Games Like Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era

Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era

Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space. The core gameplay can be played offline, while alliance features add online missions and cooperative construction.

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Universe Horizon

89% 👍 OF 235
About This Game

An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.

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Idle Evolution

73% 👍 OF 198
About This Game

A game combination of genres time-manager / strategy / educational. Simple and addictive whose currency are the atoms and the goal is to have their control and reach the final evolution. God created the world in 6 days... and you?

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Idle Space Raider

73% 👍 OF 248
About This Game

You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.

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Starvester

70% 👍 OF 806
About This Game

A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Automate Planet Mining
  • …Expand A Star-System Factory
  • …Build Space Megastructures
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Territory Idle

79% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reset for Gold
  • …Fight for Tiles
  • …Choose Gods and Perks
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Widget Inc.

85% 👍 OF 778
About This Game

A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Handcraft Then Automate
  • …Earn Machine Placement Bonuses
  • …Build Across Terrain
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X3: Terran Conflict

86% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Trading Empires
  • …Construct Factory Networks
  • …Board Capital Ships
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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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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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Approximately Up

96% 👍 OF 657
About This Game

Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Wired Spaceships
  • …Design Flight Controls
  • …Land on Planets
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PULSAR: Lost Colony

90% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fly inside an asteroid and detonate your own reactor to stop it hitting a planet.
  • …strip oxygen on an enemy ship, suit up, beam aboard, and neutralize the crew to claim the vessel.
  • …sell massive quantities of biscuits to an alien brain.