Games like The Captain
by Sysiac Games
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. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
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$19.99Star Control®: Origins
Sep 20 · Stardock Entertainment
Both: Third Person
Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
FunnyStory RichChoices MatterThird PersonShooterThird-Person ShooterExplorationCompetitiveAction-AdventureDark Humor👍 2,068
$14.99Heat Signature
Sep 21 · Suspicious Developments
Both: Sci-fi
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
SpaceStealthIndieTop-DownRoguelikeActionStrategySci-fiProcedural GenerationReal-Time with Pause👍 6,851
-50%$4.9960 Parsecs!
Sep 18 · Robot Gentleman
Both: Sci-fi · Comedy
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Turn-Based StrategyText-BasedFunnyDark HumorSci-fiManagementLGBTQ+Turn-Based TacticsExplorationComedy👍 3,310
Mass Effect 2 (2010 Edition)
· BioWare
Both: Sci-fi
Are you prepared to lose everything to save the galaxy? You'll need to be, Commander Shepard. It's time to bring together your greatest allies and recruit the galaxy's fighting elite to continue the resistance against the invading Reapers.
RPGSci-fiStory RichThird-Person ShooterActionSpaceSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackChoices MatterAdventure👍 13,315
$19.99PULSAR: Lost Colony
Jun 22 · Leafy Games
Both: Sci-fi
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Space SimOpen WorldCo-opSimulationFirst-PersonPvESpaceExplorationSci-fiMultiplayer👍 4,409
$49.99Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Dec 7 · Owlcat Games
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
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$9.99The Long Journey Home
May 30 · Daedalic Studio West
Both: Sci-fi
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. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?
SimulationStrategyRPGIndieSpaceExplorationRoguelikeSci-fiSurvivalProcedural Generation👍 1,330
$24.99Starship EVO
Jun 19 · Moonfire Entertainment
Both: Sci-fi
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
IndieActionSimulationBuildingSpaceAdventureSandboxSci-fiOpen WorldEarly Access👍 1,322
$19.99Into the Stars
Mar 4 · Fugitive Games
Both: Sci-fi
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
SimulationStrategySpaceIndieAdventureSurvivalActionRoguelikeEarly AccessSci-fi👍 398
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Sci-fi
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
SpaceSimulationOpen WorldSpace SimExplorationSandboxSci-fi4XStrategyEconomy👍 25,274
$19.99This Means Warp
May 4 · Outlier
Both: Sci-fi
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.
SurvivalOnline Co-OpSpaceCo-opMultiplayerTop-DownSci-fiLocal MultiplayerRogueliteCo-op Campaign👍 438
$14.993030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
Sep 13 · Bird in Sky
Both: Sci-fi
3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.
AdventureIndieSpaceActionSimulationOpen WorldSci-fi2DExplorationSandbox👍 1,057
$9.99Flotilla
Apr 29 · Blendo Games
Both: Sci-fi
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
StrategyRogueliteExplorationTurn-BasedSci-fiFunnySpace SimRoguelike3DStory Rich👍 202
$14.99Pixel Privateers
Feb 21 · Quadro Delta
Both: Sci-fi
Pixel Privateers is a Squad Based Tactical RPG “Loot ‘Em Up” that will send your team of mercenaries through a mysterious wormhole on a quest to gather technology for your employer. An entire galaxy awaits - full of worlds to explore, factions to encounter, and epic gear to collect!
RPGIndieActionAdventureSimulationPixel GraphicsLoot2DCo-opSci-fi👍 813
$14.99Warp Frontier
Sep 28 · Brawsome
Both: Point & Click · Sci-fi
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.
AdventurePoint & Click2DHand-drawnRealisticDetectiveDark HumorEmotionalFuturisticSci-fi
-60%$15.99Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Nov 9 · Iron Tower Studio
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Turn-BasedChoices MatterTactical RPGCRPGParty-Based RPGRPGTurn-Based TacticsIsometricCyberpunkTurn-Based Strategy👍 4,104

