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Guide humanity’s last colony ship through procedurally generated worlds, dangerous choices, alien encounters, and signal decoding puzzles. Manage dwindling systems, read each planet’s visual clues, and decide where civilization begins again or ends forever. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Broadcast.

Expedition: Backrooms is a co-op survival game built around an original Expedition Survival formula, set in an open-world interpretation of the Backrooms. Prepare expeditions, uncover the story, expand your base, gather resources, and make it back alive - everything you carry beyond the safe zone can be lost forever. The entire game world exists as one continuous space connected to your base - th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Expedition: Backrooms.

A signal lost in the darkAfter Silence is a 2D isometric sci-fi survival adventure set on a remote colony world locked in an endless night. You wake after a failed orbital descent with damaged systems, low oxygen, and no contact with Earth. The colony below has been silent for decades. Its roads are broken, its relays are dead, and the people who remain have learned to live without answers. Your… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to After Silence.

A turn-based card strategy game about survival and exploring an unknown land. Build your deck, embark on expeditions, gather resources, craft tools, and establish a camp. Help Miss Robinson survive, uncover the truth about her past, and choose the path her future will take. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Robinson: Survival.

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 64%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.

In the midst of the Wreck Wars in the Teegarden system, Mitsumoto, a pilot of experimental fighter craft, is shot down and crashes on one of the hostile moons orbiting a gas giant, deep in Wreck territory. Separated from his forces and stranded behind enemy lines, his first mission is simple: survive. But finding a way home will require much more. SURVIVE A HOSTILE WORLDExplore an alien moo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Long Way Home.

Stranded in deep space with a failing ship, every decision matters. Manage life support, evade what hunts you, and explore a vast, hostile cosmos where survival depends on what you build—and what you risk. ️ What You'll Do Pilot and upgrade your spacecraft EVA into dangerous wrecks Mine asteroids and salvage debris Craft tools, weapons ship and suit modules Investigate abandoned facil… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to WarpedSpace.

A crew was forced to land on an unknown planet. Now it is your responsibility to create the order they need to stay alive. Your team struggles with hunger, energy, morale and health. Every decision you make shapes the future of the colony. You must bring order to the chaos and rebuild everything from the ground up. Search for resources during the day. Explore new areas. Build your production cha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to After the Crash : Colony.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability

83% User Score Based on 190 reviews

Earth is gone ... Humanity is faced with extinction ... Our only hope is to find another world. Star Explorers is a game that randomly generates a galaxy. Each star and and celestial object can be scanned and added to an ever expanding database, every planet can be landed on and explored. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Explorers.

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.

67%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story

67% User Score Based on 710 reviews

Celestial Command is a realistic sandbox space game which unites real space flight, real orbital mechanics, and all the fun of classic space action games. We want to show how games about space actually should look, without silly vacuum friction and the maximum speed limit. As in the real world, everything in this game is in continuous motion in orbit.Realistic Orbital Mechanic If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Celestial Command.

Last Planet is a science fiction survival experience blending exploration, constant tension, and intense combat on a hostile planet overrun by an extraterrestrial threat. You play as an isolated survivor sent to a distant world to investigate an abandoned base, uncover the origin of the invasion, and find a way to escape alive. Every area you explore deepens the mystery, and every encounter tests… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Last Planet.

A unique journey following a lone space commander who ventures into the silence of the Solar System, exploring the dark surfaces of distant planets and moons to gather scientific data, establish small outposts, and search for new worlds and potential habitats for humanity. In the cold, dark, and isolated void of space, every step becomes a fight for survival. Each planet offers a distinct atmosph… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Commanders: Solar System.

Survirail is a first-person survival game set in a dark vision of the future. You play as one of the surviving crew members who lived through a sudden attack by androids—machines that unexpectedly changed their operating protocol and turned against humanity. As you travel through space, you explore space stations, gather survival materials, and battle hostile automatons. Each location you visit… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SurviRail: Deep Space.

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 59%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.

