Games Like EVE Online

Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.4% ★, Space 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 10.6%, Trading 9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive shared galaxy built around freeform careers like trading, mining, exploration, piracy, and faction warfare in a way that most closely mirrors EVE's open-ended space life.

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 Sim 23.3% ★, Trading 22.9% ★, Economy 11.9%, Space 11%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While single-player, it nails EVE's economy-and-industry appeal by letting you trade, build stations, command fleets, and manipulate a living space sandbox.

Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.3%, Open World 23.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Economy 8.5%, PvP 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the best non-space analogues to EVE thanks to its player-driven economy, full-loot PvP, territory warfare, and sandbox progression.

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 Sim 22% ★, Trading 15.3% ★, Space 10.7%, Economy 9.8%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of shipbuilding, faction politics, trading, fleet growth, and open-ended progression captures the sandbox empire-building side of EVE very well.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Space 24%, Open World 20.9%, Space Sim 19.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the fantasy of living in a vast space sandbox where exploration, trade, base-building, and ship progression can define your playstyle.

Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!

Why similar: Space Sim 23.8% ★, Trading 23.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although more combat-focused and instanced, it still scratches the itch for ship loadouts, factional progression, and multiplayer space PvP.

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Why similar: Space 27.4%, Trading 18.1% ★, Space Sim 15.7% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures EVE's freedom to roam, trade, fight, and align with different powers in a huge open galaxy, just in a 2D single-player format.

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Space Sim 29.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Space 13.1%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel ship design, station construction, resource gathering, and multiplayer space sandbox structure echo EVE's industrial and social creativity.

In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Why similar: Trading 20.5% ★, Space Sim 17% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Economy 11.8%, Space 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of EVE is spreadsheets, logistics, manufacturing chains, and market play, this MMO economy sim is one of the closest fits on Steam.

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Why similar: Space 23.1%, Space Sim 19.5% ★, Trading 17.4% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This classic space sandbox delivers the same addictive loop of trading, fleet accumulation, station building, and carving out a place in a living universe.

Entropia Universe is a unique massively multiplayer online game (MMO) where virtual assets hold real-world value and players can participate in a thriving virtual sandbox economy.

Why similar: Trading 24.5% ★, Space 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, PvP 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent online world and famously economy-heavy design appeal to the same players who enjoy EVE's market-first, risk-reward mindset.

Star Sonata 2 is a space sandbox MMO that combines elements of action, RPG, and empire creation into a truly unique MMO. Explore the sandbox style universe, build persistent bases, construct trade ships, and even fight your way to the top and claim the Emperor’s Throne!

Why similar: Trading 29.2% ★, Space Sim 26.1% ★, Space 16.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, PvP 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This space MMORPG emphasizes persistent progression, player conflict, trading, and cooperative or competitive faction play in a sandbox universe.

X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.5% ★, Space 20.5%, Trading 11.6% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like EVE, it thrives on self-directed progression through commerce, combat, exploration, and long-term empire building in a harsh sci-fi sandbox.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space Sim 23% ★, Space 13.3%, Co-op 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival, base-building, ship construction, trading, and exploration in a way that appeals to EVE players who enjoy self-sufficient space living.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.5% ★, Space 13.1%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open sandbox lets you mine, build ships and stations, and create large-scale engineering projects that echo EVE's industrial sandbox appeal.

In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.

Why similar: Space 28%, Space Sim 21.7% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the X series focus on trading, station management, exploration, and growing your influence inside a simulated space economy.

Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.4% ★, Trading 22.2% ★, Space 13%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more sim-heavy alternative for players who want the piloting, exploration, trading, and dangerous independent life-in-space side of EVE.

Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.2% ★, Mining 14.3% ★, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Space 11.6%, Economy 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a broad sandbox of space combat, trading, faction systems, and empire growth for players who want a solo game with EVE-ish ambitions.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space Sim 31.9% ★, Space 18.3%, Difficult 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its custom ship design, hauling, combat, and incremental growth through a living galaxy echo the tinkering and progression loops EVE players enjoy.

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 Sim 21.5% ★, Trading 17.9% ★, Mining 16% ★, Space 8.8%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op ship management, station building, crafting, and open-space exploration give it a strong DIY sandbox flavor adjacent to EVE's industry side.

Command a fleet of ships to hunt aliens, trade resources and loot treasure! Form corporations with your friends while fighting a never-ending intergalactic war in this open-world online space adventure!

Why similar: Space Sim 28.1% ★, Space 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.3%, Open World 11.3%, PvP 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer space sandbox focuses on exploration, PvP, progression, and communal universe activity in a way that overlaps with EVE's core appeal.

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 28.2%, Space 22.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Open World 11.1%, Character Customization 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more theme-park than sandbox, but it still delivers persistent online ship progression, sector travel, and fleet-based space MMO play.

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: Mining 29.7% ★, Space 24.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 14.4%, Sci-fi 8%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world space action RPG lets you trade, mine, build reputation, customize ships, and navigate faction conflict in very EVE-like ways.

