Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity multi-planetary.
The top results based on the latest update are Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager [Score: 1.1], Universe Sandbox Legacy [Score: 1.1] and SkyRig [Score: 1.1] The top rated games you can find here are Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #16, Kerbal Space Program [SteamPeek Rating: 11.4] ranked #22 and Spaceflight Simulator [SteamPeek Rating: 8.9] ranked #8 Also don't forget to check the newest releases eXoSpace Combat Engineer [Release date: 2026-09-22] ranked #24, Wayfarer Protocol [Release date: 2026-09-05] ranked #25 and Galactum Meridian [Release date: 2026-09-01] ranked #34 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Space Haven [SteamPeek Rating: 8.0] ranked #14, Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #16 and Kerbal Space Program [SteamPeek Rating: 11.4] ranked #22.
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity multi-planetary.
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Create and destroy on a scale you’ve never imagined!
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
You don't pilot the ship-you run it. Manage power, fuel, gravity, life support and other systems, repair failures and engineer your way through a hostile solar system.
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in the asteroid belt. Settling in space comes with enormous challenges and dangers, which you will have to guide your people through
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
A hard-sci-fi orbital settlement sim where you mine asteroids, build infrastructure, fight enemy, and operate inside a living solar system shaped by orbital mechanics, limited information, and long-distance logistics.
Master the cockpit of highly realistic spacecraft in this Newtonian physics based sim. Take off from surface to space, plot a course between the planets and dock with space stations. Trade commodities or take shipping contracts to buy upgrades and optimize your build - every choice matters.
The corporations abandoned Kepler-11 and left its stations to the people still living in them. Somebody still has to move the cargo, mine the ore, and make what nobody else can. Nobody out here asks questions. Build a fleet in a living system that keeps turning, even when you're gone.
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.
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Perihelion lets you run your own rocket engine shop. Take over an abandoned desert airfield, design realistic, unique engines, then test them!
Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!
A colony sim on one small starship. Lay every floor tile, wire the reactor, grow the food, and keep a crew of misfits breathing while pirates cut holes in the hull. Jump sector to sector, strip asteroids, and fight ship systems instead of health bars. A dreadnought waits at sector 10.
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
A planet-building sandbox where you create entire worlds from the ground up. Generate unique planets, shape vast landscapes, and use interconnected simulations inspired by real-world processes to bring your fantasy planet to life.
Gaze into nature's greatest abyss. Explore a real-time black hole simulation with true gravitational lensing, a volumetric accretion disk, orbiting worlds, and cinematic relativistic effects.
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.
47 million probes were launched into the void. Yours just found something alive. A living universe simulation where evolution never stops — not even when you do.
Guide the Glorgorians in terraforming an alien world by influencing weather systems and building megastructures. Physics-based planetary weather simulations drive climate shifts as you develop resources and expand your colony towards interstellar travel.
Become a pioneer of spaceflight. As an engineer in the Soviet Space Program you will be responsible for repairing, fixing and building the iconic spacecraft and rockets from the R-7 family.
You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age in a city-building god game. Manage resources, research technology, survive natural disasters and alien threats, use godly powers to protect or punish your creations, and colonize distant planets.
Space Station Continuum is a building & management sim inspired by the past, present, and future of humans in space.
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