- #1 Hades' Star
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,686 reviews2019
Dev: Parallel Space Inc
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
Why similar: Space 32.4%, Massively Multiplayer 29.7%, RTS 10.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar persistent, strategic space empire experience with a focus on long-term fleet management and cooperative play.
- #2 Star Conflict
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,239 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 40.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 15.8%, PvE 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the fast-paced, action-oriented space combat and ship customization found in the more active moments of VEGA Conflict.
- #3 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
95% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 34.6%, Sci-fi 17%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.9%, 2D 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the ship-building and tactical combat aspects that define the core loop of fleet management.
- #4 EVE Online
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 39,560 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 139.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 24.2%, Space 21.8%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, PvP 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive persistent space MMO, it provides the deep economic and strategic scale that fans of VEGA Conflict often seek.
- #5 Endless Sky
94% matchVery Positive92% of 7,114 reviews2015
Dev: Michael Zahniser
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 54.6%, Open World 15.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Sandbox 6.4%, 2D 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world space game provides a strong sense of progression through ship upgrades and fleet expansion.
- #6 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
94% matchVery Positive84% of 14,720 reviews2015
Dev: Planetary Annihilation Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Why similar: RTS 25.7%, Space 17%, Base Building 14.9%, War 12.2%, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the large-scale, real-time strategy combat and base-building mechanics on a galactic level.
- #7 Galaxy Control: 3D Strategy
93% matchMixed59% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: FX Games Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build your base and battle with other players to control the galaxy! Galaxy Control is an ultimate space combat strategy game with fast-paced combats! Gather minerals and extract uranium, defend your base with laser towers, missile turrets, cannons, walls and mines.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 56.6%, Space 25%, Strategy 16.5%, Action 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the base-building and strategic combat loop found in mobile-style space strategy games.
- #8 Istrolid
92% matchVery Positive87% of 2,696 reviews2016
Dev: treeform
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.
Why similar: Space 34.8%, RTS 20.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a unique ship-building system combined with tactical, top-down fleet combat that feels very similar to VEGA Conflict.
- #9 Star Trek Online
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 21,376 reviews2012
Dev: Cryptic StudiosPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 135.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 38.3%, Space 27.7%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive multiplayer space experience with a focus on ship-to-ship combat and tactical ability management.
- #10 Pixel Starships
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,020 reviews2023
Dev: SavySoda
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 30.3%, Space 24.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Strategy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the micro-management of space vessels and crew, providing a similar tactical depth to ship combat.
- #11 Elite Dangerous
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 107,797 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 149.0 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: Space 31%, Massively Multiplayer 26.6%, Open World 14.2%, Sci-fi 8%, Sandbox 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, immersive space simulation that rewards players for mastering their ship's capabilities and navigating a vast galaxy.
- #12 Second Galaxy
89% matchMixed52% of 1,204 reviews2019
Dev: Zilong Game Limited
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 44.3%, Space 29%, Open World 11.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines MMO exploration with strategic fleet combat, making it a natural transition for players of VEGA Conflict.
- #13 Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
88% matchVery Positive83% of 869 reviews2014
Dev: Hassey Enterprises, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Galcon 2 is a demolition derby in space! Send swarms of ships from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy in this fast paced multiplayer strategy game!
Why similar: Space 25.7%, Strategy 20.5%, RTS 16.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers fast-paced, tactical space strategy that distills fleet movement and conquest into an accessible format.
- #14 Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
86% matchMixed65% of 248 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Owl Games LLCPub: ToHeroes Game Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 80.5%, Strategy 19.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes tactical, turn-based and real-time space combat within a persistent multiplayer universe.
- #15 Nova Empire
85% matchMixed53% of 302 reviews2022
Dev: Gamebear Tech
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build up a Space Empire and establish control of the Galaxy and the Universe! Nova Empire is a multiplayer space game in which the aim is to build your empire and conquer the galaxy in epic space battles against your rivals with other allies worldwide!
Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, PvP 13%, PvE 12.8%, Strategy 12%, Sci-fi 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy space game that focuses on exploration and real-time tactical fleet engagements.
- #16 The Infinite Black
86% matchMixed67% of 215 reviews2016
Dev: SpellbookPub: www.Spellbook.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 57.8%, Space 27.6%, Strategy 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: This indie MMO provides a persistent space environment focused on strategy, combat, and resource management.
