Games like Spaceflight Simulator
If Spaceflight Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kerbal Space Program, Strata and Meco Rocket Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless exploration opportunities, challenging and immersive. 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 →Spaceflight Simulator is an indie simulation sandbox released in 2022 by Team Curiosity, available for $14.99. Players construct and launch 2D spacecraft while navigating realistic orbital mechanics and procedural generation across a massive play environment. The sandbox framework supports exploration of distant worlds, with players describing the experience as both challenging and immersive. Reviewers highlight the high degree of player freedom in designing and testing rockets, alongside endless exploration opportunities throughout the cosmos. The game runs in playable condition on Steam Deck and holds a 97% positive rating from over 5,000 Steam reviews.
About Spaceflight Simulator: In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Players who liked Spaceflight Simulator also play
Steam players who put hours into Spaceflight Simulator 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.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox exploration and an immersive mood with Spaceflight Simulator.
Top pick for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
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.
Strata
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.
Meco Rocket Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Spaceflight Simulator.
Meco Rocket Simulator is a realistic physics game where you play as an underpaid rocket scientist working for Mecodyne to design and test rocket engines without regard for your safety.
Asteroid Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
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
Archean
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Spaceflight Simulator.
Ranked #5 for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Kerbal Space Program 2
WHY THIS
Shares orbital mechanics and procedural generation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Ranked #6 for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
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.
Sol Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Build, host, and survive in a persistent multiplayer space sandbox set in the outer Sol system. Construct orbital habitats, manage fragile station systems, and keep your crew alive while expanding through zero-g, Saturn-ring danger, and player-built infrastructure.
Rocket Science
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Spaceflight Simulator.
Ranked #8 for Spaceflight Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Spaceflight Simulator.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spaceflight Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Spaceflight Simulator.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Spaceflight Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceflight Simulator.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Spaceflight Simulator.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Spaceflight Simulator
- Does Spaceflight Simulator run on Steam Deck?
- Spaceflight Simulator 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 Spaceflight Simulator cost?
- Spaceflight Simulator is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Spaceflight Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spaceflight Simulator are Kerbal Space Program, Strata, Meco Rocket Simulator.
- Who developed Spaceflight Simulator?
- Spaceflight Simulator was developed by Team Curiosity ✦.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Spaceflight Simulator.
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