- #1 Prosperous Universe
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,109 reviews2022
Dev: simulogics
Windows
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: MMORPG 18.4% ★, Trading 14.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Space Sim 13.1%, Economy 8.6%
- #2 SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 505 reviews2020
Dev: Arcanum Team
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Space. Ships. Resources. Trading. Production. Combat. Mine ore, haul cargo, and find profitable trade routes. Buy and capture ships, build your fleet, construct stations, and develop your production. Start with your first ship. Build your empire!
Why similar: Space Sim 25.1%, MMORPG 20.2% ★, Economy 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Space 8.5%
- #3 Beyond Orbit
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Beyond Orbit Games
Windows
A persistent-world space MMO where you mine, craft, trade, and fight alongside your guild. Build your ship, run dangerous routes, and pick a side in a three-way conflict centuries in the making.
Why similar: MMORPG 33.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 31.3%, Space Sim 15.9%, Space 9.3%, Open World 5.3%
- #4 Battle For Embolia
95% matchNo user reviews52% of 477 reviews2026
Dev: Ager Games
Windows
Battle For Embolia is a fast-paced indie MMORPG with responsive combat, meaningful progression, and constant updates. Explore a growing world, face challenging bosses, and help shape the game’s development through community feedback. Free to play with no pay-to-win.
Why similar: MMORPG 38.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 25.9%, Trading 24%, RPG 6.3%, Exploration 2.1%
- #5 Eclipsis Online
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Eclipsis
Windows · Mac · Linux
A persistent online space MMO where you control a ship to harvest asteroids, trade at player-run structures, and fight inside star systems, either alone or with others.
Why similar: MMORPG 29.5% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, RPG 9.5%, Space 6%
- #6 Elite Dangerous
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 107,797 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.8%, Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Space 12%, Open World 10.5%, Trading 9%
- #7 Star Trek Online
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 21,376 reviews2012
Dev: Cryptic StudiosPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 135.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: MMORPG 32.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 29.6%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 8%, Open World 7.3%
- #8 Kron Wars
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alien Bulb
Windows
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 2 universes and 12,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Trading 18.9%, Space Sim 18.8%, MMORPG 17.3% ★, Economy 8.9%
- #9 Veliri: Planet of Machines
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Otocolobus studio
Windows
A hardcore 2D MMO sandbox where survival depends on your skill in trade and combat. A world with a living economy and full loot that functions even when playing solo. Become a trade magnate, pirate, mercenary, or ruins explorer in this post-apocalyptic machine-world simulator.
Why similar: MMORPG 27.3% ★, Space Sim 21.4%, Trading 17.2%, Economy 9.3%, Open World 7.8%
- #10 AION 2
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NC
Windows
AION 2 is the only MMORPG built around a world where the sky is the battlefield. Choose your faction, ascend as a Daeva, and fight a faction war across a world 36 times larger than the original. PC only, on Unreal Engine 5.
Why similar: MMORPG 34.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 26.3%, Trading 13.3%, Open World 9.3%, Artificial Intelligence 6.2%
- #11 Starscrip
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: boomthump
Windows
The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.6%, Trading 18.8%, Space 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, RPG 6.4%
- #12 Anarchy Online
89% matchVery Positive82% of 289 reviews2017
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 37.5%, MMORPG 35.9% ★, RPG 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Open World 7.6%
- #13 Astro Lords
88% matchMixed65% of 231 reviews2015
Dev: Aratog LLCPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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: MMORPG 23.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 20.1%, Space Sim 16.9%, Space 8.5%, Economy 8.3%
- #14 EVE Online
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 39,560 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 139.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.2%, Trading 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Open World 8%, Economy 8%
- #15 Verse Project
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Synthes Games
Windows
In this multiplayer game you have to explore the Solar System in real scale. Control spaceships of the near future, explore planets, moons and asteroids, mine resources, fight for space domination and build the future of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.3%, Massively Multiplayer 19.9%, Trading 16.4%, Flight 10.7%, Space 8.6%
- #16 Lowbar Legends
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Idleforge Games
Windows
The idle MMO that lives above your Windows taskbar. Chop, smelt, slay and raid with your clan while you work. Every item you loot trades on the Steam Community Market · gear, keys, chests, even the pets. Free to play. No ads, no energy, no subscription.
