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Looking for games like StellarDrive? Here are top open world simulation recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Stellar Shipyard, Approximately Up or MineEngineer.

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  1. Stellar Shipyard is a space colony base builder sandbox, focused on constructing modular ships and stations that can connect and interact as a single unit. Build ships tile-by-tile, manage complex production chains, and watch your colony evolve from a small mining operation into a galactic empire. Face various threats, whether playing solo, with your friends, or against them as rival factions. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Shipyard.

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  2. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    95% User Score Based on 767 reviews

    Approximately Up is your best chance to experience spaceflight in whatever you and your crew (singleplayer or co-op multiplayer with up to 4 players) can bolt together! Build epic spaceships or barely flying trashcans — it’s entirely up to you. Control your creation from a first-person view right from the deck of your ship. Complete challenging objectives, hunt achievements, face the dangers of sp… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Approximately Up.

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  3. MineEngineer is a 2D space-survival sandbox where engineering, exploration, and creativity collide in a universe full of planets, asteroids, and unknown dangers. You start alone in the void with only basic tools and a fragile survival pod. From there, you'll mine resources, explore planets, fend off threats, and build bases and ships piece by piece — exactly the way you imagine them. Multipla… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MineEngineer.

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  4. 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.

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  5. Have you ever dreamt of venturing out into deep space with nothing but your own spaceship filled with everything you need to survive a lifetime in space? Have you wondered how it feels to be a weightless astronaut and be the first human to step on an entirely unexplored planet.. or an entire galaxy? Will you find out if there is anyone else out there, or is it just an infinity of nothingness? T… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starpath.

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  6. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 192 reviews

    While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Under A New Sun.

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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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  8. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 94,098 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 14 reviews

    Includes: Yogscast Cobra Mk III Paint Job Take control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy. Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Elite Dangerous.

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    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.

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  10. Join our Community About the GameYou are at the frontier of human-charted space in a small mining ship, tasked with expanding humanity's footprint amongst the stars. To succeed, you’ll need to collect resources, automate production, expand your base of operations, and research new technologies. You start out with a single mining ship in a resource-rich asteroid belt. Use your scanners t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Main Sequence.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    71% User Score Based on 336 reviews

    QANGA - Now Available in Early Access! Please Note: QANGA is an Early Access game, actively being developed by a small independent team. By choosing to purchase QANGA now, you are directly supporting its development and contributing to the ongoing improvement of the game. Expect to encounter bugs and see some features still in progress. Your support and feedback are crucial in helping us create… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to QANGA.

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  12. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    85% User Score Based on 362 reviews

    Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evochron Legacy.

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  13. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    76% User Score Based on 684 reviews
    Critic Score 79%Based on 1 reviews

    Trading commodities while sneaking past hostile forces, racing the best pilots in the area, mining for diamonds, negotiating for survival, spying for a curious energy company, cleaning dirty solar arrays, transporting an impatient passenger... and that's just on a Monday. The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. At times, you may choose to work under contract, while at ot… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evochron Mercenary.

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  14. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    66% User Score Based on 1,802 reviews

    A sandbox game of creation and survival. After crash landing on an unexplored planet you are left with nothing but a few tools and your imagination. Make yourself a shelter, secure food and water and start building towards making a spaceship capable of interplanetary travels. Planet Nomads is a true sandbox game with procedurally generated planets, total creative freedom to build all kinds of th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planet Nomads.

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  15. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    68% User Score Based on 1,070 reviews

    Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Players will need to survive in a hostile galaxy with their own custom designed and constructed starship. Space is vast but you wont have to face it alone, other players will be able to join your ship and help out, or build their own rival fleet and fight you across the galaxy! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellar Rift.

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  16. Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion. Find and Collect ores Explore the environment for various naturally occurring materials. If you don… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astario.

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  17. 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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  18. 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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    69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    69% User Score Based on 1,067 reviews

    The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceCraft.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 71 reviews

    Explore the space and go for new adventures with this physics based space game! Discover steampunk themed planets, solve puzzles, gather resources, craft machines & systems and have fun with gravity in an open-world galaxy. Refuel, repair and upgrade your ship to find your way back to mother earth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceKraft!.

