PlayStation console exclusive
Splice
2012Cipher Prime · Android, Linux, PS3 +4
Splice is a puzzler where you are microbes that you "splice" to create a specific strand structure in a few amount of moves.
67 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired


Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
357 games like SpaceChem · 1983 – 2026
PlayStation console exclusive
Cipher Prime · Android, Linux, PS3 +4
Splice is a puzzler where you are microbes that you "splice" to create a specific strand structure in a few amount of moves.
67 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired


Arcen Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, deter
60 rating1 list7 h main storyOften paired


Twice Circled · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in
66 rating5 lists27 h main storyOften paired


Red Redemption · Windows, macOS
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of prot
71 rating1 list8 h main storyOften paired
PlayStation console exclusive
Sports Interactive · PlayStation Portable, Windows, macOS
In Football Manager 2011, managers can negotiate contracts with players, access a training area so that managers can give their team specific areas to focus on before a match, interact with players, staff and the board, enjoy 100 new animat
85 rating4 listsOften paired


Hemisphere Games · Android, Linux, Windows +2
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: e
78 rating3 lists5.5 h main storyOften paired


Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +7
Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and u
78 rating19 lists16 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Two Tribes · Android, Linux, Nintendo 3DS +6
In Edge players take direct control of the cube and roll their way around the game's dozens of levels. Search for all the prisms and find the shortcuts to improve your times.
79 rating4 lists3.5 h main storyOften paired
PlayStation console exclusive
Unigine Company · Android, Linux, PS3 +2
Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still pr
54 rating4 lists10 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +4
"Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker! If you succeed, you'll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office bu
76 rating7 lists4.5 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +3
"Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. ...a thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!"
73 rating3 lists10 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +3
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and crafted with love and science.
71 rating1 list7 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games


increpare games · Linux, Windows, iOS +1
English Country Tune is a luxuriant abstract 3D puzzle game containing more than a hundred levels situated throughout 17 worlds.
72 rating1 list9.5 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games


Windows
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
80 rating2 lists68 h main storyDescribed alike


Linux, Windows, macOS
Sebastian has just landed his first job in the distant city of Dorisburg. He moves there to start his adult life and figure out who he really wants to be. Among a strange collection of people, hackers and activists he finds some true friend
81 rating1 list13 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Hempuli Oy · Android, Linux, Switch +3
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where you can change the rules by which you play. In every level, the rules themselves are present as blocks you can interact with; by manipulating them, you can change how the level works and cause surprising,
80 rating4 lists7 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games


Blind Mind Studios · Linux, Windows
Star Ruler is a large scale, real-time grand strategy set in space. Design, build, and take control of potentially thousands of ships, and expand the reach of your empire across the entire galaxy. Research new technologies, capture enemy ve
80 rating1 list15 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Android, BlackBerry OS, Linux +5
Eufloria is an ambient game of space exploration and conquest that employs surprising themes of plant growth and bio mechanical evolution. The game allows the player to explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is bot
74 rating3 lists
PlayStation console exclusive
Recoil Games · Android, Linux, PS3 +2
Rochard is a game where manipulating gravity and using the G-Lifter (a gravity device used to easily move weighty objects around) are crucial elements for success. With the help of his sci-fi mining tools and taking advantage of the laws of
69 rating3 lists3.5 h main story


Android, Linux, Windows +2
Welcome to Snuggle Truck, the award winning over-the-top physics-based indie driving game. Save your cargo of crazy animals by delivering them to the zoo unscathed in the least amount of time. Tilt your truck, catch the fuzzies, drive over
80 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Windows
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader,
77 rating1 list24 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Mode 7 · Android, Linux, PlayStation Vita +3
Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC, Mac, Linux and tablet (iOS/Android) strategy game. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Classic gameplay with a mod
81 rating6 lists24 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Namco · Android, Arcade, Switch +1
The player must take control of the Chemic, a small black atom with red spikes which must adhere itself to passing Moleks (which come in four different colours: cyan, green, pink and yellow) in order to duplicate the patterns shown in the c
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Nintendo console exclusive
2D Boy · Android, BlackBerry 10, Linux +5
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The
83 rating1 list6.5 h main story


Camshaft Software · Windows
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader,
77 rating1 list


