- #1 Starminer
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CoolAndGoodGames
Windows
Design and build an interstellar mining fleet to strip space of its invaluable minerals, and sell them for a tidy profit. But beware. Your greed will attract the alien. Use warships and defense platforms to protect your fleet at all costs - in real space, in real time.
Why similar: Spaceships 22.5% ★, Space Sim 19.2% ★, Trading 13.6% ★, RTS 11.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #2 Immortal Space God
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iteration 11
Windows
Fight till you can't then fight some more! A space combat simulator with survival crafting elements.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.5% ★, RTS 16.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 8.5%, Management 8.2%
- #3 Star Traders: Frontiers
96% matchVery Positive84% of 3,754 reviews2018
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 Sim 19.3% ★, Trading 16% ★, Tactical RPG 15.8%, Management 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #4 Starship Simulator
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fleetyard Studios
Windows
Explore a scientifically accurate Milky Way galaxy and discover distant uncharted worlds, while having unrestricted access to every deck of your Magellan Class deep space exploration vessel. Interact with numerous fully simulated ship systems, or simply relax in the bar and watch the stars drift by.
Why similar: Spaceships 27.7% ★, Space Sim 26.7% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #5 Drifter
94% matchMixed54% of 208 reviews2014
Dev: Celsius Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.2% ★, Trading 16.6% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Space 12.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #6 Orbital Traffic Controller
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Green Giraffe
Windows
Orbital Traffic Controller is a sci-fi spaceship management game set in the Solar System. Become an interstellar traffic controller, directing vessels from planetary holding patterns and warp gates to atmospheric reentry, all while avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and planetary bodies.
Why similar: Spaceships 30.1% ★, Space Sim 24.4% ★, RTS 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #7 Space Empires: Starfury
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.5% ★, RTS 19.2%, Trading 17.7% ★, Space 10.7%, Management 9.3%
- #8 SpaceLab Simulator
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tractor Set GO!
Windows
Run a spaceship's lab module all by yourself while trying to find a cure for close-to-extinct humanity. Make repairs to various systems of the ship, solve technical problems, perform maintenance, and upgrade tools that will help you to overcome the most unusual challenges.
Why similar: Spaceships 44.3% ★, Space Sim 30.4% ★, Space 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #9 Starpoint Gemini 2
91% matchMixed69% of 4,112 reviews2014
Dev: Little Green Men Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
Why similar: Spaceships 25.2% ★, Space Sim 19.4% ★, Trading 13.6% ★, Tactical RPG 12.9%, Space 12.1%
- #10 Spaceship Pro Simulator
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Spaceship Pro Simulator. Strapped in and ready. One ship, one mission—survive the unknown. Enemies ahead, systems online. This is my journey through deep space, and I'm not going down easy.
Why similar: Spaceships 46.2% ★, Space Sim 30.4% ★, Space 6.3%, Simulation 5.5%, Sci-fi 3%
- #11 Avorion
90% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Spaceships 24.1% ★, Space Sim 22.8% ★, Trading 11.7% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 7%
- #12 Deep Claims
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Promination Studios
Windows
Deep Claims is a space exploration game where you upgrade your ship and equipment in order to mine increasingly valuable and hazardous asteroids. Can you make it to the core?
Why similar: Space Sim 25.8% ★, Management 16.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Space 9.2%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #13 Cosmonautica
89% matchMixed48% of 1,184 reviews2015
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.9% ★, Trading 20.5% ★, Management 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Space 7.7%
- #14 Admiral Stepinski
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Adam Stępiński
Windows
A multiplayer, tactical, real-time strategy with spaceships
Why similar: Spaceships 36.8% ★, RTS 25%, Space Sim 20.4% ★, Space 5.5%, Strategy 5.1%
- #15 X: Beyond the Frontier
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 382 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 26.3% ★, Trading 19.1% ★, Space 13.9%, Sandbox 9%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #16 AstroForge: Space Pirates
86% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: FrostFire
Windows
Build your unique spaceship and explore space. Travel between planets, fight different opponents, trade and develop. Build the most efficient ship and fight with other players in multiplayer. 17 languages available.
