Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Flight Of Nova
Flight sim game with transport ships on a full scale planet
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Flight Of Nova launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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First new release in 14 years, now in real-time 4K 🛩
2020 · xbox.com · its alternatives →
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Fly to every country as a passenger. Choose your next destination and collect country flags automatically as your flights finish.
Sep 2026 · inflightsimulator.com · its alternatives →
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This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 - taken from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration. To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the "Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom left, and follow the instructions…
2023 · thapen.itch.io · its alternatives →
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No Man's Sky▲272Explore a nearly endless procedurally generated universe
2016 · playstation.com · its alternatives →
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Lunar lander type game with computational fluid dynamics - s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · stefanom.org · its alternatives →
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Load Nova▲126An AI co-pilot and dashboard built for dispatcher speed
Jun 2026 · loadnova.app · its alternatives →
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3D simulator that models planets, orbits, propulsion systems
Nov 2025 · solar.chriswest.tech · its alternatives →
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Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and continuously missing," cosmic velocities with a little rocket, Voyager 1 & 2's real gravity assists (the clock runs the actual 1977–1989 dates so the planets orbit into their grand-tour alignment and the…
Jun 2026 · qunabu.github.io · its alternatives →
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Astroneer▲98A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration
2015 · astroneer.space · its alternatives →
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An open world starship simulator (Early Access Game)
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · imakesnowflakes.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to be a professional pilot
2015 · toplightgaming.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · dustycloud.org · its alternatives →
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I built this with Claude cause I always wanted to tinker with a simulation economoy and I love space themes. A space-economy sim where nothing is scripted. A few hundred autonomous ships each run their own planner. Some chase the best trade route, take a delivery contract, refuel, retrofit at a shipyard, or dock so the crew can rest before morale tanks. Markets price everything off supply with shortage-urgency multipliers, factions tax and subsidize, populations migrate when they're unhappy, and stations that go broke get abandoned and rot. It started as an Elixir/Phoenix prototype, but…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Second only to working at Space X
2015 · kerbalspaceprogram.com · its alternatives →
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AstroGrid▲113Explore the entire universe in your browser, in real 3D
Apr 2026 · velonspace.com · its alternatives →
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Swipe decision game, explore, and conquer the galaxy
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Take control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Explore the cosmos and uncover the mysteries of the universe
2024 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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