Games Like Trigon: Space Story

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: Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, Space 15.4%, Roguelike 13.3%, Perma Death 11.2%, Difficult 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive blueprint for the genre, offering the same core loop of ship management, tactical pause combat, and randomized narrative encounters.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Space 19.4%, Resource Management 15.5%, Difficult 13.1%, Survival 13%, Roguelike 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the seed game's focus on brutal survival, complex ship systems, and the constant threat of destruction in a hostile space environment.

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30% ★, Space 13%, Perma Death 11.9%, Roguelike 8.7%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the atmospheric, narrative-driven exploration and tactical fleet management that defines the experience of commanding a ship through dangerous space.

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: Real-Time with Pause 31.6% ★, Space 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Difficult 11.9%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled depth in ship design and tactical combat, allowing you to build and manage your vessel with extreme precision.

Take command of an 'Age of Sail' ship and her crew, exploring a vast, story-filled world that reacts to your decisions. Engage enemy vessels, fortifications and sea monsters in brutal tactical combat, all framed in an art style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings.

Why similar: Perma Death 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Roguelike 12.4%, Survival 12%

Why You'll Like It: While set on the high seas, its core gameplay loop of managing a vessel, crew, and tactical combat is functionally identical to the space-based mechanics of the seed.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Why similar: Space 58.5%, Strategy 29.6%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines base building with tactical turn-based combat, providing a similar strategic depth and sci-fi aesthetic.

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: Perma Death 23.5%, Procedural Generation 19.2%, Difficult 16.7%, Space 16.7%, Sci-fi 16%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, persistent world where your choices as a captain significantly impact your crew, ship, and the political landscape of the galaxy.

Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!

Why similar: Space 22%, Perma Death 19.4%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Difficult 13.4%, Roguelike 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the micro-management of individual crew members during intense combat scenarios, directly echoing the crew-management aspect of the seed game.

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: Sci-fi 30.5%, Strategy 27.3%, Exploration 22%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in high-stakes management and tactical combat where every decision regarding fuel, crew, and ship integrity feels heavy and consequential.

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 23.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Survival 16.9%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the survival and management aspects of space travel, requiring you to build and maintain a ship while keeping your crew alive.

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 29.8%, Real-Time with Pause 21.9% ★, Roguelike 14.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Perma Death 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined space strategy game that focuses on fleet management and tactical combat against overwhelming odds.

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 26.4%, Roguelike 12.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the narrative and survival aspects of trying to get home, requiring careful management of your ship's landing and navigation systems.

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: Real-Time with Pause 29.4% ★, Space 17%, Roguelike 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10%, Top-Down 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features top-down tactical gameplay where you must infiltrate ships and manage your equipment to survive, sharing the seed game's isometric tactical feel.

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: Real-Time with Pause 26.8% ★, Space 20.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Procedural Generation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the journey and the constant need to upgrade and manage your ship's systems to survive increasingly difficult encounters.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Space 31.7%, Resource Management 21.5%, Survival 18.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Exploration 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building and resource management with the high-stakes pressure of keeping a massive space station operational during a desperate voyage.

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Space 17%, Resource Management 12.5%, Roguelike 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management roguelike that focuses on the loneliness and difficulty of surviving in deep space with limited supplies.

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.3%, Difficult 16.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Top-Down 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Often described as FTL on wheels, this game captures the same roguelike travel and tactical combat feel in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 48.5%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Top-Down 10.4%, Story Rich 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of exploration and ship customization that rewards curiosity and tactical planning in a vast, mysterious galaxy.

Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

Why similar: Difficult 25%, Strategy 21.8%, Survival 16.2%, Perma Death 13.9%, Roguelike 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor to Space Crew, it offers a frantic and rewarding management experience where you must keep your vehicle operational under heavy fire.

A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!

Why similar: Perma Death 21%, Space 18.6%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Roguelike 14%, Sci-fi 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It integrates deck-building mechanics into the classic space-roguelite formula, providing a fresh take on tactical ship combat.

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: Survival 39.9%, Difficult 24.5%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative-focused game that excels at the simulation of ship systems and the chaos of managing a crew under extreme pressure.

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 32.2%, Procedural Generation 23.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Top-Down 14.7%, Exploration 11%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space RPG that allows for deep customization of your ship and tactical combat, appealing to those who enjoy the progression systems of the seed.

