Games like Aetherspace

If Aetherspace left you wanting something competitive and replayable, you have options. Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Space Reign
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.
Replayable
73% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Void Marauders
Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!
Replayable
77% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
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.
Competitive, Replayable
65% of 248 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Gratuitous Space Battles
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
Competitive, Replayable
72% of 569 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Event Horizon
Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.
Replayable
81% of 183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$5.99
Deep Space Battle Simulator
Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle. Customize your ship, control its movement, weapons, and energy distribution or go to one of the hangars to join the battle in a smaller fighter!
Competitive, Replayable
78% of 357 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Ancient Frontier
Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
Replayable
64% of 115 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Infinity: Battlescape
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.
Competitive, Replayable
79% of 639 Steam reviews are positive$34.99
Between the Stars
Take the helm of an interstellar cruiser and cross a procedurally generated galaxy to save the Republic. Real-time capital ship battles, a crew to hire and level up, hundreds of text events with lasting consequences, and a story that pulls you along. Every warp jump brings a new decision, and some of them sting.
Replayable
75% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Space Pirates and Zombies
Fly a growing pirate fleet through a procedurally generated galaxy of hundreds of star systems, blowing up ships, looting parts and building better ones. Physics-driven top-down combat, RPG upgrades and a zombie plague that spreads while you play. Every run is a new galaxy, and every battle can turn on one order.
Replayable
91% of 2,239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Space Commander: War and Trade
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.
Replayable
67% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Gangs of Space
Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.
Competitive, Replayable
75% of 433 Steam reviews are positiveFree

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Space Reign

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$19.99

Between the Stars

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Deep Space Battle Simulator

Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle.

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Design every room of a pixel starship, set its AI, and test your creation against real players in tournaments.

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Void War

Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.

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Annihilate The Spance

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Void Crew

Take a role on a co-op spaceship, from pilot to gunner, and survive fast, chaotic runs through hostile space together.

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Starborne Frontiers

Assemble a fleet of ships, set their formations and let careful planning decide battles across a dark, mysterious frontier.

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Bolt weapons onto a ship, hire a crew with opinions, and survive turn-based card battles across a hostile galaxy.

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