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  21. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    89% User Score Based on 85,786 reviews

    Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Engineers.

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  22. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    79% User Score Based on 20,953 reviews

    Get a great start into Empyrion - Galactic Survival with the Complete Edition! It includes the base game plus the Dark Faction DLC, where you must survive a terrible new threat to the galaxy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Empyrion: Galactic Survival.

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  23. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    78% User Score Based on 149,300 reviews
    Critic Score 71%Based on 47 reviews

    Buy No Man's Sky on PlayStation Store. Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to No Man's Sky.

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    84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    84% User Score Based on 962 reviews

    Create the Starship of your dreams, explore a vast and vivid world and jump into epic space battles. Experience a truly unique and powerful building engine where your imagination is the limit. Welcome to the next evolution in Space Sandbox gaming! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starship EVO.

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  25. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    96% User Score Based on 162 reviews

    Asteroid Hauler simulator designed from the ground up for Room Scale Virtual Reality. Completely customize, maintain and repair the controls and systems of your ship using 100s of interconnecting components that fully simulate power and data distribution. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I Fetch Rocks.

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  26. Starcrest, in its full release, is an open world space game where you can build, pilot, and crew custom physics-driven spacecraft in a persistent online universe. Explore distant worlds, mine and trade for resources, and band together in factions to fight for territorial control. Carve out your empire in an ever evolving infinite online galaxy. Whether you prefer flying solo as an independent pil… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starcrest.

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  27. Welcome to StarDune, an ambitious solo dev project where you step into the suit of a tiny astronaut exploring a vast, open world solar system. Uncover mysteries as you build modular bases, manage vital resources, pilot spaceships, drive rovers, and terraform the world around you to conquer the frontiers of deep space. Fully Deformable Terrain Reshape the ground around you to overcome challenge… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to StarDune.

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  28. Stranded at the Edge of ExistenceAfter a catastrophic first contact shatters humanity’s expedition fleet, you and a small group of survivors crash-land on a hostile, unknown world in the Lost Galaxy—a forgotten corner of the universe, beyond charts and signals. With no help coming, your only hope is to build, defend, and rediscover what remains of our fractured civilization. Can you survive the e… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War.

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  29. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    81% User Score Based on 2,217 reviews
    Critic Score 74%Based on 4 reviews

    Solarpunk is a survival game set in a technically advanced world of floating islands! Alone or together with your friends, construct buildings, grow food, create gadgets and guide your airship to new islands hidden in the sky! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solarpunk.

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    47%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    73% User Score Based on 15 reviews

    You have damaged your ship and ended up on a planet where the air is unsuitable for breathing. But all is not lost! You will have to use all your skills and intelligence to survive and return to Earth. Start with the basics — create a base that will be your refuge on this hostile planet. Develop a strategy to protect and develop your base. Resources are your everything on this planet. Get t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AstroPlanet.

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    90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
    90% User Score Based on 196 reviews

    Archean is a deeply immersive Engineering Sandbox. Begin your journey on primordial Earth, over 3 billion years ago, in the Archean eon—a time when the world was raw, untamed, and full of potential. Craft, experiment, and engineer your own creations—solo or with friends—in a sandbox that doesn't hold your hand. Every system is simulated, every challenge earned. And when you're ready to go beyon… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Archean.

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  32. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

      Evochron Legacy is a freeform space flight simulation that focuses on 'lone-wolf' survival gameplay and pilot controlled spacecraft management. The environment setting is a vast seamless style universe where you can perform many activities including buying, trading, spying, racing, escorting, delivering, emergency responding, mining, exploring, weapon/equipment crafting, cleaning solar panels, c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evochron Legacy SE.

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  33. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 44,980 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ASTRONEER.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 2,240 reviews

    RODINA is an immersive space exploration game with allows players to seamlessly travel across an entire, full-scale solar system. Seamless means your character can travel anywhere - in space, on planets, and in your ship - with no loading screens! Walk around your space ship, or anywhere on full-size planet landscapes. Fly through a planet's atmosphere to its surface, or out into deep space. Des… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to RODINA.

