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2025PCSteam Deck playable3.99 €

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.

Sci-fi setting
Strong character progression

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Thrive

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2010PCSteam Deck playable92 % positive3.99 €

Sci-fi setting
Strong character progression
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.

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Bright, upbeat tone

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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.

Nova Lands

Accessible and relaxed

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Plan B: Terraform

Bright, upbeat tone

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VoidExpanse

Sci-fi setting

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X3: Reunion

Sci-fi setting

A vast space sandbox where you fly ships, trade, build factories and stations, and carve your own path within a living simulated economy.

Terraformers

Bright, upbeat tone

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Spore

Accessible and relaxed

Spore lets you guide your own species from a single cell to a galaxy-spanning empire, with each stage playing like a different genre. Its playful creature editor, letting you design nearly everything yourself, is the real star.

Synergy

Focus on a single character

A survival city-builder set on a hostile alien planet, where you grow your settlement, weather extreme conditions and disasters, and keep your citizens happy.