Games like The Universe Won't Pause

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability

99% User Score Based on 117 reviews

A refreshing twist on roguelite and storytelling, Endless Dark is a psychological horror game about the pressures of monotony and the purpose of existence. You, the Custodian, are a sentient machine onboard a sleeper colony ship, charged with keeping it intact. No combat, enemies, or NPCs await you - only a myriad of system failures and the decay of your own sanity as you whittle away the deca… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endless Dark.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

96% User Score Based on 9,993 reviews

SpaceEngine is a 3D astronomy program and game engine developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Using real astronomical catalogs and procedural generation, it creates a three dimensional planetarium representing the entire universe. Users can travel through space in any direction or speed, and forwards or backwards in time. It uses pseudo-random numbers to procedurally cr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceEngine.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

91% User Score Based on 2,154 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 1 reviews

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solar 2.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fermi Paradox.

59%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

69% User Score Based on 36 reviews

SpaceSlog is a challenging sci-fi spaceship simulator that focuses on shipbuilding, crew interaction, and exploration. Inspired by games such as Rimworld, Starship Theory, Dwarf Fortress and X-COM, as well as iconic media such as Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Universe and The Expanse. Your colony ship has been destroyed. Fortunately, a few survivors managed to escape on a small ship. No… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceSlog.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

77% User Score Based on 270 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 2 reviews

A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Banished Vault.

Biosphere Simulator is a god game about deep time. You start with a barren world and one power: the Spark of Life. Cast it into the ocean, set the clock running, ten years a step or ten thousand, and watch what grows. Microbes become algae, fungi, worms and fish. Fish crawl onto land. Every species mutates, spreads, competes and dies out on its own terms, and no two worlds turn out the same. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Biosphere Simulator.

Experience a 1:1 scale, procedurally generated universe with seamless exploration from planets to stars. Journey across the cosmos with zero loading screens and realistic Newtonian physics. Trade, fight, and survive in a post-apocalyptic galaxy where gravity is your only boundary. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Univoyager.

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Asteroid Colony is a real time strategy city builder and economy simulation game set in the future of mankind. Help humanity leave its cradle and establish a colony in the far away asteroid belt, outside the orbit of Mars. It is up to you whether humanity can reach its c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Asteroid Colony.

Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Singularity Echoes.

Ironseed 3The Long ReturnThe Story Continues… The Ironseed did not die in deep space. It endured. Long after the escape from Mars, long after the fall of certainty, the ship still drifts... scarred, ancient, and carrying a burden no machine was ever meant to bear. You are no longer simply a captain. You are Vigil, the ship itself. A fractured guardian consciousness, holding together systems, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ironseed 3 : Vigil.

Hey you! Yeah, you. With the blown out shoes and the empty eyes. Are you tired of being broke and hungry, stuck on a rock with no prospects and even less hope? Do you want to do more with your life? Boy do we have an opportunity for you! More money than you could spend in two lifetimes and a future paved in gold is awaiting you in the Belt! Ceres Omnitech wants you for the Prospector program. D… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beltlife: Prospector.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story

85% User Score Based on 484 reviews

Sipho is an action survival game with an intricate building system. Grow your own creature and take over the local ecosystem. Fight, grow, survive, dominate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sipho.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

88% User Score Based on 868 reviews

In Solar Expanse, you take the lead of one of the early XXI century space exploration companies. Your goal will be to reach the planets, moons and asteroids of the system in order to mine and colonize them. Optimize the costs and schedule of the flights. Mind that each object is in constant motion, so exact planning is crucial. Utilize the gravity effects and slingshot your rockets further b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.

In the darkness of a human-dominated galaxy, assume command of a rising mercenary company. Navigate a vast, procedural sandbox where every Jump Drive activation could lead to a fortune or a lethal ambush. Forge your legacy through tactical brilliance, salvage what remains of your enemies, and survive a universe that is actively hunting you. TACTICAL ISOMETRIC SQUAD COMBAT Command a specialized f… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hired Stars.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

89% User Score Based on 281 reviews

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Xenopurge.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

84% User Score Based on 38 reviews

Possible One is the ultimate colony management game set in space, and the only space-related RTS game based on proven or very feasible technologies, avoiding sci-fi. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Possible One: Lunar Industries.

