- #1 Infinity: Battlescape
97% matchVery Positive80% of 761 reviews2019
Dev: I-Novae Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 72.4%, Space 20.2%, Indie 7.3%
- #2 The Infinite Black
96% matchMixed66% of 213 reviews2016
Dev: SpellbookPub: www.Spellbook.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 82.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fleet up with thousands of players in The Infinite Black -- The wildly popular online space combat and adventure game! Command massive spaceships, form powerful corporations, and battle it out in never-ending intergalactic warfare!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 65%, RPG 17.3%, Space 11.4%, Indie 6.2%
- #3 Shattered Void
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: yyy1505yyy
Windows · Linux
Space MMORPG where players can fly on different ships, collecting devices, subsystems and navigations or finding new weapons that will serve in battles. Take part in battles, explore the world, mine ore, trade, fight and build your own clan with a station.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 73.2%, Space 19%, Indie 7.8%
- #4 Second Galaxy
94% matchMixed52% of 1,202 reviews2019
Dev: Zilong Game Limited
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Second Galaxy is an open world sci-fi game that combines RPG and SLG elements. You can navigate hundreds of different space ships, team up with players to form alliances, and engage in intergalactic battles with other players around the world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 66.8%, RPG 17.1%, Space 16.1%
- #5 Starbase
94% matchMixed56% of 6,734 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 81.1%, Space 18.9%
- #6 The Infinite Black 2
93% matchVery Positive85% of 233 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: Massively Multiplayer 74.3%, Space 25.7%
- #7 Interstellar Rift
92% matchMixed68% of 1,663 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 100%
- #8 SpaceCraft
90% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Massively Multiplayer 77.8%, Space 22.2%
- #9 Ascent - The Space Game
91% matchMixed68% of 340 reviews2016
Dev: Fluffy Kitten Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 72.6%, Space 21.1%, Indie 6.3%
- #10 Subspace Discovery
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 140 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 66.2%, Space 19.6%, RPG 14.2%
- #11 Starblast
88% matchVery Positive81% of 1,103 reviews2017
Dev: Neuronality
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 73.5%, Space 19.2%, Indie 7.2%
- #12 CDF Starfighter VR
89% matchMixed63% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: MadAboutGamesStudios
Windows
CDF Starfighter VR Remastered is a VR space combat simulator that puts you in the cockpit of the CDF`s most advanced starfighters. Engage a variety of enemies in 4 different game modes and play the part of Lt. Rodgers in the extensive VR Campaign Mode.
Why similar: Space 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #13 Astroflux
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 345 reviews2016
Dev: Fula Fisken
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play Astroflux - a retro styled, action packed MMO space shooter.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 70.6%, RPG 17.8%, Space 11.6%
- #14 Riff XR
85% matchMixed63% of 177 reviews2023
Dev: Revog GamesPub: Ron Revog
Windows
RIFF XR is an immersive VR MMORPG where your journey shapes a vast, ever-evolving world. Forge alliances, battle fierce enemies, and uncover hidden treasures in a richly detailed universe.
- #15 StarMade
86% matchMixed68% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 46.1%, Massively Multiplayer 33.1%, RPG 13.8%, Indie 7.1%
- #16 Star Conflict
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,200 reviews2013
Dev: Star Gem Inc.Pub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 78.8%, RPG 21.2%
- #17 Elite Dangerous
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 106,632 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 148.2 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: Massively Multiplayer 64.4%, Space 27.6%, RPG 7.9%
- #18 Space Aces
82% matchMixed64% of 474 reviews2026
Dev: Ace Game Industries
Windows · Mac
Space Aces is an indie space shooter that plunges you into an online universe full of action, strategy, and fierce competition. Step into the cockpit and evolve from a rookie pilot into the most feared Ace in the galaxy!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 85%, Space 15%
- #19 Underspace
79% matchVery Positive81% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Pastaspace InteractivePub: Camlann Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.
Why similar: Space 42.6%, RPG 41.6%, Indie 15.8%
- #20 SpaceBourne
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 812 reviews2020
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: RPG 44.1%, Space 40.7%, Indie 15.2%
- #21 Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
81% matchMixed65% of 244 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Owl Games LLCPub: ToHeroes Game Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Helm your own ship, battle for supremacy in a multi-faction war, and conquer the cosmos in this science fiction turn-based strategy game. Select from more than 100+ diverse star ships and fight for territory across a 2D hex-based grid.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 95.6%, Indie 4.4%
- #22 Star Sonata 2
80% matchMixed67% of 292 reviews2020
Dev: Landauer Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 60.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Star Sonata 2 is a space sandbox MMO that combines elements of action, RPG, and empire creation into a truly unique MMO. Explore the sandbox style universe, build persistent bases, construct trade ships, and even fight your way to the top and claim the Emperor’s Throne!
Why similar: Space 51.3%, RPG 48.7%
- #23 Subdivision Infinity DX
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: MistFly GamesPub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows
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 66.2%, Indie 33.8%
- #24 Star Valor
76% matchVery Positive89% of 3,391 reviews2022
Dev: Rafael Burgos
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 51.1%, RPG 48.9%
- #25 Gangs of Space
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 431 reviews2017
Dev: Little Big MMO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 286.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 74.1%, Space 12.5%, RPG 8.6%, Indie 4.8%
- #26 Space Commander: War and Trade
77% matchMixed68% of 701 reviews2020
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Fight, explore the stars, trade, and lead your fleet across the galaxySpace Commander: War and Trade is an ultimate single player space-sim featuring spectacular graphics, intuitive combat and deep mechanics.
