Games like The Last Starship
by Introversion Software
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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-50%$9.99Space Engineers
Feb 28 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Building · Space
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSimulationPhysicsOpen WorldMultiplayerBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 102,609
$19.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Oct 24 · Walternate Realities
Both: Sci-fi · Building · Space
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Sci-fiSingleplayerBuildingSpace2DIndieStrategySpace SimExplorationMultiplayer👍 12,019
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · Sandbox · Mining
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
SimulationSpaceIndieAdventureSandboxOpen WorldMiningSpace SimSingleplayerProcedural Generation👍 446
$19.99Interstellar Rift
Sep 24 · Split Polygon
Both: Space Sim · Building · Sandbox
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Space SimBuildingOpen WorldExplorationCraftingSandboxPvPMiningSurvivalFirst-Person👍 1,411
$34.99Starbase
Jul 29 · Frozenbyte
Both: Building · Space Sim · Sandbox
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Open WorldBuildingMassively MultiplayerSpace SimSimulationSandboxSpaceSci-fiActionEarly Access👍 6,219
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Base Building · Space · Sandbox
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
$24.99Starship EVO
Jun 19 · Moonfire Entertainment
Both: Building · Space · Sandbox
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
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Space · Space Sim · Sandbox
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
$14.99Spaceflight Simulator
Feb 17 · Team Curiosity ✦
Both: Sandbox · Space Sim · Space
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
SandboxSpace SimSpaceSimulation2DExplorationSingleplayerScienceCraftingSpaceships👍 9,440
$19.99Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Aug 5 · Eleon Game Studios
Both: Space · Building · Space Sim
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
SimulationCo-opSpaceOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalBuildingOpen WorldExplorationSpace SimSandbox👍 29,209
$14.99StarMade
Dec 4 · Schine GmbH
Both: Space · Sandbox · Building
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
SpaceSandboxOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayerSci-fiVoxelAdventureIndieAction👍 2,199
Dual Universe
Sep 27 · Novaquark
Both: Space Sim · Building · Sci-fi
Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
Massively MultiplayerMMORPGSpace SimBuildingSci-fiVoxelSandboxCity BuilderOpen WorldBase Building👍 533
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
Both: Building · Space Sim · Base Building
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
RTSBuildingSpace SimStrategyBase BuildingSpaceReal-TimeFPSActionSingleplayer👍 1,604
$24.99Cubic Odyssey
May 14 · Atypical Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Sci-fi
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Open World Survival CraftRPGAction-AdventureBase BuildingCo-opSandboxSci-fiBuildingExplorationFirst-Person👍 2,407
-20%$23.99Space Engineers 2
Jan 27 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Building · Space
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSci-fiSimulationPhysicsModdableDestructionOpen World👍 5,102
FreeStarship Theory
May 31 · Reconnect Software
Both: Base Building · Space · Sci-fi
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Base BuildingSimulationStrategySpaceIndieSurvivalManagement2DSci-fiCasual👍 933
$24.99Star Valor
Aug 3 · Rafael Burgos
Both: Space · Sandbox · Mining
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
SpaceSandboxActionRPGLootExplorationOpen WorldMiningTop-Down ShooterSci-fi👍 3,277
$19.99Starship Corporation
May 3 · Coronado Games
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Building
A sci-fi simulation game, in which players must design, assemble and test spaceships, in a bid to build a supreme Galactic Mega-Corporation. Gain your reputation by engineering and selling your own spacecraft, testing them to the limit in RTS missions and simulated emergency and combat situations.
SimulationStrategyIndieManagementSpaceSci-fiBuildingRelaxingEarly Access👍 476