PS4, PS5, Windows +1
Kerbal Space Program 2 is a sequel to its award winning 2015 predecessor, space sim Kerbal Space Program. A game where you lead green creatures called Kerbals to space by constructing rockets of varying success rates. KSP2 is planned to bri
3 lists7 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Frontier Developments · PS5, Windows, macOS
Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game. Similar to its spiritual predecessor, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (also developed by Frontier), the game allows players to build different theme park rides and roller-coaster
82 rating5 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
2D Boy · Android, Linux, Switch +4
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The
83 rating11 listsAlso in Puzzle games
Nintendo console exclusive
Wube software · Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +2
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
86 rating1 list53 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +2
Step into the world of interstellar travel, where Space Pirates lurk at every corner. Kaptain Brawe, a Space Police officer will embark on a journey filled with quests, conspiracies and general chaos, as he follows the lead of two kidnapped
50 rating2 lists3.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Squad · Linux, Switch, PS4 +6
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
86 rating12 lists110 h main story


Android, Switch, PS4 +6
Imagine a magical factory, appearing right in your living room. A carefully planned masterpiece, where diligent workers throw together anything customers want. Rubber ducks and dressers, drones and electric guitars, scooters and other wonde
72 rating2 lists20 h main story


Coffee Stain Studios · Windows, macOS
An inventive tower defense/ first person shooter hybrid that pits elite soldier Skye against various forms of alien life on a small set of unique maps. Skye must build and upgrade defensive structures while jumping into the fray to help her
65 rating2 lists8.5 h main story


Runner Duck · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Captain's Log, Star Date 2152. This is Space Crew. Its continuing mission: To defend Earth and humankind, to eliminate the extraterrestrial threat and to boldly go where no Crew has gone before in this unique, strategic, space simulation!
2 lists19 h main story


Linux, Windows, macOS
Disasters, enemies, and incompetence conspire to make each shift aboard the station a unique and hellish experience. Sign up today to explore intricate game mechanics and enjoy limitless player interaction! (Nanotrasen Inc. is not responsib
1 listDescribed alike


slimestudio · Windows
A space-themed Suika game where you combine planets to create even bigger ones!
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Xbox console exclusive
Swing Swing Submarine · Linux, Windows, Xbox 360 +1
When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation. You are the Tetrobot: a tiny robot that can drill blocks of matter one by one, collect them, and recycle them into new pieces of 4 bloc
69 rating1 list5.5 h main story


Anisoptera Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
77 rating2 lists25 h main storyDescribed alike
Timed Xbox exclusive
Keen Software House · PS4, PS5, Windows +1
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.
72 rating7 lists19 h main storyDescribed alike


Terry Cavanagh · Android, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry OS +4
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
81 rating3 lists5.5 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo · NES
The Family Basic is a Basic interpreter for the Famicom that was only released in Japan. It included the Famicom Keyboard and a tape drive called the Famicom Data Recorder. Many versions were released following the first version which was r
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Capcom · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
The classic series takes a leap forward in visual presentation in Mega Man 11 with a 2.5D design direction introducing beautiful, completely hand-drawn characters and environments. A freshly redesigned Mega Man takes on Dr. Wily’s berserk m
79 rating7 lists5 h main story


Origin Systems · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +6
Omega, on the surface, appears to be just a simple tank combat simulation game. Once you get into it, however, the game gets much deeper. The player actually codes the AI for their tank using a pretty robust progamming language system.
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Origin Systems · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +5
Omega, on the surface, appears to be just a simple tank combat simulation game. Once you get into it, however, the game gets much deeper. The player actually codes the AI for their tank using a pretty robust progamming language system.
1 list


Linux, Switch, PS5 +2
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
88 rating2 lists6.5 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games


Frontier Developments · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +2
Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game. Similar to its spiritual predecessor, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (also developed by Frontier), the game allows players to build different theme park rides and roller-coaster
82 rating3 lists28 h main story


Airtight Games · PS3, Windows, Xbox 360
In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a young kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just so happens to be the brilliant, eccentric inventor, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor's
72 rating5 lists6.5 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games


Android, Linux, MSX +3
Autumn is coming. Leaves fall, and spirits rise from the fallen leaves to begin their journey home. You must guide them, without direct control, by changing how the wind blows or by rebuilding the ground. Each spirit can be sacrificed to pe
70 rating3 lists3 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games