Games like SpaceEngine
If SpaceEngine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Universe Sandbox, Enter The Moon and Lunar Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, epic and hypnotic. 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 →SpaceEngine is a universe simulation developed by Cosmographic Software that released in 2019 at $20.99. The game uses procedural generation to create billions of celestial bodies across a scale approximating the observable universe, allowing players to navigate through space and land on procedurally generated planets. Mechanics include flight simulation, celestial navigation, and planet creation, with VR and controller support available. Players describe the experience as contemplative, immersive, and hypnotic, with the massive scope often triggering existential awe during sessions. Reviewers highlight the freedom to explore as particularly compelling. The simulation runs solo only with a sit-down session shape and chill difficulty, earning a 96% positive rating from 8862 Steam reviews.
About SpaceEngine: The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Players who liked SpaceEngine also play
Steam players who put hours into SpaceEngine 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.
Universe Sandbox
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with SpaceEngine.
Top pick for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Enter The Moon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Space simulation moon game. Explore the moon, mars, venus and mercury in breathtaking real-time 3D. Explore their geological aspects. Battle against spaceships or a secret lunar base. Enter the ISS. Measure the moon. And get in the cockpit.
Lunar Odyssey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with SpaceEngine.
Don your xEMU Spacesuit, explore the Orontius Crater, and Lunar Module in an immersive first-person VR experience with out of this world accuracy and interaction. Follow real-life procedures, launch the Apollo-era Lunar Module, play Space Golf, and experience the moon like never before.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SpaceEngine.
Ranked #4 for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
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.
Rocket Science
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SpaceEngine.
Ranked #5 for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with SpaceEngine.
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.
Relax In Space
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
This cosmic walking drug enhancer doesn’t ask you for much, it just wants you to come as you are. Bring your favorite edibles, mushrooms, music, and Relax. Consider using it for meditation and reflection. A title perfect for those nights when you want to float off into space and forget about things.
Juno: New Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SpaceEngine.
Ranked #7 for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SpaceEngine.
Ranked #8 for SpaceEngine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SpaceEngine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with SpaceEngine.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SpaceEngine.
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 ~67% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with SpaceEngine.
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 ~62% under SpaceEngine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpaceEngine.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SpaceEngine.
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 SpaceEngine.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceEngine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SpaceEngine.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SpaceEngine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SpaceEngine.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about SpaceEngine
- Does SpaceEngine work on Steam Deck?
- SpaceEngine is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does SpaceEngine cost?
- SpaceEngine is listed on Steam at 20.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SpaceEngine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SpaceEngine are Universe Sandbox, Enter The Moon, Lunar Odyssey.
- Who developed SpaceEngine?
- SpaceEngine was developed by Cosmographic Software.
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 SpaceEngine.
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