Why similar: MMORPG 31% ★, Trading 25.7%, Massively Multiplayer 18.6%, Economy 7.3%, RPG 7.3%
- #17 Stellar Trader
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ParaVerseLabPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
See the galaxy through the eyes of a trader. Hundreds of years after humanity took to the stars, you're free to buy, fight, explore, and build your way to power. Shape economies, form alliances, and influence the systems that control trade, tech, and politics.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.2%, Trading 23.6%, Economy 11.2%, Flight 11.1%, Space 10.4%
- #18 《蜀山:初章》买断版
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 5,981 reviews2022
Dev: 重楼工作室
Windows
这是一款东方特色修仙类开放世界游戏;虚幻4制作、7056平方公里无缝大地图、海陆空战斗冒险探索、高自由度角色养成、大地图据点占领门派经营等等;版本里同时包括单人模式及多人在线模式等玩法。(付费点卡)
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26%, MMORPG 22.2% ★, Trading 21.1%, Flight 11.7%, Open World 9.9%
- #19 Reconquer Online
81% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Reconquer Games LLC
Windows · Linux
An new indie MMORPG inspired by OSRS! Train, battle, quest, and explore a dynamic world. Solve puzzles, conquer dungeons, and fight epic battles. This game builds upon time-tested mechanics with barricades, fires, player controlled resources, endless raids, macroing, and a caravan system!
Why similar: MMORPG 30.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 22%, Trading 17.7%, Economy 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #20 Eldevin
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,795 reviews2014
Dev: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Eldevin is the award winning indie story-driven Free to Play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) from Hunted Cow Studios. Join thousands of other players and explore the mystical lands of Eldevin.
Why similar: MMORPG 43.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 38.1%, RPG 10%, Open World 8.8%
- #21 RuneScape ®
77% matchVery Positive82% of 27,303 reviews2020
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 102.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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: MMORPG 41.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 27.4%, Open World 12.4%, RPG 6.4%, Lore-Rich 4.5%
- #22 StarFrame
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StarFrame Development Team
Windows
A single persistent galaxy shared by every player. Full loot. Rich skill system. Exploration, Industry, PvE/PvP Combat
Why similar: MMORPG 32.8% ★, Space Sim 23.3%, Massively Multiplayer 16.2%, Flight 11.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #23 Magic Soldier
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Triquiteur
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Magic Soldier, a 2D open-world MMORPG. Explore vast landscapes, fight powerful foes, craft unique items, and team up with players worldwide. Adventure awaits, shape your destiny today !
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 42.1%, MMORPG 41.8% ★, Open World 10.4%, RPG 5.7%
- #24 Champions of Regnum
78% matchMixed69% of 1,247 reviews2013
Dev: Nimble Giant Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 52.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Choose your Realm and engage in the most dynamic player driven battlefield available on any MMO. Fight for the Alsius Empire, protect the woods of Syrtis or avenge the Brotherhood of Ignis.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 39.4%, MMORPG 37.8% ★, RPG 10.6%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 3.9%
- #25 Bless Unleashed
76% matchMixed53% of 31,116 reviews2021
Dev: VALOFE
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Bless Unleashed is an open-world online game that can be enjoyed with your friends and countless others. Venture out to engage in intense combat while exploring vast regions and treacherous dungeons.
Why similar: MMORPG 43.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Open World 13.2%, RPG 8.5%, Trading 8.4%
- #26 EverQuest II
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,957 reviews2011
Dev: Darkpaw GamesPub: Daybreak Game Company
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
EverQuest® II is a deep fantasy MMORPG with over two decades of content, a thriving world, and ongoing expansions that keep Norrath growing. Create your hero and adventure through a massively rich, ever-evolving universe.
Why similar: MMORPG 42.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 36.1%, RPG 9.2%, Open World 7.1%, Exploration 2.5%
- #27 AQ2: Expanse
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seven Point Red Ltd
Windows
AQ2: Expanse is a massively multiplayer space strategy game. A single persistent universe with open PvP and PvE. Fight for control over the Aquila system's sectors in huge corporation wars, play with everyone, play in a group or play solo with plenty to explore.
Why similar: MMORPG 27.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 24.7%, Space Sim 23.9%, Real Time Tactics 10%, Space 7.7%
- #28 Astravek
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoonpixelgamesPub: CF Digital AB
Windows · Linux
Astravek is a premium online space MMO. Buy once and command your own ship in a persistent galaxy — mine asteroids, craft gear, trade on a player-driven market, and fight tactical top-down space combat against and alongside other captains.
Why similar: MMORPG 30.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 20.2%, Space Sim 19.2%, RPG 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #29 Frontier Pilot Simulator
73% matchMixed70% of 956 reviews2021
Dev: RAZAR s.r.o.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.
