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Games like Celestial Command

2014PC60 % positive19.99 €

A space sandbox built around realistic orbital mechanics, where everything drifts along orbits with no vacuum friction or speed cap. It blends authentic spaceflight physics with classic space-action gameplay.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Deep systems to master

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Star Ruler

82 %Match

2010PEGI 7PC82 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Celestial Command: a sandbox with your own goals, an open world and a sci-fi setting.

A large-scale real-time 4X strategy game set in space, where you design your own ships, command thousands of units and build a galaxy-spanning empire. Extensive mod support and multiplayer add plenty of freedom.

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The Polynomial

Sci-fi setting

A 3D space shooter whose fractal landscapes animate and pulse to your own music. It also offers a non-shooting mode for simply drifting through the visuals while listening.

VoidExpanse

Sci-fi setting

An indie space game where you mine asteroids, trade, upgrade your ship and take on missions. Fast-paced fights against aliens and mercenaries add action between exploration runs.

BeamNG.drive

Realistic visuals

A vehicle sandbox whose soft-body physics make crashes and deformation feel strikingly real. You roam open maps, push cars to destruction and build your own scenarios.

Thrive

Deep systems to master

Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life, taking a species from a single cell up to a cosmic civilization. It focuses on simulation and creation tools, and is still a work in progress.

Derail Valley

Deep systems to master

A train simulator where you hand-drive locomotives, couple and uncouple cars, and take freight jobs across an open rail network. Convincing physics and free movement around the trains are the draw, including in VR.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Deep systems to master

A landmark flight simulator where you pilot realistically modeled aircraft anywhere across the globe, either freely or through missions, learning navigation and flying skills along the way.

Universe Sandbox

Sci-fi setting

A space sandbox where you create, alter and destroy planets, stars and entire galaxies with realistic gravity, collisions and climate simulation. It is about free experimentation and wonder rather than goals or story.

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