Juno: New Origins similar games & best alternatives

Juno: New Origins

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2023

Should you play it?

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

What works

  • Highly customizable procedural parts
  • Intuitive programming automation system (vizzy)
  • Well-designed career mode with contracts and milestones
  • Good performance even on low-end hardware
  • Active developer support and modding community

Things to keep in mind

  • Lacks charm and character compared to ksp
  • Limited social and cooperative features
  • Some ui and control quirks, especially camera
  • Planetary environments can feel barren
  • Steep learning curve for beginners

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • SimpleRockets

  • Kerbal Space Program

  • Rogue Voltage

  • Astrometica: Prologue

  • Final Upgrade

  • Occupy Mars: Prologue (2020)

More fantastical

Games that feels like Juno: New Origins but with more imaginative fiction

  • AETHUS

  • 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey

  • Blossom: The Seed of Life

  • For The Warp

  • Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation

  • Dyson Sphere Program

More violent

Games that feels like Juno: New Origins but with more combat and destruction

  • EVERSPACE™

  • DRAINUS

  • Children of a Dead Earth

  • EVERSPACE™ 2

  • Sodaman

  • ROGUE FLIGHT

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Juno: New Origins but with more leadership over others

  • Mars Horizon

  • IXION

  • Starcom: Unknown Space

  • Solargene

  • Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition

  • Space Architect

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

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).

Juno: New Origins: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Expression, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026