Games like It's (not) Rocket Science
Looking for games like It's (not) Rocket Science? Here are top simulation recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with A Long Journey to an Uncertain End, Trigon: Space Story or The Captain.
1 75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding79% User Score 58 reviewsCritic Score 67%4 reviewsA Long Journey to an Uncertain End is a narrative management space opera where you recruit eclectic crew members, explore the known - and unknown - galaxy, make choices to drive your journey, and escape the clutches of your abusive ex.
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68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability70% User Score 660 reviewsCritic Score 60%1 reviewsSpace roguelike adventure. Take a chance to become a spaceship captain and lead your own crew, make pivotal decisions, and inevitably win tactical battles. Uncover the mysteries of the galaxy, among which is the star of Trigon, the most sinister and enigmatic one.
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, atmosphere90% User Score 300 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsRace back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way? The decisions are up to you.
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55%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding53% User Score 125 reviewsCritic Score 66%6 reviewsA 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?
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability83% User Score 1,175 reviewsCritic Score 71%9 reviewsHalcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro sci-fi strategy RPG with a unique blend of base building, exploration and deep tactical JRPG style combat system with capital starships and their idiosyncratic officers, all captured in stunningly beautiful modernized pixel graphics. In Halcyon 6, an unknown alien force is carving a path of destruction towards Earth and you, as the Commander of an immensely…
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62%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization62% User Score 1,159 reviewsKeep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, music74% User Score 227 reviewsLarge-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists. Complete impunity, black market flourishing where gun and tech trade is on the move, arbitrariness and anarchy – the Galaxy has become a real dangerous place. Event…
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67%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding67% User Score 297 reviewsSol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades. Make use of minerals and resources across the Martian surface to expand from the first exploratory rover to an independent frontie…
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability82% User Score 1,629 reviewsCritic Score 71%5 reviewsIn Mars Horizon the player is tasked with leading a major space agency from the dawn of the space age though to humanity's journey to Mars. Players run a government space agency from when the first rockets launched into the atmosphere, right through to the first crewed mission to Mars. Research new tech, expand your agency base, build rockets, send satellites into orbit, and launch a variety of mi…
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, optimization77% User Score 451 reviewsYour 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…
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