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SpaceEngine is a 3D astronomy program and game engine developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Using real astronomical catalogs and procedural generation, it creates a three dimensional planetarium representing the

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Role-playingSimulationSpace simulationExplorationScience fiction

Dual Universe is a Continuous Single-Shard sandbox MMORPG taking place in a vast Sci-Fi universe, focusing on emergent gameplay with player-driven in-game economy, politics, trade and warfare. Players can freely modify the voxel-based unive

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Role-playingSimulationStrategySpace simulationFlight

The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay, breath-taking scope and award-winning sound. All content can be enjoyed in game any mode: solo, personal invite-only group or open/MMO. Ca

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Role-playingSimulationStrategySpace simulationCrafting

EVE Online is a free MMORPG sci-fi strategy game where you can embark on your own unique space adventure. EVE's open world MMORPG sandbox, renowned among online space games, lets you choose your own path and engage in combat, exploration, i

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategyEconomy

Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not firepower, is the player's weapon. Players lead their developing companies in cutthroat economic warfare against other companies looking to become the dominant econom

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IndieReal-time strategySandboxSimulationStrategy

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 structures, apply management sk

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IndieSimulationSpace simulationExplorationScience fiction

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, the player navigates a s

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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionSandbox

As an engineer of Dyson Sphere Program, you will go to an alien galaxy building “Dyson Sphere”. Collecting resources, plan and designing production lines, gradually create a full automated factory. Develop your factory from a small workshop

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IndieRole-playingSimulationStrategyExploration

Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat

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IndieSimulationSpace simulationExplorationCrafting

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 their equipment while f

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IndieSimulationSpace simulationExplorationCrafting

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 their equipment while f

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IndieSandboxSimulationSpace simulationExploration

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 orbit

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SimulationSpace simulationPlanetFirst personThird person

Microsoft Space Simulator is a space flight simulator program, based on Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS. It was one of the first general-purpose space flight simulators and it incorporated concepts from astrodynamics and celestial mec

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Role-playingSimulationStrategyIndieSpace simulation

StarMade is a 3D sandbox space shooter created by Robin "schema" Promesberger, founder of Schine. The game allows players to explore the vastness of space; building factories; creating ships, space stations and structures out of various blo

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Role-playingSimulationStrategySpace simulationCrafting

EVE Online is a free MMORPG sci-fi strategy game where you can embark on your own unique space adventure. EVE's open world MMORPG sandbox, renowned among online space games, lets you choose your own path and engage in combat, exploration, i

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SimulationProcedural generationFlightPlanetScience fiction

Frontier: Elite 2 is, of course, the sequel to Elite and it continues in much the same way. You have a ship and limited funds, and nowhere to go but out into space. Trade, fight, hunt criminals, work for the various governments, anything go

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IndieRole-playingSimulationStrategySpace simulation

StarMade is a 3D sandbox space shooter created by Robin "schema" Promesberger, founder of Schine. The game allows players to explore the vastness of space; building factories; creating ships, space stations and structures out of various blo

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IndieSimulationSpace simulationScience fictionFirst person

A local multiplayer game for 2-4 players. Only the fastest guns and the fastest on their feet can win!

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IndieRole-playingSimulationStrategySpace simulation

Rebel Galaxy is an action-packed, swashbuckling space opera. You'll battle pirates, explore anomalies, befriend aliens, scavenge battle wreckage, mine asteroids, and discover artifacts. Choose your path as a roguish do-gooder, crafty space-

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategySpace simulation

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remain

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IndieSimulationStrategyEconomySupply and demand

Become a Gazillionaire by starting a tiny trading company and building a business empire!

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategySpace simulation

House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the Empire's most deadly interceptor and in command of the Harbinger Fleet. Hunt down the enemies of your dying empire and upgrade your warships with new wea

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategyProcedural generation

Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety.

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategySpace simulation

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remain

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IndieRole-playingSimulationCraftingProcedural generation

Earth has been turned into thousands of flying islands. The survivors are at war for resources. You are an airship captain who wants to reach Black Skylands, a scavenger’s paradise. To do so you must destroy hordes of hostile monsters and f

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IndieRole-playingSimulationSpace simulationExploration

Miner Wars is a first-person action-survival space simulation game set in the year 2081.

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IndieRole-playingSimulationSpace simulationScience fiction

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!

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IndieRole-playingSandboxExplorationCrafting

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe…

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IndieRole-playingSimulationSpace explorationScience fiction

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

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IndieReal-time strategySandboxSimulationStrategy

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and de

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SimulationSpace simulationPilotPlanetScience fiction

Eight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equ

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Real-time strategySimulationStrategyExplorationResource gathering

In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power. Enter a young adventurer an

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IndieExplorationCraftingResource gatheringOpen world

Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to s

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategyScience fiction

A starship builder perfect for fans of games like FTL, Starsector, SPAZ, Space Engineers, Escape Velocity, Avorion, and more. Design awesome starships using intuitive ship creation tools that are easy to learn but hard to master. Fully cus

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SimulationSpace simulationFlightPilotScience fiction

The year is 2367, thirty two years after the Great War. Or at least what YOU thought was the Great War. The seemingly endless tide of Shivan capital ships, bombers and fighters with super advanced technology was nearly overwhelming.As the T

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IndieReal-time strategySimulationStrategyScience fiction

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, and more.

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IndieSandboxSimulationStrategyScience fiction

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining.

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SimulationSpace simulationFlightScience fictionThird person

The game features two immediately playable craft: Nym's starfighter, "The Havoc", which features heavy armament as a bomber, and Adi's fighter, which features force powers such as lightning and force shield. There are also nine unlockable

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Real-time strategyRole-playingStrategyScience fictionScience

Stake your claim, command your fleets, and wage epic war in space.

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Ace of Spades was a 2012 first-person shooter and voxel-based sandbox video game developed and published by Jagex. Originally created by Ben Aksoy and released as a prototype in April 2011, the game was acquired by Jagex in 2012 and fully r

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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionSandbox

Empyrion - Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build mighty ships, menacing space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and the allegedly emp

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IndieSimulationStrategyExplorationCrafting

Welcome to The Long Dark, the innovative exploration-survival experience Wired magazine calls "the pinnacle of an entire genre". The game is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves

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IndieSimulationExplorationScience fictionFirst person

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 hope, and stranded on

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IndieSandboxSimulationFirst personThird person

In the toughest motoring expedition in the universe, you and your friends will build your own vehicles to cross a dangerous wasteland. Explore, crash horribly, use your wits to build a better rig, and get as far as you can with whatever spa

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Real-time strategySimulationStrategySpace travelSpace exploration

Alien Legacy is a sci-fi strategy game developed by Ybarra Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994 for MS-DOS.

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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 gathering resources, cra

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IndieSandboxSimulationSpace explorationScience fiction

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysterie

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SimulationSpace simulationFlightPilotScience fiction

The year is 2367, thirty two years after the Great War. Or at least what YOU thought was the Great War. The seemingly endless tide of Shivan capital ships, bombers and fighters with super advanced technology was nearly overwhelming.As the T

81 rating3 lists16 h main story

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