Games Like Space Pirates and Zombies

Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

Why similar: Space 37.4%, Pirates 12% ★, Zombies 11.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's ship-building and faction mechanics with a more modern 3D engine.

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: Space 38.7%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sci-fi 9%, Open World 8.4%, Top-Down 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down space RPG features a very similar loop of scavenging, ship customization, and arcade-style combat.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 47.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 7%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural ship design and top-down combat in a vibrant, sandbox galaxy.

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 43.6%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Spaceships 6.9% ★, Exploration 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled ship-building depth combined with physics-based tactical combat that mirrors the modular feel of the seed game.

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 59.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Open World 10.2%, RPG 5.7%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty, pirate-themed space combat feel with a focus on broadside weaponry and arcade action.

Drox Operative 2 is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Linux.

Why similar: Space 31.7%, RPG 17.5%, Action 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG set in space that emphasizes faction dynamics and dynamic, evolving galaxy events.

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

Why similar: Space 57.7%, RPG 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, multi-layered space simulation experience with a similar sense of scale and faction interaction.

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 45.6%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Open World 9.1%, Top-Down 8.7%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action RPG that provides a similar sense of progression through ship upgrades and exploration.

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 51.6%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Open World 7.4%, RPG 7%, Top-Down 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and modular ship building with a focus on uncovering the mysteries of a procedurally generated universe.

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 46%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Spaceships 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A procedural space sandbox that allows for complex ship construction and large-scale fleet management.

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 42.9%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Open World 11.3%, Strategy 7.9%, RPG 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends tactical fleet management with direct action-oriented combat in a massive, open-world setting.

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 38.1%, Procedural Generation 12%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Open World 9.6%, Top-Down 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic top-down space action game that emphasizes RPG-style progression and ship equipment scavenging.

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 61.6%, Strategy 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Action 5.4%, Open World 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on strategic space combat and fleet management with a strong emphasis on tactical decision-making.

3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.

Why similar: Space 48.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Action 6.6%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space adventure that mixes arcade combat with a charming, retro-inspired aesthetic.

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.

Why similar: Space 52.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, RPG 6.4%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Builds on the exploration and modular ship design of its predecessor with an expanded open-world focus.

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Why similar: Space 66.1%, Open World 10.2%, Sci-fi 9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space sim that focuses on mining, combat, and deep ship customization.

A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.

Why similar: Space 43.7%, RPG 10.6%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that balances trading, combat, and RPG progression in a similar fashion to the seed game.

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Space 66.9%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Action 8.6%, Indie 4.5%, Shooter 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers high-octane arcade space combat with roguelite elements that keep the gameplay loop fresh.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 51.2%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Top-Down 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more strategy-focused, it captures the intense ship management and high-stakes combat feel of the seed game.

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 48.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%, RPG 9.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy space combat game that incorporates RPG elements and ship customization.

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 58%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Open World 9.6%, RPG 4%, Top-Down 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style open-world space trading and combat game with a focus on ship upgrades and fleet building.

Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!

Why similar: Space 35.6%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Strategy 13%, Action 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features top-down tactical combat and ship management with a focus on surviving a dangerous, procedurally generated journey.

Oldschool action open-world sci-fi with a unique storyline, frenetic battles, crude humor, loose morals and cows.

Why similar: Space 27.3%, Pirates 20.7% ★, Sci-fi 10.8%, Top-Down 8.3%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that emphasizes ship customization and exploration in a dangerous, procedurally generated galaxy.

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 54.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space construction game that allows for intricate ship design and tactical combat.

Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

Why similar: Space 46%, RPG 12.6%, Action 9.2%, Top-Down 8%, Sci-fi 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the engineering aspect of building ships from parts and testing them in combat scenarios.

Subdivision Infinity is an immersive and pulse pounding sci-fi space shooter featuring stunning graphics and tight spaceship game play. Hunt down and destroy enemy spacecraft, crush capital ships, mine asteroids for rare minerals, and find blueprints to craft amazing new vessels!

Why similar: Space 48.7%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Action 11.3%, Indie 7%, Open World 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides fast-paced, arcade-style space combat across multiple sectors with a focus on exploration.

Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Why similar: Space 55%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Exploration 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused space survival game that utilizes procedural generation to create unique combat encounters.

Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Why similar: Space 60.3%, RPG 14.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers tactical, squad-based space combat that rewards careful ship loadout management.

