Games like Kerbal Space Program

3.5average player rating•5 games

Kerbal Space Program's pull is physics-first rocketry: build, stage, and fly under real orbital mechanics, learning by exploding smarter each launch. These picks keep the engineering-first sandbox — vehicles you design, systems you wire, and missions that succeed only when the physics say so.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic68

Avg. player rating3.5/5

Avg. playtime4h

Main genreSimulation

Released2013–2019

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Simulation5 of 5
Indie3 of 5
Action2 of 5
Strategy2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
SimulationCasual
Hands-on vehicle engineering with buoyancy, fuel plumbing, and logic blocks — design, launch, fail, and iterate until the mission holds.
3.9/5Player ratingView game
2
Stationeers
ActionSimulationIndie
Closed-loop base engineering in vacuum: atmospherics, power, and automation where mistakes explode just as fast as rockets do.
3.7/5Player ratingView game
3
Space Engineers
ActionStrategySimulation
Modular spacecraft you balance and wire; mass, thrust vectors, and power routing decide if the ship flies or tumbles.
3.5/5Player ratingMC68View game
4
SimpleRockets 2
SimulationEducationalIndie
Physics-first rocketry and orbital mechanics, where delta-v budgets, staging, and iterative test flights decide whether you reach orbit.
2.9/5Player ratingView game
5
Children of a Dead Earth
StrategySimulation
Hard orbital mechanics and real propulsion constraints, turning maneuver nodes into firing solutions and delta-v into life or death.
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