Recommendations
20 games like SpaceEngine
Games that share SpaceEngine's genres, themes and feel — upcoming and already out.
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Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- +3
- 2

Exo Rally Championship
Exo Rally Championship is the galaxy’s most dangerous off-road racing event - remote, unexplored, extreme exoplanetary rally. Master a brutally realistic racing simulation and fight for every second gained on your…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- 3

Juno: New Origins
Build rockets, airplanes, cars, and anything you can think of with highly customizable parts. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online.
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- Mac
- iOS
- +1
- 4

The Solus Project
A single player exploration and survival experience, played in first person and developed in Unreal Engine 4. Set on a mysterious and uninhabited alien planet. With Earth on the brink of destruction, as mankind's last…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- PS4
- XB1
- +1
- 5

Kerbal Space Program
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…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- Switch
- PS4
- +4
- 6

Star Citizen
Star Citizen is a sandbox open-world MMO "SpaceSim" by Cloud Imperium Games. Explore the 'verse, fight, trade, and more when you play Star Citizen!
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- 7

No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- +6
- 8

Terraria
Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- Switch
- PS4
- +10
- 9

DayZ
DayZ is a hardcore open-world survival game with only one rule: stay alive, no matter what. How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- +3
- 10

The Forest
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- PS4
- SteamVR
- 11

Hytale
Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons promise rich rewards throughout their…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- Mac
- Linux
- 12

Schedule I
Schedule I is a first-person open-world crime simulation game where players build and manage a drug trafficking operation in the fictional city of Hyland Point. Gameplay combines business management with tactical…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- 13

Project Zomboid
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, a massively customisable sandbox and a…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- Mac
- Linux
- 14

Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved is an open-world action-adventure survival game where players awaken stranded on a mysterious island populated by dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures, and mythical beasts. Gameplay revolves around…
SimulatorIndieOpen world- PC
- Xbox
- Switch
- +6
- 15

RimWorld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- Mac
- Linux
- 16

Factorio
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious…
SimulatorIndieScience fiction- PC
- Switch 2
- Switch
- +2
- 17

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
A physics based medieval battle simulator which lets you pit wacky waving armies against each other. In Totally Accurate Battle Simulator you pit waving arm men against each other and watch them fight it out.
SimulatorIndie- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- +6
- 18

Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to…
SimulatorIndie- PC
- Switch 2
- Switch
- +8
- 19

Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod is a physics-based sandbox game built on Valve's Source engine. In its base mode, there are no objectives. Players can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, then manipulate them using a physics…
SimulatorIndie- PC
- Mac
- Linux
- 20

Subnautica
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more, all while…
IndieScience fictionOpen world- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- +8