50%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

49% User Score Based on 117 reviews

Critic Score 54%Based on 4 reviews

Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Out There: Oceans of Time.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

80% User Score Based on 184 reviews

Capsule is a single-player survival game played entirely through a radar interface. Players navigate a hostile landscape, learn about their surroundings, and unravel a classic sci-fi story in the process. Best played in a dark room with headphones. In a strange and hostile place, something has gone very, very wrong. You wake up inside a small capsule, trapped, with no view of the outside world. T… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to CAPSULE.

Project: Aurora is an exploration game combining elements of RTS and a survival game. The player becomes the captain of the research mission, which lands on the surface of the newly discovered planet. His task is to conduct the mission, manage its facilities, and organize an expedition deep into the unexplored areas of Aurora. He must learn about the past of the planet and look for traces of the l… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PROJECT: AURORA.

72%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

70% User Score Based on 337 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 3 reviews

A poetic, roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated world When home is no more... Resources are sparse. The world is infinite and unknown. The universe is lonely, open and unforgiving. You're drifting, in a big, empty and silent space. Searching for a new home. You know a few coordinates to some random locations; but this is the only information you got. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to RymdResa.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization

91% User Score Based on 534 reviews

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scavenger SV-4.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

79% User Score Based on 86 reviews

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Away Team.

Ghost of the Past — a sci-fi adventure about the price of human curiosity. Track ghostly signals, survive encounters with an unknown enemy, and unravel a mystery the Fleet has chased for decades—while paying an unfathomable price for the answers. Story HookAn abandoned base on Mars. A signal that defies explanation. An enemy you cannot see. What if the greatest mistake is the very urge to know? R… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ghost of the Past.

PowerCorp is a space sim survival game set in 2188 in our solar system. You are returning from Jupiter’s moon Io to Earth from a routine maintenance mission when something awakes you from hypersleep. You wake to a crippled reactor. Your ship is dying, and each decision costs you power. You need to get home across a real-scale solar system using true orbital mechanics, manage critical systems and g… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PowerCorp.

A cinematic sci-fi experience set in a fractured future where humanity’s greatest experiment has already failed. Explore forbidden facilities, uncover lost truths, and question the cost of perfection in a world shaped by unseen architects. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to THE UTOPIAN PROJECT.

Lead high-risk surface rescue operations across a storm-scarred Earth. Power your rover, tools, and modular pack with limited energy resources as you recover survivors, salvage critical supplies, and help reclaim the world above. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Windwalkers: Below the Storm.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

79% User Score Based on 3,326 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 5 reviews

Experience the first sector of the journey as the Captain of the U.S.S. Voyager. In the demo, you can try out all the core systems of the game: make decisions, explore what-if scenarios, repair and customize your ship, explore a sector, research technologies, go on away missions, level up crew members, engage in combat, gather resources – and get a first look at the beginning of the story. Make … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

82% User Score Based on 1,661 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 vastness o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrometica.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

71% User Score Based on 28 reviews

Alone is a Pixelated Survival Game set in the extremely cold Siberian Wilderness in 1983, Soviet Union. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alone.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

81% User Score Based on 13,200 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 3 reviews

Includes: Base Game IXION - Original Soundtrack IXION - Artbook Immerse yourself in the world of IXION with this digital deluxe edition. Including the game, its original soundtrack, and a bespoke digital artbook. IXIONAuthorized by DOLOS AEC, you will guide the Tiqqun space station onwards in a perilous journey to find a new home for humanity. Station infrastructure, population management, explora… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to IXION.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:humor

84% User Score Based on 218 reviews

A minimal space exploration and survival game. Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast unknown, in search of a new world to call home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Last Horizon.

A damaged scout ship. One awake crew member. Two lives locked in cryostasis.In 2420, humanity finally reached beyond its home systems. The warp engine opened the way to distant worlds, and the Zenith Expanse program sent small scout vessels ahead of the larger expedition. Whisper-1 was one of them. It was not a colony ark. It was a fragile recon ship with a crew of three, enough to scan planets,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zenith Expanse.

Wander the harsh wasteland as one of the last remaining survivors searching for supplies and battling any unwanted visitors in this Fallout inspired pocket based post-apocalyptic RPG survival game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Wanderer.

HALLS OF JÖTUNN is a first-person atmospheric dungeon crawler set in the ruins of a forgotten Norse world where Ragnarök has already happened. Ragnarök is no longer a prophecy. It has become a state of the world — a slow collapse of memory, faith, and meaning that nobody noticed happening. You awaken at the edge of death, a broken warrior abandoned upon a rain-soaked battlefield. In that final … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Halls of Jötunn.

Ukrainian Post-Apocalyptic Mythpunk.A Post-Apocalyptic Future World:Join the protagonist and a changing cast of permanent and temporary caravan companions on a journey to Crimea in search of salt. Explore what remains of civilization 200 years after a series of global catastrophes. Discover what caused the collapse and how it unfolded, how profoundly the world has changed, and what can still be s… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sal Terrae: in search of SALT.

Earth is no longer sustainable.Lead humanity’s final journey beyond the Solar System. Launch ships from fragile worlds, use gravity to bend your path, discover new star systems, and search for planets that could carry civilization forward. Plan each launch, manage fuel and cargo space, and decide when to scan, deploy, trade, or push deeper into the unknown. Every expedition costs time and resourc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot.

LIMB: Origins is a dark sci-fi horror game where you must survive in a mysterious parallel world following the disappearance of a research team. Unravel the mysteries of your missing colleagues, explore the world, repair the teleporter, and find your way home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to LIMB: Origins.

A Living Archive of AnomaliesPhantom Containment is built around a growing archive of entities, aberrant species, anomalies, and forgotten civilizations discovered throughout Helix Planet. The long-term vision is an expansive and evolving bestiary that continues to grow over time, introducing new species, entity classes, anomaly types, and ancient mysteries as the world expands. Origin Unkn… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Phantom Containment.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability

92% User Score Based on 1,944 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 15 reviews

A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector.

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.

16%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story

16% User Score Based on 5,650 reviews

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Spacebase DF-9.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

55% User Score Based on 3,964 reviews

After a century in cryosleep you find yourself stranded amidst the ruins of mankind’s first interstellar colony. Explore derelict ships and stations and harvest raw resources in search of air, fuel and other equipment. Or loot and pillage what you need from other survivors. The choice is yours! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HELLION.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding

78% User Score Based on 362 reviews

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Remains.

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.

A survival horror adventure where you investigate terrifying locations, face deadly enemies, explore a mysterious world, and fight to survive. Discover secrets, manage your weapons and resources, and uncover the dark truth behind the nightmare. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nightmare Horror Investigation.

Descend into a breathtaking alien ocean and uncover secrets lost for over 11,000 years. In Sinking Eternity, you awaken from cryosleep alone on a small island with no memory, only the distant echoes of an ancient mystery waiting beneath the waves. You must explore a vast, dangerous, and beautiful underwater world to survive.. and to discover the truth. Explore the UnknownDive into sprawling biom… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sinking Eternity.

The Deluxe Edition contains 5 additional missions, 2 new recruitable heroes and 3 new technologies Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew? “What if?” Scenarios Did you … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown Deluxe Edition.

A cursed ancestral haveli. A forgotten bloodline. An entity that adapts to how you survive. Rahasya is a horror experience set inside an abandoned Indian haveli in 1992. After reclaiming your family’s ancestral estate, you enter a house that was sealed for decades — only to realize something inside has been waiting. Something moves through the halls. Something listens. Something learns. The hav… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rahasya.

Step into the dark, mysterious world of Dungeon Paws, a co-op survival game where you play as brave “cat-humans,” treasure hunters who venture into dangerous dungeons to retrieve valuable loot—and make it out alive… before it’s too late. In each run, you and your friends must work together to plan, explore, and survive deadly traps and relentless monsters ready to hunt you at any moment. Every de… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dungeon Paws.

Lead a band of Nomads through the plague-stricken Manecia in a real-time tactical survival game. Manage scarce resources, choose your routes, and command specialized survivors in brutal battles where wounds persist, death is permanent, and every decision carries forward. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nomads Plague.

In a distant future where humanity has abandoned the solar system, leaving silent worlds and unsolved mysteries, you are a lone interstellar traveler who crash-lands on Earth. Now a desolate and unrecognizable planet haunted by the remnants of a vanished civilization, Earth becomes your unexpected battleground for survival. With no way to leave, your mission is to restore an abandoned launch base… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Silent Desolation.