Best 1-player space exploration board games

The top-rated space exploration board games that play well with 1 player, ranked by BoardGameGeek community rating across 43 games. Terraforming Mars leads the list (medium complexity).

Top space exploration board games for 1 player

Terraforming Mars (2016)
1–5 players · 120 min · ★ 8.4
Gaia Project (2017)
1–4 players · 60–150 min · ★ 8.5
On Mars (2020)
1–4 players · 90–150 min · ★ 8.3
Tiny Epic Galaxies (2015)
1–5 players · 30–45 min · ★ 7.4
Space Alert (2008)
1–5 players · 30 min · ★ 7.4
Firefly The Game (2013)
1–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.4
Star Wars Outer Rim (2019)
1–4 players · 120–180 min · ★ 7.7
Space Empires 4X (2011)
1–4 players · 180 min · ★ 7.7
Leaving Earth (2015)
1–5 players · 60–180 min · ★ 7.8
Merchant of Venus (Second Edition) (2012)
1–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.2
Star Trek Frontiers (2016)
1–4 players · 60–240 min · ★ 7.9
SpaceCorp 2025-2300AD (2018)
1–4 players · 60–240 min · ★ 7.7
Circadians First Light (2019)
1–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 7.7
Merchant of Venus (1988)
1–6 players · 180 min · ★ 7.1
High Frontier 4 All (2020)
1–5 players · 30–240 min · ★ 8.7
High Frontier (Third Edition) (2017)
1–5 players · 120–240 min · ★ 8.3
The Artemis Project (2019)
1–5 players · 60–75 min · ★ 7.3
First Martians Adventures on the Red Planet (2017)
1–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 6.5
Kepler-3042 (2016)
1–4 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.4
Wild Space (2020)
1–5 players · 15–40 min · ★ 7.5
Space Cadets Away Missions (2015)
1–6 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.4
Planetarium (2017)
1–4 players · 45 min · ★ 7.0
X-ODUS Rise of the Corruption (2020)
1–4 players · 90–150 min · ★ 8.1
Pocket Mars (2017)
1–4 players · 15–30 min · ★ 6.5
Star Trek Expeditions (2011)
1–4 players · 60 min · ★ 6.5
Space Park (2018)
1–4 players · 20–30 min · ★ 7.3
Windward (2020)
1–5 players · 30–90 min · ★ 7.5
Rocketmen (2021)
1–4 players · 30–90 min · ★ 7.1
Space Race The Card Game (2017)
1–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 6.9
Martians A Story of Civilization (2016)
1–4 players · 90–120 min · ★ 6.5
Cosmic Run Regeneration (2018)
1–4 players · 30–45 min · ★ 7.6
Stellar Horizons (2020)
1–7 players · 120–240 min · ★ 8.1
Cosmic Colonies (2020)
1–5 players · 30–45 min · ★ 7.4
Demeter (2020)
1–100 players · 15 min · ★ 7.6
Warpgate (2019)
1–6 players · 60–90 min · ★ 7.4
Sovereign Skies (2020)
1–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.3
Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora (1981)
1 players · 90 min · ★ 6.8
Cosmic Run Rapid Fire (2017)
1–2 players · 20–30 min · ★ 6.9
Centauri Saga v1.5 (2016)
1–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 6.6
Struggle for the Galactic Empire (2009)
1 players · 240 min · ★ 6.9
Liftoff! (1989)
1–4 players · 180 min · ★ 7.0
Darkrock Ventures (2016)
1–5 players · 30–45 min · ★ 6.8
Vanished Planet (2003)
1–6 players · 60 min · ★ 5.8