A hyperdrive malfunction sends Keith T. Maxwell tumbling through space and time to fight for his life against a mysterious alien armada that is wreaking havoc.

Why similar: Space 60.5%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Shooter 8.9%, Exploration 7.6%, Action 6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic arcade-style space combat game with a strong narrative and satisfying ship progression.

Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!

Why similar: Space 49.8%, Open World 12.2%, RPG 11.2%, Action 7.5%, Procedural Generation 6%

Jumpdrive is a sandbox space sim set in an alternative future heavily inspired by classic 80s sci-fi. Fight, trade and explore in a massive procedurally generated galaxy of millions of planets and stars. Amass money and power and upgrade and purchase new ships.

Why similar: Space 67.9%, Open World 12.3%, Action 10.2%, Indie 8.6%, Adventure 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: An indie space exploration and combat game that prioritizes player freedom and ship modularity.

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: Space 54%, Sandbox 8.8%, Top-Down 7.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Open World 6.8%

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 52.6%, Open World 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 3.7%

Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.

Why similar: Space 44.7%, Procedural Generation 18%, Top-Down 14.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Exploration 5.8%

A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.

Why similar: Space 32.5%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Top-Down 10.7%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Open World 8.9%

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

Why similar: Space 32.5%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Open World 8.5%, Action 7.2%

Azulgar: Star Commanders is a Sci-Fi open world sandbox game that puts you in a command of your own custom made space ship. Explore aftermath of the Azulgar event that reshaped the face of the solar system.

Why similar: Space 45.9%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Action 10.7%, Indie 6.9%, Procedural Generation 5.5%

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 29.7%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.

Why similar: Pirates 37.4% ★, Procedural Generation 18.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 13.4%, RPG 9.1%

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 41%, Strategy 16.9%, Top-Down 12.5%, Action 10.4%, Indie 8.3%

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 47.2%, Strategy 12.6%, RPG 11.9%, Action 9%, Sci-fi 7.2%

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Why similar: Space 47.6%, Strategy 12.2%, RPG 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.2%

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 36.9%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 8.2%

STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown!Travel an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story.

Why similar: Space 35.4%, RPG 14.3%, Zombies 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Open World 7.7%

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 35.2%, Open World 12.7%, Top-Down 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!

Why similar: Space 37%, Pirates 31.6% ★, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Strategy 7.2%

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 30.8%, Pirates 23.5% ★, Sci-fi 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 7.5%

Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

Why similar: Space 33.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Sci-fi 12.6%, RPG 9.6%, Procedural Generation 9.6%

Build your deck using cards, ships, items and crew! Explore a generated galaxy roguelike style. Fight gruesome battles against the medley of space scum!

Why similar: Space 30.2%, Pirates 27.5% ★, Procedural Generation 13%, Sci-fi 10.4%, RPG 6.3%

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Space 41.6%, Top-Down 13.7%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

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 37.8%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Top-Down 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Open World 8.2%

A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Why similar: Space 40.4%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Top-Down 11%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, RPG 9%

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.

Why similar: RPG 25.3%, Space 23.7%, Top-Down 17.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%

CDF Ghostship is a science-fiction Old-style shooter featuring an open-world spaceship, space station and colony. Each new game will offer a challenge with random story-lines and narrative, random enemies and multiple endings. Can you escape the Ghostship?

Why similar: Space 41.7%, Zombies 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Action 10.4%, Open World 9.3%

Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.

Why similar: Space 50.4%, Pirates 16.8% ★, Procedural Generation 9%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 7.6%

In Salvagers, you command a small crew of greedy explorers that land on abandoned space stations that litter the galaxy, and it's your job to loot them for anything worth a credit. Scrap tech, lost weapons, forgotten treasures - everything has a price.

Why similar: Space 35.8%, Strategy 12.5%, RPG 12.3%, Zombies 11.4%, Action 9.4%

Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!

Why similar: Space 37.2%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Exploration 7.6%

Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.

Why similar: Space 72.1%, RPG 15.9%, Indie 7.4%, Exploration 4.7%

Kinetic Void is a 3D space adventure with a focus on customization and enjoyable space simulation. The shipyard allows players to construct their ship piece by piece. Ships can be as simplistic as a cockpit, a hull, a engine and a gun, or as complex as a player wants.

Why similar: Space 66%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, Action 5.6%, Indie 4.6%

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 46%, Open World 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Shooter 8.2%, RPG 6.9%