Life of a Space Force Captain
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
85% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Games like The Captain
Remember how retro and story-driven The Captain felt at its best? These games could fill that gap nicely.
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.
Story-driven, Replayable
75% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99Life of a Space Force Captain
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
85% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Dark Scavenger
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
89% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Space Wreck
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability. Inch wide, miles deep - intentionally short yet surprisingly deep.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
88% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$16.99The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFreeStar Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Starstruck Vagabond
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
86% of 563 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Warp Frontier
In the year 2215, orbiting humanity's newest extrasolar colony, Police Captain Vincent Cassini becomes embroiled in an intersystem conspiracy to bury crimes that occurred during the war that devastated his planet.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
86% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$14.99SpaceVenture
A sci-fi comedy adventure game
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
87% of 82 Steam reviews are positive$14.99A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Story-driven, Replayable
76% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Starcom: Nexus
Stranded in an unknown galaxy with nothing but a light survey shuttle, you chart star systems, probe strange planets, befriend or battle aliens and rebuild your ship into a battlecruiser. A hand-crafted space mystery about exploring, upgrading and finding your way home.
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
90% of 2,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99Orion Trail
Dare to travel the absurd and dangerous Orion Trail, where only the luckiest, bravest, and most stubborn captains will make it all the way to the end. Become famously incredible or incredibly dead in this single player choose-your-own-space-adventure!
Retro, Story-driven, Replayable
68% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Cheaper than The Captain
Dark Scavenger
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices.
89% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Space Wreck
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability.
88% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet.
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Warp Frontier
In the year 2215, orbiting humanity's newest extrasolar colony, Police Captain Vincent Cassini becomes embroiled in an intersystem conspiracy to…
86% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Orion Trail
Dare to travel the absurd and dangerous Orion Trail, where only the luckiest, bravest, and most stubborn captains will make it all the way to the end.
68% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Long Journey Home
The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination.
57% of 1,333 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Sky Caravan
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy.
98% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Light Years Apart
A rollicking adventure with pirates, spies, and snarky computers. Trade, sneak, and talk your way past a planetary blockade before it’s too late!
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World
Step into a hilarious, steampunk-tinged point n click space adventure!
83% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Save the Universe, Please!
Take command of the crew of the ESS Shyp, explore planets, and deal with friendship, betrayal and maybe love! It's up to you to Save the Universe!
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like The Captain
Approaching Infinity
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space roguelike where you captain a starship through a procedurally generated galaxy.
94% of 733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
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.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
Starcom: Unknown Space
An action RPG about drifting through a hundred star systems in a ship you built yourself.
92% of 4,515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$24.99
Starstruck Vagabond
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy.
86% of 563 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Beyond Galaxyland
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast…
85% of 317 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Space Wreck
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability.
88% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Voyager is stranded 70,000 light-years from home, and this time the decisions are yours.
78% of 4,291 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$34.99
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
A decade of choices, friendships and first love on a strange planet, lived again and again with every memory intact.
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99
Between the Stars
Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.
75% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Starcom: Nexus
Explore hand-crafted star systems, upgrade your stranded shuttle into a warship and unravel the mystery of how to get home.
90% of 2,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
Fly, trade, salvage and sleuth your way through a war-torn galaxy as luckless space pilot John Falcon.
93% of 1,060 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
60 Parsecs!
Scavenge a doomed station in one frantic minute, then steer your crew through a darkly funny survival run where every choice shapes the ending.
90% of 3,330 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
Newest games like The Captain
Console Space
You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
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.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Voyager is stranded 70,000 light-years from home, and this time the decisions are yours.
78% of 4,291 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$34.99
Void Sails
VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space.
70% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Approaching Infinity
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space roguelike where you captain a starship through a procedurally generated galaxy.
94% of 733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
89% of 856 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Beyond Galaxyland
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast…
85% of 317 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Starcom: Unknown Space
An action RPG about drifting through a hundred star systems in a ship you built yourself.
92% of 4,515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$24.99
The Abandoned Planet
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
94% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Starstruck Vagabond
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy.
86% of 563 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest…
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99