A sandbox game about space adventures and exploring new planets. If you like this, you definitely should pay attention to games similar to No Man's Sky. Space does not let go!

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13. Mass Effect Legendary Edition

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 120 hours
  • Genre: Role Playing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition contains all content and nearly 40 downloadable content from the now-classic Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 games, as well as weapons, armor and sets from promotional offers. The edition is optimized for 4K Ultra HD resolution.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition screenshot

12. ICARUS

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight players. Explore the harsh expanse of an alien planet where a failed terraforming attempt was once made. Your task is to mine exotics and return to orbit to develop more advanced equipment.

ICARUS screenshot

11. Space Engineers

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Cosmos
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Space Engineers is an open-world sandbox game based on creativity and exploration

Space Engineers screenshot

10. Starbound

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Starbound screenshot

9. Surviving Mars


Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot

8. Breathedge

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

7. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

6. Dune: Awakening

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2025
  • Game play time: 200 hours
  • Genre: MMO
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players.

Dune: Awakening screenshot

5. The Planet Crafter

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2022
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Survival simulator on a lifeless planet with terraforming, crafting and open world for 1-10 players. Make a barren planet suitable for settlement. Build a base and create a biosphere, starting with oxygen, heat and pressure.

The Planet Crafter screenshot

4. Starfield

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 70 hours
  • Genre: Cosmos
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Starfield is the first new game universe in 25 years created by Bethesda Game Studios, the acclaimed creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Starfield screenshot

3. Subnautica

similar games to Subnautica
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Subnautica screenshot

2. Morphite

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 65
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.

Morphite screenshot

1. ASTRONEER

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 100 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

ASTRONEER screenshot

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7. Mass Effect Legendary Edition

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 120 hours
  • Genre: Role Playing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition contains all content and nearly 40 downloadable content from the now-classic Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 games, as well as weapons, armor and sets from promotional offers. The edition is optimized for 4K Ultra HD resolution.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition screenshot

6. Space Engineers

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Cosmos
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Space Engineers is an open-world sandbox game based on creativity and exploration

Space Engineers screenshot

5. Surviving Mars

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot

4. Breathedge

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

3. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

2. Dune: Awakening

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2025
  • Game play time: 200 hours
  • Genre: MMO
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players.

Dune: Awakening screenshot

1. ASTRONEER

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 100 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

ASTRONEER screenshot

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8. Mass Effect Legendary Edition

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 120 hours
  • Genre: Role Playing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition contains all content and nearly 40 downloadable content from the now-classic Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 games, as well as weapons, armor and sets from promotional offers. The edition is optimized for 4K Ultra HD resolution.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition screenshot

7. Space Engineers

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Cosmos
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Space Engineers is an open-world sandbox game based on creativity and exploration

Space Engineers screenshot

6. Surviving Mars

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Colony Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Welcome home! It's time to land on Mars and establish the first operating colony on the Red Planet in human history. All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of hard training, sandstorm survival skills, and the determination to figure out the purpose of those strange black cubes,....

Surviving Mars screenshot

5. Dune: Awakening

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2025
  • Game play time: 200 hours
  • Genre: MMO
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players.

Dune: Awakening screenshot

4. Starfield

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 70 hours
  • Genre: Cosmos
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Starfield is the first new game universe in 25 years created by Bethesda Game Studios, the acclaimed creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Starfield screenshot

3. Subnautica

similar games to Subnautica
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Subnautica screenshot

2. Morphite

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 65
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.

Morphite screenshot

1. ASTRONEER

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 100 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

ASTRONEER screenshot

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5. Breathedge

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

4. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

3. Subnautica

similar games to Subnautica
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Subnautica screenshot

2. Morphite

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 65
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.

Morphite screenshot

1. ASTRONEER

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 100 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

ASTRONEER screenshot

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1. Morphite


Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.

Morphite screenshot