Games Like Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

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.

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker

89% 👍 OF 22K
About This Game

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

In this game, you can…

  • …get yourself processed like scrap and see the system price your body at $8.14.
  • …rip a reactor out, flush its fuel lines, kill the cooling, and race it out before it goes critical.
  • …cut into a pressurized compartment and trigger explosive decompression that launches you and cargo into space.
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Space Engineers 2

75% 👍 OF 4.8K
About This Game

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

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Kerbal Space Program

96% 👍 OF 144K
About This Game

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

In this game, you can…

  • …spot a tiny gray dot in the sky, zoom out, and discover there's an entire star system to explore.
  • …dock engines onto an orbiting space station to turn it into a ship, then fly it to a gas giant and tour its moons.
  • …build and fly totally different vehicles from the same parts: rockets, planes, rovers, shuttles, and even boats.
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SimpleRockets

85% 👍 OF 364
About This Game

I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.

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Spaceflight Simulator

97% 👍 OF 9.4K
About This Game

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

In this game, you can…

  • …launch an expedition in pieces, dock everything in orbit, swap control between vehicles, and pump fuel from a main ship into probes.
  • …survive the Sun, burn an engine forever, or try to fly through Jupiter until gravity stops working.
  • …deorbit Earth into the Sun and use your space program to do ridiculous, destructive experiments.
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Space Simulation Toolkit

81% 👍 OF 503
About This Game

Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

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Astrox Imperium

84% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

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The Last Starship

76% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

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Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue

66% 👍 OF 308
About This Game

Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.

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Stable Orbit - Build your own space station

50% 👍 OF 379
About This Game

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.