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 41.6%, Survival 19.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Roguelike 15.2%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a colony ship, requiring you to balance resources and crew needs while fleeing from an alien threat.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Space 19.4%, Difficult 15.7%, Roguelike 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, atmospheric game where you manage drones to explore derelict ships, capturing the tension and resource management of the seed game.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.5% ★, Perma Death 14.8%, Space 12.9%, Difficult 10.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.

Why similar: Roguelike 27.1%, Perma Death 15.3%, Space 14.2%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical roguelike that focuses on squad management and positioning, sharing the difficult, top-down strategic nature of the seed.

Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.

Why similar: Space 49.1%, Strategy 30.5%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a turn-based tactical experience that emphasizes ship positioning and weapon management in large-scale space battles.

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 50.4%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Roguelike 9.4%, Difficult 7.6%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it retains the roguelike structure and resource-gathering mechanics that make space exploration feel dangerous and rewarding.

Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.2% ★, Space 31.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a mix of action and strategy, focusing on ship-to-ship combat and tactical decision-making in a space setting.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Space 16.6%, Roguelike 16.1%, Survival 15.2%, Top-Down 13.8%, Exploration 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the narrative and exploration aspects of space travel, where managing your ship's integrity is vital to surviving the dark void.

In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.5% ★, Difficult 11.2%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Roguelike 8.6%

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: Isometric 44.3%, Space 21.3%, Exploration 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.7%

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: Roguelike 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Space 16.8%, Strategy 16.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%

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 46.8%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Survival 7.2%, Indie 5.6%

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 25.5%, Survival 15.2%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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: Real-Time with Pause 23% ★, Perma Death 13.5%, Space 12.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Roguelike 8.4%

Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.

Why similar: Space 15.7%, Resource Management 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Roguelike 11.4%, Survival 11.3%

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 41.1%, Procedural Generation 24.7%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Strategy 12.4%, 3D 8.1%

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32% ★, Perma Death 13.7%, Difficult 13.7%, Roguelike 13%, Procedural Generation 12.4%

Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.

Why similar: Space 23.5%, Roguelike 19.5%, Survival 16.3%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Strategy 10.6%

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 46.5%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Exploration 14.3%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 5.9%

LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!

Why similar: Perma Death 30%, Difficult 21%, Roguelike 20.9%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Strategy 10.5%

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 23.8%, Roguelike 16.6%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Top-Down 10.7%

Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

Why similar: Roguelike 31.7%, Procedural Generation 28.1%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Indie 5.1%

Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.

Why similar: Space 25.7%, Resource Management 25%, Procedural Generation 13%, Strategy 12.6%, Roguelike 11.9%

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 22.9%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Perma Death 14.2%, Roguelike 10.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 39.8%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Top-Down 13.5%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Strategy 8.4%

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: Perma Death 22.9%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Space 17.3%, Roguelike 13.6%, Sci-fi 13.6%

Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.5%, Procedural Generation 25.9%, Difficult 25.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 4.4%

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 30.4%, Procedural Generation 19.5%, Sci-fi 18%, Strategy 13.8%, Exploration 10.2%

Everything moves when you do in Enter the Chronosphere, the turn-based roguelike. Each chronosphere is procedurally generated with defenders and biomes from the worlds it has consumed. Break in, find exotic weaponry and gadgets, outsmart hostile aliens, and fight your way to the core.

Why similar: Space 22.2%, Difficult 20.1%, Roguelike 13.9%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Sci-fi 12.6%

Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.

Why similar: Space 25.7%, Strategy 21.9%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%

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 50.1%, Sci-fi 23.3%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.

Why similar: Strategy 19.6%, Roguelike 19%, Perma Death 17.7%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.3%

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 25%, Difficult 16%, Procedural Generation 16%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Top-Down 12.9%

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Space 21.3%, Difficult 19.9%, Survival 15.1%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Roguelike 9.7%

Sector Unknown is a solo-developed, isometric sci-fi RPG set in a shadowy expanse of space. Begin on a desolate planet, establish a stronghold, explore space, ally with or dominate local factions, and combat a despotic organization set on ruthlessly exploiting the sector's resources and inhabitants.

Why similar: Isometric 68.1%, Story Rich 14%, Exploration 10.4%, Space 7.6%

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Space 20%, Difficult 18.8%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Roguelike 18%, Sci-fi 12.1%

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 63%, Sci-fi 20.9%, Exploration 4.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%

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 60.6%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Indie 6.1%