Why similar: Spaceships 33.6% ★, Space Sim 26.3% ★, RTS 14.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Space 7.2%
- #17 X2: The Threat
86% matchVery Positive83% of 518 reviews2006
Dev: Egosoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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 25.1% ★, Trading 16.7% ★, Space 15.6%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 8.2%
- #18 Null Hørizøn
84% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: HopefullyHeroic
Windows
Survive the void in Null Hørizøn. Trade, fight, and explore a retro-futuristic 3D galaxy with 2D sprites. Upgrade your ship, smuggle goods, and travel across the universe. Tactical Real-Time combat meets Grid-based exploration in this atmospheric space sim. The Null Hørizøn calls, Captain.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.4% ★, Tactical RPG 17.5%, Sandbox 12%, Management 8.2%, Space 6.3%
- #19 eXoSpace Combat Engineer
84% matchPositive84% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Fantastimaker
Windows
Build and pilot your warship to hunt the galaxy’s most wanted. Dodge blasters and missiles as you tear enemy hulls apart piece-by-piece in a high-stakes roguelite campaign, or unleash total chaos in the sandbox.
Why similar: Spaceships 40.2% ★, Space Sim 22.9% ★, Space 7.5%, Sandbox 7.3%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #20 X3: Terran Conflict
85% matchVery Positive85% of 2,841 reviews2008
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 Sim 25.1% ★, Space 17.5%, Trading 16.6% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 7.4%
- #21 Infini Orbis
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tanis
Windows
Survive against a relentless horde in a single-player space sandbox blending factory automation, RTS combat, and deep RPG progression. Pilot humanity's last ark, the Mothership, on a desperate mission back in time to build a fleet powerful enough to change the destiny of the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Trading 19.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #22 Interstellar Pilot 2
82% matchVery Positive92% of 153 reviews2023
Dev: Pixelfactor Ltd.
Windows
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind. Play how you like in this open world space-sim developed by Pixelfactor.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.7% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8%, Space 7.9%
- #23 Space Sim Tycoon
81% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: SuperChicken Productions LLC
Windows
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.2% ★, Sandbox 15%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #24 Starpoint Gemini Warlords
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,569 reviews2017
Dev: Little Green Men Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Spaceships 26.2% ★, Space Sim 22.5% ★, Tactical RPG 12.2%, Space 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #25 X4: Foundations
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 27,985 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 94.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 28.5% ★, Trading 20.7% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Space 7.9%, Management 7.3%
- #26 Star Armada
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitbuildr
Windows · Mac
Star Armada is a spaceship auto-battler where you assemble and command a fleet of capital ships and fighter squadrons. Unlock powerful new ships and outfit them with a range of turrets, energy shields, and starfighter hangars. Engage in automated battles, carefully timing unique abilities to win.
Why similar: Spaceships 42.1% ★, RTS 15.3%, Management 9.5%, Space Sim 8.6% ★, Space 8%
- #27 Rocket Simulator
79% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Traveller Praha
Windows
Travel with your spacecraft throughout the solar system based on realistic Kepler's laws of gravity. Invent your own routes between planets, use gravity, explore space, trade, upgrade your spaceship and enjoy the beautiful scenery!
Why similar: Space Sim 36.1% ★, Spaceships 29.2% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Space 9.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #28 Spaceflight Simulator
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,486 reviews2022
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.6% ★, Spaceships 22.5% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Space 10.3%, Exploration 5%
- #29 X3: Reunion
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 725 reviews2006
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 32.1% ★, Space 15.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Trading 11.3% ★, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #30 Stellar Industrialist
77% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: PcZ Games
Windows · Mac
You are neither a general nor a soldier — you are a Stellar Industrialist. To you, peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses. Venture to the frontlines, strip battlefields for wreckage and salvage, turn spoils into resources, and expand your interstellar arms empire.
