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Captain your own starship in this 2D, open-world space-sim. Command your crew as you explore, trade, mine, smuggle, steal and fight your way across the milky-way galaxy with real-time, tactical combat.
The top results based on the latest update are MetalMercs [Score: 1.0], SPINDLEDRIFT [Score: 0.9] and HULLJACKERS [Score: 0.9] The top rated games you can find here are Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #24, Endless Sky [SteamPeek Rating: 8.2] ranked #32 and Rebel Galaxy [SteamPeek Rating: 7.4] ranked #29 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Deck & Conn [Release date: 2026-09-01] ranked #16, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes [Release date: 2026-05-11] ranked #33 and Tiny Pixel Planets [Release date: 2024-10-11] ranked #11 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Shortest Trip to Earth [SteamPeek Rating: 5.4] ranked #20, Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #24 and Rebel Galaxy [SteamPeek Rating: 7.4] ranked #29.
Captain your own starship in this 2D, open-world space-sim. Command your crew as you explore, trade, mine, smuggle, steal and fight your way across the milky-way galaxy with real-time, tactical combat.
Destroy. Salvage. Repair. Upgrade. PROFIT! A real-time tactical experience where you command your own mercenary outfit of mechs and mercs and adventure through randomly generated missions filled with rewards, glory, and bitter defeat.
A 2D space trading game with a real economy. NPC ships haul cargo between 78 stations and prices move whether you're there or not. Good routes die as other traders catch on, so you keep hunting new ones. No quest markers, no "best trade" arrows. Just you, a map, and the prices.
Run a galactic pirate syndicate from a single screen. Raid ships, loot cargo, capture crew, and grow a fleet that raids in parallel while you watch. An incremental space-pirate idle game with tactical raids, a reputation-based black market, and a legendary endgame.
A 2D space agency simulator where every object follows the same orbital physics. Land on moons, build colonies, deploy satellites, and reshape entire planetary systems. Deorbit a moon if you want.
Over 500,000 players on mobile! Sun Wars is a real-time strategy game set in a galactic war between suns. Build and boost your solar system, attack enemy suns, avoid deadly black holes, and manage energy wisely. Only smart tactics and strategy will let you survive and win the war.
A space-sim and roguelite where you build your own ship and live in it. Survive in a procedural galaxy that escalates into full faction warfare.
A pixel-art space mining game. Dig into procedurally generated planets, chart your own route across the star map, collect rare ores, level up your gear, and grow your fortune by investing in the market.
Sublunar is a Sci-fi, Puzzle, Strategy game, where the goal is to convert settlements over to your faction, by performing missions and strategic upgrades, while fending off bandits and subsiding revolts.
Port Aphelion is a trading-simulation and adventure game where players build their economic empire through honest trade, smuggling, bounty-hunting, or all-out piracy!
Command massive space battles where thousands of ships clash in real time. Build your fleet, choose a doctrine, reinforce the battlefront, unleash commander abilities, and adapt as unexpected events turn the tide of war in this mashup of strategy and auto-battler.
Explore the pixel cosmos, jumping from star system to star system. Land on fully procedural planets, and make them your home.
Welcome to the future of space warfare! Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander puts you in command of an advanced space battlecruiser and tasks you with exploring sectors, fighting and boarding enemy ships, and invading planets. Manage your ship, crew and escorts effectively and find your way to victory!
Experience cinematic space warfare in SALVO, an action packed real-time tactical combat simulator. Command your flagship and engage in intense battles in a war-torn solar system. Play a story-driven campaign, or forge your own destiny across the dangerous frontiers.
Andromeda Wars is a retro styled space RTS. In Andromeda Wars you must gather power, build a fleet, build defences to defend your mothership, and try to survive the onslaught from the opposing factions. Each ship you add to your fleet gives you powers but also reduces your dwindling resources.
Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign. Balance tactics, crew, and limited resources in a dynamic forever-war. Retro pixel art meets deep strategy fifteen minutes into the future of 1989.
Haul cargo, hunt bounties, upgrade your ship and get paid in a gritty lo-fi universe. Hand painted graphics, procedural generated star systems that can be navigated, story campaign mode or huge open-world.
The ultimate space capital ship combat compendium is the evolution of hard core space combat sims. The only game of its kind currently in existence.
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
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.
Become spacefaring merchant in a galaxy filled with diverse planets, each with its own economy, resources, and challenges. Amass wealth and reputation by trading goods, negotiating with factions, and navigating the intricacies of interstellar commerce.
2D Open World RTS with a minimalistic pixel art and a world full of mystery.
Naev is a game about space exploration, trade, and combat in a large and vibrant universe. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting, and performing missions.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Activate your Neural Link to gain an omniscient view of the battlefield. Experience the conflict at any scale, as you plot the course that will lead your fleet to victory. Eternal Starlight is a tactical space combat game, built from the ground up for VR.
A living ant tower defense, upgrade abilities to increase competitiveness. Combine different ant species to form an aerial defense and kamikaze attacks. Deploy ants to collect honey. Breed ants to expand your territory and compete against red fire ants to save the natural environment of the island.
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.
Fly real astrodynamics from an Apollo-era DSKY. Plan Lambert transfers, mine asteroids, build a fleet, and survive a 38-body solar system where every trajectory is solved from Kepler's equation. No autopilot, no cheating.
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
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.
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.
Ultakia is a turn-based space 4X strategy game with distinctive resource management. Explore exotic systems and acquire powerful technologies. Exploit your planets, trade with other races and destroy those who stand in your way.
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
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