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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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In short: Games like Celestial Command

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Celestial Command special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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VoidExpanse

59 %Match

2015PC, Steam Deck playable68 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Celestial Command: an open world, a sci-fi setting and a realistic look.

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.

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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

Sci-fi setting

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

Realistic visuals

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

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

X-Plane 11

Sandbox with your own goals

X-Plane 11 is a highly realistic flight simulator with detailed 3D cockpits and a world-wide map you can fly across freely. It focuses on authentic flight physics and learning rather than story or combat.

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