of 25,000 light years through a heavily guarded artificial wormhole is bound to cause some issues – both technical and le… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vanguard Galaxy.

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    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, music
    93% User Score Based on 84 reviews

    As soon as humanity had the means we sent out an interstellar colony ship. Its design was basic but elegant. And it made it all 40.7 light-years to Trappist-1.— Ship data files On arrival at Trappist-1 you control the Ark. A large spaceship/movable colony and trading hub for your exploration of Trappist-1. Trappist is a story-driven colony builder with resource management in the Trappist-1 solar… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Trappist.

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  17. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    89% User Score Based on 154 reviews

    Alien Horizon is a sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected. Can you survive anyway? Features complex resource management, no contact with Earth, exploration… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alien Horizon.

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    83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    83% User Score Based on 2,070 reviews

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astro Colony.

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    78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    78% User Score Based on 510 reviews

    In Final Upgrade, you will experience the role of artificial intelligence (AI), created by mankind to help spread colonists across the galaxy. In each game session, you are tasked with conquering one of the regions of the galaxy. Arriving at the site with one ship carrying minimal resources, you must build a massive factory spread over 100 sectors, producing all sorts of resources that the coloni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Final Upgrade.

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  21. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story
    51% User Score Based on 420 reviews
    Critic Score 58%Based on 1 reviews

    Stable Orbit is a highly realistic space management simulation game. Set in 2034, an unprecedented ‘All Nations Space Coalition’ has been formed around a shared desire to rebuild mankind’s permanent presence in space. But space is a dangerous place. The only things between survival and your crew suffocating, blood boiling and radiation overdose are the thin walls of the space station. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stable Orbit.

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  22. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    74% User Score Based on 2,198 reviews

    Aven Colony is a city-building and management sim that tells the story of humanity’s first settlement of an extrasolar world. Land on exotic Aven Prime, where you must construct and maintain the infrastructure and ensure the well-being of your citizens, all while dealing with the often harsh realities of an exotic alien world. On top of this, you’ll face the greatest challenge of all — keeping yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aven Colony.

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  23. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    71% User Score Based on 376 reviews

    It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Spatials.

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  24. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    97% User Score Based on 43,752 reviews

    As an engineer of Dyson Sphere Program, you will go to an alien galaxy building “Dyson Sphere”. Collecting resources, plan and designing production lines, gradually create a full automated factory. Develop your factory from a small workshop to a huge cross-galaxy Industrial empire. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dyson Sphere Program.

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  25. A dimensional rift has torn you from everything you know. Your ship is dead. Your crew is gone. The only way back? Generate enough raw energy to punch through the rift and make it home. Build a planetary energy empire, prestige for permanent power, and ultimately construct a Dyson Sphere to generate enough energy to escape the rift. Ten Worlds. One Goal. You start on Earth with nothing but a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Harvest.

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  26. Forge humanity’s future among the stars. In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build sprawling industrial megacities across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery. Design every aspect of your colony with deep, modular c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to StellarForge.

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  27. Incremental Orbits is a short incremental game about exploring our solar system. Set against a colorful retro aesthetic that mimics a CRT monitor, the game blends the steady progression of an idle game with the atmosphere of a space strategy simulation. Discover and UpgradeThe core loop focuses on system-wide progression. Discovering a planet allows it to begin generating two main resources: mone… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Incremental Orbits.

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  28. Terminal Colony: Deep Core is a survival management game played from a cold, humming terminal. You’ve been dropped into an aging extraction site buried miles beneath the planet’s crust. Systems are failing, pressure is rising, and something in the rock is awake. Type orders, reroute power, rebuild modules, and guide a handful of specialists through an unforgiving descent one decision at a time. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terminal Colony Deep Core.

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  29. Endless Space, Infinite Possibilities – Rule the Galaxy Your Way!In this deep and open-ended space construction strategy game, you start as a lone colony and expand across the stars. Explore unknown planets, exploit rare resources, build a vast industrial empire, command mighty fleets, interact with enigmatic alien relics, and ultimately become the supreme ruler—or destroyer—of the galaxy. Plane… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Orbital Nexus.

