Games Like Space Merchant

Unknown Horizon is a retro styled top-down space exploration adventure where you will meet new alien races, learn their secrets and build their trust to get their help to find a way home.

Why similar: Space 18%, Trading 16.9%, Space Sim 11.4%, Top-Down 7.3%, Crafting 6.8%

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 22.9%, Space Sim 19.9%, Space 17.5%, Top-Down 7.7%, Open World 6.6%

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

Why similar: Trading 21.9%, Space Sim 20.6%, Space 13.4%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Exploration 5.9%

The accessible space-sim. Fly, fight, and trade through a galaxy where the prices and borders came from 700,000 days of astropolitical generation that keep ticking.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.4%, Trading 19.4%, Space 16.7%, Open World 7%, Exploration 6.1%

A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!

Why similar: Space Sim 18.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 12%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

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: Trading 19.4%, Space Sim 16.6%, Space 16%, Base Building 15.6%, Idler 11.7%

A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.4%, Trading 17.9%, Idler 14.8%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%

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 26.6%, Trading 17%, Space 14.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.6%

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 34.7%, Trading 19.2%, Space Sim 16.4%, Open World 8.5%, Exploration 4.5%

A space-themed incremental game where you manage planets and resources in a quest to dominate the universe with buildings and megastructures.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Idler 12.2%, Space 10.9%

A real-time open-world space exploration game. Your ship and crew lost in a sector in chaos. Befriend the local residents. Explore, scavenge, research, craft, upgrade. Take command of your ship and crew, survive, solve the mystery of the dark sectors and get your crew home.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.5%, Space 17.8%, Crafting 13%, Exploration 8.3%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

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

Why similar: Space Sim 18.7%, Space 18.4%, Trading 17.4%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Exploration 7.5%

Galactic Simulator 3 is a space exploration and evolution sim inspired by the Fermi Paradox and Great Filter theory. Scan uncharted star systems, gather resources and samples, establish outposts and stargates, and witness the rise and fall of civilizations across an ever-evolving galaxy.

Why similar: Space Sim 29.2%, Idler 23.8%, Space 17.4%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Exploration 4.6%

You are the last living organism in the galaxy. Adrift and alone in a cold dark world you must scavenge for resources to keep your ship running, and arm your ship to prepare for the swarms arrival.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.7%, Space 22%, Crafting 20.1%, PvE 11.5%, Exploration 11.2%

Trade, fight and explore. Build a fleet, level your captain and dive through wormholes for rare loot — a single-player 2D space RPG of free corsairs.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.4%, Trading 24.9%, Space 15.8%, RPG 6.2%, Open World 6.2%

Explore the pixel cosmos, jumping from star system to star system. Land on fully procedural planets, and make them your home.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.4%, Crafting 18.5%, Space 16.6%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, PvE 10.5%

Project Starbound is a single-player space exploration game built in Unreal Engine 5. After a habitable moon is discovered, players explore the solar system, take on missions, build bases, and navigate faction conflicts in a story-driven, low-poly universe.

Why similar: Trading 23.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Space Sim 11.8%, PvE 11.2%

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 31.5%, Trading 26.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Space 9.2%, Open World 7.4%

Experience large space ship battles. Uncover the secrets of the mysterious alien race. Upgrade your ship or even start a fleet. Survive

Why similar: Space Sim 28.8%, Trading 22%, Space 12.3%, Open World 8.5%, Exploration 7.8%

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 24.3%, Crafting 20.6%, Space 18%, Exploration 11.4%, Procedural Generation 11.2%

Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.7%, Space 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 8.2%

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 25.1%, Trading 22.6%, Space Sim 20.8%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Open World 7.6%

SpaceDominator is strategy fantasy open world where you can discover universe! Contact other civilizations, make friends or enemies, start trading or fighting, expand your own area or help others to expand, increase your intelligence level.. and much more! Follow developing http://discord.gg/cqEZJ5J

Why similar: Space Sim 23.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 14.8%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

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 31.8%, Crafting 18.5%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Space 14.1%, Open World 8.5%

Mine the cosmos in this idle space clicker! Collect rare resources, build powerful equipment, upgrade your ship, and unlock new stellar bodies. Rescue crew, automate mines, and uncover the secrets of the stars.

