Games like Crying Suns

Chasing that replayable and dark feeling you got from Crying Suns? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

FTL: Faster Than Light
Command a small starship carrying vital information across a randomly generated galaxy. You route power, aim weapons, vent airlocks, and decide who lives. Losing means starting over, which makes every jump tense and every win feel earned.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
94% of 63,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,111$9.99
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Lead a ragtag fleet of survivors through the wreckage of the Twelve Colonies, hunted by a Cylon force you cannot beat, only outrun. Manage crises, root out infiltrators and fight for every FTL jump in this tense, story-rich roguelite where most runs end badly and every one plays out differently.
Replayable, Dark, Story-driven
76% of 1,101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$12.49
Space Rogue
Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.
Replayable, Retro
61% of 396 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Trigon: Space Story
Take command of your own spaceship in a sci-fi roguelike where every run plays out differently. Fight tactical space battles with up to 100 weapons, keep a skilled crew alive, make choices with real consequences, and find out what kind of captain you become when death is permanent.
Replayable, Story-driven
67% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Void War
Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire. You juggle weapons, modules, and reactor power, stack artifacts into sharp combos, and send a crew of cultists, deserters, and worse into bloody boarding fights. Every run tells a new story, and none of them forgive mistakes.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
94% of 3,788 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$19.99
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, Story-driven
75% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX
Replayable
63% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Nonentity Galaxy
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.
Replayable, Dark, Story-driven
94% of 593 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Galaxy Squad
Galaxy squad is a hardcore turn-based tactical roguelike, inspired by FTL and XCOM.
Replayable
74% of 385 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Star Souls
One by one, the stars begin to die without reason. Thousands of inhabited worlds are turned to dust. You and your crew must find “the Transition”, your last desperate hope to find new worlds. Assemble your fleet, customize your spaceships and fight for the salvation of all intelligent life!
Replayable, Dark, Story-driven
75% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Shortest Trip to Earth
A roguelike spaceship sim about a long way home: manage crew, modules, food and a cat, fight real-time tactical battles with a pause button, and steer through hundreds of strange events in a procedurally generated universe. Permadeath is unforgiving, every run plays out differently, and the journey is desperate, improvised and worth every loss.
Replayable, Retro
75% of 1,262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$25.99
Ceres
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
Dark, Story-driven
51% of 130 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Crying Suns

FTL: Faster Than Light

Run a starship through a hostile galaxy, where one bad decision can end the flight and every new attempt plays out differently.

$9.99

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

Guide a fleeing fleet of survivors across the ruins of the Twelve Colonies, one desperate FTL jump at a time.

$12.49

Space Rogue

Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles.

$9.99

Trigon: Space Story

Command a spaceship, fight tactical battles, and make the calls that decide whether your crew survives.

$19.99

Void War

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

$19.99

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes…

$9.99

Nonentity Galaxy

Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your…

$7.99

Galaxy Squad

Galaxy squad is a hardcore turn-based tactical roguelike, inspired by FTL and XCOM.

$9.99

Star Souls

One by one, the stars begin to die without reason. Thousands of inhabited worlds are turned to dust.

$7.99

Ceres

Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat.

$19.99

Duskers

Pilot drones into dead spaceships by typing commands into a terminal, scavenge fuel and parts to keep your own ship alive, and piece together why…

$19.99

Approaching Infinity

Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space roguelike where you captain a starship through a procedurally generated galaxy.

$17.99

Hidden gems like Crying Suns

Nonentity Galaxy

Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your…

$7.99

Approaching Infinity

Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space roguelike where you captain a starship through a procedurally generated galaxy.

$17.99

Void War

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

$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.

$24.99

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

Guide a fleeing fleet of survivors across the ruins of the Twelve Colonies, one desperate FTL jump at a time.

$12.49

Starless Abyss

Earth has fallen. Science and the Occult have united forces to brace for the arrival of the Eldritch.

$6.99

Deck & Conn

Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.

$14.99

Breachway

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

$19.99

The Captain

In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies.

$19.99

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

Dust Fleet

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

$19.99

Games like Crying Suns

Cheaper than Crying Suns

Hidden gems like Crying Suns

Newest games like Crying Suns