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Manage a near-future space company, planning flights and supply chains to mine, colonize, and terraform worlds across the Solar System.
Released 09 Apr 2026
Plan Interplanetary Flights
Mine Asteroid Resources
Build Offworld Colonies
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Developed by SpaceOps · Published by Games Operators
You lead a space exploration company in the early 21st century, aiming to expand beyond Earth. Contracts offer goals and funding as you develop the technology and infrastructure needed to reach other worlds.
Plan launches and routes between planets, moons, and asteroids, where travel takes time and resources must be delivered to the places that need them. Use telescopes, arrays, and probes to survey destinations, then establish mining and production operations or trade materials.
Build colonies and support them with habitats, workers, fuel, and supplies. Research unlocks new capabilities as your network grows, enabling larger projects such as redirecting asteroids and terraforming planets.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its distinctive focus on space-industry logistics: planning long-term expansion, building resource chains, and seeing colonies and terraforming projects take shape can make progress feel rewarding and engrossing. Some also appreciate the Solar System presentation and the gradual increase in planning demands. Experiences vary, and many reviews say that repetitive mission setup, limited automation, and hard-to-find information make expansion increasingly tedious.
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 beyond.
There is a multitude of objects in the asteroid belt alone. Some are made of water, others might contain precious metals. Deploy various telescopes, arrays and probes to know the system better and plan your next flights. Scan for the most profitable and useful materials. Research new technologies
Send your rockets and deliver the asteroids to Earth or colonies. Gain the profits to expand your corporation and start the projects on much larger scale.
In time, you will get contracts to establish permanent bases on various objects. Build fuel stations, launch sites, space catapults, elevators and entire colonies!
Your ultimate goal will be to make the moons and planets of different systems habitable. This task will take centuries, enormous resources, technologies and thousands of rocket flights. Drop the water asteroids from the asteroid belt on Mars. Mine Io and Titan for necessary resources.
Once you are done with the Solar System, build an interstellar ship. Once the game is fully released, you'll be able to venture into real and generated systems, such as Alpha & Proxima, Centauri, Trappist, Gliese & Kepler… you name them!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 34 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| AI disclosure | Some of the translations were done with AI assistance. |
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