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Games like Drifter Star: Evolution

2025PC, Steam Deck playable72 % positive3.99 €

You grow from a tiny speck of stardust through asteroids and planets into a galaxy-devouring titan. Each evolution stage brings new choices and cosmic secrets to uncover.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong character progression

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In short: Games like Drifter Star: Evolution

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Drifter Star: Evolution special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Intergalactic Fishing

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2020PC, Steam Deck verified95 % positive−75 % 12.49 € 3.12 €

Brings what grabs you about Drifter Star: Evolution: a sci-fi setting, vast, open spaces and a calm pace.

You fish your way through procedurally generated lakes across the universe, cataloguing rare alien species and selling scanned data. Custom lures, gear upgrades and tournaments give the calm loop some pull.

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Solar 2

Sci-fi setting

You control a celestial body in an abstract sandbox universe, growing from a tiny asteroid into planets, stars and even black holes. Its relaxed, free-form play encourages experimentation.

SpaceEngine

Sci-fi setting

A realistic space simulator and planetarium that lets you freely fly through a procedurally generated universe built on real astronomical catalogs, landing on planets and even traveling through time.

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.

Nodebuster

Strong character progression

A short, experimental incremental game where you bust nodes and gradually tear reality apart. A low-pressure way to enjoy steady progression in a quick sitting.

Thrive

Strong character progression

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.

Space Shaft

Sci-fi setting

A small first-person space flight simulator where you drift through an asteroid belt, collect gas clouds, and spend the stored energy to accelerate and maneuver.

Orbit HD

Vast, open spaces

You guide a comet through space, using realistic planetary gravity to swing around planets. A calm, ambient space simulation set against procedurally generated nebulae.

Universe Sandbox Legacy

Vast, open spaces

A space sandbox simulator where you build and wreck planets, stars and galaxies, tweaking gravity and orbits and smashing bodies together. There are no goals, just open-ended experimentation with a strong educational feel.

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