Games Like The Captain

Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.

Why similar: Old School 14.8%, Point & Click 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Third Person 9.8%

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 27.3%, Sci-fi 19.7%, RPG 18.7%, Adventure 15.3%, Story Rich 8.7%

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 45%, RPG 20.8%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Exploration 4.5%

A point and click adventure. Bik and his newfound alien friends outsmart hijackers, (eat some brownies), accept a perilous mission, (make some sandwiches), foil a dastardly plot by an evil corporate empire, (argue with disgruntled robots), and save a planet on the brink of destruction.

Why similar: Space 20.8%, Point & Click 18.3%, Comedy 14.6%, Third Person 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: Space 35.8%, Sci-fi 21%, RPG 19.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Adventure 9.3%

Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, Point & Click 16.9%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%

Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.

Why similar: Space 20.1%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Sci-fi 15.2%, RPG 11.7%

Stellar Mess is a 2D point&click adventure game, set somewhere in Argentinean Patagonia. The game is inspired by early classic EGA games of the genre.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.5%, Comedy 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Retro 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.

Why similar: Sci-fi 20%, Story Rich 16.2%, Adventure 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Exploration 10.2%

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Space 18.2%, Point & Click 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Story Rich 10.8%

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

Why similar: Retro 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Space 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

Why similar: RPG 24.1%, Point & Click 17.8%, Comedy 13.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

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 40.5%, Sci-fi 19.4%, RPG 13.2%, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 6.3%

A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

Why similar: Point & Click 20.6%, Space 12.9%, Old School 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Exploration 9.9%

A sci-fi comedy adventure game

Why similar: Point & Click 25.8%, Third Person 16.8%, Comedy 16.3%, Space 14.1%, Adventure 10.5%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.5%, RPG 17.7%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Adventure 9.9%

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.

Why similar: Space 26.1%, Point & Click 22.2%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Exploration 11.7%

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: Turn-Based Combat 31.8%, Sci-fi 26.1%, Space 21.9%, RPG 12.7%, 2D 7.6%

Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....

Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Space 21.4%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Point & Click 8.5%, Comedy 7.7%

Chapter 1 is now free! Relive 1980s nostalgia in this text parser driven graphic adventure game. You and your molluscan crew embark on an epic journey to find a new home world. In Chapter 1 - Intershellar, wake up from your long trip only to discover a saboteur has been at work.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.6%, Space 22.4%, Retro 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Adventure 10.9%

Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.

Why similar: Crafting 17.8%, Space 16.1%, Sci-fi 15.2%, RPG 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%

Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.

Why similar: Space 25.5%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Story Rich 13.9%, Adventure 9%

A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.

Why similar: Space 18%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Point & Click 15.3%, RPG 11.7%

Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.9%, Point & Click 18.1%, RPG 16.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 9.4%

The Twin paradox is an RPG where you must prepare yourself for the first time travel. Make decisions, explore, and learn real science with the scientists of the "Beyond" laboratory. It's up to you to make the journey a success.

Why similar: Space 19.5%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, RPG 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Space 39%, Sci-fi 25.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Exploration 15.6%, Singleplayer 4%

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 50.6%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Exploration 16.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.2%, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Exploration 9.8%

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?

Why similar: Space 36.3%, Sci-fi 28%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Exploration 16.2%

What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.9%, Space 19.4%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Retro 10.7%, Comedy 9.4%

When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?

Why similar: Point & Click 21.2%, Space 17.4%, Old School 16.7%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Adventure 10.1%

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: Point & Click 20.7%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Old School 13.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Retro 10.4%

Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast solar system. Join Doug and his gun-toting guinea pig on an exhilarating quest to save Earth, itself.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 19.4%, Space 13.8%, Sci-fi 13%, RPG 9.6%, Retro 9.2%

It’s the last 10 minutes of your favorite sci-fi TV show… except that this time things have gone seriously wrong and The Captain Is Dead! This turn-based, survival/strategy puts you in the Captain's chair as you try to save your crew from being blown to bits by aliens...

Why similar: Space 42.8%, Sci-fi 27.6%, Retro 25.9%, Singleplayer 3.7%

60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 26%, Comedy 23%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Exploration 12.2%, RPG 12.1%

Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!

Why similar: Point & Click 58.1%, Comedy 22.2%, Adventure 19.7%

VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 17.1%, Choices Matter 16%, Space 15.5%, RPG 15.1%, Exploration 15.1%

As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Comedy 13.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.

Why similar: Old School 17.4%, Space 14.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 25.4%, Space 21.4%, Exploration 16.4%, Sci-fi 15.1%, RPG 14.5%

Planet RIX-13 is а 2D adventure, in which you play as a space explorer engaged in searching for planets potentially suitable for life.

Why similar: Point & Click 47%, Pixel Graphics 22.7%, Adventure 18.5%, Sci-fi 11.8%

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 38.7%, RPG 22.5%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Exploration 12.4%, Story Rich 7.1%

Fight fierce hostile alien space ships to neutralize their defenses before you board their ships and battle intense on-foot encounters. Eliminate their forces and steal their technology to upgrade your squad with different abilities and save the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 38.3%, Sci-fi 24.7%, RPG 17.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Step into a hilarious, steampunk-tinged point n click space adventure! Play as Captain Brawe, Agent Luna and Danny across four colorful planets — solve clever puzzles, uncover conspiracies, and meet unforgettable characters (space pirates, secret agents, and eccentric aliens).

Why similar: Point & Click 28.2%, Comedy 23.7%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Exploration 11.2%, Adventure 7.6%

Pants Quest is a tiny, lovingly crafted point & click adventure game about finding your way in life. And your pants. Sometimes just getting dressed & leaving the house feels like an impossible task. Follow one man's emotional journey to deal with the hurdles that life can throw at you on a bad day.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.3%, Retro 17%, Comedy 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Adventure 8.1%

Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

Why similar: Space 84%, Adventure 16%

Tardy is a quest about fiddling with computers, terminals gadgets and other hi-tech scrap of all sorts. Deal with crazy machines, solve the mystery of the crew disappearance and help Ramto to come back home!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 51.2%, Adventure 48.8%

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.3%, Sci-fi 21.6%, Retro 18.9%, Adventure 18.2%, 2D 8.2%

Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!

Why similar: Point & Click 20.3%, Space 18.7%, Comedy 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Sci-fi 14%

An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.

Why similar: Space 30.1%, Point & Click 25.4%, Exploration 14.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%, 2D 7.8%

Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.2%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.

Why similar: Space 24.7%, Sci-fi 18%, Exploration 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Retro 11.8%

General Horse and the Package of Doom is a space travel adventure with choice-based resource management, simple yet risky barter system, and full motion video sequences that feature awesome special effects and Oscar-worthy method acting.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.3%, Comedy 20.8%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Exploration 9.5%

It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.

Why similar: Point & Click 33%, Choices Matter 26.5%, Story Rich 17.5%, Adventure 10.1%, 2D 9%

Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign. Balance tactics, crew, and limited resources in a dynamic forever-war. Retro pixel art meets deep strategy fifteen minutes into the future of 1989.

Why similar: Space 31.2%, Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, Exploration 15.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Space 41%, Sci-fi 29.1%, Exploration 13.4%, 2D 11.4%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Why similar: Point & Click 29.6%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Retro 13.2%, Story Rich 11.1%

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 38.3%, Sci-fi 28.3%, 2D 11.2%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 8.8%

Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.

Why similar: Sci-fi 19.9%, Space 19.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Third Person 14%, Exploration 12.7%