Games like Farlight Commanders

Loved how retro and tense Farlight Commanders can get? Give these games a try when the craving hits. Most of them work well for a shared session.

PULSAR: Lost Colony
Run a starship with your friends in a randomized galaxy falling apart at the seams. Five roles, one ship, endless decisions: pilot, reroute power, hack enemy systems, fire the nukes. Best with a crew, playable solo with bots.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced
89% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$19.99
Lost Fleet
Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced
60% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Spaceship Commander
Fight in space or on the planets, or just travel the universe. Visit cities and buildings, mine resources, trade with or speak to individuals on the planets. Explore and discover. Buy a new ship, fit upgrades, and hire a whole army of crew!
Retro, Tense
60% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Space Defender: Frontier Squadron
A top-down space shooter with real RPG depth: fly a voiced, four-act war story, fit lasers, railguns and shields around your ship's power grid, lead wingmen into battle and decide the fate of four pirate captains. Solo or with a friend on a second controller, the frontier is yours to hold.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
95% of 160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$6.99
Spaceship Hunters
Spaceship Hunters is a chaotic couch co-op shoot-em-up for 4 players. Working as a crew, fight your way through the worst criminals the universe has to offer.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Jump Space
Jump Space puts you and up to three friends in the crew of a spaceship. Fly it, repair it, space walk to an enemy hull, then jetpack down to a planet, all without a loading screen. Missions mix hand-crafted objectives with random twists, so no two runs play out the same. Bring a crew, or fly solo with your AI buddy.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced
85% of 11,497 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 186$19.99
Void Crew
Pilot the ship, man the turrets, patch the hull and keep the power on while asteroids, aliens and your friends' mistakes pile up. Chaos, space battles and one very busy spaceship await.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced, Colorful
86% of 6,604 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 146$24.99
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.
Retro
67% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
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!
Also in Co-op · Tense
78% of 357 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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
This Means Warp
It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced, Colorful
71% of 439 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Undercrewed
Grab your friends and build and fly your own customisable spaceship. With local and online co-op customise your spacecraft with a wide variety of components, you must work together to figure out the best way to survive your journey!
Also in Co-op · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
59% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Farlight Commanders

Space Defender: Frontier Squadron

Fly a four-act space war, build your ship around its power grid, and steer the frontier toward one of several endings, alone or with a friend.

$6.99

Spaceship Hunters

Spaceship Hunters is a chaotic couch co-op shoot-em-up for 4 players.

$5.99

Deep Space Battle Simulator

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

$1.99

Stellar Embers: United Fleet

You fly a ten-thousand-ton flagship that steers like it means it, with escorts at your back and dying stars ahead.

$4.99

Icarus Starship Command Simulator

In this "starship command simulator" you will fight your way to the center of a randomly generated galaxy where a massive star is about to go…

$3.99

Fairspace

Fairspace is an amateur developed open-ended space exploration, trading and combat game. A full and rich persistent universe awaits your discovery.

$8.99

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Run a starship under fire, juggling engines, turrets and fires while losses send fresh recruits straight into the fight.

$2.39

Event Horizon

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

$5.99

SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance

SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance is a cooperative twin-stick shooter that features a variety of complementing ship classes to choose from.

$3.99

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

Space Battlecruiser

Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship.

$4.99

Stellar outpost commander

Real-time strategy game with commander task control. Pilots-Mercenary, each with their own character, and many unique ships for them.

$8.99

Hidden gems like Farlight Commanders

Space Defender: Frontier Squadron

Fly a four-act space war, build your ship around its power grid, and steer the frontier toward one of several endings, alone or with a friend.

$6.99

Void War

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

$19.99

Space Reign

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

$19.99

Void Crew

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

$24.99

Jump Space

Fly, repair and fight from a living spaceship, with room for three friends or an AI crewmate at your side.

$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