67%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

92% User Score Based on 24 reviews

Beyond the Chiron Gate is a text-based space exploration roguelike. Explore an endless universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers and upgrade their ship with new technology. Brave dangerous worlds to gather the data you need to reach the home system of the mysterious Gatebuilders. The middle of the 23rd Century. A space pro… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond the Chiron Gate.

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.

38%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

50% User Score Based on 26 reviews

Discover. Create. Manage.Discover new planets, gather resources, and explore ancient civilizations! Build outposts to repair your ship, and reaching your homebase remains your top priority! Calling Home offers a fresh take on the Resource Management genre. Begin by gathering resources, building, automating, and optimizing your outpost. Explore planets and adjust to their unique environments to fin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Calling Home.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

74% User Score Based on 1,792 reviews

Critic Score 41%Based on 5 reviews

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe, while an intergalactic war is raging. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shortest Trip to Earth.

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.

41%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story

41% User Score Based on 1,328 reviews

Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Maia.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, story

94% User Score Based on 36 reviews

CRYODEATH blends procedural generation, crafting, and hands-on VR survival to make every run unpredictable. Corridors reconfigure, rooms resurface, and the thing hunting you won’t stalk you the same way twice. There are no perfect routes, no guaranteed safe rooms, and no guide that can truly prepare you. Inspired by classics of sci-fi horror, the game has undergone a transformative year of deve… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to CRYODEATH VR.

37%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

48% User Score Based on 27 reviews

Interastra is a fully immersive science fiction survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, gravity, and resources. Craft necessary equipment, launch and control space rockets, explore the universe and survive among the stars. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interastra.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

85% User Score Based on 1,095 reviews

You've barely managed to flee your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you find yourself in the shoes of a technician, without any knowledge of the complex systems, around you, that are keeping you alive. Faced with all kind of cosmic dangers, how long will you survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tin Can.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

81% User Score Based on 69 reviews

A simple black hole simulator. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Black Hole Simulator.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics

92% User Score Based on 52 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 5 reviews

Astronaut: The Best is an occult management sim where people aren't just numbers: they're incompetent screwups. Your duty is to turn them into national heroes, or the government will have you killed. Traditionally, the space race is thought of as a gauche way to kill dogs using explosives, but you are expected to conduct your program with class (or be left dead in a ditch). Handle procedurally ge… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astronaut: The Best.

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.

Play God as an advanced intelligence observing a living Earth across deep time. Discover minds in unexpected forms, shape evolving civilizations, and watch your interventions become miracles, myths, mysteries—or reasons to resist you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Quiet Sky.

DUST: Origins is an isometric horror shooter set aboard a doomed orbital prison platform, imagined by the creators of Darksiders. Abruptly freed from cryo-prison, you fight to escape a murderer’s row of violent criminals and horrifying monsters before the station tears itself apart. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DUST: Origins.

Fermi Paradox“Where are they?” To date, we have found no reliable evidence that extraterrestrial civilizations have visited Earth. With countless stars and planets throughout the galaxy, why does intelligent life appear to be so rare? Humanity has survived its own journey through the Great Filter and become an interstellar civilization. Now it is time to leave the Solar System and search for civ… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Galactic Simulator 3.

The Ignition Protocol is an incremental, top-down mining game set in space. Mine and haul asteroids in zero-g, build and automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Ignition Protocol.

Fight, idle, and keep growing. BreakDespair 2D is an all-directional scrolling shooter set in space, built around mining, automatic upgrades, drones, weapons, and explosive number growth. Mine ore, convert it into GOLD, and strengthen your fighter, battleship, weapons, drones, missiles, and support beams. You do not need to manage every upgrade manually. If you have GOLD, your fighter and batt… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BreakDespair2D.