Why similar: RPG 63.6%, Space 33%, Indie 3.4%
- #27 VR Jetpack Game
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: pftqPub: Autodidactic Studios LLC
Windows
Physics-based VR with full freedom of flight. VR that feels and controls like a real jetpack. A real-time multiplayer VR arena.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 79.1%, Space 12.5%, Indie 8.4%
- #28 EVE Online
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 38,998 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 139.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Massively Multiplayer 75%, Space 25%
- #29 Stellar Warfare
75% matchVery Positive83% of 419 reviews2021
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
Why similar: Space 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #30 Starship EVO
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,485 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Space 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #31 VoidExpanse
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 765 reviews2015
Dev: AtomicTorch Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 50.2%, RPG 38.8%, Indie 11%
- #32 Rebel Galaxy
74% matchVery Positive85% of 8,345 reviews2015
Dev: Double Damage Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 64%, RPG 30.2%, Indie 5.8%
- #33 Star Vortex
71% matchVery Positive85% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Zorg GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Star Vortex is a fast paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight your way through hostile alien sectors, upgrade as you salvage rare weapons and experiment with different builds until nothing can stand against you.
Why similar: RPG 57.1%, Space 27%, Indie 16%
- #34 SpaceBourne 2
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,095 reviews2025
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: RPG 58.2%, Space 41.8%
- #35 Starpoint Gemini 3
73% matchMixed50% of 875 reviews2020
Dev: Little Green Men Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Fight, loot, explore and craft in the living open world of Starpoint Gemini 3. Assemble your trusty ship and boost your RPG skills to face all challenges.
Why similar: Space 50.6%, RPG 49.4%
- #36 Codename: Rogue Fleet
73% matchMixed59% of 318 reviews2016
Dev: SionoiS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Codename: Rogue Fleet is a multiplayer team-based game about spaceships combat.
Why similar: Space 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #37 Celestial Command
73% matchMixed62% of 701 reviews2014
Dev: Science Interactive
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 54.5%, RPG 30.9%, Indie 14.6%
- #38 DarkOrbit Reloaded
70% matchMostly Negative30% of 424 reviews2025
Dev: Bigpoint GmbH
Windows
Dark Orbit is a free-2-play space MMO where three companies battle for galactic domination. Customize ships, trade resources, fight aliens and uncover a grand conspiracy on your epic cosmic journey. Thrilling PvP and PvE missions await! Will you lead your faction beyond the final frontier?
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 47.1%, RPG 39.1%, Space 13.9%
- #39 SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 500 reviews2020
Dev: Arcanum Team
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.
Why similar: Space 47%, Massively Multiplayer 39.3%, RPG 10.1%, Indie 3.6%
- #40 Space Battle VR
71% matchMixed66% of 100 reviews2018
Dev: Raba Games
Windows
Space Battle VR is an action shooter set in space. It supports VR controllers to give you a real feel how it is to be a spaceship pilot. You can truly feel the cosmos with this game. Jump into an awesome adventure, help mankind, win a war, bring freedom and happiness to the universe. People need you!
Why similar: Space 64.5%, Indie 35.5%
- #41 Azulgar: Star Commanders
72% matchMixed51% of 108 reviews2017
Dev: SZEINER
Windows
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: Massively Multiplayer 35.1%, Space 33.6%, Indie 18.5%, RPG 12.8%
- #42 Deuterium Wars
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 602 reviews2019
Dev: Disquire
Windows
Deuterium Wars is a rapid 2D shooter. Create your own aircraft and plunge into heated battle with other players. What awaits you: an extensive role-playing system, craft, trading, and much more on a single server for all platforms.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 76.6%, RPG 17.4%, Indie 6%
- #43 Warspace 2
67% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Magic Game Art
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 53.4%, RPG 46.6%
- #44 Miner Wars 2081
72% matchMostly Negative36% of 391 reviews2012
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
Why similar: RPG 52.4%, Space 28.8%, Indie 18.8%
- #45 Lost Fleet
68% matchMixed62% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: InfinityNan Studios
Windows
Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.
Why similar: Space 100%
- #46 Jumpdrive
71% matchMostly Negative39% of 164 reviews2018
Dev: Meteoric Games
Windows
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 68.4%, Indie 31.6%
- #47 PHANTOM GALAXIES™
68% matchMostly Negative40% of 740 reviews2023
Dev: Blowfish Studios
Windows
PHANTOM GALAXIES™ is an epic sci-fi adventure with thrilling mecha combat. Choose between four distinct Starfighter classes and diverse weapons and gear. Once enemies, the intergalactic empires of humanity band together to battle lawless pirate factions amid war torn space!
Why similar: Space 44.6%, RPG 43.5%, Indie 11.9%
- #48 Starminer
63% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,757 reviews2026
Dev: CoolAndGoodGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 13.6 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 51%, RPG 49%
- #49 Space Fighter
69% matchMixed67% of 129 reviews2017
Dev: Roger Barton
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A mini-game designed for split screen experiences with up to 8 players. Pilot your spaceship through an anti-gravity suspended asteroid field to destroy enemy targets. Summon wingmen to coordinate your team, unlock upgrades to increase your spaceship’s efficiency, all in objective or deathmatch modes.
Why similar: Space 100%
- #50 Sector Space
63% matchVery Positive96% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
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 75.8%, Space 15.4%, Indie 8.7%
- #51 BattleGroupVR2
63% matchVery Positive86% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceOwl Games
Windows
BattleGroupVR2 is a virtual reality real-time space strategy where you explore the galaxy and lead a fleet of powerful warships from the bridge of your flagship. Explore, mine, trade, hunt. Grow your fleet, upgrade your ships, train your captains, and battle the enemy from the captain's chair.
- #52 Evochron Legacy SE
67% matchVery Positive83% of 443 reviews2016
Dev: StarWraith 3D Games LLC
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 91.5%, Indie 8.5%