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Ostranauts

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

What works

  • Deep and immersive hard sci-fi simulation
  • Complex ship building and repair mechanics
  • Engaging survival and resource management
  • Strong emergent storytelling and atmosphere
  • Active developer support and frequent updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and complex ui
  • Bugs and occasional game-breaking glitches
  • Limited content and social interaction depth
  • Tedious micromanagement and slow pacing
  • Early access unfinished state

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Barotrauma

  • Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

  • Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

  • Zorbus

  • Streets of Rogue

  • Last Group Out

Less social

Games that feels like Ostranauts but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Rogue's Tale

  • FTL: Faster Than Light

  • Approaching Infinity

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

  • Mech Engineer

  • Quasimorph

Less intimate

Games that feels like Ostranauts but with less focus on close relationships

  • Cogmind

  • Distant Worlds: Universe

  • Wayward

  • Chromosome Evil

  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

  • Pixel Privateers

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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Ostranauts: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026