- #1 Stellar Insurgency
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tensorial
Windows
Explore a galaxy of 300 systems as you control your fleet in a top-down 3D style, navigating through Star-lanes, Warp gates, and Black holes. Customize and upgrade your fleet, complete missions, trade, hire your crew, wage war and determine the fate of the galaxy in this grand sim saga.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.3% ★, Action RTS 30.5% ★, Strategy 7.7%, Exploration 6.3%, Sci-fi 6%
- #2 Comet Busters
96% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Jason Hall
Windows · Linux
Comet Busters is a game similar to asteroids with it's own flare and uniqueness. You pilot the Destiny, an ancient warship converted to a mining vessel. It has advanced weaponry such as bombs, missiles, laser bullets, and spread fire bullets. You will face enemies and unique bosses.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.6% ★, Action RTS 28.1% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Action 8.5%, Futuristic 6.2%
- #3 Axan Ships
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Adam Stępiński
Windows
Sci-fi RTS and Top-Down
Why similar: Action RTS 36.3% ★, Space Sim 18.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Roguelite 5%
- #4 Axan Ships - Low Poly
95% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Adam Stępiński
Windows
Sci-fi RTS and Top-Down
Why similar: Action RTS 34.6% ★, Space Sim 22.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Roguelite 6.8%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #5 Void Havoc
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ghoulware
Windows
In this sci-fi action/strategy game, you're the only trump card left to stop the Contingency in their destructive march. Man your ship, build your arsenal and blow away the waves sent to stop you in your tracks.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.4% ★, Action RTS 34.4% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Action 8.8%, Sci-fi 4.1%
- #6 SpaceCraft Brawl
93% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: ruploz
Windows
Build spacecrafts and fight with or against your friends! This game offers physics driven gameplay, with a variety of weapons and powerups. Slice your enemies in half with a laser beam, or erase them from existence with a black hole bomb!
Why similar: Space Sim 28.2% ★, Action RTS 25.1% ★, Destruction 12.1%, Top-Down Shooter 7.6%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #7 Infinite Voyager
94% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: cGh ONE
Windows
Far from Earth, mankind hasn't changed in the centuries since we've reached the stars. Across this wide-open galaxy, you'll find merchants, builders, and explorers. The more adventurous are colonizers, conquerors, and even space pirates. And you, Voyager? What will you be?
Why similar: Space Sim 32.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Action 9.9%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #8 Extinction Eclipse
92% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: TuanisApps
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are in command of the human fleet, searching for asteroids to mine, extract resources and build bases and more ships to defeat aliens invaders. This simple and short action RTS has a full and exciting campaign, and a skirmish mode that allows you to play a different mission on every match.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.5% ★, Space Sim 19.4% ★, Space 8.1%, Top-Down 6.7%, Strategy 5.7%
- #9 Space Mission Overdrive
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultramarine Afterglow
Windows
Defend your planet against the Space Invaders. Build your defences against lovecraftian spacecrafts. Keep your health up and you might even become an invader yourself! Warning: this game contains flashing images that may make it unsuitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.7% ★, Action RTS 31.5% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Space 8.3%, Futuristic 7%
- #10 Orbital Command
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NIA Games LLC
Windows
Orbital Command is about controlling planet based weapon systems to defend your planets from large asteroids and hostile invaders. Will you be able to complete the Dyson Sphere, or will your planets end up barren husks?
Why similar: Space Sim 31.1% ★, Destruction 14.6%, Top-Down 12%, Roguelite 10.9%, Space 10.1%
- #11 black screen
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: captkuso
Windows · Linux
Trade to make your fortune in this lo-fi, laid back space adventure, where you'll get help from anthropomorphic animals, gear up your ship, and search for the mythical key to immortality hidden in the depths of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 46.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.9%, Exploration 8.8%, Top-Down 7.3%, Action 5.6%
- #12 2 Minutes 16 Seconds (2分16秒)
89% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Tiansu Game Design
Windows
This is a 2D Pixel Top-Down Space Shooter Game. The game implemented Rogue-Lite elements, like the survivor series.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, Roguelite 12.5%, Top-Down 7.3%, Futuristic 6.7%
- #13 Veridian Expanse
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Howling Moon Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Space Sim 37.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Futuristic 9.2%, Exploration 7.6%, Top-Down 7.4%
- #14 MetaSpace
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peter Mundy
Windows
MetaSpace is a 2D action strategy game. Explore to gather resources and items to bolster your strength and expand your faction. But be vigilant! Time advances with every action you take, as you use it to gain strength so do the many other factions grasping for power.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.5% ★, Space Sim 28.4% ★, Exploration 6.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #15 Astra Defender
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yokereba
Windows · Linux
Blast through enemies, build defenses, launch fighters, and upgrade your way to victory in this fast-paced space shooter/action RTS hybrid.
