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2022PCSteam Deck playable74 % positive16.79 €

A space strategy and management game where you play as an AI, exploring new worlds, building factories, setting up trade routes and researching technology while competing against rival AIs.

Sci-fi setting
Tactical depth
Strong character progression

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Farlight Explorers

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2015PC55 % positive

Sci-fi setting
Gameplay comes before story
Pure single-player experience

An indie space base-building and management game where you set up colonies on alien planets, keep power, water, food and oxygen running, and automate production. You then build spaceships to ship goods between worlds.

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Light of Altair

Realistic visuals

A sci-fi colony builder where you grow settlements from a landing pod into metropolises and send ships to claim new worlds. Diplomacy and orbital combat against eight factions, plus a substantial plot, define the experience.

Terraformers

Bright, upbeat tone

You transform Mars step by step into a livable world by harvesting resources, founding cities, and creating oceans and life. A laid-back colony-building and 4X strategy game with roguelite elements.

Star Ruler

Realistic visuals

A large-scale real-time 4X strategy game set in space, where you design your own ships, command thousands of units and build a galaxy-spanning empire. Extensive mod support and multiplayer add plenty of freedom.

Infraspace

Gameplay comes before story

A sci-fi city builder where your road and transport network is the core challenge: every resource must travel through infrastructure you design so mines and production chains keep running.

Star Merchant

Realistic visuals

You play a space trader, buying and selling goods across the stars, fending off pirates and upgrading your ship. You need to plan carefully to reach your goal without going bankrupt.

Stardeus

Realistic visuals

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

Thrive

Strong character progression

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.

StellarHub

Pure single-player experience

You build and run a space station, juggling crew needs, resource extraction, trade and defense. It's a space-themed management sim for players who enjoy optimizing systems.

Imagine Earth

Focus on a single character

A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.