Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 05:11 am
Tiny Space Program – Simulation Game Review
Tiny Space Program is a Simulation/Strategy game from Jerry Neimann, first launched in 7th October 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,466+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tiny Space Program Stand Out
NEW: Mayor Release – Dwarf planets!! Manage your crew and ships and get further into the solar system, beyond the Kuiper belt.
What would you do if you are a billionaire? owning your own space program, managing, researching and building space ships, mining on planets and moons, bringing tourist into space for a space walk or just sending researchers to explore what is out there.
In Tiny Space Program, like modern space companies such as Spacex, Blue origins and Virgin Galactic, you decide and manage what rockets you launch, if you want to bring tourists to Mars and The Moon, or start a mining operation on IO, Titan, Europa or Pluto. You manage and simulate the early colonization of our near future of our interplanetary society and learn what kinds of challenges exists for such an endeavour.
Features:
- Space Program Manager.
- Building off-world colonies and outposts.
- Launch Space Ships and rockets into orbit.
- Research different technologies,
- Mine resources from stellar bodies,
- Character progression of astronauts
- Spacesuits
- Based on real orbital mechanics and ship propulsion
- Establish Off-world economies
Features – to be implemented
- more rockets and space ships.
- Space stations
- Drones and idle rovers
- Orbital Factories – Capital ships
- Facilitating space colonies
- Colonies to trade with
- Stellar bodies beyond Pluto
- Interstellar Travel.
- (idle) Trade routes and automation (idle production)
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tiny Space Program is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
We have a great new feature – Automation for the mines
- Assign workers to collect the resources from mines, even when the application is closed.
- With this update overviews for vehicles and workers have been tweaked as well, giving more information to see what is going on.
- Also a lot of thanks for all the issues and bugs shared through our discord. A lot of them have been fixed.
Download & Availability
Tiny Space Program is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tiny Space Program on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Amazing game its still in development tho.
Not once will this game bombard you with ads, but theyre always available if youd like to forward your progress! Makes it feel super advantageous for us in game and like Im helping out the developer too. It really reinforces that this game lets the user control their goal and experience.
Very fun game, we just wish there were more missions though.
Been playin for about a week and we are hooked, im excited for some interface clean up and customization stuff, we also think for outposts you should be able to zoom in more do there isnt a crazy amount of empty space. Other than that this is awesome and we hope you continue to update and crewte more for this game!!!!thanks.
Been playing for a couple weeks now and beside from the crashes that occur from time to time which dont effect anything and aren't a big deal at all this game is great. Only real issues we have come across so far are; we purchased the $8.99 crystal pack which gives you 750 crystals plus you are supposed to receive a 30% bonus for your first purchase, for that specific pack it was supposed to be 225 extra crystals which we did not receive. When you scan or explore for mining locations on a planet or moon to find potential mining sites, whence the screen is filled up on the manage menu tab theres no way to filter through new potential mining sites and see the icon to create a site. This is an issue because the main way to get serious credits in this game is to set up gold mining sites and when we cant access newly found gold mining sites on a planet apart from fully depleting a formally found site it takes way to much time. This is an addicting and fun game that we are excited to see grow, even with the above mentioned issues Ill still be continuing to play. Shoutout to the lone creator and developer Jerry for all his hard work making this gem.
Title says it all. Game has tons of potential, even beyond mobile games. Wish more people played. Compliments to the developer.
Listen most things in this game are perfect only think we ask for devs but is a creative mode.
The game will not open if you have over 200 workers o. The same planet. We had to delete the app and reload. We lost weeks worth of progress.
There is no Chinese in the game. It is recommended to add it.
The game is really good, we enjoy a lot, but we feel like it could be even better. For starters you could add more ways to make credits and maybe even new types of Astronauts and Workers.
So Ive really enjoyed playing this game, we like that its detailed enough but also has simplistic gameplay. However Ive come across a problem on with actions while on planets/moons. All the actions that say they have no requirements still have a little message saying requirements not met even though there arent any requirements. This makes it very hard to do much of anything once we actually get on the planet/moon. Nothing but watch our little astronaut guy run around and have fun.
The UI on our iPhone 13 Pro overlaps on the corners and the top bar. Everything is great but this.
We think it is a fun game and has real potential but there is just the problem with crashing it happens when we try to make a satellite and o few other similar types of actions put up a bug thing then kicks us out devs we think you should work on the bugs and stuff then content just a recommendation.
The UI is way to complicated and confusing for new players.
This game seems fun but it has one major issue that, in our opinion, makes it kind of unplayable. One of the menus is directly under the camera bump on our phone and theres no setting to change it. It makes it hard to know what is under it and to click on them. Otherwise we think this is a great game and would love to play more but with that issue its kind of unplayable.
This game is super cute so far! Love the music + ambience, very cool! We would definitely rate higher, but we've only been playing for a bit and now every couple of minutes we get an error notification saying that there is some error with the code and our game crashes. Hopefully this is fixed soon! Thanks :-).
First off best game ever only problem Ive had is our daily quests. The timer starts counting up and wont refresh, we have deleted and downloaded this game 7 to 8 time and its done it every time other than that if it would work properly its probably the only game we would play.
Seems like it could have some good potential, but is very confusing and hard to follow.
Thank you devs for fixing the problem.
Super fun, super easy to play, and though you can purchase packs to make the game, go faster, its actually better if you dont spend any money. Incredibly rare for a game like this to make it more worthwhile to not pay.
Pretty much no adds and the little there is are optional, it does take some time but seems pretty good so far.
We completely enjoy this game and will probably play it forever but when we first got the game it had a bug and wouldnt let us play at all but the game is overall great other than that.
Try adding more dwarf planets including Sedna.
This is a slow paced game, at first resources and credits are hard to get. But as the game progresses and you research more efficient processes the game begins to speed up and become much more rewarding. If you can get past Mars Elon musk should consider hiring you.
Havent put it down since we downloaded it, keep it up.
Ive been playing this game for a while and we cant get enough tech points to research with and we need tech points so we can make reusable rockets but we cant make any tech points so can the developer make it possible to buy tech points.
Bro this game is so fun. The graphics, the gameplay, it just fits the characteristics of space games. We would definitely recommend the game.
This game needs no explanation This aint no bot.
We do not really have much to say other than this game is well worked on :).
As the title indicates, money is hard to get for new players, Ive been had the game on our iPad, but then we recently started to play it and got slightly addicted to it, but our main problem is that money is pretty difficult to get, we just got the reusable ships, and now they got stuck on mars and Io, so we had to send like, too many medium gray landers to help them, but we had to keep waiting because of our lack of money, all we request for this is to just add some more ways for beginners to make money easier, such as like, tasks you can do on earth every 5-10 minutes to make like, 100 credits maybe? It would be quite helpful.
Seems the last update messed up the market and the names of products won't show up. Plus can we get an update so it fits an ipad screen better.
So far Jerry we like it very much. Clear and easy direction as well as the action being what you have said it is.
From our personal opinion, the things you need to do in the game are to add more things to do, and less of a streamlined path. Also, to add more instruction for some of the more vague operations in the game. Eventually, this could honestly be an incredible space exploration/strategic-survival game. It gives us Kerbal Space Program in 2D energy.
For us its a slow paced game that doesnt make us feel like we absolutely need to do this thing now like other games. We usually get home from work, do our chores for the afternoon and then sit for a bit and play the game. Rinse and repeat the next day. Theres no rewards for played seven days in a row and such and we actually really appreciate that. We can miss a day without feeling penalized in some way when its meant to be a means of relaxation after a long and tiring day. After about a week we finally got a better understanding of the controls and which actions progress us in this way, as the tutorial doesnt exactly explain much other than push this button and do this. We feel like other than that the game is not meant to be a button crunching game that you can gain 30 levels in a day if you just keep watching the screen. Its just very chill. Do a research expedition that takes an hour, go searching for space rocks for about 5mins or do tours of space for space tourists. Then put it down and spend time with the family and pick it up later and choose something different. 4 stars as there are definitely some learning curves you gotta get through but other than that Id say to keep up the good work.
Been playing this game on-and-off for some years. We love the pace and simplicity. The bugs have mostly been minor. For those wondering, the economy is tough until you get establishedrover runs from your vessels for 100 a pop every 10 minutes and ads will carry you until you can ours gold. Missions can give currency, but most are one-offs daily or on new planets once. Research runs at an acceptable pace. Even the higher-end research projects can be waited for overnight, or watch a bunch of ads to shortcut the wait. Or, the crystal premium currency payoff. Research points are earned at a realistic pace, and they are earned a number of ways. We wish there were more weekly tasks and goals, and the 3rd satillite goal of discovering and scanning 50 places is impossible. We must assume there are other star systems to be added or we simply cannot get to them yet to reach this goal. Our vessel ranges are way past Pluto at this point. This most recent update has made planetary resources inaccessible. It locks up the app for us for the planets with large resource lists, such as Io. Before the update, there was already lag for us as we expanded our exploration and number of bases. Ive established a colony on every landable location at this point. We wish mines were a separate tab from surface resources. And, some tabs cannot be scrolled through last we checked, such as base summeries. Fix that resource app crash, 5 stars. Until then, Im giving a one star knockdown. The rest can be managed, given how much we otherwise enjoy the game. Good work, overall. Thanks for making this.
Plays great and is tons of fun. No support for bugs reported via company website or App Store. Bugs really begin once you open space stations and use workers.
Core gameplay is fine. You have plenty of stuff to work towards. Where this game struggles is with its menus, lack of tool tips, and bugs. We frequently cant tell what material Im looking at and struggle to find out how many we have when a ship isnt landed. We cant investigate research sites despite having the rover astronaut and life support. Lots of little things that make the game frustrating to play. Will likely look back on it in the future.
We really enjoy the game but playing it is a chore because all of the buttons click areas are not where they render on screen. It seems to be a scaling issue and Ive reported it on the discord but others have said its been an issue for a long time. We would love to continue playing but we will wait until this issue is fixed, if ever.
We love everything about this game from the aesthetic to the game play. Jerry youre our hero for making this, keep it up.
This game is so awesome!we cant believe you made this! Its so special we love this so much rockets,astronauts ,workers its so awesome!and its also expensive.but we love the enthusiasm.
Game is fantastic some minimal visual additions and ease of access within the menus other than that it is an amazing concept that is extremely addicting.
Totally amazing game cant wait to see what comes next.
Its an awesome game that needs more more recognition than it gets. Just think it needs a bit of an increase in credit revenue options.
This game is great, made by a small developer. There are no ads, unless you INTENTIONALLY watch one to speed up a ship.
Great game. Had lots of fun making our own space program! Would be awesome if you made a dlc new system and super advanced ships. Ive only made it to mars so far would like to see how far we can push it.
Follow the tutorial and the quests. Im making a lot of money rn by selling ingots. Send satellites out to every undiscovered moon and solar planet it earns $$$ Go to the moon, collect rock samples, make an outpost, sell rock samples (for now) and then craft a radar station, a factory and workshop and youre set. You collect rock samples by pressing action and then clicking an astronaut from the top screen and then click whatever you want them to do. If theyre greyed out it means you need to unlock a building or you need life support. Which you need to buy and ship it to the planet and then offload it from the ship to the planet and have the astronauts offload it again. Now put a astronaut to scan for resources by going in the actions screen (youll see a menu to the left and the astronauts on top) on the left menu click the second button and youll see what the radar scanned (usually iron) ours it and youll be able to then craft ingots which sell for a lot of money! Silicone sells for a lot but titianium alloy sells for even more. Upgrade the radar to find better minerals and voila. Youre set. Manage youre money well and youll be rich.
We love space and stuff like that so yeah, but the only thing is we think there just needs to be more solar systems in-game but its great we got a idea for a new building the mixer the basic idea is it mixes stuff up(hence the name)and gives you more resources and can craft more stuff great game we recommend space nerds play this we love it.
Jerry, this is one of the best space based games on the mobile market in our opinion. This game is very difficult to figure out, but there is something so fun about building up your outposts slowly, with limited funds, like in real life. We are glad you added extra ways to get credits for people struggling, and the daily random items are a life saver. We love how slow paced the game is, no food, water or energy management, which might be cool in a future update. Very fun game for people who want a slower space game. Keep up the good work Jerry.
Extremely enjoyable. Very relaxing. More strategy needed than you think. Really love this game.
Need some changes, but otherwise we would we love the gameplay.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.182 Auto collect mining
- Size: 37.73 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Jerry Neimann
Last updated: 20th November 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Jerry Neimann