Space PC Games | Exploration, Building and Combat Ranked
Space games share a setting and little else. Some have you design and pilot your own ship; others land you on planets to gather resources, command fleets in battle, or manage the people inside a station. What they share is scale, and the time it takes to handle it. The list favours titles with steady ratings and fewer reviews. Titles that are not flashy but played for years are common in this corner. Sunshine Heavy Industries and The Final Earth 2, for example, hold a steady rating with fewer than 500 reviews.
3,097 titles match. 548 of them hold a steady rating on 10–500 reviews, 581 support Japanese, and 411 are free.
1,483 titles (10–500 reviews, by rating)
Fishing The Sky: Catch Unknown Creatures in Mutated Clouds6/7$3.9940% positive 10fishingidlercollectathonincrementalcreature-collectorS
LSD Dream Emulator: Liminal Spaces – Explore Psychedelic Dream Worlds1/22$2.9940% positive 10retroexplorationpsychedelicwalking-simulatorsurrealS
Space Panic Arena: VR Sci-Fi Shooter with Horde Mode8/4$7.9940% positive 10vrmultiplayerearly-accessactionspaceS
Star Runaway: Dodge Asteroids in an Infinite Space Journey9/19$199.9940% positive 10actionaction-roguelike2d-platformer2dspaceS
Tachyon Wars: Command Your Fleet in a 4X Space Strategy Epic4/13$9.9940% positive 10strategyspace4xsci-figrand-strategyS
Mogic: Pilot Your Spaceship Through Cosmic Gold Runs4/3$0.9931% positive 26indiecasualspacesci-fithird-personS
Gold Rush In The Oort Cloud: Mine, Shoot, Survive in Space7/5$2.9932% positive 22actionplatformershooterspacesci-fiS
Lords of the Black Sun: Conquer the Galaxy in a Turn-Based 4X Strategy9/12$24.9920% positive 395strategy4xindiespaceturn-basedS
Terran: Galactic Strategy Meets Third-Person Shooter Action3/21$8.9933% positive 15indiestrategyactionspacesci-fiS
Planetes: Survive, Build, and Explore the Cosmos8/28$9.9927% positive 26indieearly-accessactioncasualrpgS
Citizens: On Mars - Build Your Colony on the Red Planet10/25$2.49-50%33% positive 12city-buildercolony-simsandboxeconomymanagementS
Alien Abduction Experience PC HD: Uncover the Truth11/18$0.9931% positive 13vrcasualadventurerpgidlerS
Beyond the Mind: A Relaxing Space Adventure with Riddles7/5$0.9931% positive 13indiecasualadventurespaceS
THOSE DAMN ALIENS! VR: Survive the Sci-Fi Invasion2/15$7.9931% positive 13actionadventureindiecasualvrS
Starlight Inception™: Pilot a Starfighter in World War IV4/22$9.9921% positive 62actionsimulationindiespacesci-fiS
FleetCOMM: Tactical Squadron Combat in a Sci-Fi Shooter5/24$9.9924% positive 29strategyactionindiespaceshooterS
Space Puzzle: Assemble Cosmic Visions in 30 Challenging Levels6/12$9.9929% positive 14singleplayerpuzzlecasualspacecolorfulS
Zeppelin: Escape Room - Unravel Mars Mysteries with Friends2/12$1.9927% positive 15co-opmultiplayersingleplayersci-fimysteryS
Caffeine: A First-Person Psychological Horror Adventure in Space10/12$10.9919% positive 53adventureindiefirst-personhorrorpsychological-horrorS
Super Space Meltdown: Learn, Die, Repeat in a Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawler7/31$3.9921% positive 29actionindiecasualdungeon-crawlerspaceS
Vortex: Retro Physics Shooter for Local Multiplayer Mayhem7/17$4.9927% positive 11actionindie4-player-locallocal-multiplayersplit-screenS
High Frontier 4 All: Lead Your Spacefaring Company to Solar System Industrialization10/7$19.9922% positive 18strategyboard-gamespaceaction-adventureexplorationS
Leveron Space: First-Person Space Combat and Stealth Missions5/18$0.9923% positive 13strategyactionadventurespaceS
AsteroIdle: Become a Space Miner and Fleet Commander8/11$2.9921% positive 14casualindieincrementalidlerstrategyS
Red Planet: Survive - Open-World Martian Survival9/14$14.9912% positive 49early-accessadventureactionopen-world-survival-craftsurvivalS
Exodus H – Build Your Colonial Spaceship and Save Humanity12/1$18.9918% positive 11multiplayerbase-buildingcolony-simexplorationspaceS
Space Station Continuum: Build and Manage Your Orbital Outpost6/24$14.9911% positive 38simulationindiestrategyspaceearly-accessS
Exo Digger: Mine Your Way to Riches on Planet PX-1736/7$2.49-50%14% positive 14adventuresandboxexplorationdungeon-crawlerhidden-objectS
Galactum Meridian: Chart Humanity's First Steps Beyond Sol9/1$19.9914% positive 14strategysimulation4xindiespaceS
Line Of Defense Tactics: Galactic Command Missions3/17$9.9910% positive 20rpgsci-fistrategyindieactionS
The Light Empire – Command Your Spaceship in a Random Universe12/2$5.998% positive 12singleplayerindiesimulationrpgspaceS
The Moon Relax: Realistic Lunar Survival and Crafting9/1$0.996% positive 17space-simadventureopen-world-survival-craftspacesimulationSRelated genres
Sorted by Wilson score, a rating estimate that accounts for review count. Titles with few reviews are discounted, so '100% on 1 review' never tops the list, while a genuine 90% on 40 reviews rises properly.