Why similar: Action RTS 45% ★, Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Action 5%, Futuristic 4.4%
- #16 Void Surfer
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Seared Entertainment
Windows
Harvest the galaxy, Design the perfect ship, Annihilate your enemies!
Why similar: Space Sim 45.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 27.6%, Exploration 8.3%, Action 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%
- #17 FireAirPlan
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: youshaonianstudio
Windows
Shoting!!!
Why similar: Space Sim 44.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.8%, Strategy 17.6%, Top-Down 7.7%, Space 6.6%
- #18 Helium Rain
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 324 reviews2018
Dev: Deimos Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 58.3% ★, Space 13.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Exploration 7.5%, Action 5.5%
- #19 Parsec Express
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thulu Games
Windows · Mac
Explore a scientifically grounded version of our solar system in this 2D space adventure. Mine asteroids, fight hostile ships, navigate the cold silence between worlds, and choose your place among rival factions.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Futuristic 8.5%, Top-Down 7.6%, Exploration 7.1%
- #20 Galaxy Trek
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Peritoma Studios
Windows
Galaxy Trek is a fun, simple and addictive indie game that will test your reflexes, strategy and skill. Each game you play is unique!
Why similar: Action RTS 62.9% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Space 12%, Action 7.6%, 2D 2.7%
- #21 Starfall Defenders
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: EntwicklerX
Windows
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defense game that features unique towers and enemies. It also has an in-game shop system that allows players to purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and buy special items like the Atom Bomb, Splash Bomb, and Air Supply.
Why similar: Action RTS 48.6% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Space 8.7%, Futuristic 6.4%, Action 5.9%
- #22 Cozy Space Survivors
82% matchVery Positive97% of 364 reviews2024
Dev: simonschreibt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A cozy time survival roguelite in space. You steer the shippy while the shooting happens automatically. Meet cute NPCs, solve small quests, and fight quirky enemies with satisfying weapons. A shorter experience for people who don't have much time but love playing (and finishing) games.
Why similar: Space Sim 35% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, Roguelite 13.5%, Top-Down 7.9%, Exploration 7.9%
- #23 Nebula Strike
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 杨羽灰
Windows
Nebula Strike is a space-themed 2.5D top-down twin-stick shooter game.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.6%, Roguelite 14.1%, Top-Down 7.7%, Futuristic 7.3%
- #24 Transcendence
82% matchVery Positive88% of 221 reviews2015
Dev: Kronosaur Productions
Windows
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 Sim 27.2% ★, Roguelite 14.1%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Space 10.3%, Exploration 8.3%
- #25 Space Reign
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 377 reviews2026
Dev: Propulsive Games
Windows
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.7% ★, Action RTS 30.4% ★, Space 8.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #26 Flowrate
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Arekcuta
Windows
A minimalist space survival game about managing fuel in a field of procedurally generated planets. Scan atmospheres, land carefully, and keep moving—because if you run out of antimatter, it's over.
Why similar: Space Sim 32% ★, Roguelite 21.5%, Strategy 18%, Space 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #27 Android Simulator: Prologue
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Android Simulator: Prologue is just part of the amazing adventure that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take charge of a spaceship colony, flight route and manage the right water balance for plants, oxygen level, and spacecraft parameters to securely deliver the colonizers.
Why similar: Space Sim 41.5% ★, Destruction 18%, Futuristic 13.4%, Space 9.5%, Exploration 7.8%
- #28 Block Strategy
78% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Marc Makes Games
Windows
Block Strategy is an RTS Base Defence roguelite with a fully destructible world. Build your base and find fuel to power your reactor before you're overrun by an onslaught of enemy robots.
Why similar: Action RTS 36% ★, Destruction 16.1%, Roguelite 12.5%, Futuristic 8.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #29 Voidship: The Long Journey
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 148 reviews2019
Dev: Cydonian Games
Windows
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: Strategy 17.9%, Space 10.2%, Action 9.5%, Top-Down Shooter 9.1%, Roguelite 8.4%
- #30 Subdivision Infinity DX
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: MistFly GamesPub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows
Subdivision Infinity is an immersive and pulse pounding sci-fi space shooter featuring stunning graphics and tight spaceship game play. Hunt down and destroy enemy spacecraft, crush capital ships, mine asteroids for rare minerals, and find blueprints to craft amazing new vessels!
Why similar: Space Sim 48.2% ★, Space 13.3%, Action 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%
- #31 Future Weapon
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Gabriel Echevarria
Windows
Future Weapon is an online space shooter where you can host a server for you and your friends to annihilate the universe together. Grab a gun, grab a spaceship, punch rocks, upgrade everything, and wreck the world. Join The Fleet! https://discord.gg/WN4UJaEc
Why similar: Space Sim 38.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Futuristic 8.4%, Exploration 7.7%
- #32 Shatterswarm
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Iron Fin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command Captain Hope's ship in this strategic 2D space game. Build structures, deploy fleets, and manage resources to defend the Citadel against waves of enemies. Combine direct ship combat, tower defense, and base building as you face epic boss battles.
