- #1 VoidCraft
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hanamori Labs, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time space strategy MMO where your colony keeps working, your fleets keep moving, and the galaxy remembers every choice. Travel in real time, watch every battle resolve, raid and ally across one living galaxy that resets every 6 months. Free to play. No pay-to-win, ever.
Why similar: 4X 15.1% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Trading 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%
- #2 Foundation: Galactic Frontier
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FunPlus International AG
Windows
Command Asimov's OFFICIAL Foundation universe! Live the life as an interstellar trader to exploit your trade routes! Build your starship home, crush enemies in explosive shootouts & outsmart rivals with fleet strategies in epic space wars - with new content expanding your saga!
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Trading 14.6%, Space 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #3 TON Wars
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Basalt Interactive OÜ
Windows
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 24.4%, Space 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Grand Strategy 7.2%
- #4 X4: Foundations
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: 4X 19.3% ★, Space Sim 16.6%, Trading 16.2%, Grand Strategy 12.2%, Space 10%
- #5 EVE Online
94% 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: Trading 19.3%, Space Sim 19%, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, Mining 10.7% ★, Space 10%
- #6 Frontier Intelligence
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Newtro Studios, LLC.
Windows · Mac
Captain your ship in a persistent, true-scale Milky Way. Explore, trade, mine, hack, or turn pirate. Outfit your ship, establish stations and planetary structures, and direct MI and programmable AMI systems to keep operations running while you're logged out.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Trading 18.9%, Space Sim 18.8%, MMORPG 17.3% ★, Economy 8.9%
- #7 Prosperous Universe
92% 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: Trading 17.6%, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Space Sim 14.1%, MMORPG 13.9% ★, Economy 11.4%
- #8 New Stars
91% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Space Sim 15.7%, Trading 13.7%, Space 10.1%
- #9 Structura
90% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Binary Station Studio
Windows · Linux
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Space Sim 21.4%, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Mining 9.3% ★, Base Building 9%
- #10 AQ2: Expanse
89% 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: Space Sim 22.1%, Massively Multiplayer 21.7%, MMORPG 17.7% ★, Space 9.9%, PvP 7.2%
- #11 Beyond Orbit
89% 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: Massively Multiplayer 31.2%, MMORPG 24.6% ★, Space Sim 16.7%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #12 Capital Command
88% 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 20.8%, Trading 19.8%, 4X 18.1% ★, Economy 11.5%, Space 11.4%
- #13 Galaxicus
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Crimson Leaf LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
An MMO experience that's perfect for solo or team play. Join the adventure and become the ultimate Emperor of the galaxy. Conquer Planets, Manage Economies, Optimize Production, Upgrade Technology while exploring a Randomly-Generated Galaxy, and compete Seasonal PVP.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.9%, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 13.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, PvP 8.3%
- #14 Solar Imperium
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Node One Digital
Windows
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
Why similar: 4X 20.6% ★, Space Sim 18%, Grand Strategy 15.2%, Economy 9.2%, Space 8%
- #15 Nova: Space Armada
86% matchMixed52% of 273 reviews2024
Dev: STONE3 PTE. LTD.
Windows
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Space Sim 19.9%, Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Space 7.9%, PvP 6.5%
- #16 Orbit Zero
85% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
Why similar: 4X 18.3% ★, Trading 18%, Space Sim 16.4%, Grand Strategy 13.1%, Economy 11.5%
- #17 Gate Builders
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pyralis Studio
Windows · Linux
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5%, Trading 13.7%, Space 11%, Economy 9.4%
- #18 Galactum Meridian
83% matchNegative14% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Hedra Games
Windows
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Space Sim 22.4%, Space 13.6%, Grand Strategy 12.4%, Strategy 6.6%
- #19 Stellar Trader
84% 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: Trading 25.4%, Space Sim 24.6%, Space 14.1%, Economy 13.5%, 4X 9.1% ★
- #20 Battle For Embolia
82% 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 28.4% ★, Trading 27.9%, Massively Multiplayer 26.1%, PvP 5.1%, RPG 4%
- #21 Orbit Economica
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Phoenix SmithPub: Parallel Games
Windows
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Trading 22.8%, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Economy 12.8%, Space 6.6%
- #22 Oreship Stellar Frontier
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tischkanten_Flavor
Windows · Linux
Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, Space Sim 20.4%, Economy 14.9%, Space 14.5%, Management 9.2%
- #23 Space Empires II
81% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Base Building 14%, Economy 9%, Management 8.6%
- #24 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
80% matchVery Positive93% of 16,354 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 21.6% ★, Space Sim 18.1%, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Space 9.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #25 Elite Dangerous
79% 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 35.2%, Massively Multiplayer 19.1%, Space 18%, Trading 10.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #26 SolPlex: Dominion
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stratis Group Europe S.L.
