Games Like Starbase

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 Sim 25.8% ★, Voxel 14.1% ★, Building 13.6%, Space 11.3%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a procedural galaxy with deep ship-building mechanics that allow for highly detailed, custom-designed vessels.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Space Sim 29% ★, Building 15.9%, Space 13.4%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for voxel-based ship building, physics-driven engineering, and survival in space.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space Sim 17.4% ★, Voxel 12.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.2% ★, Building 10.4%, Space 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, exploration, and ship construction in a vast, seamless universe similar to the Starbase experience.

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 Sim 33.3% ★, Building 20.4%, Space 17.2%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep ship-design system where every component placement affects combat performance and ship integrity.

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 16.4%, Voxel 13.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.8%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based space sandbox that focuses on massive ship construction and multiplayer exploration.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Programming 25.6% ★, Building 18.6%, Space 15.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the hardcore engineering and atmospheric systems required to maintain a functional space station.

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 27.6% ★, Building 14.3%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that emphasizes ship building and multi-crew management in a persistent multiplayer environment.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Voxel 24.9% ★, Building 22%, Sandbox 16.2%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex, physics-based vehicle construction that allows for extreme customization of weaponry and propulsion systems.

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 17.6%, Space Sim 16.9% ★, Space 15.1%, Voxel 12.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced mechanical building systems that allow players to create complex, functional ships with moving parts.

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 32.9% ★, Space 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, living economy and fleet management system that mirrors the trading and industrial aspects of Starbase.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space Sim 20.8% ★, Space 19%, Destruction 15.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intricate, physics-based deconstruction of ships, providing a grounded perspective on space-faring technology.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Building 22.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Robots 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modular vehicle-building game that emphasizes combat and resource gathering in an open-world environment.

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Space Sim 31% ★, Open World 13.6%, Space 12.9%, Robots 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the collaborative operation of a starship, requiring players to manage systems and navigate dangerous space.

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Space Sim 55.9% ★, Space 18.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%, First-Person 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op space action game that emphasizes ship management and tactical combat in a sci-fi setting.

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Space Sim 23.5% ★, Programming 15.3% ★, Space 10%, Building 9.5%, Robots 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for procedural drone construction with a heavy emphasis on physics and experimental engineering.

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 33.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.5%, Space 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Sci-fi 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the definitive scale for space exploration, trading, and combat in a massive, realistic galaxy.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Sci-fi 34.5%, Multiplayer 34.1%, Simulation 23.8%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D physics-based game where ship maintenance, hull integrity, and crew cooperation are essential for survival.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.8% ★, Space 16.2%, Building 15.2%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and automation with space exploration, focusing on the industrial growth of your colony.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 39.3%, Open World 18.3%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer survival game featuring unique, player-built walking machines for traversal and combat.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 28.9%, Open World 20.1%, Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox game that excels in creative engineering and mechanical building.

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Voxel 15.1% ★, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based MMO that focuses on building, crafting, and exploration across multiple connected worlds.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Voxel 19.9% ★, Building 15%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Robots 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory building game that emphasizes large-scale automation and industrial design.

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Programming 26.5% ★, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Robots 14%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides high-fidelity robotics and vehicle construction tools that reward creative engineering solutions.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Building 20.2%, Open World 20.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 14%, Open World Survival Craft 11.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale construction and automation, providing a satisfying loop of building and resource management.

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: Building 32.5%, Space 25.8%, Sandbox 21.3%, Open World 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A ship-building game with a focus on modular design and tactical combat against AI factions.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Building 29.5%, Destruction 28.3%, Sandbox 23.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based construction game that challenges players to build complex machines to complete various objectives.

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Space Sim 18.7% ★, Building 14.4%, Destruction 12.5%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%

JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Why similar: Building 33.6%, Crafting 22.4%, Robots 18.1%, Simulation 13%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game set in a sci-fi world where scavenging and crafting are key to progression.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Open World 18.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 20.3%, Space Sim 16.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.7% ★, Space 9.3%, Open World 8.2%

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 25.5%, Space Sim 21.5% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 10.2%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Open World 16.6%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 12%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 25.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Destruction 16.6%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 8.4%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Building 17.6%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 11.5%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 17.3%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Space 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%

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 33.7%, Space Sim 29% ★, Space 19.3%, Simulation 8%, Sci-fi 6.6%

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 36.5% ★, Open World 15.4%, Space 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World Survival Craft 10% ★

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Programming 23.4% ★, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 16.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.3%

The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

Why similar: Space Sim 35.2% ★, Building 19.2%, Space 13.6%, FPS 8.5%, Robots 7.7%

Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

Why similar: Space Sim 25% ★, Building 17.2%, Space 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11.9%

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.7% ★, Programming 17.5% ★, Building 12.8%, Open World 10.5%, Space 10.1%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Open World 23.8%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 17.5%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Simulation 9.5%

Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 43.4% ★, Open World 17.1%, Space 15%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 6.6%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Open World 16.5%, Space 16.5%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 29.6% ★, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 12%, Space 11.7%, Building 8.2%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Space Sim 15.7% ★, Space 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Open World 11.2%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 12.5%, Space 10.3%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Voxel 16.1% ★, Space 12.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.2%