Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony.
67% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like Destination Ares
If Destination Ares scratched a replayable and minimalist itch for you, keep reading. These games make natural next picks for you.
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home. Space Haven is a colony sim about designing the ship, managing fragile civilians inside it, and salvaging what you need from derelicts, asteroids, and rival factions along the way.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark, Retro
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99Stardeus
A deep colony sim on a broken starship. You are the ship's immortal AI: send drones to patch the hull, balance oxygen, heat and power, wake your human crew, and decide whether to protect them or exploit them. Then fly your rebuilt ship into a procedurally generated universe full of pirates, traders and worse.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
87% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99Derelict Void
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
57% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Shortest Trip to Earth
A roguelike spaceship sim about a long way home: manage crew, modules, food and a cat, fight real-time tactical battles with a pause button, and steer through hundreds of strange events in a procedurally generated universe. Permadeath is unforgiving, every run plays out differently, and the journey is desperate, improvised and worth every loss.
Replayable, Minimalist, Tense
75% of 1,262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$25.99SYMMETRY
A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?
Minimalist, Tense, Dark
53% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Jumplight Odyssey
Keep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
58% of 962 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems. Every decision is defensible in the moment. The horror is retroactive. Land what is left and build a colony, alone or with up to three friends.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Minimalist, Dark
85% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99Jitter
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Retro
84% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Starship Theory
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark
50% of 1,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9FreeHull Rupture
Earth is gone, and your ship is a living projectile aimed at the alien homeworld. Hull Rupture is a darkly funny tower-defense roguelite where you manage power, resources and human lives to keep the engines burning, build the ship ever bigger, and plug every hull breach before the aliens get in. Keep moving. Whatever it takes.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
75% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,625$13.49Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
84% of 1,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Cheaper than Destination Ares
Icarus Starship Command Simulator
In this "starship command simulator" you will fight your way to the center of a randomly generated galaxy where a massive star is about to go…
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Space Architect
Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99
Lost Crew
This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time.
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
ROD: Revolt Of Defense
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.
80% of 526 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
EVERSPACE™
Fast roguelike space combat where every run ends in a crash and every crash makes the next one stronger.
77% of 9,843 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$1.99
Search
The existence of all mankind is under threat. You are the only hope!
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Wastelander
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Starship Inspector
Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member?
55% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
30 minutes to rescue
30 Minutes to Rescue is a tense sci-fi survival story set in a Mars colony.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Sheltered
Ration every drop, scavenge the wasteland above, and make the calls that decide who survives down in the bunker.
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
Don't Sleep With The Fishes
A hand-drawn survival horror where you fish for answers by day and ration your hope by night, with endings that rarely turn out kind.
95% of 887 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$1.99
Hidden gems like Destination Ares
Endless Dark
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact.
99% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.
85% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Jitter
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.
84% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Solargene
Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system.
77% of 786 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$34.99
Dead in Antares
Manage a stranded crew of ten survivors on a mysterious alien world, from wrecked ship to functioning outpost.
78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Ostranauts
Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.
76% of 3,246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155$19.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
Stardeus
As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.
87% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99
Hull Rupture
Manage power, people and a growing ship as you plug hull breaches and race toward the alien homeworld.
75% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,625$13.49
Rogue AI Simulator
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!
82% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Tin Can
Keep a battered escape pod breathing in the void, managing every system by hand as the air runs thin.
84% of 1,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
The Banished Vault
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery.
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Newest games like Destination Ares
Hull Rupture
Manage power, people and a growing ship as you plug hull breaches and race toward the alien homeworld.
75% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,625$13.49
Ostranauts
Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.
76% of 3,246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155$19.99
Asymptote
A 2D top-down rescue-survival game set on Mars, where you pilot an anti-gravity craft, save stranded colonists, destroy hostile machines, and face…
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.
85% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Guide a fleeing fleet of survivors across the ruins of the Twelve Colonies, one desperate FTL jump at a time.
76% of 1,106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$12.49
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.
70% of 47 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Generation Exile
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.
65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Dead in Antares
Manage a stranded crew of ten survivors on a mysterious alien world, from wrecked ship to functioning outpost.
78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Voyager is stranded 70,000 light-years from home, and this time the decisions are yours.
78% of 4,291 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$34.99
The Last Starship
Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.
75% of 1,645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99