Why similar: Spaceships 29.4% ★, Space Sim 23.9% ★, Procedural Generation 9.9%, War 9.5%, Space 7%
- #31 Space
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Traveller
Windows
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Why similar: Space Sim 34.1% ★, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 9.5%, Space 9.3%
- #32 Stardust Origins
77% 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: Space Sim 28% ★, Trading 22.2% ★, Space 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #33 Ostranauts
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,398 reviews2020
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Spaceships 24.4% ★, Space Sim 19.3% ★, Trading 14.4% ★, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #34 Star Command Galaxies
76% matchMixed43% of 508 reviews2024
Dev: Warballoon
Windows · Mac
Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.4% ★, RTS 23.5%, Isometric 17.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Space 6.8%
- #35 Spacefleet: Heat Death
74% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Spacezero Interactive
Windows
In the 23rd century, Earth orbit is flooded with debris from constant warfare. Countries, megacorporations, and mercenaries are fighting for control. Take contracts, build your warfleets, and dominate the Earth-Luna system in this realism-focused strategy RPG!
Why similar: Space Sim 20.4% ★, RTS 15.9%, Tactical RPG 15%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space 7.8%
- #36 Elite Dangerous
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 105,113 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.4 hrsMean: 146.5 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 42.1% ★, Space 12%, Open World 11.6%, Trading 9.2% ★, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #37 Trade Anchor
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lemuria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Amidst powerful alien empires, you are among the first humans in this corner of the procedurally generated galaxy. Trade and explore. With no combat, your success hinges on mastering complex alien economies and navigating intricate politics. Can you carve out a place for humanity in the cosmos?
Why similar: Trading 29.7% ★, Space Sim 12.9% ★, Management 12.5%, RTS 11.5%, Sci-fi 9%
- #38 Between the Stars
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,427 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 Sim 32.9% ★, Space 15.1%, Tactical RPG 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #39 The Galactic Junkers
74% matchMixed45% of 29 reviews2022
Dev: Evil Twin ArtworksPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows
Become the space captain you always wanted to be. There are just a few problems, your ship needs work, there’s a price on your head, and your crew are idiots. Seek your fortune and the truth in The Galactic Junkers, a comedic space combat adventure game.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.7% ★, Tactical RPG 19.5%, Trading 18.7% ★, Space 7.2%, Open World 6.8%
- #40 Deepest Blue
73% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Steve TurnerPub: Graftgold Studios
Windows
A futuristic space combat simulation set in deep space featuring 1st person combat, exploration of new warp paths and sectors, prospecting resource, shipping freight, base building or munitions deployment. Up to 9 player ships can be flown or assigned to co-pilots and grouped into squads.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3% ★, Spaceships 21% ★, Trading 15.9% ★, Open World 11.1%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #41 HELL GALAXY
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Italian Games Factory
Windows
Hell Galaxy is the only game where you can experience the fusion of space battles, RPG elements, eerie specters, and daunting titans. Embark on a dark sci-fi odyssey through a galaxy teeming with ancient alien ruins and hidden secrets, where nothing is human. Not even you.
Why similar: Spaceships 38.6% ★, Space Sim 27.7% ★, Tactical RPG 19.3%, Exploration 4.8%, Space 4.7%
- #42 Capital Command
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hellride GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.4% ★, Trading 18.3% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 8.7%, Space 8.1%
- #43 Stellar outpost commander
71% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Kinderril
Windows
Real-time strategy game with commander task control. Pilots-Mercenary, each with their own character, and many unique ships for them. Interesting missions. Base development, various technologies and space exploration.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.1% ★, RTS 20.3%, Trading 18.6% ★, Space 10.2%, Management 8.8%
- #44 Evochron Legacy SE
72% matchVery Positive83% of 440 reviews2016
Dev: StarWraith 3D Games LLC
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 33.8% ★, Trading 19.5% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 9.1%, Open World 8.8%
- #45 Stellar Trader
71% matchNo user reviews2026
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 31.2% ★, Trading 23.2% ★, Tactical RPG 16.5%, Space 9.8%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #46 Deck & Conn
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funtime ElectricsPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign. Balance tactics, crew, and limited resources in a dynamic forever-war. Retro pixel art meets deep strategy fifteen minutes into the future of 1989.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 31.5%, Space Sim 31% ★, Space 9.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #47 In memory of TITAN
71% matchMostly Negative32% of 38 reviews2018
Dev: Valhalla Universe, Inc.Pub: XR Studio LLC
Windows
IMOT is a Roguelite, Tactical, Turn-Based, Real-time Strategy Action Packed Space Opera. Battle your way across the solar system, customize your fleet to master your enemies and fight for the survival of the human race... There is no quarter, no port to hide, only the cold emptiness of space...
