Tycoon games like Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

If Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager left you wanting something replayable and retro, you have options. These tycoon games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Mars Horizon
Run your own space agency from the first satellites to a crewed Mars landing. You build the base, design rockets, research tech, and guide turn-based missions, racing or befriending rival agencies along the way. Accessible, steady planning with real history behind it.
Replayable
84% of 2,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
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
41% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$14.95
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: 4$9.99
Startopia
Rebuild a donut-shaped space station after the apocalypse, fill it with ten races of picky aliens, and keep them fed, entertained and out of trouble while turning a profit. A funny, warm-hearted management sim with a dry sense of humour and more going on than its cute face suggests.
Replayable, Retro
91% of 845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6.99
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
Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
51% of 279 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Spatials
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Replayable, Retro
67% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Spacelines from the Far Out
Run your own 60s-inspired space-age alien airlines in this randomly-generated chaotic 1-to-4-player local and online co-op game!
Replayable, Retro
75% of 463 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
X3: Terran Conflict
X3: Terran Conflict is a single-player space sim where your tycoon career starts with one ship and grows into stations, freighters and production complexes across a huge universe. Buy low, sell high, automate trade routes and fund your own fleet. Slow, deep and very replayable for tycoon fans who like spreadsheets with lasers.
Replayable
84% of 2,099 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$3.19
orbit.industries
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Replayable
56% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Mars Attracts
Run a theme park on Mars where the exhibits are abducted humans. You build enclosures for Romans, cowboys, Vikings and more, keep Martian guests fed, amused and buying souvenirs, and fund it all with tickets, snacks and the odd gruesome experiment. A funny, cartoony tycoon game about bad taste and good margins.
Replayable, Retro
87% of 258 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Space Station Manager
Space Station Manager is an exciting game where you own a space company, your main goal is to build a space station, make profit, grow your business, build an economical network, and expand beyond the solar system.
37% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

Mars Horizon

Run your own space agency from the first satellites to a crewed Mars landing.

$19.99

Space Manager

Take on realistic space missions, manage your economy, and explore the solar system.

$14.95

EarthX

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

$9.99

Startopia

Rebuild a derelict space station, court ten alien races and turn a profit in a management sim with a sharp sense of humour.

$6.99

Space Company Simulator

Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry.

$19.99

Stable Orbit - Build your own space station

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision…

$19.99

The Spatials

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy!

$9.99

Spacelines from the Far Out

Run your own 60s-inspired space-age alien airlines in this randomly-generated chaotic 1-to-4-player local and online co-op game!

$14.99

The Spatials: Galactology

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

$12.99

X3: Terran Conflict

X3: Terran Conflict is a single-player space sim where your tycoon career starts with one ship and grows into stations, freighters and production…

$3.19

orbit.industries

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets!

$19.99

Mars Attracts

Run a theme park on Mars where the exhibits are abducted humans.

$24.99

Hidden gems like Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

Mars Attracts

Run a theme park on Mars where the exhibits are abducted humans.

$24.99

Puffin Planes

A casual airline management game set on Earth and Mars. Supports singleplayer and Steam co-op.

$11.99

EarthX

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

$9.99

Galaxy Pass Station

Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub.

$11.99

Mad Games Tycoon 2

Start in a garage in 1976 and grow into a studio, publisher and console maker.

$24.99

City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

Start in a cramped rented office in 1976 and build a game company that outgrows publishers, rivals, and eventually the console makers themselves.

$19.99

Spacelines from the Far Out: Flight School

Spacelines from the Far Out: Flight School is all about getting you prepared to take on the task of running your own Spaceline before launch!

Free

Spacelines from the Far Out

Run your own 60s-inspired space-age alien airlines in this randomly-generated chaotic 1-to-4-player local and online co-op game!

$14.99

Mars Horizon

Run your own space agency from the first satellites to a crewed Mars landing.

$19.99

Prosperous Universe

Pick a base site, set up production chains, trade on the 24-hour exchange, and ship cargo between planets while wealth accrues in real time.

Free

Computer Tycoon

Build a computer empire from a 70s startup to a global monopoly, one invention at a time.

$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

Newest tycoon games like Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager