The game plays out a bit like The Sims, only your little human lab rats are way easier to kill.
In Starmancer, you play as a space station AI with total control over everything you survey. Starbound, Wargroove, Witchbrook, and Inmost are all fantastic games in their respective genres, and now Chucklefish is getting into the sim genre with Starmancer.
You probably know Chucklefish as the indie publisher that helped bring Stardew Valley to the world, and Stardew is undoubtedly their biggest success story, but it's not their only one.