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  35. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    67% User Score Based on 3,414 reviews

    StarMade is a 3D sandbox space shooter created by Robin "schema" Promesberger, founder of Schine. The game allows players to explore the vastness of space; building factories; creating ships, space stations and structures out of various block types. Both single-player worlds and multi-player servers are available players. StarMade is currently in Alpha, and is a free-to-play game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to StarMade.

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  36. Disaster strikes a remote research base on a distant moon. Your escape pod malfunctions and slams into an uncharted, Earth-like planet. You wake with nothing but wreckage, your instincts, and a whole world to tame. Survive. Build. Escape. But escape is only the beginning. The creatures hunting you are connected to the catastrophe that stranded you here, and whatever caused it has spread across th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PlanetSmith.

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  37. Your mission is to survive and find answers. In X SPACE, you must step personally into the unforgiving void. Scavenge wreckage to piece together your first life-support system and establish automated production lines to secure a steady supply of resources. Snap massive space station modules seamlessly together and arm your base to repel warping enemy forces. This is not just a static shelter; it i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to X Space.

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  38. AstroTrucks was designed as a futuristic take on running the logistics behind a deep-space colony. Featuring accurate 6-DOF physics, this multiplayer game starts you off as a lowly taxi driver, ferrying around passengers between Warp Gates and various production facilities. As you build up your experience of your port, move into various career paths, including mining, cargo and ore transport. Deli… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AstroTrucks.

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  39. SpaceforgeYou are a lone explorer, marooned on a mysterious alien planet teeming with strange flora, deadly fauna, and untold secrets. Your mission? Survive, adapt, and dominate. Gather resources, build shelters, automate essential tasks, and uncover the hidden wonders and threats of this unfamiliar world. Features A Vast Alien Landscape to Explore Journey through stunning alien biomes, from lush… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space.

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  40. Low Earth Orbit Adventures is a space simulation set in the near future in a very specific place and time! Floating above our beautiful world just as it is becoming a bustling frontier of science, commerce and diplomacy. Have you ever wanted to rescue the Hubble? Ferry a diplomat from one space station to another? Or refuel a stranded flight on its way to the Moon? Low Earth Orbit Adventures (LEO… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Low Earth Orbit Adventures.

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  41. Join our playtest for an unlocked version of the game, please also join our discord if you do for any feedback and comments. Any community engagement is appreciated! Game Information:Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale. Everything in this game starts with the Miner. You place the Miner on as… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kardashev.

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  42. Check out the Tungsten Moon Steam Page Tungsten Moon is a spacecraft simulation, set on a small, fictional moon made entirely of tungsten metal. The moon is 600 km in diameter, with a surface gravity similar to Earth's moon. You are placed on the surface of Tungsten Moon, in a small spacecraft with enough fuel to travel to any other point on the moon. How did you get there? Why don't you know how… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tungsten Moon.

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  44. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    90% User Score Based on 2,013 reviews

    Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue.

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  45. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    81% User Score Based on 1,153 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 2 reviews

    Nimbatus: The Drone Constructor is an action simulation game. Craft drones out of hundreds of different parts and explore a fully destructible, procedurally generated galaxy! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nimbatus: The Space Drone Constructor.

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  46. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    72% User Score Based on 1,553 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 15 reviews

    Become an indestructible interdimensional superbeing in this first-person superhero game, and save Earth from an alien invasion. Be careful though - you are so powerful you can destroy entire skyscrapers (unintentionally) when you miss your otherworldly target... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Megaton Rainfall.

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  47. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    84% User Score Based on 2,104 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome! Experience the brilliant climax of the legendary X-Trilogy , and take your place in the history of the X Universe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to X3: Terran Conflict.

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  48. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    74% User Score Based on 114 reviews

    You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ships malfunction... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Life Not Supported.

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  49. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    64% User Score Based on 78 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

    Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. Explore, Build and Prosper! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to orbit.industries.

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