Arcbound is a colony simulation game set entirely on a single evolving starship. Everything is connected. And everything can fail at any moment. Design and expand your ship room by room, manage oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide a fragile civilisation from Earth’s final evacuation into deep space. WHAT YOU DO Design and expand your Arcship room by room Manage oxygen, power, water, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Arcbound.

Master the Elegance of Orbital Mechanics GravBoost is a physics-driven space action sim that challenges you to harness the most fundamental force of the universe: Gravity. Core Mechanics: Gravitational Slingshots: Use planetary gravity wells to gain velocity and alter your course. Every degree of entry matters—miss the mark, and you'll either crash into the surface or drift eternally into the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GravBoost.

Journey on the back of the space whale Kewa, building a city for your people as you travel across the galaxy seeking purpose and answers, and developing deep relationships with the universe around you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond These Stars.

43%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

69% User Score Based on 13 reviews

A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ORBITAL.

Build stellar rollercoasters across alien worlds, carve tunnels through planets, and launch trains into orbit. Customize every track element, scenery decoration, and environment before subjecting riders to the forces of the universe! The galaxy is your theme park! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Coasteroid.

Thousands of citizens, each with a life of their own. Urbanist is a strategy and simulation game about transforming small settlements into thriving cities and vibrant neighborhoods. Build up your island, manage resources and production chains, and earn your reputation as the next great Urbanist. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Urbanist.

Get ready to dive into the most absurd, unpredictable universe you've ever seen with The Great Fluctus! The Great Fluctus is a colony-building sandbox with survival elements, set in a voxel-based alien world with a truly unique visual style. Players mine resources, shape the terrain, and transform a small space base into a lively alien town. Build, farm, trade, and manage your evolving community… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Great Fluctus.

What The Stars Forgot is a starship and crew management sim. As the cutting-edge AI on the most advanced research vessel ever built, you have to guide a procedurally generated crew of hundreds as they embark on a dangerous mission to discover the source of an anomalous signal emanating from deep space. You will need to optimize crew assignments and maximize the performance of your ship, always wi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What the Stars Forgot.

53%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

90% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Many many years into the future, humanity has created and used warp drives. However, due to the recency of the technology, it still has many flaws. You are equipped with experimental engines and a warp drive, and you are tasked with finding the wreck of the EV Triumph, a large exploratory ship which lost contact on its journey through deep space. The reason was unknown, but you suffer the same fat… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Suborbital.

A single-player space battleship simulator with slow, tense 3d battles and complex, realistic weapons. Manage and upgrade your ship, or capture something better. Play a campaign defending against a ruthless attack, or set up custom battles. Victory requires skill, clever tactics and heavy firepower. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Capital Command.

Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to New Stars.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

In this puzzle colony builder you search for lost parts of your spaceship AUTARKIS. Build and manage several settlements at the same time and use portals to supply them. But be careful, the planets you visit are full of dangers.Tactical Colony Layout When your settlers land on a planet, they will find a harsh environment. Each building depends on its neighbours. Think carefully about the most effi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AUTARKIS.

Your journey through the cosmos begins at your own pace.Astrosphere is a relaxed sci-fi strategy game about exploration, station building, and slowly expanding your presence in space. You are not commanding a frantic war fleet. Instead, you develop your own space station step by step, design custom ships, and set out on expeditions into unknown star systems. Explore distant sectors, gather valuab… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrosphere.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

100% User Score Based on 11 reviews

Shepherd the last remnants of the Malthusian monks marooned on Proxima Centauri B. As the colony AI, will you delve into forbidden means to save your people or allow them to go quietly into the night? Set up production chains to spend limited resources to save as many as you can. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stella Pastoris.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

80% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customise your planet as you wish! In the start you will start from the blank planet only water surrounding it. You will have to build your planet. Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon! 5 Main things in the Game! Life Points - Shows how many life points your planet has. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planeta.

Vonkelveld (Afrikaans for "spark field", pronounced roughly FON-kul-felt) is a god-sim of tending and witnessing: a living world where every spark is a simulated soul, every place has a history, and every age remembers what your hand preserved. Tend, don't command. You are not a king. You do not command units, place buildings, or script lives. You shape conditions: raise land, sink it, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vonkelveld.