Why similar: Action RTS 39.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Action 8.6%, Futuristic 6.5%
- #33 Where is Earth?
76% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Where is Earth is a top-down vehicular combat game. Traverse planets, evading threats and obstacles, in search of your crew. Gather resources to assemble upgrades, landing vehicles, space craft, weaponry and support modules to aid you in your fight against an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Space 7.8%, Top-Down 7.8%, Exploration 7.7%
- #34 Super Starship
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Les Bird
Windows · Mac
A futuristic sci-fi persistent universe exploration game with one million stars and 18 million planets and moons. Fly your ship to any star and explore its solar system. Claiming stars, planets and moons will make them yours forever - other players will see your discoveries and you will see theirs.
Why similar: Space Sim 55.7% ★, Futuristic 11.5%, Exploration 10.9%, Space 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #35 Planet Boom
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: daichi
Windows
This chaotic fast-paced planetary defense game will have you shoot, jump, dash, and teleport across a fully destructible planet to fend off enemies flying in from all directions. Switch between multiple unique turrets, upgraded to suit your play style, for eye-popping synergetic plays!
Why similar: Action RTS 34.7% ★, Roguelite 14.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Destruction 12%, Space 10.9%
- #36 CROSSFIRE II (AMIGA)
76% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: DreamworldsPub: 1999UEM
Windows
Crossfire II is an Retro / Arcade / Top-Down Shooter, originally released in 2002 for the AMIGA. The main part of the game is a classic, fast paced, single player story campaign. Fly different space ships and fight, to save the universe as you know it. Also you get a survival and a local PvP mode.
Why similar: Space Sim 48.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Action 10.5%, Space 8.3%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #37 Ark Defender
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Mischief & Mayhem Studios
Windows
Roguelike missile command. Survive as long as you can aboard the Ark, humanity's last hope, in a hostile galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.5%, Top-Down 8.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #38 Admirals of Ophiuchus
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mantegral Studio
Windows
Design massive ships, bristling with weapons, on a macro scale. Engage in fleet-vs-fleet battles, featuring many different tactics. Play alone or in Coop combat missions, or form two teams of players (each with own fleet) to fight in an arena.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.1% ★, Action RTS 30.5% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Space 10.7%, Action 3.8%
- #39 Evolution of a Mini World: Physics Wonderland
74% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: William at Oxford
Windows
We have built a mini universe with real physics basis, simulation and imagination. The game uses realistic environments and models to tell a story of a mini universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 50% ★, Action RTS 25.9% ★, Space 11%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Strategy 3.2%
- #40 Cosmic Armada
73% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Charged Software
Windows
A fleet combat and space exploration game. Pilot ships, control a fleet, build and upgrade colonies, mine resources, craft items, trade, upgrade your ships and fleet, carry out missions, board ships, destroy ships and get revenge on the empire that conquered your home planet.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Space 9%, Top-Down 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #41 Captain Forever Trilogy
73% matchVery Positive89% of 195 reviews2018
Dev: Farbs
Windows
Millions of players worldwide have flown, built, and fought their way through Captain Forever. CF Trilogy brings Captains Forever, Successor, and Impostor to Steam with a beautiful new renderer, new modules, and a reimagined world written by acclaimed novelist Cassandra Khaw.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.2% ★, Strategy 21.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.8%, Action 12.1%, Space 7.1%
- #42 Salvager
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Fox and Hollow Studios
Windows
Physics-based arcade, top-down space shooter. Pilot the Salvager, collect salvage to upgrade your ship, balancing an economy by mining asteroids and fending off waves of enemy ships, ultimately growing so large as to destroy planets.
Why similar: Space Sim 42.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.9%, Futuristic 8.9%, Top-Down 7.4%, Action 6.8%
- #43 Starfall : Outer Fleet
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dubgamestudio
Windows
Lead a powerful space battleship and bring victory to humanity in the midst of an endless war.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.3% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.4%, Destruction 12.1%, Futuristic 7.8%, Top-Down 7.4%
- #44 Relative Frame
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: pangolin studios
Windows
Explore space in a hand crafted, physics based universe, with immersive sound and atmosphere. Fight and board ships, collect rare cargo, and upgrade your ship.
Why similar: Space Sim 44.2% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Action 10.2%, Exploration 8.7%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #45 Battle For Cosmos
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Oscar Makes Games
Windows
Battle For Cosmos is a fast-paced, action-packed RTS set in space. With a focus on the battle it is perfect for those who want a thrilling and engaging strategy game without the unnecessary filler. Take control of your empire, build your defenses, and conquer the cosmos!
