Games like Universe Explore
Universe Explore. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated
Also resource management, exploration
Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.
86% steam
Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game
Also resource management, exploration
Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.
4.5★ galaxy
NG Space Company
Also space, exploration
A space incremental about mining resources, exploring between stars and conquering systems.
4.2★ galaxy
Forest Hustle
Also resource management, exploration
Dropped in a forest with a 100k debt, chop wood, mine stone, trade and hire dog workers until you pay it off.
90% steamhas ending
Vanguard Galaxy
Also space, exploration
Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.
90% steam50% idle
Space CompanyDormant
Also space, resource management
Mine, power, research, and expand into the stars. A classic resource-chain idler from the golden age.
70% idle
Dark Forest VillageDormant
Also resource management, space
Grow and defend a village against hostile outside forces, with the long-term aim of leaving for the stars.
3.5★ galaxy
Void SalvageUpdated
Also space, exploration
An FTL-like ship sim with pick-one-of-three rewards and choice encounters, where you combine SYSTEM parts and fit SOCKET INSERTs.
3.1★ galaxy
Cosmic ForgeUpdated
Also space, exploration
Start from hydrogen atoms, research tech, mine asteroids for antimatter and find megastructures as you conquer the star map and head home.
3.0★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
无休仙途
Also exploration, resource management
Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.
73% steam
Wasteland Life: Survival IdleUpdated
Also resource management, exploration
Vacuum sand off a desert wasteland to uncover junk and space, then build settlements from what you find.

Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated
Also resource management, exploration
Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.
has ending
Space Travel Idle
Also space, exploration
Fly from Earth to distant moons and stars, researching engine tech, cutting ship weight and settling each world, with light card battles.
63% steam70% idle
Idle Expanse
Also space, exploration
Run a greedy corporation that equips mercenary squads and sends them to 64 alien planets for resources, setting their tactics and researching a time skip.
55% steam
Space Colonizers Idle ClickerUpdated
Also space, exploration
Upgrade a spacecraft to find new planets for humanity, using black holes as shortcuts and meeting alien species along the way.
45% steam
Mr.Mine
Also exploration
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam75% idle
Unnamed Space Idle
Also space
A ship, a sector map and a tidy prestige loop. Quietly one of Galaxy's most-played games.
92% steam4.5★ galaxy70% idle
Shark Game: New Frontiers
Also resource management
Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.
4.6★ galaxy55% idle
Ink Remnant
Also exploration
A short incremental where a mage starts with nothing in a magical city and researches upward, with new systems revealed as the story unfolds.
4.6★ galaxy
What Lurks Below
Also exploration
A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.
4.6★ galaxy50% idle
LORED
Also resource management
A pixel-art resource web where every resource-generator is a little character. Deep and dense.
4.4★ galaxy55% idle
Astro Prospector Prologue
Also space
A bullet-heaven incremental where you mine coffee asteroids, fight SpaceCorp and upgrade your ship. This build is an early prologue.
4.6★ galaxy
The Alterhistorian's Conquest
Also resource management
Run machines on a pannable grid, moving resources by hand between slots, to distill concepts and fluid elements into an elixir of immortality.
4.5★ galaxy
Shelldiver
Also exploration
An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.
98% steam