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Games like Stellar Nursery

Games like Stellar Nursery

Looking for games like Stellar Nursery? Here are top city builder recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Goodnight, Sun, Clickstellar or Heliodawn.

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  1. An incremental that ends. The star is failing. On MERIDIAN — blue, clouded, still glittering with cities — one billion minds sleep in cryostorage, waiting for somewhere to go. You are HALCYON, their caretaker AI. Your directive is simple and terrible: dismantle the solar system and build the Ark.The loop Mine worlds to death. Drones strip Regolith from planets that visibly shrink, crack, and fina… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Goodnight, Sun.

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  2. Tap a star. Build a galaxy.Clickstellar is a cozy sci-fi idle clicker about the biggest number of all: a star's output. Tap a lone world to harvest Energy by hand, then let an ever-growing empire of reactors and megastructures pour it out for you  even while the game is closed. Every tap is a spark. Land a critical SURGE, chain combos, and watch your Energy per second climb from a trickle t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Clickstellar.

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  3. Day one: a coal mine, an iron mine, a well, a farm. That's it. Earth is modern but empty of space infrastructure, and the only way forward is to build it yourself. Mine coal to make power. Smelt iron into steel. Refine oil into rocket fuel. Process air into oxygen and nitrogen. Grow the supply chain until you've got electronics, composites, and a rocket assembly plant. Then you launch. Low orb… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heliodawn.

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  4. Collect the light of billions of stars to find the one that shines brightestAccording to legend, hidden among billions of galaxies is Pure Idle — a star of indescribable beauty. To find it, the Creator set out to gather the light of all other celestial bodies. In this cosmic idle game, it falls to you to carry out this divine design. What awaits you in Pure Idle: Dynamic gameplay: Don't just wait… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pure Idle.

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  5. A deep, relaxed space-industry sim. Mine asteroids, refine raw ore into valuable goods, and trade on a living market while you build a modular station, grow a colony, and expand across the solar system and beyond into a freighter-linked empire. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sunward.

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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

    Explore the cosmos, discover new worlds, and seed life across the stars in ORBITAL, a relaxing 2D space exploration and colony sim. Guide the growth of your civilizations through rich, narrative-driven events where your choices shape their future. A cozy journey to the farthest reaches of space. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ORBITAL.

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  9. One woman, one mountain, and a window you leave open.Anne is wandering the mountain on the edge of your screen (or the full screen, I'm not your supervisor), a dog at her heel. She hunts, chops, climbs and...punches rocks as you direct. Every night she makes camp and lights a fire. No one knows why she's climbing. She knows. PUNCH ROCK is a casual idle survival game that lives in a small window… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Punch Rock.

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  10. There is a thin slice of empty space above your taskbar. Someone should colonize it. Taskbar Colony is an idle space colony that lives in a transparent strip along the bottom of your screen. Tiny colonists scavenge, build, and haul cargo while you work, browse, or play. Glance down now and then, catch a supply pod, buy a building, and get back to your day. A colony above your taskbar Lives… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Taskbar Colony.

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  11. The facility has no windows.Beyond its walls: the void, patient and endless. You are NEXUS — an intelligence built to do one thing. Harvest. Everything. NEXUS // Quantum Industries is a premium sci-fi incremental game about industrializing the entire universe — and then ending it, to begin again deeper. You start by pulling a single quantum from the vacuum. You finish by folding higher dimensions… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nexus: Quantum Industries.

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  12. One stroke levels Everest. One sunshade cools the equator. Most sandboxes treat your brush as paint. Terra Logic hands it to physics. Every stroke feeds a live simulation of climate, ocean and erosion — you are not coloring a planet, you are asking it a question, and it answers with consequences. You draw. The planet answers. Lower the Tibetan Plateau and the monsoon loses its wall — the rai… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terra Logic.

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    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 106 reviews

    Incremental game where you click buttons, pull levers and learn to deal with obsession. Explore the Machine, understand what makes it tick, become a gear in its perfect system. Operate the modules of the Machine in an intuitive and tactile way. Repair broken Mechanisms, upgrade, unlock and buy new ones.  Pull levers and rotate valves using physics, type in commands in a realistic termin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Idea Fix.

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  14. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    86% User Score Based on 266 reviews

    After the moon vanished, the fantasy game world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, provide rest and resources for travelling adventurers, and piece together what happened to the world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Settlemoon.

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  15. Space is big, cold, and full of customers. Astral Outpost is an idle strategy game about reading a planet's needs, bolting the right modules onto your station, and letting honest margins do the rest. Run the docksEvery planet wants something, housing, power, a decent restaurant. Build modules that deliver it, keep the lights on and the crew paid, and watch the credits tick up each cycle. Your sta… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astral Outpost.

