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Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
Games like Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

Games like Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

A hand-drawn story-rich roguelite about repairing spaceships in a surreal garage, offering deep but punishing manual-based gameplay that reviewers spent around 10-14 hours with.

Pawn Planet
A single-player alien-galaxy pawn-shop sim with casual item-flipping and haggling, hampered by bugs and lasting about 12 hours for reviewers.
2025-12-05
- Action
- Adventure

Indie

Simulator

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Mech Engineer

A demanding single-player dark sci-fi mech-assembly management sim with semi-auto battles against alien bio-weapons, noted for a brutal learning curve and widely variable playtimes.

2024-05-21

First person
Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Mystery

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker

A single-player spaceship-salvaging sim where you cut wrecks apart for materials, upgrade gear, and pay off a massive debt — engaging in the moment, but dragged by an unskippable story.

2022-05-24

First person
Science fiction
Strategy
Simulator

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Cheap Car Repair

A single-player 1990s Poland car-repair shop sim where you scrimp, fix cars, and dodge angry customers—scrappy and janky but fun, with a roughly 12-hour run.

2026-05-28

First person
Comedy
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Business

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Alien Market Simulator

A single-player sci-fi business sim about running and upgrading a space station market for alien customers, with humorous tones but occasional rough edges.

2026-05-29

Action
First person
Science fiction
Indie
Simulator
Business

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Gamestonk Simulator: Gone Rogue

A roguelite shop sim about running a video game store with retro trading, modifier choices, and shoplifter management, offering solo and co-op, with reviewers averaging ~11.5 hours.

2026-05-21

First person
Comedy
Indie
Simulator
Business

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SHENZHEN I/O

A technical simulation game about designing circuits and writing code, with an incomplete manual, steep difficulty, and a median playtime of about 31 hours.

2016-11-17

Science fiction
Puzzle
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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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
Role-playing (RPG)

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Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation

A punishing 90-hour single-player roguelite where you manage employees working with anomalous monsters to extract energy and expand a facility.

2018-04-09

Science fiction
Horror
Indie
Side view
Simulator

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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

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Nauticrawl

A tense single-player simulation about escaping a hostile planet in a stolen machine via lever-pulling and device-hacking puzzles, with low-commitment sessions and variable playtimes.

2019-09-16

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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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
Simulator
Open world
Sandbox