Games like What the Stars Forgot
Looking for games like What the Stars Forgot? Here are top strategy recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Celestial Command, The Sentient or Endless Dark.
1 67%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, story67% User Score 710 reviewsCelestial 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
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34%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding34% User Score 119 reviewsPlay as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.
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99%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygraphics, replayability99% User Score 106 reviewsA 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…
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86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability86% User Score 9,078 reviewsEmbark 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.
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60%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability74% User Score 1,792 reviewsCritic Score 23%3 reviewsShortest 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.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, replayability83% User Score 366 reviewsDig, Build & Explore. Manage a group of colonists as they attempt to survive underground on an alien world. Automated machine construction was sent ahead to create the underground Mercury facility, but something has gone wrong. Your colonists awake to find the facility in ruin.
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77%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding76% User Score 94,098 reviewsCritic Score 79%31 reviewsTake control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy. Elite: Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure into the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.
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16%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, story16% User Score 5,650 reviewsIn 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.
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62%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization62% User Score 1,159 reviewsKeep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
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69%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding66% User Score 320 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviews"The Spatials: Galactology is The Spatials reimagined as a deeper, more rewarding simulation game. With mod support and active pause, Galactology adds new items and structures to build, trade routes to exploit, planets with many new variables, sophisticated AI, civilizations that actually attack your station -- and unique gameplay systems behind every object and room."
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