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  30. Build a robotic floating platform in the hostile clouds of Venus. In Venusville: Prologue, take command of an autonomous corporate mission to construct and stabilize a floating platform high in Venus’s polar atmosphere. With no humans on board, your robotic workforce must establish infrastructure, maintain balance, and power the systems to needed to test the future colony technology. But as the … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Venusville - Prologue.

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  31. 52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    69% User Score Based on 26 reviews

    Expand among the stars! It is 72k years in the future, and a new wave of Human expansion abounds. Join the ranks of the Ecxos, prep star systems for habitation, and develop your tools and ships to enterprise ever faster and further. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eclectic Expansion Enterprise.

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  32. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    68% User Score Based on 136 reviews

    The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Utopia Colony.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    75% User Score Based on 1,855 reviews

    Welcome to the Crust - a game that gives you a role of the CEO of the gigantic Moon colonizing company. It is a large-scale economical simulator that also brings elements of survival along with rich setting and dramatic script. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Crust.

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  34. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization
    97% User Score Based on 64 reviews

    Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Paragon Pioneers 2.

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  35. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    54% User Score Based on 225 reviews

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Settlers: Arrival.

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    78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    76% User Score Based on 3,372 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 11 reviews

    Per Aspera is a narrative-driven strategy game with the goal of overcoming the challenge of terraforming Mars. Explore the planet, gather resources, and make strategic decisions as you live the fantasy of scientifically-based interplanetary expansion. Hardship awaits. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Per Aspera.

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  37. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    86% User Score Based on 9,078 reviews

    Embark on a space journey with your patched-together crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony sim. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Haven.

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  38. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    75% User Score Based on 32 reviews

    Spaceflight Factory : Prologue: is an Automation and (moving) Base Building inspired by Factorio and Stardeus. During this Prologue, you will focus only on crafting rockets and try to launch them correctly to Earth. On a post-apocalyptic Earth, all cities and settlements have been ravaged by pollution and a hostile biosphere. In a last hope to salvage Earth, a crew of the best astronauts have b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Spaceflight Factory : Prologue.

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    77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    93% User Score Based on 682 reviews

    Have you always dreamt of becoming CEO of the largest rocket company in the world? It just came true. Start with practically nothing and end up with a rocket empire. In EarthX you can develop rocket technologies, but also your company and planet Earth! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EarthX.

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  40. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability
    86% User Score Based on 14 reviews

    Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deep Space Outpost.

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  41. 49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, graphics
    49% User Score Based on 224 reviews

    If you ever dreamed of exploring space at a relaxed pace, here's a journey designed for you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Travel Idle.

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    80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    80% User Score Based on 1,214 reviews

    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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to InfraSpace.

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  43. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    61% User Score Based on 866 reviews

    Meeple Station is a cooperative Space station Simulation game. Strongly inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld (with a hint of Space Station 13). Where the complexity of a simulation game blends with the friendly and satisfying nature of a Real-Time-Strategy game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Meeple Station.

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  44. Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space. The core gameplay can be played offline, while alliance features add online missions and cooperative construction. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era.

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  45. Explore, scan, and conquer an unknown world. Deploy rovers, uncover hidden resources, and build a fully automated colony that must survive, adapt, and scale. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nova Origin.

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  46. Journey on the back of the space whale Kewa, building a city for your people as you travel across the galaxy seeking purpose and answers, and developing deep relationships with the universe around you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond These Stars.

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  47. Aboard your ship, exterminate the enemies of profit, exploit planets and expand the corporation’s commercial empire across the stars. Orium is a roguelite infused with streamlined 4X elements. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Orium.

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    43%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    69% User Score Based on 13 reviews

    A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ORBITAL.

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  49. Mine. Build. Survive. Arrive with empty hands. Leave commanding a fleet. MineEngineer is a 2D space survival sandbox where engineering is the gameplay. You begin adrift and alone. Chip ore from an asteroid, build your first small ship, bolt on a drill, and set out for richer rock. Everything you build is made from real, functional blocks. Ships, stations and factories have physics, mass and ine… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MineEngineer.

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  50. UPDATES Fixed a bug with money not displaying properly. Now money/upkeep is shown on each ship and updates on the bottom left. Added the ability to edit your lines by clicking on the number to the left of the station Added the ability to rename your stations by editing the textbox of the corresponding station Roadmap Multiple Suns and Systems per Map Passenger Stations and Passenge… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Sim Tycoon.

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