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IFO

A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

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★ CHILDREN OF A DEAD EARTH ★ STAR TREK: VOYAGER - ACROSS THE UNKNOWN ★ SPACE ACCIDENT ★ HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER ★ COSMOTEER: STARSHIP ARCHITECT & COMMANDER ★ SOLAR EXPANSE - SPACE EXPLORATION MANAGER ★ THE MESSAGE FROM DEEP SPACE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Children of a Dead Earth

90% 👍 OF 943
About This Game

The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Custom Warships
  • …Plot Orbital Intercepts
  • …Tune Engines and Guns
Simulation Strategy Space Realistic Sci-fi
REL Sep 23, 2016 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

79% 👍 OF 4.7K
About This Game

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rebuild Voyager
  • …Rewrite Voyager’s Journey
  • …Balance Ship Systems
Strategy Space Sim Interactive Fiction Management Roguelike
REL Feb 18, 2026 ★ $34.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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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!

Player reviews say 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.
Space Sci-fi Simulation Physics Singleplayer
REL May 24, 2022 ★ $34.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

94% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …shove an entire asteroid field into a harvest pile with a giant front plow.
  • …design a tractor-beam ship that pushes or pulls other ships or stations into a star.
  • …host your single-player ship, extrude a barely-attached new hull, blow it in half, and hand a friend control of the fragment.
Sci-fi Singleplayer Building Space 2D
REL Oct 24, 2022 $19.99 -30% $13.99 See This Game →
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Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

87% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Plan Interplanetary Flights
  • …Mine Asteroid Resources
  • …Build Offworld Colonies
Early Access Space Simulation Sandbox Physics
REL Apr 9, 2026 ★ $17.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Message from Deep Space

97% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build your own alien dictionary from scratch, with your own definitions, notes, and aliases
  • …watch isolated call-and-response puzzles turn into full sentences you can read using only the vocabulary you assembled
  • …answer a meteorite's radio transmissions correctly to make the alien message continue evolving
Science Puzzle Aliens Sci-fi Retro
REL Jun 29, 2026 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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