Games like Shortest Trip to Earth

A single-player roguelike spaceship simulator that mixes exploration, ship management, and tactical battles with an armed crew and a cat, offering a lengthy campaign (reviewers logged ~56 hours) despite UI/UX frustrations.

Voidship: The Long Journey
A single-player spaceship strategy-sim about designing a battleship, exploring unknown sectors, and making strategic decisions on a centuries-long mission, with tactical combat and a relatively short campaign.
2019-02-08
- Action
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Space Haven
A deep single-player spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile construction, gas and crew management, and space exploration, typically lasting 20–50 hours.
2026-05-13
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Fantasy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Space Crew: Legendary Edition
A real-time space crew management game about defending Earth from alien and android armies, with permadeath and a short campaign, hampered by clunky controls.
2020-10-15
- Action
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Survival
- Strategy
60 Parsecs!
A darkly humorous single-player space survival adventure centered on crew management and tough resource choices, with a light, casual feel and roughly six hours of play among reviewers.
2018-09-18
- Action
- Comedy
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Survival
- Strategy
Space Cats Tactics
A compact turn-based tactical space opera RPG where a feline crew’s station-hailing choices steer ship battles and a branching story, with reviewer playthroughs around 7–8 hours.
2023-07-24
- Comedy
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Tactical
- Indie
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
A tense single-player space strategy roguelite about commanding a fleeing fleet, with punishing difficulty and replayable runs across dozens of hours.
2026-05-11
- Action
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Tactical
Star Trucker
A single-player space-trucking sim where you haul cargo, trade salvage, and manage your rig through jump gates, with a mostly positive but janky-feeling experience.
2024-09-03
- Comedy
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Third person
- Simulator
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
A solo space sandbox sim where you craft drones from modular parts to survive a destructible, procedurally generated universe, with arenas and a creative mode.
2020-05-14
- Action
- Science fiction
- Survival
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
Tin Can
A tense single-player escape-pod survival sim where you manage complex systems using a technical manual, with a short, engineering-focused campaign.
2022-05-12
- First person
- Science fiction
- Survival
- Strategy
- Indie
- Simulator
Trigon: Space Story
A tactical space strategy game about commanding a spaceship, battling pirates, and escaping enemy territory, with a steep learning curve and a short campaign.
2022-04-28
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD
A single-player turn-based sci-fi strategy game of space exploration and base building, featuring quick-to-play scenarios and a deeply engaging strategy that reviewers spent roughly 21 hours with.
2025-08-20
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
A retro single-player space strategy RPG mixing base building, turn-based tactics, and crew management into an emergent 16-17 hour campaign.
2016-09-08
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Indie
- Side view
- Simulator

Games like Shortest Trip to Earth

Voidship: The Long Journey
A single-player spaceship strategy-sim about designing a battleship, exploring unknown sectors, and making strategic decisions on a centuries-long mission, with tactical combat and a relatively short campaign.
2019-02-08
- Action
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Space Haven
A deep single-player spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile construction, gas and crew management, and space exploration, typically lasting 20–50 hours.
2026-05-13
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Fantasy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Space Crew: Legendary Edition
A real-time space crew management game about defending Earth from alien and android armies, with permadeath and a short campaign, hampered by clunky controls.
2020-10-15
- Action
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Survival
- Strategy
60 Parsecs!
A darkly humorous single-player space survival adventure centered on crew management and tough resource choices, with a light, casual feel and roughly six hours of play among reviewers.
2018-09-18
- Action
- Comedy
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Survival
- Strategy
Space Cats Tactics
A compact turn-based tactical space opera RPG where a feline crew’s station-hailing choices steer ship battles and a branching story, with reviewer playthroughs around 7–8 hours.
2023-07-24
- Comedy
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Tactical
- Indie
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
A tense single-player space strategy roguelite about commanding a fleeing fleet, with punishing difficulty and replayable runs across dozens of hours.
2026-05-11
- Action
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Tactical
Star Trucker
A single-player space-trucking sim where you haul cargo, trade salvage, and manage your rig through jump gates, with a mostly positive but janky-feeling experience.
2024-09-03
- Comedy
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Third person
- Simulator
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
A solo space sandbox sim where you craft drones from modular parts to survive a destructible, procedurally generated universe, with arenas and a creative mode.
2020-05-14
- Action
- Science fiction
- Survival
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
Tin Can
A tense single-player escape-pod survival sim where you manage complex systems using a technical manual, with a short, engineering-focused campaign.
2022-05-12
- First person
- Science fiction
- Survival
- Strategy
- Indie
- Simulator
Trigon: Space Story
A tactical space strategy game about commanding a spaceship, battling pirates, and escaping enemy territory, with a steep learning curve and a short campaign.
2022-04-28
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD
A single-player turn-based sci-fi strategy game of space exploration and base building, featuring quick-to-play scenarios and a deeply engaging strategy that reviewers spent roughly 21 hours with.
2025-08-20
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Indie
- Simulator
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
A retro single-player space strategy RPG mixing base building, turn-based tactics, and crew management into an emergent 16-17 hour campaign.
2016-09-08
- Science fiction
- Strategy
- Indie
- Side view
- Simulator

Voidship: The Long Journey

Space Haven

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

60 Parsecs!

Space Cats Tactics

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

Star Trucker

Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor

Tin Can

Trigon: Space Story

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

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