X2: The Threat
Fly one small ship across a huge open universe, trade, mine and build factories, and grow it into an empire of your own.
83% of 447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99
Games like X3: Reunion
If X3: Reunion scratched a retro and replayable itch for you, keep reading. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
X2: The Threat
A space sim with a story about Julian Gardna, but the real game is the universe itself: over 130 sectors to explore, 60 ships to fly, asteroids to mine and factories to build. Start with one small ship and a thin wallet, end up running a trading empire, or hunting the Khaak. It takes patience to learn, and it pays you back for years.
Also in Tycoon · Retro, Replayable
83% of 447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99Evochron Legacy SE
Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.
Replayable
82% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Space 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.
Also in Tycoon · Retro, Replayable
67% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5FreeEvochron Mercenary
The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.
Retro, Replayable
75% of 403 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Rebel 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.
Retro, Replayable
85% of 7,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$19.99Elite Dangerous
Command your own starship in a 1:1 recreation of the Milky Way with 400 billion systems. Trade, mine, fight, smuggle, and explore, then outfit one of over 35 ships to match the pilot you want to be.
Replayable
76% of 82,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,137$19.99Unending Galaxy
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
Retro, Replayable
60% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Void 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. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Replayable
79% of 655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99SpaceBourne 2
SpaceBourne 2 is a single-player open-universe RPG where you build an empire your way: fly, fight, mine, trade, run a faction and take over the galaxy. Tens of thousands of procedurally generated systems, ground combat, guilds and diplomacy. It is rough around the edges, and ambitious in a way few games dare to be.
Replayable
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$19.99Avorion
Build any ship you can imagine out of blocks, then fly it through a galaxy that gets more dangerous toward its center. Mine, trade, fight pirates or start wars, alone or with friends. Ships break apart exactly where you shoot them, which never stops being satisfying.
Replayable
89% of 13,096 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 549$12.49Interstellar 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. Play how you like in this open world space-sim developed by Pixelfactor.
Replayable
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Fly a gunship, end up ruling a star system. Starpoint Gemini Warlords puts you in the captain's chair of your own warship while you build fleets, conquer territory and grow an empire across Gemini. Lead the charge yourself or let your armada do the work, then do it all differently next time.
Replayable
72% of 3,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$34.99
Cheaper than X3: Reunion
X: Beyond the Frontier
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other…
75% of 298 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$0.99
X: Tension
X-Tension is the eagerly awaited expansion pack to X: Beyond the Frontier.
78% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
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.
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99
Darkstar One
Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice.
83% of 596 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$1.79
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
An epic struggle for control!
79% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
ROD: Revolt Of Defense
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.
80% of 526 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Star Nomad
Explore, trade, fight & plunder in this tribute to classic sandbox spacesims of old.
53% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Settle cities, guide research and diplomacy, and carry your people from the first village to a modern power across maps that never play out the same…
90% of 5,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,019$0.99
Now Man Flies
Travel on an intergalactic highway in search of new planets!
77% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
UFO: Afterlight
The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock.
70% of 372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$1.39
Plancon: Space Conflict
Damn aliens! The choice is: the Universe — or nothing!
34% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$1.04
Hidden gems like X3: Reunion
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
72% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$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.
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$19.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 719$49.99
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
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: 4$19.99
Astrox Imperium
Set up a generated universe, then work your way from a small shuttle to a carrier at whatever pace suits you.
84% of 1,264 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$14.99
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.
79% of 655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Distant Worlds 2
A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 131$49.99
SpaceBourne
Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war.
75% of 780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Avorion
Build a blocky spaceship from scratch and take it into an open galaxy where mining, trading and piracy all pay off, and every battle leaves dents in…
89% of 13,096 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 549$12.49
Newest games like X3: Reunion
Starlathe
Run one small ship through a simulated economy of mining, trade and war, then build stations and grow a fleet with friends in co-op.
88% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$11.99
Starminer
Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.
72% of 1,868 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$29.99
Stellar Wanderer DX
Fight, trade, mine, and explore the galaxy in this old-school space combat simulator. You are a freelance pilot who survived an assassination attempt.
72% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
72% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$19.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 719$49.99
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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.
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99
Distant Worlds 2
A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 131$49.99
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…
67% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Interstellar Rift
Design a starship from the keel up, then take it out to mine, trade and survive in an open galaxy, alone or with a crew of friends.
66% of 1,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99