Games like Hardspace: Shipbreaker
If Hardspace: Shipbreaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Engineers, Kerbal Space Program and Space Worthy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a zero-gravity spaceship salvaging simulation developed by Blackbird Interactive. Players carve and dismantle derelict spacecraft to recover valuable materials while managing pressurization systems and navigating realistic physics. The career mode features permadeath, and progression involves upgrading equipment to take on more lucrative contracts. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, with a mix of relaxing and stressful moments that create engaging tension. Reviewers highlight the meditative focus on efficiency over destruction, noting that every ship component is salvageable and physics-based risks make careful planning essential. The relaxing background music enhances concentration during challenging salvaging operations. With a massive campaign length, solo players can expect dozens of hours of gameplay. The title holds a 90% positive rating from over 15,800 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About Hardspace: Shipbreaker: Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Steam players who put hours into Hardspace: Shipbreaker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Space Engineers
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Top pick for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Kerbal Space Program
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Second-strongest match for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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.
Space Worthy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Space Worthy is a survival game focused on building spaceships. You start on a primitive planet, with acient technology, and craft your way into stars! Dig in the ground, smelt metals, build machines, houses, vehicles and spaceships!
Dyson Sphere Program
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Ranked #4 for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
OrbitFix
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Ranked #5 for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Inherit a derelict space station on the edge of the galaxy and breathe new life into it. As the ultimate space mechanic, you will repair diverse spaceships, trade with pilots, and expand your services. Start with a single rusty dock and build the most bustling service hub in the sector!
Surviving Mars
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Shares a chill mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Ranked #6 for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Starbase
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Ranked #7 for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Nimbatus - Drone Creator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Ranked #8 for Hardspace: Shipbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
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PowerWash Simulator
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Shares a chill mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
Viscera Cleanup Detail
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Star Trucker
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
Sunshine Heavy Industries
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Shares a chill mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.
Satisfactory
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Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Papers, Please
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
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Shares a chill mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
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Shares a chill mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Reviewers of Hardspace: Shipbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hardspace: Shipbreaker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
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Priced ~43% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~71% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Priced ~43% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
American Truck Simulator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Priced ~43% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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Priced ~43% under Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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More from Blackbird Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Blackbird Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Escape the Backrooms
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
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Shares a stressful mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
Homeworld 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
Minecraft Legends
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Crossfire: Legion
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Ambrosia Sky: Act One
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
Earthless
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
EARTHLESS is a sci-fi, roguelike deckbuilder where humankind has been thrust into the cosmic wind on a fleet of starships captained by you. To find a new home, you must draw your own path through the stars and play the hand you’re dealt. You are our hope in the darkness.
Company of Heroes - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Company of Heroes – Definitive Edition, features the original Company of Heroes along with the Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor Expansions, enhanced visuals, quality-of-life gameplay improvements, and 64-bit platform support.
Frequently asked about Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Is Hardspace: Shipbreaker verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hardspace: Shipbreaker is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hardspace: Shipbreaker cost?
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hardspace: Shipbreaker are Space Engineers, Kerbal Space Program, Space Worthy.
- Who developed Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker was developed by Blackbird Interactive.
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