Games like Ceres

If Ceres left you wanting something tense and fast-paced, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
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.
Tense, Fast-paced
65% of 489 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
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.
Tense, Story-driven
75% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
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.
Tense, Fast-paced
73% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Stellar Tactics
A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems. Turn-based ground combat in the classic style, ships to customize, board and capture, mining, trading and a galaxy slowly eaten by a disease called Phage. Big, slow, old-fashioned and generous with your time.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Design starships piece by piece, staff them with crews of individually simulated people, and send them into physics-driven battles where every module can be blown off the hull. Explore a procedurally generated galaxy alone or with friends, test your designs in online PvP, or build without limits in Creative Mode.
Tense
94% of 12,130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
Rebel Galaxy
Rebel Galaxy puts you at the helm of a hulking star destroyer at the edge of the known universe. Trade, mine, hunt pirates and settle scores with broadsides instead of dogfights, all wrapped in a blues-rock soundtrack and a colorful space western atmosphere. It's a space sim that skips the spreadsheets and gets straight to the fun.
Tense, Fast-paced
85% of 7,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Interstellaria
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
Tense, Story-driven
53% of 352 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Jitter
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.
Tense, Mysterious
84% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Starpoint Gemini 2
Take the helm of your own ship in the Gemini system, a war-scarred corner of space where fifty factions fight over trade routes and the Empire guards a gate it fears. A tactical space sim with real RPG depth: level up, upgrade one of 70+ ships, trade, mine, hunt bounties or turn pirate in a huge open galaxy.
Tense, Story-driven
70% of 3,022 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$34.99
SpaceBourne
Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.
Tense, Mysterious
75% of 779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Objects in Space
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
Tense
51% of 571 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Space Impossible
Take control of a fully destructible spaceship and explore, blast or trade your way through the cosmos, alone or with friends. Every tile matters, as you dogfight, maneuver or speed your way past friendly traders, hostile aliens, and impressive space navies. What will you do, Captain?
Tense
94% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$12.99

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Interstellaria

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers.

$9.99

Jitter

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.

$9.99

SpaceBourne

Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war.

$14.99

Space Impossible

Take control of a fully destructible spaceship and explore, blast or trade your way through the cosmos, alone or with friends.

$12.99

Space Pirates and Zombies

Command a scrappy fleet across a fresh star map every run, fighting physics-driven ship battles while a plague spreads behind you.

$9.99

Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system.

$9.99

Interstellar Pilot 2

The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.

$0.99

Event Horizon

Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.

$5.99

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties.

$4.99

Void Destroyer 2

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire.

$9.99

VoidExpanse

Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive…

$14.99

Cosmonautica

Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Ceres

Sector Space

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…

$7.49

Jitter

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.

$9.99

Stellar Tactics

A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.

$24.99

The Last Starship

Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.

$19.99

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.

$24.99

Starminer

Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.

$29.99

Space Reign

An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.

$19.99

Interstellar Pilot 2

The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.

$0.99

SpaceBourne 2

Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.

$19.99

Between the Stars

Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.

$29.99

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.

$19.99

Dust Fleet

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.

$19.99

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