- #17 War Selection
83% matchVery Positive85% of 23,654 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Strategy 11.1%, War 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: While terrestrial, it provides the base-building and RTS progression mechanics that are fundamental to the VEGA Conflict experience.
- #18 Destination Sol
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,362 reviews2015
Dev: MovingBlocks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!
Why similar: Space 52.2%, Open World 22.1%, 2D 9.3%, Action 7.1%, Sci-fi 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of space action and RPG elements that focuses on upgrading your ship to survive in a hostile galaxy.
- #19 Astroflux
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 348 reviews2016
Dev: Fula Fisken
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play Astroflux - a retro styled, action packed MMO space shooter.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 62.9%, Space 28%, Action 6.2%, 2D 3%
Why You'll Like It: This action-oriented space MMO features ship customization and cooperative combat in a persistent world.
- #20 Subspace Discovery
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 145 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 31.2%, Space 25%, Base Building 10.2%, PvE 9.7%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a persistent space environment with a focus on exploration and PVE combat.
- #21 Operation: New Earth
82% matchMixed60% of 840 reviews2016
Dev: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Operation: New Earth is an intense sci-fi multiplayer strategy game in which you must command an advanced military facility to defend Earth from a hostile alien invasion. Create an alliance, gather resources, and unlock advanced technology to level up your stronghold!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 61.8%, Strategy 20.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Survival 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the base-building and strategic alliance mechanics prevalent in space-themed strategy games.
- #22 X4: Foundations
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: Space 34.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 16.2%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Strategy 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of space empire management, allowing for complex fleet control and economic strategy.
- #23 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
79% matchVery Positive93% of 16,354 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: Space 22.6%, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title is a gold standard for large-scale space RTS, combining empire management with intense fleet battles.
- #24 War Planet Online: Global Conquest
80% matchMixed62% of 981 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Build your army, dominate your region and lead your alliance to conquer the globe!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 30.8%, RTS 14.1%, War 12.7%, PvP 10.2%, PvE 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar persistent world strategy experience with a focus on tactical combat and base management.
- #25 Homeworld Remastered Collection
78% matchVery Positive88% of 14,195 reviews2015
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
Why similar: Space 43.1%, RTS 29.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Sci-fi 10%, Multiplayer 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the definitive tactical 3D space RTS experience, focusing on fleet composition and positioning.
- #26 Sins of a Solar Empire II
74% matchVery Positive84% of 8,792 reviews2024
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Why similar: Space 31.9%, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #27 Star Hunter - Infinite Lagrange
78% matchMixed57% of 1,075 reviews2021
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 90.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
In a remote corner of the Milky Way, you, a star hunter, will control a fleet, take on a wide variety of bounty contracts and missions, and venture into the vastness of space. You will hunt for mysterious items for your employers and explore specific targets in uncharted territory.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.7%, Space 26.9%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 13.1%, Multiplayer 4.2%
- #28 Nova: Space Armada
76% matchMixed52% of 273 reviews2024
Dev: STONE3 PTE. LTD.
Windows
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 31.7%, Space 16%, Strategy 9.3%, Sci-fi 9%, PvP 8.8%
- #29 Avorion
75% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 16.7%, PvE 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #30 Gangs of Space
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 433 reviews2017
Dev: Little Big MMO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 293.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 52.3%, Space 23.8%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Action 3.8%
- #31 Star Crusade CCG
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,881 reviews2016
Dev: ZiMAD, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 46.9%, Strategy 26.3%, Space 21.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #32 SpaceCraft
69% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 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 22.7%, Space 17.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #33 Periphery Online
70% matchMixed71% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 28.9%, Space 22.4%, RTS 21.2%, Open World 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #34 Age of Conquest IV
73% matchVery Positive82% of 2,824 reviews2016
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.
Why similar: War 22.1%, Massively Multiplayer 17.9%, Strategy 15.1%, RTS 9%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #35 ERA ONE
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,615 reviews2025
Dev: Team Complex LTD
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Start with your Command Center and expand it into a colossal modular flagship, module by module. Design custom warships from the ground up, grow a thriving civilization, and command powerful fleets across the Solar System in tactical real-time battles.
