Games like Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
If Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kerbal Space Program 2, Children of a Dead Earth and Dyson Sphere Program — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager: 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.
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Kerbal Space Program 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Top pick for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.
Children of a Dead Earth
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Second-strongest match for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Third-strongest match for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
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.
Space Haven
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Shares an immersive mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Ranked #4 for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
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.
Kerbal Space Program
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Shares an immersive mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Ranked #5 for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
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.
Celestial Command
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Ranked #6 for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.
Mars Horizon
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Shares a contemplative mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Ranked #7 for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
orbit.industries
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Ranked #8 for Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
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Stellaris
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Shares an immersive mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Reviewers of Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Kerbal Space Program
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Shares an immersive mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Reviewers of Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
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.
Aurora
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Reviewers of Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
This is a light puzzle game of pretty girls, so help the girls solve their problems! Then you can interact with the pretty girls.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~44% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~72% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~44% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~44% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~72% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~61% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~56% under Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
- Does Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager run on Steam Deck?
- Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager cost?
- Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager are Kerbal Space Program 2, Children of a Dead Earth, Dyson Sphere Program.
- Who developed Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager?
- Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager was developed by SpaceOps and published by Games Operators.
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