
Out of Orbit
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets.
Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Space Haven does? Start with these games when you are ready.
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, Dark
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 · Dark
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This challenging survival colony sim features deep simulated ship systems and a whole universe to explore.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric, Dark
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
Replayable, Retro
Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system. Build colonies from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt, keep picky astronauts alive, untangle production chains and logistics, and turn contracts with Earth's spacefaring nations into your own off-world empire. Deep, demanding and replayable.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro
Design a starship from the reactor up, then fly it through a procedurally generated galaxy as a pirate hunter, miner, spacebus driver or whatever else takes your fancy. A 2D construction and simulation sandbox from Introversion where the ship you build decides everything.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Retro
Design starships piece by piece, staff them with crews of individually simulated people, and send them into physics-driven battles where every module can be blown off the hull. Explore a procedurally generated galaxy alone or with friends, test your designs in online PvP, or build without limits in Creative Mode.
Replayable, Retro
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
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.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
Astro Colony is a relaxed automation game in an endless procedurally generated universe. Build conveyor networks, move and dock your stations, recruit astronauts and research new tech, alone or with friends. No timers, no punishing failure: just you, a growing colony and a galaxy of voxel planets to strip for parts.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
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, Atmospheric

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets.

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy…

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.

Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.

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

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark.

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.

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

Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

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

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…

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

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean. Start on a single dock, fish debris from the waves, grow a floating town of happy settlers, and…

Run a private space corporation across a realistically simulated solar system.

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.

Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.

As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets.

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

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

Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.

Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.

Dead Reckoning is a generation ship colony sim. Guide 1,000 colonists across centuries of deep space, through famine, mutiny and failing systems.

Mine planets, assemble ships from parts and grow a trading empire with friends in an open galaxy.

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.

Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.

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

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.

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.