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Children of a Dead Earth

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

★ KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ★ SOLAR EXPANSE - SPACE EXPLORATION MANAGER ★ ROCKET SCIENCE ★ BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR PORTAL ★ HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER ★ SPACE ENGINEERS 2 ★ COSMOTEER: STARSHIP ARCHITECT & COMMANDER ★ CRAZY MACHINES 3 ★ SPACEFLIGHT SIMULATOR ★ SIMPLEROCKETS ★ OSMOS ★ X: BEYOND THE FRONTIER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Kerbal Space Program

96% 👍 OF 146K
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.

Player reviews say 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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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
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Bridge Constructor Portal

92% 👍 OF 7.5K
About This Game

Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Portal Bridges
  • …Launch Vehicle Convoys
  • …Redirect Cars With Portals
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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.
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Space Engineers 2

75% 👍 OF 5.7K
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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Combine Block Sizes
  • …Carve Planetary Terrain
  • …Build Ships And Bases
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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.
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Crazy Machines 3

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a multi-step machine to punch an Egyptian statue in the face.
  • …shoot a kettle off a clumsycorn's head with a high-precision crossbow.
  • …create your own levels and modules, then fill the board with bombs and blast robots off-screen.
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Spaceflight Simulator

97% 👍 OF 9.9K
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.

Player reviews say 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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SimpleRockets

86% 👍 OF 366
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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Osmos

86% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Absorb Smaller Motes
  • …Spend Mass to Move
  • …Ride Orbital Paths
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X: Beyond the Frontier

75% 👍 OF 398
About This Game

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.