Why similar: Space Sim 25.6% ★, Tactical RPG 22.8%, RTS 20.8%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Space 8.3%
- #48 Rank: Warmaster
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Laser Beams & Particle Streams Software, Inc.
Windows
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Why similar: Spaceships 28.8% ★, Space Sim 24.3% ★, RTS 17.2%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 5.5%
- #49 Worlds Of The Future
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonmen Games
Windows
Worlds Of The Future is a sci-fi open world, action/adventure game. Explore a fully seamless solar system full of adventures, mysteries and colorful characters. Build your space delivery company, climb the company rankings and become a legend among the worlds!
Why similar: Space Sim 36.4% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Space 8%, Open World 7.9%
- #50 No End
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas Martin
Windows
Explore a seamless endless universe with an uncountable number of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons. Make friends or enemies with unique alien civilizations. Research upgrades for your vessel with scientific phenomena and alien tech that you've acquired.
Why similar: Space Sim 37% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Open World 11.7%, Space 7.9%
- #51 Aposfera Spacetrips
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roman Moltanovski
Windows
Space trips across the your personal universe
Why similar: Space Sim 40.1% ★, Spaceships 30.2% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Space 7.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #52 Stellar Insurgency
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tensorial
Windows
Explore a galaxy of 300 systems as you control your fleet in a top-down 3D style, navigating through Star-lanes, Warp gates, and Black holes. Customize and upgrade your fleet, complete missions, trade, hire your crew, wage war and determine the fate of the galaxy in this grand sim saga.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.4% ★, RTS 16.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Space 7.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #53 Endless Sky
68% matchVery Positive92% of 6,938 reviews2015
Dev: Michael Zahniser
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 21.5%, Space Sim 21% ★, Trading 17.9% ★, Open World 12.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #54 Galduen of the Void
67% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: AzurDevPub: Azurdev
Windows · Linux
A fantasy space agency management game! Manage your team, design your space ship and research new technology! Reach moons, planets and the void beyond. Can you reach the void? Can you bring Galduen to the void?
Why similar: Space Sim 39.9% ★, Management 19.7%, Space 12.9%, Sci-fi 8%, Exploration 7.9%
- #55 Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
69% matchMixed68% of 536 reviews2016
Dev: Reason Generator Inc.
Windows
2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.5% ★, Trading 15.8% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 11.6%, Space 8.9%
- #56 Helium Rain
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 324 reviews2018
Dev: Deimos Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 50.9% ★, Space 14.7%, Trading 12.8% ★, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #57 Space Commander
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gambit Games StudioPub: TBA
Windows
The endless expanse of space has never been such a dangerous place. Take command as a Space Fleet Admiral who will face the challenge of galactic war and determine the fate of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.3% ★, RTS 23.1%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #58 Spaceship Commander
67% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: Sokolov Yaroslav Vladimirovich
Windows · Linux
Fight in space or on the planets, or just travel the universe. Visit cities and buildings, mine resources, trade with or speak to individuals on the planets. Explore and discover. Buy a new ship, fit upgrades, and hire a whole army of crew!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.4% ★, RTS 18.7%, Tactical RPG 13.9%, Space 9.4%, Open World 9.3%
- #59 Void Destroyer 2
66% matchVery Positive80% of 664 reviews2020
Dev: Iteration 11
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.1% ★, Trading 15.8% ★, RTS 14.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 8.6%
- #60 The Spatials: Galactology
67% matchMixed69% of 258 reviews2018
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 24% ★, Spaceships 20.4% ★, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Isometric 10%