Why similar: Space 21.7%, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, PvP 9.3%
- #36 Codename: Rogue Fleet
74% matchMixed59% of 318 reviews2016
Dev: SionoiS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Codename: Rogue Fleet is a multiplayer team-based game about spaceships combat.
Why similar: Space 59.5%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Open World 15.5%, Action 9.4%
- #37 StarMade
73% matchMixed68% of 2,992 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 36.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Sci-fi 7%
- #38 Infinity: Battlescape
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 765 reviews2019
Dev: I-Novae Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 46%, Space 34.8%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Action 4.7%, PvP 4.4%
- #39 Astro Lords
73% matchMixed65% of 231 reviews2015
Dev: Aratog LLCPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Player bases are located on asteroids, which travel within the Oort Cloud. Once they’ve acquired the appropriate skills, players can control their asteroid’s movements. Mass-combat enthusiasts will love the Arena: here, players can battle it out against alien races or other Astro Lord players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.7%, Space 20.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.3%, PvP 7.4%
- #40 Star Trek Timelines
72% matchMixed66% of 1,533 reviews2017
Dev: Tilting Point
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 196.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Explore the Final Frontier in the ultimate sci-fi strategy RPG, Star Trek Timelines! Join Starfleet and overcome challenges as you boldly go where no game has gone before – across the entire history of Star Trek.
Why similar: Space 50.2%, Strategy 19.6%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Action 1.6%
- #41 March of Empires
72% matchMixed62% of 1,872 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 76.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.6%, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 16.1%, War 15.6%, PvP 9.8%
- #42 War Commander
67% matchMostly Negative40% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: KIXEYE
Windows
War Commander is a large-scale MMO RTS set in a post-apocalyptic world. Take the role of the Commander and push back the forces of chaos and destruction in an attempt to rebuild. Command Troops, Destroy your enemies. Welcome to the apocalypse, Commander.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41%, Strategy 12.1%, PvE 7.7%, War 7.1%, PvP 7%
- #43 MechWarrior Online™ Legends
70% matchVery Positive80% of 12,839 reviews2015
Dev: Piranha Games Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 56.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 35%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, PvP 12%, War 9.1%
- #44 Shattered Void
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 95 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 35.3%, Space 24.7%, PvP 11.1%, PvE 8.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #45 Abys Orbit
66% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: EMG Tech
Windows
AbysOrbit a FREE, real-time space MMO played directly in your browser! Choose one of three factions, upgrade your ship, build your clan, and enter massive PvP battles for control of the galaxy. Auctions, Galaxy Gate, missions, and much more await youClaim your place before the universe is conquered
Why similar: Strategy 36.7%, 2D 25.6%, Exploration 22.9%, Action 14.8%
- #46 Gods and Idols
71% matchMixed69% of 758 reviews2016
Dev: JatteGames
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.7%, Space 20.7%, RTS 19.6%, War 13.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #47 DarkOrbit Reloaded
67% matchMostly Negative32% of 505 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 27.1%, Top-Down Shooter 25.4%, Space 21.7%, Base Building 10.4%, 2D 6.9%
- #48 Star Sonata 2
70% matchMixed67% of 293 reviews2020
Dev: Landauer Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 60.2 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 34.6%, Base Building 24.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, PvP 11.6%, PvE 11%
- #49 Space Commander: War and Trade
69% matchMixed68% of 702 reviews2020
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: Base Building 39.8%, Space 31%, Exploration 11.1%, Action 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #50 Relentless Expanse
64% matchVery Positive90% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Cowmera Games
Windows
Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!
Why similar: Space 24.5%, RTS 24%, Strategy 10.4%, PvP 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.2%
- #51 Battle Islands
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,471 reviews2014
Dev: DR StudiosPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 46.9%, War 20.6%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Base Building 6.2%, Action 5.6%
- #52 Iron Armada
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Bluedrake42Pub: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 849.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Iron Armada is a multiplayer, space-faring combat game where players must team up to build a fleet of ships in order to survive the perils of space and defeat the opposing player faction. Build ships of all shapes and sizes, mine resources, and scavenge parts with friends to conquer the universe!
Why similar: Strategy 48.7%, Space 24.6%, Action 19.2%, Multiplayer 4.3%, 2D 3.1%
- #53 Solaris
67% matchVery Positive80% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: SpacialCircumstances
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: Strategy 29.6%, War 19%, Sci-fi 14.2%, 2D 11.8%, PvP 10.7%