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30 Great Games Like Kerbal Space Program

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Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game. You direct a space program, staffed and crewed by aliens. It looks like a cute game for kids, but under its comic exterior is a hugely complex and engaging space simulation.

Unfortunately, Kerbal Space Program is not available on Android, Mac, Switch or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Kerbal Space Program

Game Details

Release Date: 31/03/2016, updated in 2021

Price: 75% off

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Creative, Simulation (Adventure and Narrative)

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Developer: Squad Devs (@SquadDevs)

Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kerbal Space Program. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kerbal Space Program.

TerraTech

Release Date: 04/07/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World

TerraTech is a construction game where you create vehicles to explore the environment, find resources and craft upgrades. It includes a modular building element where your decisions affect the performance of what you make. Each building block has its...

Tracks The Train Set Game

Release Date: 11/10/2019, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Tracks The Train Set Game is a digital version of wooden toy train sets, without the costs of buying more and more track pieces. You build your toy train set and towns and then jump into the driver's seat and drive the train, seeing your toy world to...

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Release Date: 18/08/2020

Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Microsoft Flight Simulator (Microsoft Flight Sim 2020) is the latest flight simulator game in the long running series. Along with a huge range of aircraft you can learn to fly, the game recreates the entire Earth using textures and data from data maps...

My Summer Car

Release Date: 24/10/2016

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

My Summer Car is a strategy game about doing up a broken down car over one long summer. It sounds simple, but the level of detail is the attraction here. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both your car and engine. Not only do...

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Release Date: 16/06/2020, updated in 2022

Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a spaceship salvage simulation game where you disassembling out of use craft panel by panel. The challenge is that the ships are built to survive space and tough to take apart so you must use a wide array of tools to reduce...

Surviving Mars

Release Date: 15/03/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night

Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars. You build and maintain a liveable habitat while balancing resources and researching new ways to adapt to the hostile environment. You receive occasional rockets from Earth...

8 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kerbal Space Program. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kerbal Space Program.

Observation

Release Date: 21/05/2019, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person

Observation is a narrative adventure game that puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than...

Astroneer

Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...

Everspace

Everspace (Series)

Release Date: 25/05/2017, updated in 2021

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Everspace 2 is a space shooting and exploration game. You travel star systems, gaining goods and items from the planets you find, but soon encounter a unravelling narrative that draws you in. Unlike other space games, it combines elements of open world...

Mass Effect

Mass Effect (Series)

Release Date: 20/11/2007

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Mass Effect is a sci-fi adventure where you role-play a soldier named Commander Shepard, who must save the galaxy from a race of powerful mechanical beings. The series started in 2007 and has fourth substantial instalments that take you from that first...

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Series)

Release Date: 30/06/1995, updated in 2019

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

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Release Date: 21/09/2017

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Overhead

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Dinkum

Release Date: 14/07/2022

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

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Dead Space: Extraction

Release Date: 24/09/2009, updated in 2011

Platforms: PS3 and Wii

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Dead Space: Extraction is a shooting game where you only control the aiming, like a light gun game. It's a spin-off prequel from the main Dead Space series and follows survivors of a mining colony as it is overrun by deadly monsters.

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16 Video Games Like Kerbal Space Program Based on Genre

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30 Great Games Like Kerbal Space Program

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

TerraTech

Tracks The Train Set Game

Microsoft Flight Simulator

My Summer Car

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Surviving Mars

8 Similar Games Long List

Observation

Astroneer

Everspace (Series)

Mass Effect (Series)

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Series)

Heat Signature

Dinkum

Dead Space: Extraction

1 Easier Skill Rating than Kerbal Space Program

16 Video Games Like Kerbal Space Program Based on Genre

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16 Video Games Like Kerbal Space Program Based on Genre

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