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.6% ★, Space 18.5%, Difficult 12.6%, Open World 10.9%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: This hard-science mining sim captures the unforgiving, systems-driven, profit-versus-risk tension that makes EVE's industrial gameplay so compelling.

The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.5% ★, Space 24.7%, Trading 10.4% ★, Open World 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: For players chasing open-ended ship piloting, trading, exploration, and a demanding indie space-sim atmosphere, it offers another strong EVE-adjacent option.

Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!

Why similar: Space 46%, Open World 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended galaxy, trading, faction dynamics, and willingness to let you forge your own career make it a good lighter-weight EVE alternative.

Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.

Why similar: Space Sim 27% ★, Space 26.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its slower, more methodical take on hauling, stealth, navigation, and surviving in a dangerous civilian space economy feels nicely EVE-adjacent.

STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21%, Open World 20.8%, Character Customization 18.8%, Space 14%, Sci-fi 8.6%

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 Sim 30.3% ★, Space 19.5%, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends space trading, exploration, fleet command, and territorial warfare into a sandbox progression loop that will feel familiar to EVE fans.

Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Open World 14.3%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Space 13%, Co-op 12%

Stake your claim, command your fleets, and wage epic war in space.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.7%, Space 21.7%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 10%, PvP 8.1%

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 29.3%, Space Sim 22.2% ★, Open World 13.7%, Trading 9.6% ★, Sci-fi 8.7%

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 25.7%, Open World 19.3%, PvE 12.9%, Exploration 10.6%, Third Person 9.7%

PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 45.8%, Open World 18.8%, Sci-fi 8.5%, PvP 7.8%, Space 7.4%

RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 31.6%, Open World 22.7%, Character Customization 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, PvE 8.1%

Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, PvP 25.6%, Exploration 18.9%, Open World 10.2%, Character Customization 8.8%

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 25.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 14.6%, Space Sim 13.4% ★, Sci-fi 7%

Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.

Why similar: Space Sim 40.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 22.7%, Space 20%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Strategy 6.4%

A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.

Why similar: Space 34.7%, Massively Multiplayer 29.1%, Strategy 9%, Sci-fi 8.5%, PvP 6.4%

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Space Sim 17.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.9%, Space 11.1%, Co-op 10.4%, Open World 8%

Space MMORPG where players can fly on different ships, collecting devices, subsystems and navigations or finding new weapons that will serve in battles. Take part in battles, explore the world, mine ore, trade, fight and build your own clan with a station.

Why similar: Trading 30.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21.9%, Space 16.7%, PvP 10.5%, PvE 8.5%

MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 36%, Sci-fi 21.2%, PvP 18.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Infinity: Battlescape is a multiplayer space combat sim supporting hundreds of players on a single server. Join one of the corporate factions and fight for domination of a seamless, true-to-scale procedural star system. Participate in massive space and planetary battles involving hundreds of ships.

Why similar: Space Sim 29.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 26.7%, Space 21.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%

Fly through Subspace, build your own ship, and engage in epic battles. Mine asteroids and research new technologies. Uncover the origins of the alien homeworld by solving weekly events in this Co-op PvE MMO.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.1%, Space 21%, Mining 16.9% ★, PvE 11.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Dark Orbit is a free-2-play space MMO where three companies battle for galactic domination. Customize ships, trade resources, fight aliens and uncover a grand conspiracy on your epic cosmic journey. Thrilling PvP and PvE missions await! Will you lead your faction beyond the final frontier?

Why similar: Space Sim 48.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.7%, Space 13.7%, Adventure 9%, Third Person 8%

Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.3%, Character Customization 23.7%, PvP 14.7%, Third Person 12.8%, Adventure 7.9%

Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 600 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34%, Co-op 20.6%, PvP 17.8%, PvE 16.7%, Simulation 10.8%

Player bases are located on asteroids, which travel within the Oort Cloud. Once they’ve acquired the appropriate skills, players can control their asteroid’s movements. Mass-combat enthusiasts will love the Arena: here, players can battle it out against alien races or other Astro Lord players.

Why similar: Space Sim 17.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Space 11.6%, Economy 9.3%, Open World 8.3%

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 34.6%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Sci-fi 11%, Character Customization 8.9%

Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.

Why similar: Trading 29% ★, Space Sim 28% ★, Space 14.9%, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 6.5%

Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 40.8% ★, Space 20.1%, Trading 13.8% ★, Simulation 7.9%, Economy 5.9%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.7% ★, Space 24.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Open World 10.6%

Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 40.9%, Open World 27.6%, Co-op 8.7%, Character Customization 8.6%, PvP 6.4%

In a remote corner of the Milky Way, you, a star hunter, will control a fleet, take on a wide variety of bounty contracts and missions, and venture into the vastness of space. You will hunt for mysterious items for your employers and explore specific targets in uncharted territory.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 32.7%, Space Sim 26.4% ★, Space 21.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.6% ★, Mining 20.5% ★, Space 14.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.8%

Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.2%, Open World 17.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, PvP 11.2%, PvE 10.4%