Why similar: Space Sim 26.9%, Idler 25.8%, Space 19.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Simulation 3.8%

Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌

Why similar: Space Sim 27.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 6.7%

An open world survival game set in space.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.6%, Space 17%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Nonlinear 9.9%

Spiritus Astrum is a persistent, open-world roleplaying sandbox with multiplayer support. It features an infinite, procedurally generated universe which players are free to explore without restriction. Spiritus Astrum is more than a game, it is a world.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.5%, Space 15.5%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Crafting 12%, PvE 9.5%

Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.

Why similar: Trading 32%, Idler 25.9%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.5%

Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?

Why similar: Space Sim 24.2%, Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Space 16.5%, Exploration 8.1%

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: Space Sim 26.5%, Space 16.1%, Trading 15.9%, Procedural Generation 9%, Cyberpunk 8.3%

Trade to make your fortune in this lo-fi, laid back space adventure, where you'll get help from anthropomorphic animals, gear up your ship, and search for the mythical key to immortality hidden in the depths of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.4%, Trading 16.5%, RPG 10.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Space 7.2%

Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.3%, Idler 20.7%, Trading 17.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Space 12.4%

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 44.2%, Space 26.5%, Trading 16.7%, Exploration 7.5%, Simulation 5.1%

Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.4%, Crafting 18%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 14.9%, Procedural Generation 12.8%

Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.

Why similar: Space Sim 19.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 13.9%, Exploration 9.5%

Far from Earth, mankind hasn't changed in the centuries since we've reached the stars. Across this wide-open galaxy, you'll find merchants, builders, and explorers. The more adventurous are colonizers, conquerors, and even space pirates. And you, Voyager? What will you be?

Why similar: Space Sim 28.2%, Space 21.8%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Exploration 9%, Open World 7.1%

Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.

Why similar: Space Sim 34.5%, Idler 22.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Space 7.8%

A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!

Why similar: Space Sim 22.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Space 14.2%, PvE 9.5%

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 39.2%, Space 23.2%, Trading 11.9%, Open World 9.1%, Exploration 7.7%

Congrats, farmer—you’ve been rocketed into space to fix the food crisis. Grow crops on strange planetoids, ship food back home, and keep your people fed. Expand your planetoid, solve puzzles, and explore alien worlds to turn lifeless rock into a thriving offworld farm.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.9%, Crafting 19.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Space 17.4%, RPG 5.8%

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 26.1%, Trading 22.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Space 13%, Open World 7%

Titan: The Ascension is a colony management strategy game on Saturn’s moon Titan. Build and expand an off-world industrial colony, extract ice to produce water for Earth, trade resources, and defend against ancient automated systems that react to technology growth. Will you prevail?

Why similar: Space Sim 21.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Space 18.8%, Trading 18%, Exploration 5.9%

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.3%, Space 16.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 15%, PvE 8.2%

Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Space 16.1%, Crafting 13.7%, PvE 7%

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 23.4%, Trading 16.6%, Base Building 16.1%, PvE 10.6%, Space 10.6%

A third-person space survival game where seamless planet landings meet debt, fuel costs, fines, taxes, base ownership, and rebellion.

Why similar: Space Sim 25.6%, Space 17.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%

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

Why similar: Space Sim 24.6%, Space 15.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, PvE 10%

In "Space Mechanics: Repair | Hiring | Craft" you are the owner of a space repair station in which you have to work. Repair spaceships, get money for it, hire them and create items for sale or for your own purposes.

Why similar: Space Sim 39.5%, Space 19.4%, Idler 13.5%, Trading 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 15%, Crafting 14.8%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

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

Why similar: Space 35.5%, Space Sim 23.3%, Exploration 10.1%, RPG 8.7%, Open World 7.5%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Space Sim 32.9%, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Space 16.2%, Open World 8.6%

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

Why similar: Space Sim 36.8%, Space 33.3%, Exploration 8%, Open World 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.5%

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 22.6%, Trading 22%, Space 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, PvE 7.3%

Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?

Why similar: Space Sim 24.7%, Space 16%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Procedural Generation 11.8%

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.

Why similar: Space Sim 29.5%, Space 19.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%

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 35.9%, Space Sim 24.8%, Trading 22.9%, Open World 6.2%, Simulation 4.8%

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 28.8%, Trading 26.4%, Space Sim 26.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Sci-fi 4.6%

Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.

Why similar: Space Sim 30.2%, Base Building 21%, Space 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 8%