Why similar: Action RTS 60.1% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Space 9.1%, Futuristic 5.9%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #46 Base Craft: Desolate Survival
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Cold North Games
Windows
Co-op twin-stick base building survival game.
Why similar: Action RTS 34% ★, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Roguelite 11.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Futuristic 7.7%
- #47 Metori
72% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Enemby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategize, build, and upgrade your fleet to defeat your enemies. All filtered through the design of classic arcade games.
Why similar: Action RTS 31.8% ★, Space Sim 29.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Space 6.3%
- #48 无尽星海(Endless Stars)
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Lxy
Windows
The story takes place in the distant future. You will play a captain of a star ship and go into deep space. You need to manage your resources carefully. In the game, you can investigate the outliers of various planets, discover the wonders of the universe or learn the stories of lost civilizations.
Why similar: Space Sim 55.2% ★, Futuristic 15.2%, Space 14.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Sci-fi 3.3%
- #49 Don't Lose Your Ship
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stonecrop ResearchPub: Stonecrop Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step aboard your starship and prepare for an intergalactic showdown in Don’t Lose Your Ship, a fast-paced, team-based 2D multiplayer game that combines strategy, coordination, and chaos. This game pits two teams against each other in a battle for supremacy on a grid-based map.
Why similar: Space Sim 49.6% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Action 11.7%, Top-Down 7.9%, Space 7%
- #50 Galduen of the Void
68% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: AzurDevPub: Azurdev
Windows · Linux
A fantasy space agency management game! Manage your team, design your space ship and research new technology! Reach moons, planets and the void beyond. Can you reach the void? Can you bring Galduen to the void?
Why similar: Space Sim 48.9% ★, Space 12.7%, Exploration 12.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #51 The Cosmogenesis Project: Corruption
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitDriven
Windows
Pilot your ship across a procedurally generated star map as corruption spreads inward. Each sector holds a stabiliser; protect it from raiders and pump energy into its shields. Jump between nodes, prioritise threats, and manage energy. Hold the line until time runs out, or be consumed by corruption.
Why similar: Space Sim 56.8% ★, Strategy 20.1%, Space 15.7%, Sci-fi 6%, Simulation 1%
- #52 AsteroidTD
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg Kobzarev
Windows
Try to survive in infinite asteroid cloud as long as possible in reworked tower defence style. FInd your own playstyle and beat your own records or chillout with original ambient soundtracks. Build, explore, think - everything to create your own colony in this cold space.
Why similar: Space Sim 38.1% ★, Roguelite 12.4%, Strategy 12%, Space 10.2%, Futuristic 8.7%
- #53 Darkstar One
70% matchVery Positive83% of 609 reviews2008
Dev: Ascaron Entertainment ltd.Pub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.
Why similar: Space Sim 50.9% ★, Space 17.8%, Action 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Exploration 8.4%
- #54 Between the Stars
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,427 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 42.8% ★, Space 15.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Roguelite 8.2%, Action 7.6%
- #55 Space
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Traveller
Windows
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Why similar: Space Sim 44.8% ★, Futuristic 10.3%, Space 9.9%, Exploration 8.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #56 Reapers Inc.
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Underdog Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Reapers Inc., is a fast-paced RTS where you lead an elite squad to defend your base against relentless intergalactic threats. Navigate diverse planetary biomes, strategically manage your squad, and use quick decision-making skills to exterminate your foes. Stand your ground, and reap the rewards.
Why similar: Action RTS 47.7% ★, Roguelite 15.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Top-Down 7.6%, Exploration 7.2%
- #57 Star Nomad 2
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 158 reviews2015
Dev: Huy Phan
Windows · Mac
A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8% ★, Space 14.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Roguelite 13.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%
- #58 Shoulder-Mounted Space Program
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Aaron Moseley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the vast reaches of space inside a realistic gravity simulation with only your trusty rocket launcher by your side. Battle scores of local robotic inhabitants that want to push you out and stake your claim at the edge of the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 35% ★, Roguelite 16.1%, Destruction 13.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Space 6%
- #59 Space Elevator Project
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VanilliA Studio
Windows
A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively achieve project phase goals and ultimately accomplish the ultimate goal of constructing a Mars colonization spacecraft.
Why similar: Space Sim 52.1% ★, Strategy 20.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Space 8.5%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #60 AQ2: Expanse
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seven Point Red Ltd
Windows
AQ2: Expanse is a massively multiplayer space strategy game. A single persistent universe with open PvP and PvE. Fight for control over the Aquila system's sectors in huge corporation wars, play with everyone, play in a group or play solo with plenty to explore.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.8% ★, Action RTS 30.5% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Space 7.4%, Top-Down 7.4%