Games Like Drox Operative

Drox Operative 2 is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Linux.

Why similar: RPG 18.2%, Space 17.7%, Action RPG 10%, Action 9.2%, 4X 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel refines the original's dynamic galaxy and faction-based RPG mechanics with modern improvements.

Din's Legacy is an action RPG with mutating characters, set in a dynamic, evolving, fantasy world for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Why similar: RPG 22.2%, Action RPG 18.6%, Loot 12.4%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Action 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game shares the signature procedural world-building and reactive quest systems found in Drox Operative.

Din, champion of the gods, has cursed you into a second life of service because you selfishly squandered your first one while causing misfortune to those around you.

Why similar: RPG 27.5%, Action RPG 25.4%, Procedural Generation 23.4%, Action 13%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers the same core philosophy of a living, evolving world where the player's actions have immediate consequences on the environment.

Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.

Why similar: Space 39.7%, Loot 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12%, RPG 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural space sandbox that excels at providing a satisfying loop of combat, exploration, and loot collection.

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 51.9%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, RPG 9.8%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down space action game that heavily emphasizes ship customization, fleet management, and loot-driven progression.

Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

Why similar: Space 41.8%, 4X 22.5% ★, Sci-fi 15.9%, RPG 14.2%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space combat with 4X-style faction management and deep RPG character progression.

Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.

Why similar: Space 51%, Sci-fi 16.4%, RPG 12.8%, Action RPG 8.9%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to Unknown Space, offering a strong blend of space exploration, narrative, and action-RPG mechanics.

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.

Why similar: Space 46%, Action RPG 20.8%, Sci-fi 13%, RPG 10.3%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and discovery within a dynamic universe, featuring modular ship building and RPG-style progression.

Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Why similar: Space 53.2%, RPG 15.5%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Action 6.7%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space RPG that features deep skill trees, faction interaction, and a persistent, evolving galaxy.

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Why similar: Space 63.6%, Sci-fi 17.2%, RPG 11.3%, Action 4.4%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a dynamic universe with faction diplomacy and intense, broadside-focused space combat.

Salvation Prophecy is a military space epic. Human, mutant, and robotic factions are at war for galactic domination. Battles rage as space fleets collide. Invaders clash against fortified enemy colonies. Yet the greatest danger is the impending annihilation foretold by an apocalyptic prophecy.

Why similar: Space 42.2%, RPG 23.3%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Action 12.5%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG set in a dynamic galaxy where the player can influence the outcome of large-scale faction wars.

Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.

Why similar: Space 34.3%, Action RPG 21.8%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.3%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space roguelike-RPG that emphasizes exploration, ship upgrades, and challenging combat encounters.

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Why similar: Space 77.3%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Indie 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space simulation RPG that focuses on mining, trading, and combat progression in a vast, open universe.

Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.

Why similar: Space 51.2%, RPG 18.3%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Action 8.8%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space RPG that emphasizes tactical ship management and decision-making during combat encounters.

A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.

Why similar: Space 32.2%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Action RPG 13.5%, RPG 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that focuses on fast-paced space combat and procedural exploration within a hostile galaxy.

Loot, level up, and obliterate everything in your path. Astroloot is a sci-fi bullet heaven with deep ARPG systems, featuring a massive skill tree, deterministic crafting, and near-endless build possibilities.

Why similar: Space 27.4%, Action RPG 22.4%, Sci-fi 13.7%, RPG 9.9%, Co-op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG focused on fast-paced combat and loot collection in a space-themed arena environment.

Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

Why similar: Space 45.1%, RPG 23%, Action 12%, Indie 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on modular ship building and combat, providing a deep sense of progression through technical upgrades.

Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.

Why similar: Space 35.6%, RPG 20.6%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Action 12.1%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep ship customization and diverse combat scenarios that reward tactical RPG-style planning.

Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.

Why similar: Space 56.9%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Action 12.9%, RPG 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space action-RPG that allows players to upgrade their ship's components and explore a wide variety of star systems.

Pixel Privateers is a Squad Based Tactical RPG “Loot ‘Em Up” that will send your team of mercenaries through a mysterious wormhole on a quest to gather technology for your employer. An entire galaxy awaits - full of worlds to explore, factions to encounter, and epic gear to collect!

Why similar: RPG 32.3%, Loot 15.6%, Action 14.1%, Indie 13%, Co-op 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based space RPG that focuses on tactical combat and extensive loot collection.

A hyperdrive malfunction sends Keith T. Maxwell tumbling through space and time to fight for his life against a mysterious alien armada that is wreaking havoc.

Why similar: Space 68.5%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Action 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential space action-RPG that delivers a compelling narrative alongside extensive ship customization.

Experience epic space battles while piloting a small, fast fighter ship as part of a fleet that lashes out against enemy factions across stunning procedurally generated star systems in Disputed Space.

Why similar: Space 38%, Co-op 17.6%, Action 16.3%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Indie 12%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented space shooter that incorporates light RPG elements and ship progression.

Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Why similar: Space 46.7%, 4X 32.6% ★, Sci-fi 12.3%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space 4X strategy game that features deep ship design and RPG-like progression systems.

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!

Why similar: Space 37.7%, RPG 25.9%, Action 16.2%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG set in a destructible space environment that blends survival mechanics with mission-based progression.

EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.

Why similar: Space 34.8%, Action RPG 20.9%, Loot 16.1%, Sci-fi 11.6%, RPG 9.7%

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Space 53.3%, Action RPG 23.9%, Sci-fi 22.7%

A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.

Why similar: Space 42.3%, Co-op 15.6%, Action 13.6%, Indie 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused space action game that incorporates team-based RPG roles and ship management.

Codename: Rogue Fleet is a multiplayer team-based game about spaceships combat.

Why similar: Space 63.9%, Action 15%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer space action game with tactical elements and ship-based progression.

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 57.6%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Co-op 6.6%, RPG 6.5%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space game that offers deep building mechanics and RPG-like combat progression.

Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!

Why similar: Space 48.5%, RPG 20.2%, Action 9.8%, Indie 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-source space action-RPG that emphasizes exploration and ship upgrades in a procedurally generated system.

Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.

Why similar: Space 34.9%, RPG 33.1%, Action 17.9%, Indie 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that focuses on managing a fleet of ships and engaging in tactical space combat.

Warspace 2 is a 1-4 player CO-OP space shooter with RPG elements, open-world and procedurally-generated galaxy. You can trade, craft, and fight your way through a universe, either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Space 32%, Loot 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Co-op 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.9%

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Space 34.7%, Sci-fi 27.2%, Procedural Generation 22.6%, RPG 15.5%

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX

Why similar: Space 42.2%, Procedural Generation 19.6%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Action 8.9%, Indie 8.3%

Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.

Why similar: Space 58.9%, Sci-fi 28.1%, Action 13%

Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.

Why similar: Space 42.6%, Co-op 26.8%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Action 6.5%, Multiplayer 4.1%

Fight fierce hostile alien space ships to neutralize their defenses before you board their ships and battle intense on-foot encounters. Eliminate their forces and steal their technology to upgrade your squad with different abilities and save the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 35.7%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Sci-fi 15.2%, RPG 12.7%, Action 9.9%

As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.

Why similar: Space 43.1%, 4X 35.7% ★, Sci-fi 14.2%, Indie 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Why similar: Space 69.7%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.

Why similar: Space 45%, 4X 31.3% ★, Sci-fi 18.5%, Indie 5.2%

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 71.9%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Action 8.5%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Space 64.8%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Action 11.2%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

The Battle of Sol is an intense space action game where you participate in epic capital ship battles, thrilling dogfights, space station raids, and much more as you liberate humanity's solar system from enemies determined to bring us to its fiery end.

Why similar: Space 51.6%, Sci-fi 18.4%, Action 18.2%, Indie 11.8%

Search for the legendary lost artifact Nienix through galaxies in conflict! An open world space action RPG adventure that can be played both alone and together!

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Action RPG 22.8%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, RPG 12.1%, Loot 12%

StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.

Why similar: Space 43.6%, 4X 27.9% ★, Sci-fi 19.9%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Star Vortex is a fast paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight your way through hostile alien sectors, upgrade as you salvage rare weapons and experiment with different builds until nothing can stand against you.

Why similar: Action RPG 43.2%, Loot 25.8%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Space 5.8%, RPG 4.6%

Subdivision Infinity is an immersive and pulse pounding sci-fi space shooter featuring stunning graphics and tight spaceship game play. Hunt down and destroy enemy spacecraft, crush capital ships, mine asteroids for rare minerals, and find blueprints to craft amazing new vessels!

Why similar: Space 50.7%, Sci-fi 21.7%, Action 15.7%, Indie 11%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Space 26.8%, Co-op 24.3%, Procedural Generation 16.9%, Loot 13.6%, Sci-fi 13%

Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

Why similar: Space 55.1%, RPG 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Action 8.5%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 28.7%, 4X 20.1% ★, Co-op 18.1%, Procedural Generation 15%, Sci-fi 11.7%

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 61.1%, Sci-fi 27.1%, Action 11.8%

Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

Why similar: Space 47.3%, Action RPG 34%, Action 9.8%, Indie 6.7%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

Why similar: Space 51.1%, 4X 24.1% ★, Sci-fi 16.9%, Action 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.

Why similar: Space 50.8%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Action 12.6%

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

Why similar: Space 43.5%, 4X 24.2% ★, Sci-fi 13.6%, Co-op 12.6%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Top-down 2.5D action that combines old-school shooters like Star Control, action-RPGs like Diablo, with a system that evolves unique weapons to player preferences. Single-player and 32-player online coop and PVP.

Why similar: Space 54%, Action 25.8%, Indie 20.2%

Jumpdrive is a sandbox space sim set in an alternative future heavily inspired by classic 80s sci-fi. Fight, trade and explore in a massive procedurally generated galaxy of millions of planets and stars. Amass money and power and upgrade and purchase new ships.

Why similar: Space 71.9%, Action 14.5%, Indie 13.7%

Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, Space 36.2%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Indie 8.3%

Azulgar: Star Commanders is a Sci-Fi open world sandbox game that puts you in a command of your own custom made space ship. Explore aftermath of the Azulgar event that reshaped the face of the solar system.

Why similar: Space 43.4%, Sci-fi 20.6%, Action 13.5%, Indie 9.8%, Procedural Generation 6.4%