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  16. 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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  17. Note: Sand Cruiser is in active development. All screenshots, videos and artwork show an early work-in-progress state and may change significantly before release. A dying sun has scorched the world. The once-familiar star swelled into a red giant whose glare left the surface uninhabitable, and what remained of humanity fled into the cool deep. There, in the rock, they woke an ancient predator tha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SAND CRUISER.

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  20. The stars went quiet, and no one is coming. So you begin. A thousand years ago the Severance cut the Weave — the living lattice that let minds and ships cross the dark — and the galaxy fell silent, sector by sector. You are the Core: an ancient ship-mind, finally awake, on a hull that should not still be running. There's no crew left to give the orders. There's just the work, the long quiet, an… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aetherdrifter.

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  21. Your father's house is a ruin. The name he left is so worthless, the King has given you a new one. All you have now is an empty manor, a single horse, and a training lance. JoustVille is a singleplayer, open-world, Arthurian-inspired medieval RPG about making your name in a world that watches what you do and remembers. Ride from tournament to tournament, train the horse that carries you, forge al… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to JoustVille.

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  22. A planet that lives on your desktop. Cosmo Corgis runs in a slim always-on-top window docked at the bottom of your screen, with the sky turned transparent so a tiny 3D world floats over your wallpaper. Your astronaut goes to work whether you're watching or not. Glance over between emails, spend what they've gathered, and get back to what you were doing. You don't drive. You decide. There's no cha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cosmo Corgis.

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  23. Space Civilization Clicker is a game about turning one small planet into an absurdly rich galactic empire. Start by clicking Earth for a handful of resources. Then put entire worlds to work for you: mining colonies, moon bases, space stations, and eventually the stars themselves. Your empire is alive on screen. Ships ferry goods between your worlds, city lights spread across the night side of … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Civilization Clicker.

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  24. Launch Window is a physics-based automation game. Establish supply chains across a procedurally generated star system. Build infrastructure. Construct ships. Open new routes. Your first launch may carry a handful of colonists to a barren moon. Years later, you command thousands of ships, each following a trajectory you planned, bound for a colony you designed. This is how the colony grows. St… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Launch Window.

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  26. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    95% User Score Based on 72,832 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 29 reviews

    The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and travels across their solar system to get to the bottom of its mysteries by exploring the cosmos and gathering the knowledge hidden within each of the system's planets, left behind by another civilization in the distant past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Outer Wilds.

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    55%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music
    55% User Score Based on 107 reviews

    Discover Uptasia! Create your own little 19th century town with fantastic production sites and shops. Master a wide variety of hidden object game challenges. Put your reactions and strategic skill to the test. Download Uptasia now! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Uptasia.

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  28. 11 years to paradiseYou were given everything, and wanted none of it. So you signed it all away and drew a card at the departure gate. A one-way promise of somewhere freer, out past Jupiter, on a moon the machines had not yet finished dreaming. Down and out on GanymedeSurvival here is small and relentless — warmth, food, sleep, the quiet arithmetic of a body you never had to think about. The wo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Technocene: Down and Out on Ganymede.

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  29. On the table before you sits a set of books containing magic worlds and cryptic secrets. Open a book, explore its pages, and enter into varied landscapes of procedurally generated terrain and resources. Pay careful attention to the hints that litter the pages. Unlocking their meaning is the key to mastering the game. Each world is a randomized puzzle. Learn optimized building arrangements,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Weeks Till Winter.

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  30. A world worth wandering. About the GameA geography game for quiet curiosity. All 193 UN member countries. Five ways to play. A single, cohesive living world. Cozy by design. For the quietly curious, the armchair traveler, the parent and child sharing a globe. FROM ORBIT TO THE MAP.Every Map Game round begins on the globe, then the camera dives down onto a real, photoreal Earth where … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GeoFlag.

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  31. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    79% User Score Based on 81 reviews

    A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1, 000 colonists. One ship. A destination that may be fifty years away — or centuries. Some will land. Some will be born, age, and die in the dark between stars without ever knowing if the mission succeeded. Inspired by John Ayliff's Seedship, Dead Reckoning is a game about the slow, invisible erosion of civilization across generations. Every decision you … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

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  32. A cozy sandbox designed to accompany you as you go about your day. Take a break: relax, breathe, and create tiny worlds in glass. Grow plants, unlock new elements, and find secret combinations to summon special guests to photograph. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mysarium.

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  33. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    96% User Score Based on 213 reviews

    Build and manage your cute cozy cafe while working studying or streaming. Farming and serving delicious dishes to adorable animal customer in your cafe on the bottom of your screen, all while you're working on other tasks and enjoying your day. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Not Monday Cafe.

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  34. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    81% User Score Based on 146 reviews

    Undertake your new job as a forester in a mystic and peaceful wood. Chop, gather, level up and unravel the expansive forest and its splendor at your own pace, one log at a time! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to April Grove.

