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2025 PC 3.99 €

You grow from a tiny speck of stardust through asteroids and planets into a galaxy-devouring titan. Each evolution stage brings new choices and cosmic secrets to uncover.

What defines Drifter Star: Evolution:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong character progression

The closest matches for Drifter Star: Evolution are Planet Crafter, Thrive and Astro Colony. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Drifter Star: Evolution special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Planet Crafter

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2024 PCPlayStationXbox 23.99 € 👍 96 % Overwhelmingly positive, 54,316 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong character progression
  • Accessible and relaxed

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Thrive

Pure single-player experience

Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life, taking a species from a single cell up to a cosmic civilization. It focuses on simulation and creation tools, and is still a work in progress.

Astro Colony

Accessible and relaxed

A space colony-building sim where you found colonies on different celestial bodies, automate production with conveyor belts and look after your astronauts. The appeal lies in optimizing an efficient network of colonies.

Dyson Sphere Program

Bright, upbeat tone

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Nova Lands

Accessible and relaxed

A relaxed factory-building and island-management game on an alien planet where you explore, automate production chains, and handle light combat along the way.

The Last Caretaker

Pure single-player experience

A sci-fi survival-crafting game where you play the last caretaker, recovering human seeds, reactivating the Lazarus Complex and sending humanity to the stars. You explore an open world while gathering resources and building up your base.

Plan B: Terraform

Bright, upbeat tone

A building and logistics sim where you turn a dead planet into a living world using factories, trains and trucks. A dynamic simulation of atmosphere, water, temperature and forests makes the planet respond to your work.

No Man's Sky

Accessible and relaxed

A near-infinite procedurally generated universe where you hop freely between vivid alien planets, gather resources, build bases and upgrade your ships. Years of free updates have turned it into a relaxed sci-fi sandbox with optional co-op.

Aethus

Accessible and relaxed

A sci-fi survival-crafter about digging deep underground, refining resources and expanding a modular surface outpost with hydroponics and automation. A story gives you a reason to keep descending.

VoidExpanse

Pure single-player experience

An indie space game where you mine asteroids, trade, upgrade your ship and take on missions. Fast-paced fights against aliens and mercenaries add action between exploration runs.

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