Games like Return to Nothing

Townscaper is a relaxing and creative town-building simulation game. Place and connect different types of buildings to design your own colorful and vibrant seaside town, with no need for resources or scores. Experience the joy of watching your town grow and evolve, with charming details like boats, parks, and winding streets appearing as if by magic.

In "The Long Journey Home," your crew faces the perils of deep space as you try to return to Earth after being flung through an alien teleportation gate. Every decision matters in this challenging space survival simulation, where roguelike exploration, strategic resource management, and diplomacy with alien races combine. With multiple endings, permadeath, and a procedurally generated galaxy, each playthrough offers a unique and exhilarating journey home.

"Sol 0: Mars Colonization" is a real-time strategy game where players manage a crew to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars. Overcome challenges such as managing resources, maintaining habitats, and ensuring crew survival, while furthering scientific research and exploring the Martian landscape. The game features a dynamic weather system, day/night cycles, and procedurally generated terrain for a unique experience.

Drox Operative 2 is a science fiction action RPG that lets you build your own spaceship and explore a dynamic galaxy filled with alien races. Make important choices that will alter the balance of power, negotiate or combat other space pirates and space stations, and upgrade your ship with new weapons and technology. Your actions will shape the outcome of the galaxy and determine the fate of the Drox Operative.

Cortex Command is a real-time and turn-based strategy game set in a 2D world. Command your faction's troops, construct buildings, and manage resources to defeat your enemies. The game features destructible environments, customizable units, and a variety of weapons to choose from. Your goal is to conquer your opponent's base and eliminate their cortex, the core of their brain-like neural network.

"Unclaimed World" is a single-player Science Fiction Strategy game with compelling visuals and a good soundtrack. As a manager of interstellar pioneers, you must carefully balance resources, production, and personalities to establish a foothold on a lush and alien planet. The game features indirect control, a realistic sci-fi pioneer setting, and a simulation of alien nature, human needs, and frontier community, with inspiration from "The Settlers", "Dwarf Fortress", and Paradox games.

"Interstellaria is a single-player Science Fiction Real Time Strategy game with a good plot and fabulous gameplay. Manage your crew, customize your ship, and navigate through a dangerous galaxy filled with hostile aliens and anomalies. Enjoy its pretty visuals, great soundtrack, and the humor, but be prepared for lots of grinding and some bugs."

In "Lightspeed Frontier" , you can captain your own ship and explore the frontier of the galaxy, engaging in battles with space pirates and influencing the galactic stock market. Customize your ship with various modules and take on open-ended missions to make your own path and uncover the mysteries of the universe. With faster-than-light travel now available for middle-class galaxy dwellers, this sci-fi sandbox game offers a vast and dynamic world to discover.

"Nomad Fleet" is a real-time strategy game where you lead the last of humankind in a fleet of battleships, carriers, and fighters. Scavenge for resources, build your fleet, and research new technologies in procedurally generated galaxies. Meet and interact with alien races through diplomacy or warfare while uncovering the story of the mysterious alien race that has hunted humans. Your objective is to reach the legendary homeworld of humanity.

SpaceBourne is a single-player Role Playing game with an intriguing story and fabulous gameplay, set in a vast universe with over 100 Solar Systems, 400 planets, and 37 space stations. Players have the freedom to mine, salvage, hunt, explore, trade, and engage in various activities with the goal of acquiring and customizing ships and weapons. Despite some bugs, the game offers an immersive experience with its impressive visuals and amazing soundtrack.