Games like Hardwar

Looking for that same retro and tense spark as Hardwar? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Industries of Titan
Found an industrial city-corporation on Saturn's moon Titan: salvage ancient ruins, refine resources in your factories, keep citizens and the Council happy, and outgrow rival corporations by tech, wealth, influence or battleships. A dark, striking city builder with strategy on top.
Dark
61% of 1,555 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99
Titan Outpost
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
79% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
MegaFactory Titan
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
77% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
You are a spaceship salvager in debt to LYNX Corp for 1.25 billion credits. Float in zero-g, slice hulls open with a laser cutter, and pull ships apart piece by piece without detonating the reactor. A physics puzzler that is surprisingly soothing, until something explodes.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
89% of 19,557 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 253$34.99
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
A physics-based mining sim in the thickest debris field around Saturn. Fly a rock-hopper into the rings, crack asteroids, haul ore to Enceladus and spend it on better ships, gear and crew. Lasers stay invisible, every burn has a reaction, and the quiet work of getting rich has a way of pulling you in.
Tense, Atmospheric
92% of 2,904 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99
Ostranauts
Scrape together a loan, buy a broken ship and claw your way out of debt in a cut-off solar system. Salvage derelicts, wire up your own life support, hire a crew with real needs, and fly under honest Newtonian physics. A hardcore, scrappy space sim that rewards patience and punishes carelessness.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
76% of 3,232 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 140$19.99
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Retro, Tense, Dark
76% of 666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim
Run a shop on a dystopian space station where the best margins live in legal gray zones. Craft, trade and smuggle, judge every customer, and pick which kind of trouble you monetize. Rent rises every week. How far you go to pay it is up to you.
Retro, Tense, Dark
87% of 14,387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 103,116$17.99
Objects in Space
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
Retro, Tense, Atmospheric
51% of 571 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Space Architect
Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom. A cartoony colony and automation sim where every run plays out differently.
73% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
Miner Wars 2081
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
Tense, Dark, Fast-paced
35% of 236 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
A pixel-art space sandbox with jokes: fly John Falcon's ship across 30 star systems, trade, mine, hunt pirates, then dock, stretch your legs and poke through ghost ships in your spacesuit. Old-school Elite freedom meets point-and-click adventure, all set to a soundtrack worth turning up.
Retro, Fast-paced, Atmospheric
93% of 1,059 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Hardwar

Miner Wars 2081

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!

$4.99

Space Architect

Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.

$1.79

PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market.

$5.59

Interstellar Pilot 2

The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.

$0.99

Startopia

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse.

$6.99

Space Trader: Merchant Marine

Space Trader is an open world trading colony sim wrapped in a shooter.

$4.99

Digger: Galactic Treasures

Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures.

$4.99

X: Beyond the Frontier

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other…

$0.99

Vanguard Galaxy

Mine, trade and fight across a procedurally generated dwarf galaxy, at your own pace or with the ECHO autopilot at the helm.

$8.99

It's time to get out from the solar system

A game with a futuristic anti-utopian story — a hardcore space shooter with RPG elements.

$2.99

Ore Bastards

Explore an endless procedural universe. Mine asteroids, trade across living stations, fight cunning pirates, discover countless ships and items, and…

$8.99

Starscape

Moonpod's Starscape mixes old school arcade game play values with characterization and an involving plot to deepen the whole experience.

$7.99

Hidden gems like Hardwar

Vanguard Galaxy

Mine, trade and fight across a procedurally generated dwarf galaxy, at your own pace or with the ECHO autopilot at the helm.

$8.99

I Fetch Rocks

Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana.

$15.99

Digger: Galactic Treasures

Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures.

$4.99

Jitter

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.

$9.99

Star Ores Inc.

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine.

$17.99

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

Run a shady little shop on a dystopian space station, crafting and trading your way through a rising weekly bill. ---

$17.99

MegaFactory Titan

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with…

$19.99

Space Trash Scavenger

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts.

$19.99

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.

$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.

$19.99

ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Mine asteroids in Saturn's rings with real Newtonian physics, then haul your ore home and watch your little operation grow.

$9.99

The Crust

Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…

$19.19

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