Unknown Horizons
Unknown Horizons is a retro styled top-down space exploration adventure where you will meet new alien races, learn their secrets and build their trust to get their help to find a way home.
The top results based on the latest update are Space Merchant [Score: 1.2], Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls [Score: 1.1] and Naev [Score: 1.1] The top rated games you can find here are Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 10.4] ranked #23, Elite Dangerous [SteamPeek Rating: 8.3] ranked #25 and Endless Sky [SteamPeek Rating: 8.1] ranked #6 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Sector Space [Release date: 2025-11-27] ranked #4, black screen [Release date: 2025-11-23] ranked #5 and 异星家园(XenoHaven) [Release date: 2025-11-20] ranked #8 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Rebel Galaxy [SteamPeek Rating: 7.4] ranked #12, Ostranauts [SteamPeek Rating: 6.1] ranked #18 and Stardeus [SteamPeek Rating: 6.4] ranked #19.
Unknown Horizons is a retro styled top-down space exploration adventure where you will meet new alien races, learn their secrets and build their trust to get their help to find a way home.
Based off the original Merchant RPG, a new Idle RPG space exploration experience!
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.
Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
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.
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.
An open world survival game set in space.
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
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.
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.
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Red Planet: Survive is a first person survival game for Microsoft Windows. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Red Planet will be hard, but if you are strong enough, you will succeed. Find the best way to survive, but be careful, since each wrong step will ensure your demise. The environment is your main enemy.
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.
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
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.
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.
LithoBreak is a survival factory-builder grounded in real physics and engineering. Build and automate a lunar colony, explore in first-person, and survive constant orbital threats – all while you Play with Science
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.
STEEB is a sci-fi exploration adventure game. You are a bio-robot scout, sent to explore dangerous Earth-like planets. Gain unique abilities by extracting samples from alien organisms. Choose upgrades to progress and survive the planet's threats. Will your discoveries save humanity?
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.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
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.
A hardcore 2D MMO sandbox where survival depends on your skill in trade and combat. A world with a living economy and full loot that functions even when playing solo. Become a trade magnate, pirate, mercenary, or ruins explorer in this post-apocalyptic machine-world simulator.
Don your space helmet and fire up your star drive as you blaze a trail across the stars in this 1980s inspired space exploration game.
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.
Fly your space ship through a 2D sci-fi world. Fight real-time space battles, upgrade your vessel and trade rare resources. And if you get bored on the way, text with your AI assistant Hopper. She will know what to do.
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
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.
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
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