Games Like The Last Starship

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: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Space Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Space 9.7%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar 2D perspective with deep ship management, crew survival, and modular base-building mechanics.

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 27.6% ★, Space 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most similar experience to The Last Starship by focusing on modular 2D ship design and tactical combat.

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: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Space Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Space 11.4%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulator set on a spaceship that requires careful management of resources and automated systems.

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Space 20.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the core loop of designing a ship from scratch and managing its systems to survive in space.

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 24.7%, Building 24.6%, Sandbox 20.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Top-Down 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly satisfying 2D ship-building experience with a focus on modular construction and sandbox exploration.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Automation 14.2%, Space 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and automation with a focus on resource extraction and management on a lunar surface.

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 29.8% ★, Space 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.5%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for incredibly detailed modular ship building and exploration in a massive, procedurally generated galaxy.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12%, Space 11.7%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy space game that emphasizes building massive production lines across star systems.

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: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Automation 14.3%, Space Sim 13.5% ★, Space 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a space station while managing resources in a sandbox environment.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Space 14.7%, Building 10.7%, Space Sim 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it shares the grand scale of space exploration and complex logistics found in sandbox space games.

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: Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Science 11.2% ★, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, complex engineering and atmospheric management that appeals to players who enjoy the technical side of ship building.

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 31% ★, Space 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, living space economy and sandbox simulation that rewards players for building their own fleet and stations.

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 Sim 24.9% ★, Space 16.9%, Science 16.2% ★, Sci-fi 10.1%, Top-Down 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based mining simulator that captures the gritty, realistic feel of operating a ship in space.

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 26.5%, Space Sim 19.2% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space game where you build ships block-by-block to survive and explore.

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 21.5%, Space Sim 20.6% ★, Building 19.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides advanced, physics-based ship building tools for players who want to experiment with complex mechanical designs.

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Space Sim 15.8% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 11.9%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-focused space game that rewards players for building efficient logistics networks between planets.

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Space 16%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and management of a space station, mirroring the technical challenges of ship maintenance.

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 27.2% ★, Space 16.6%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A robust survival game that features extensive ship and base building with a focus on planetary and space exploration.

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% ★, Mining 24.4% ★, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that emphasizes modular ship construction and multiplayer-focused resource management.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Space Sim 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends base-building with space exploration and resource management.

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 28.1%, Management 23%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 14.8%, 2D 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense submarine management and modular system maintenance that mirrors the ship-survival feel of The Last Starship.

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.2%, Management 24.5%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 16.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that focuses on the realistic logistics and political management of a space-faring civilization.

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 24.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Space 13.1%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for sandbox ship and base building, offering unparalleled freedom in construction and physics.

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 Sim 26.6% ★, Space 23.7%, Mining 21% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that offers a deep sandbox experience with a focus on mining, trading, and ship progression.

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Building 30.1%, Sci-fi 19.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 13%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines unique ship design with tactical combat and exploration in a challenging, atmospheric sandbox.

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 Sim 25.3% ★, Mining 22.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Space 11.6%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space-sim, sandbox, and strategy elements, allowing players to command fleets and design their own ships.

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 38%, Space Sim 20.8% ★, Sci-fi 11.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D space exploration game that features ship customization and a vast sandbox world.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Space 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game where you control a space station and its inhabitants in a pixel-art setting.

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: Mining 19% ★, Space Sim 15.2% ★, Science 12.5% ★, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 15% ★, Mining 11.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Automation 10%, Science 7.7% ★

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Space Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Space 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management and base-building game that focuses on creating a functional space station in a sandbox universe.

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: Base Building 22.5%, Automation 22.2%, Sandbox 17.3%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Management 10.7%

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 Sim 31.2% ★, Space 25.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Simulation 8.6%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Space Sim 16.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Space 10.8%, Building 9.5%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Space Sim 18.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Space 13.6%, Building 11.2%

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Space Sim 30% ★, Space 15.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Science 15.3% ★, Building 6.2%

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Space Sim 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Space 13.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.1%

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 34.4%, Sandbox 16.7%, Space Sim 13.7% ★, Sci-fi 11%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a modular ship-building system that allows for complete control over the design and capabilities of your vessel.

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: Automation 18.4%, Space Sim 16.1% ★, Space 14.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 12%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 21.6%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Mining 11.6% ★, Building 9.3%

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 31.1% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Space 14.3%, Top-Down 8.2%, Building 7.9%

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 21%, Space 20.6%, Sandbox 12%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Building 11.1%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Space Sim 21.4% ★, Space 16.8%, Automation 13.3%, Science 12.4% ★, Building 10.5%

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 27.2%, Sandbox 21.6%, Building 15.5%, Space Sim 13.7% ★, Sci-fi 9.2%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 20%, Space 11.5%, Strategy 6.2%

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 31.9%, Top-Down 17.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Exploration 9.1%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Automation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.4%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: Space Sim 19% ★, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Automation 11%, Building 9.7%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Science 14.1% ★, Space 13%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.3%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%

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 26.3% ★, Space 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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: Mining 26.8% ★, Space Sim 23.2% ★, Space 22.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 8.9%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Space Sim 15% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 10.4%, Automation 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 27.1% ★, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Science 13.8% ★, Space 10.9%

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 Sim 33.4% ★, Space 26.3%, Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Combat 7.1%

A sci-fi simulation game, in which players must design, assemble and test spaceships, in a bid to build a supreme Galactic Mega-Corporation. Gain your reputation by engineering and selling your own spacecraft, testing them to the limit in RTS missions and simulated emergency and combat situations.

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Management 21.7%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 9%

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: Space Sim 17.9% ★, Space 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

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: Mining 32.7% ★, Space 22.6%, Sandbox 17.4%, Sci-fi 9%, Top-Down 7.9%

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 27.7% ★, Space 13.8%, Automation 13%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

Why similar: Building 27.9%, Sandbox 26.4%, Space 19.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 9.8%