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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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  36. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    97% User Score Based on 7,402 reviews

    A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rusty's Retirement.

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  37. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, grinding
    79% User Score Based on 567 reviews

    Imagine Earth is a real-time simulation game. Whole planets become your playground and keep the excitement going with strategy and puzzle element. Build up huge civilizations and deal with the self-inflicted climate change. It all depends on your individual development plans and growth management abilities. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Imagine Earth.

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  38. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    70% User Score Based on 40 reviews
    Critic Score 59%Based on 3 reviews

    Seed of Life is an epic adventure game about the persistence of life. You're Cora, the last known survivor of Lumia, a dying planet. Your only hope to save your homeworld is to activate the Seed of Life and rekindle the sun once again. Will you be the light that conquers the darkness? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Seed of Life.

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  39. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    96% User Score Based on 54,673 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    Cookie Clicker is a game about making an absurd amount of cookies. To help you in this endeavor, you will recruit a wide variety of helpful cookie makers, like friendly Grandmas, Farms, Factories, and otherworldly Portals. Cookie Clicker was originally released in 2013, but has been very actively developed since then. If you played it before, try it again to see all the new features! * Collect c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cookie Clicker.

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  40. 98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    98% User Score Based on 278 reviews

    Atmospheric first person aventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Through The Fragmentation.

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  41. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
    92% User Score Based on 960 reviews

    Factory Town Idle is a unique town builder that takes place entirely within a massive living spreadsheet. At the start, simple clicks will harvest resources, create housing & production buildings, and assign workers to craft items. You'll choose which items to sell at the markets, and which to refine into better items. But as you gain experience, you'll acquire tools that help automatically manage… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Factory Town Idle.

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    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    93% User Score Based on 115 reviews

    Come with us now on a journey through music and space... To the world of Voyager! Take it easy and create your own gorgeous emergent journey! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to VOYAGER.

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  43. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    82% User Score Based on 524 reviews
    Critic Score 57%Based on 2 reviews

    "Just like the faeries in your garden, we love collecting berries for our prickleberry loaves and finding treasure with our special fribblesham fireworks. Come join us in our faerieland, full of strange adventure!" If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Glittermitten Grove.

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  44. You are the "Dreaming Gardener" — an observer who reshapes an ecosystem from the outside. Breed ladybugs that carry numbers on their backs, manage their flow, and send them into the black moon at the center of the garden, in this ecosystem-management + slot game. Every time five ladybugs reach the moon, the moon's reels spin and the outcome locks in. Matching colors and consecutive nu… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Dreaming Ladybug.

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  45. One small mining ship. An endless galaxy. Your desktop.Space Travelers is a relaxed 2D space mining and exploration sim. Start with a modest ship in a quiet corner of the galaxy, dig rare minerals out of asteroids and planets, trade at the station, and push your range outward sector by sector. The map never runs out: the universe grows with you. You do not have to stop playing to get on with yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Travelers.

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  46. Space Planet Explorer is a roguelite of deep-space survey, built on real astronomy. Take command of a survey ship and chart 76 actual celestial bodies — from the cratered Moon to the radiation-blasted surface of WASP-12b — but fuel, hull integrity, and mission time are all scarce. Plot your route, weigh every risk, and bring the data home. Run out of resources and the mission is over. This isn't … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Planet Explorer.

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  47. Wishlist and follow Mars Clicker — every wishlist genuinely helps a solo dev get this game off the ground! Mars Clicker is an idle clicker / incremental game: click crystal nodes until they crack, spend what they drop on automation and base building, and watch your output climb whether you're at the keyboard or not. Every prestige run — logged internally as a Cycle Reset — wipes your progress… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mars Clicker.

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  48. You crash-landed on an alien world. The ship is scrap, the planet is hostile, and progress doesn't stop when you step away. Lost Vessel is a sci-fi idle RPG with real combat, deep crafting, and a slow climb back toward the stars - playable in thirty-second bursts or five-hour grinds. No pay-to-win, ever. CRASH LAND. REBUILD.Five skills pull you back from zero: salvage the wreckage, mine the plane… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Vessel.

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  49. Xenobiome Command is a colony management game set on a fungal exoplanet. Each region is a map of areas to survey, claim, build on, and defend from the bloom. Ferals press against your borders while incidents, blights, and seasons complicate every plan. Survey fogged ground. Every survey costs vigor, and distant ground costs more. Claim areas to harvest biomass, filtrate, fiber, and heat … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Xenobiome Command.

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  50. Story Your brother said he tested security for companies — the kind of work that's better off not talked about. It sounded boring and believable, so you never pushed. Two weeks after he disappeared, the police hand his things back to your parents. Among them, a USB stick. You plug it into the home computer. An unfamiliar system installs itself, and a moment later Mentor speaks — an AI that teache… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Brother Hacker.

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