List of the top Space Sim games:

Take control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy. Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic.

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

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.

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.

Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.

Design your own spacecraft with captured components in an unknown galaxy to defeat strange space creatures and finally escape from the galaxy.

Captain a space freighter on its perilous voyage to deliver vital supplies to the Parvin Frontier! Select your crew, then lead and command their efforts to manage the ship's navigation, engineering, weapons, and more on the fly as crises and obstacles arise in real time.

Andromeda is a hybrid between a space 4X and an MMO for Android and PC. Get dropped into an online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players.

Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.

The game takes place in a nearby galaxy where a fighter with intergalactic evil in the form of a black cat has settled down

A chaotic, cooperative party game! Shout technobabble at your friends until your spaceship inevitably explodes. Attempt to follow randomly generated, incorrectly assigned instructions. Work together… as a Spaceteam!

Classical 3D space combat simulation with unique 100% dynamic destruction engine, allows you to realistically damage and burn through your enemies exactly where you hit them with blasters, causing their onboard systems and armor to melt away and fall apart. Made by solo developer.

Subteralien Rescue is a physics based sidescroller where you pilot a lander module assigned to explore underground caverns and bases. Travel from planet to planet to encounter new levels with different puzzles and environments, rescue your fellow pilots and fight enemies.

Leaving the formation is a story-driven sci-fi combat simulation based on honest Newtonian flight physics.

Space Aces is a video game made for the spring 2022 offering of CAP 4053 at UCF. The player controls a space fighter capable of movement in 3 directions and rotation in 3 directions. The game supports any controller, keyboard, and the Thrustmaster 1600M flight stick.

Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.

Go to space. Save the Future. Try not to Die. Welcome (back) to the world of Interkosmos for an even wilder, weirder and more wondrous adventure.

House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Turn-based spaceship battles in a tense fight for survival

SATSIM is a virtual aerospace lab, that lets you assemble and operate space hardware as if you were actually in space.

A simulator of a space suit with a jetpack in worlds with real physics, zero gravity and gravitational anomalies. Your main enemy is Newton's first law.

Harvest the galaxy, Design the perfect ship, Annihilate your enemies!

Build and upgrade your personal ship to travel around a strange planet.

Casually nuke targets on the surface of a planet with a long-range cannon, by adjusting the cannon's loaded ammo, heading, azimuth, and power.

Explore unique star systems in AGOS: A Game of Space! Scavenge resources, face the danger of space and save humankind.

Hunted is a free to play game in which you are the last survivor of an alien invasion, you must attack and destroy alien ovals that try and kill you. You can build, craft, and explore.

A space-themed incremental game where you manage planets and resources in a quest to dominate the universe with buildings and megastructures.

A single-player space shooter with hard-science weapons and physics.

VRAstroSmash is a seated, casual scifi arcade style shooting VR only game. Destroy asteroids, space junk, and UFO'S. Up to 4k textures and 150000 polys. Ship auto upgrades through the game progression, such as auto fire, ship repair, increased weapon cooling, and flight controls.

Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

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.

epsilon wars is a turn based artillery game set in space. players must use the newtonian gravity of suns, planets, and blackholes to guide their torpedoes at enemy ships, space stations, and freighters. challenge yourself in single player and multiplayer (2-4 players).

Experience first-person tactical space combat. Fly corvette class warships, customize your load-outs, and do battle against opposing forces where ship positioning matters. Register for the Playtest down below for immediate access and download.