Windows · Mac
From a single colony to a galactic empire, every expansion strengthens your economy, your military and your influence as you battle for dominance in a persistent MMO galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, MMORPG 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Trading 11.7%
- #27 Subspace Discovery
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: FLICK Comp GmbH
Windows
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 24.2%, MMORPG 19.9% ★, Space 15.7%, Mining 9.8% ★, Base Building 7.4%
- #28 Space Empires I
78% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6%, Economy 10.3%, Management 9.3%, Space 8.9%
- #29 Old Stars
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3%, Space Sim 13.7%, Space 13.2%, Strategy 7%
- #30 Freewake
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Oakshore Studios
Windows
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, Space Sim 11.9%, Space 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%
- #31 Starship Empire
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bantam City Games
Windows · Linux
Starship Empire is an intense PvP-filled space MMO where you not only lead your ship into epic battles, but manage the entire crew inside!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.6%, MMORPG 16.6% ★, Space 15.7%, PvP 10.2%, Management 5.9%
- #32 Starlathe
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Astraeon Interactive
Windows
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.7%, Trading 25.5%, Economy 13.7%, Mining 11.2% ★, Space 7.8%
- #33 Astro Lords
76% 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: Massively Multiplayer 19.9%, Space Sim 17.6%, MMORPG 17.4% ★, Space 12.4%, Economy 10.7%
- #34 Star Conqueror 舰队指挥官
74% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: MirrorAlice Studio
Windows
Engage in real-time battles with customizable space warships. Explore the galaxy, forge alliances, develop powerful ships, and defeat alien invaders.
Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Space Sim 20.4%, Trading 20.3%, Space 13.3%, PvP 7.9%
- #35 Helium Rain
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 340 reviews2018
Dev: Deimos Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 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 41.2%, Space 21.4%, Trading 16.2%, Economy 8%, Strategy 5.7%
- #36 Wings of The Universe
74% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Lukas Tokar
Windows
Wings of The Universe (WoTU) is a free-to-play 2D indie space action MMORPG top-down game developed by a single programmer. WoTU is designed to be co-op heavy, but even a lone wolf can survive with his skills and have fun.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.2%, MMORPG 18.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17%, Mining 10.3% ★, Economy 9.1%
- #37 Starminer
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,894 reviews2026
Dev: CoolAndGoodGames
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.3%, Trading 19.6%, Economy 11.8%, Mining 11.1% ★, Space 10.4%
- #38 Spaceman's Luck
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows
A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Space 22.2%, Space Sim 7.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #39 Star Trek: Infinite
73% matchMixed42% of 3,529 reviews2023
Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 27% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Space Sim 15.7%, Space 11.8%, PvP 6.3%
- #40 Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers
72% matchMixed50% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Hunted Cow GamesPub: Tilting Point
Windows · Mac
Hunt, capture, and command the monsters of the Monsterverse. Build your base, recruit elite Titan Chasers, and lead squads into tactical turn-based battles. Expand your territory in a shared online world, forge alliances, and face colossal threats like Godzilla, Kong, and Skullcrawlers.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27%, 4X 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, MMORPG 11.2% ★, PvP 8.9%
- #41 NGC-404: Fractured Sector
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: WhiteDogo Entertainment
Windows
Lead a small fleet in a cut-off 2D space sector where trade, colonies, fuel, supplies and battles decide who survives. Build your faction, explore unknown systems, develop colonies, fit ships and shape a living simulated galaxy alone or with friends.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Trading 16.3%, Economy 11.3%, PvP 9.4%, Space 9.2%
- #42 Verse Project
71% 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 22.6%, Massively Multiplayer 20.2%, Trading 19.2%, Space 12.8%, PvP 7.1%
- #43 The Infinite Black 2
70% 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: Space Sim 26%, MMORPG 19.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Space 13.2%, PvP 9.3%
- #44 NABERON
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Space 12.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8%
- #45 Rise - The Vieneo Province
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Unistellar Industries, LLC
Windows
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Why similar: Space Sim 18.1%, Grand Strategy 15.7%, MMORPG 14.9% ★, Mining 10.7% ★, Economy 9.2%
- #46 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
70% matchMixed65% of 118 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a Space 4X and an MMO. An online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players, or just sit and chat with the friendly community.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.1%, Massively Multiplayer 17.8%, Space 10.4%, Mining 10% ★, Trading 9.3%
- #47 Star Hunter - Infinite Lagrange
69% matchMixed57% of 1,075 reviews2021
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 90.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 36.8%, Space Sim 21.8%, Space 19.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #48 Create Your Own Universe
68% match5 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: UNPREDICTABLE GAMES
Windows
Create Your Own Universe is a survival, crafting, exploration, base building, third person, open world, go anywhere you see on screen space game.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.9%, Trading 15.4%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Mining 9.3% ★
- #49 Hades' Star
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,686 reviews2019
Dev: Parallel Space Inc
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 31.1%, Space 27.5%, 4X 14.9% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #50 X: Beyond the Frontier
69% 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: Trading 24.6%, Space Sim 24.4%, Space 23.2%, Economy 12.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #51 Infinity: Battlescape
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 765 reviews2019
Dev: I-Novae Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Massively Multiplayer 36.4%, Space Sim 29.4%, Space 22.3%, Sci-fi 5.8%, PvP 4.3%
- #52 Eclipsis Online
67% 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: Space Sim 25.7%, MMORPG 23.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Space 9.5%, RPG 6.5%
- #53 X3: Terran Conflict
68% matchVery Positive86% of 2,875 reviews2008
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 31.9 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 29%, Space Sim 23.1%, Trading 21.3%, Economy 9.6%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #54 SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
67% 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 31%, MMORPG 17.5% ★, Economy 17%, Space 14.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #55 Starscrip
66% 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 35.8%, Trading 22.8%, Space 17%, Economy 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #56 Veliri: Planet of Machines
66% 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: Space Sim 24%, MMORPG 21.4% ★, Trading 21.2%, Economy 12.9%, PvP 6.9%
- #57 Galactic Inheritors
68% matchMixed43% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Space 24.6%, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%