Why similar: Space Sim 18.7%, Trading 17.9%, Flight 16.8%, Economy 11.5%, Space 8.1%
- #30 奇兽杂货铺
71% matchVery Positive85% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: Aiyaha Games
Windows
Hunt creatures, collect materials, and craft equipment of different qualities. Keep what suits your build, then sell extra materials, gear, and creature eggs to other players. Grow stronger at your own pace through loot hunting, trading, and creature raising.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 37%, MMORPG 36.9% ★, Trading 19%, RPG 7%
- #31 Shattered Void
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: yyy1505yyy
Windows · Linux
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: Massively Multiplayer 25%, Trading 21.7%, MMORPG 20.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, Space 9.6%
- #32 X: Beyond the Frontier
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 399 reviews2010
Dev: Egosoft
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.8%, Trading 21.8%, Space 16.3%, Economy 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #33 Stardust Origins
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: Nikolaj Piet PaghPub: PetskullGames
Windows
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Why similar: Trading 24.6%, Space Sim 23.6%, Space 12.9%, Open World 10.9%, RPG 6.3%
- #34 Deep Haul
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MJ Games
Windows
Mine a vast, lonely asteroid field at the edge of a giant solar system. Tear ore from drifting rocks, haul it back to the station, and upgrade a rust-bucket into a roaring hauler. Dodge mini-suns, the sun, and a black hole — and clear the whole field to win.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.6%, Trading 19.6%, Flight 13.5%, Economy 10.3%, Space 8.2%
- #35 Ragnarok: The New World
70% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,113 reviews2026
Dev: Gravity Game Vision Limited
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Ragnarok: The New World is Gravity's officially licensed cross-platform MMORPG, reimagining RO's cute, classic Midgard with high-quality visuals and audio on PC and mobile. Choose 8 Classes, including the new Druid. Explore, tame MVPs as Mounts, trade freely, and customize 100+ looks with friends!
Why similar: MMORPG 41.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 29.1%, RPG 8.4%, Trading 7.1%, Open World 6.6%
- #36 The Infinite Black 2
69% matchVery Positive85% of 238 reviews2023
Dev: SpellbookPub: www.Spellbook.com
Windows
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: MMORPG 28.1% ★, Space Sim 25.9%, Massively Multiplayer 18.2%, Open World 9.6%, Space 9.4%
- #37 Project: Gorgon
67% matchVery Positive82% of 5,080 reviews2026
Dev: Elder Game, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 90.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Project: Gorgon is a fantasy MMORPG that allows you to forge your own path through exploration and discovery.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 48.7%, MMORPG 35.5% ★, RPG 10.9%, Open World 4.9%
- #38 X2: The Threat
70% matchVery Positive83% of 534 reviews2006
Dev: Egosoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.9%, Trading 19.1%, Space 18.3%, Economy 11.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #39 Starforce Rangers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RocketGunGames
Windows
A small online Space RPG. Made to enter space! Fly around with others and level up. Battle against other ships or do other missions.
Why similar: MMORPG 25.1% ★, Space Sim 22%, Massively Multiplayer 18.8%, Flight 10.6%, Space 8.3%
- #40 STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
68% matchVery Positive90% of 75,527 reviews2020
Dev: BroadswordPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 70.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: MMORPG 40.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Open World 11.8%, Space 6.6%, RPG 5.9%
- #41 Locus Solus
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KURONEKO SOFT
Windows
This game is a massively multiplayer online game focused on freely searching, adventuring and life. Experience real-time social interaction with thousands of people in the same exciting game world. Meet new friends and foes, engage in group combat, venture off to uncharted lands, or visit a tavern and chat with players from around the...
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 45%, MMORPG 35.3% ★, RPG 10.1%, Open World 9.6%
- #42 Neverwinter
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 39,685 reviews2013
Dev: Cryptic StudiosPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
Why similar: MMORPG 50.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 29.1%, RPG 8.1%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 3.7%
- #43 VoidArmada
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: QianKingGamePub: TBD
Windows
Void Armada is a sci-fi sandbox MMORPG where exploration, trade, and warfare shape a living galaxy. Explore unknown star systems, gather rare resources, build powerful starships, trade in an open marketplace, and fight in massive fleet battles for wealth and influence.
Why similar: MMORPG 35.3% ★, Space Sim 24.8%, Flight 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #44 RPG MO
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,972 reviews2015
Dev: Marxnet
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
RPG MO is a nostalgic MMORPG that reminds of Ultima and Runescape Classic.
Why similar: MMORPG 43.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 32.6%, RPG 9.8%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 4.1%
- #45 Downfall MMORPG
66% matchMixed52% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Rainmade Games
Windows
Downfall MMORPG is an open-world sci-fi & fantasy MMORPG where magic and technology collide. Choose a faction, forge your own playstyle, and fight for control of a living world in massive PvP battles and endless PvE adventures.
Why similar: MMORPG 41.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 24.1%, Open World 9.9%, RPG 7.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #46 Kaion Tale MMORPG
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 516 reviews2020
Dev: Mobile Co Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter a magical 2D world online with thousands of players in this MMORPG! Make new friends and play with thousands online! The adventure is yours.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 46.8%, MMORPG 41.1% ★, RPG 12.1%