Games like Launch Window: 1961

Still thinking about Launch Window: 1961 and its replayable and tense tone? These games line up well for what comes next.

Space Manager
Take on realistic space missions, manage your economy, and explore the solar system. Build and expand your space center on Earth, accept contracts, and launch satellites into orbit. Research, adapt and collect valuable scientific data to commence your growing aerospace empire.
Replayable
43% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$14.95
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.
Replayable, Retro
74% of 422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Space Company Simulator
Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.
27% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Mars Horizon
Run your own space agency from the first satellites to astronauts on Mars. Build the base, design rockets, race rival agencies, and make the calls in mission control when things go wrong. A calm, well-organised strategy game about planning, budgets and the slow climb to the red planet.
Replayable
84% of 2,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
EarthX
EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!
92% of 542 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
CosmoLaunch System
CosmoLaunchSystem is a hybrid game about managing a space agency and piloting a rocket. You play as the agency director. You accept contracts, invest in research laboratories, design launch vehicles in the VAB, and deliver your clients' payloads.
Replayable
$12.99
Spaceflight Simulator
Build rockets from real-world parts, launch them, and find out the hard way why landing is the tricky part. A 2D space sandbox with honest physics, the whole Solar System to reach, and no punishment for exploding. Trial, error, one more rocket.
Replayable
96% of 9,667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$14.99
Launch Director
A space launch operations and automation simulator. Become the Launch Director for a commercial space transportation company. Can you configure these reusable rockets for a successful launch, ascent and landing?
Replayable
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Juno: New Origins
Build rockets, planes, cars and whole planets from parts you stretch, reshape and paint, then fly them with realistic physics. Automate flights with a visual programming language, run an aerospace company in career mode, or just tinker in the sandbox. Simple to start, deep enough to keep a space nerd busy for hundreds of hours.
Replayable
89% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$19.99
Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator that teaches you the procedures, then hands you the capsule. Power up, orbit Earth, navigate to the Moon, and feel what it was like to be the astronaut in the seat.
Replayable, Tense
97% of 1,351 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$34.99
Kerbal Space Program
Run a space program staffed by small green Kerbals who smile through every crash. You build rockets from parts, fly them on real orbital physics, and try to bring everyone home from moons and planets across the Kerbol system.
Replayable
95% of 122,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,087$39.99
Rocket Science
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Replayable
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99

Cheaper than Launch Window: 1961

Aerofactory

Name your company, fetch your staff, submit your offers to the tenders and dominate the local and international markets.

$2.69

Rocket Inc

Help build mankind's last magnificent structure in this game where you carry out transport missions between planets in the solar system.

$2.99

Space Architect

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

$1.79

Project Freedom

Get your dream job with a company called Project Freedom. Become a space pilot and serve for the corporation.

$2.99

Space Station Tycoon

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company…

$4.99

Crazy Shipping

In space, no one can hear you SCHEME! A cosy space transport management game where your fleet of feline pilots deliver anything, anywhere - no…

$4.99

Capitalism Plus

Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.

$2.99

X3: Terran Conflict

Trade, fight and manage your way from one small ship to a sprawling space economy in an open galaxy.

$3.19

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

Fleet Manager: Logistics Simulator

Build a delivery empire from a single bicycle to an orbital fleet.

$4.99

Freight Tycoon Inc.

Freight Tycoon is an economic simulation game which challenges players’ management skills.

$4.99

Interkosmos

Enter the ultimate 1970s space capsule in this thrilling VR adventure.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Launch Window: 1961

Approximately Up

Assemble a ship from thousands of parts, wire its systems together, and take it to fifteen strange planets, alone or with friends.

$18.74

Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator

Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator that teaches you the procedures, then hands you the capsule.

$34.99

Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

Run a space company at your own pace, moving cargo across the solar system one careful calculation at a time.

$17.99

EarthX

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars.

$9.99

Space Reign

An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.

$19.99

Juno: New Origins

Build rockets, planes, cars and whole planets from parts you stretch, reshape and paint, then fly them with realistic physics.

$19.99

Spaceflight Simulator

Assemble rockets from real parts and take them from the launch pad to the far reaches of the Solar System, one failure at a time.

$14.99

Next Space Rebels

SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing…

$19.99

Mars Horizon

Design rockets, manage budgets and steer your space programme from first launch to the red planet.

$19.99

Prosperous Universe

Trade, produce and outmaneuver rival companies in a shared sci-fi economy that keeps running while you're away.

Free

Rocket Science

Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space.

$19.99

Helium Rain

Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources.

Free

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