Games like Dual Universe
by Novaquark
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.
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$34.99Starbase
Jul 29 · Frozenbyte
Both: Open World · Building · Massively Multiplayer
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
$14.99StarMade
Dec 4 · Schine GmbH
Both: Sandbox · Open World · 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
$24.99Avorion
Mar 9 · Boxelware
Both: Sandbox · Space Sim · Building
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
SandboxExplorationSpace SimBuildingSpaceOpen WorldFlightPvEChoose Your Own Adventure3D👍 13,003
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Space Sim
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$24.99Starship EVO
Jun 19 · Moonfire Entertainment
Both: Building · Sandbox · 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
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Open World · 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
$19.99Boundless
Sep 11 · Monumental, LLC
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Sandbox · Open World
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Open World Survival CraftMassively MultiplayerSandboxOpen WorldCraftingVoxelBuildingAdventureRPGSurvival👍 1,611
Worlds Adrift
May 24 · Bossa Studios
Both: Open World · Massively Multiplayer · Sandbox
We're tired of endless grinding, mini-maps and predetermined fun. That's why we intend to redefine MMOs and empower our players to find their own destiny, write their own stories, and leave a lasting impression on the world they helped us create. How will you impact it and what will your legacy be?
Open WorldMassively MultiplayerCraftingExplorationSurvivalAdventureSandboxPhysicsMultiplayerPvP👍 4,158
$29.99Myth of Empires
Feb 21 · Angela Game
Both: Building · Sandbox · MMORPG
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxMMORPGOpen WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerWarCharacter Customization👍 15,523
$19.99Interstellar Rift
Sep 24 · Split Polygon
Both: Space Sim · Building · Open World
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
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · Base Building · City Builder
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
FreeStarfighter General
Nov 21 · James Sager III, Steve Reynolds, Lokesh Dhanger
Both: Space Sim · Sci-fi · Massively Multiplayer
Space ACTION-MMO. Control & upgrade more than one ship. Build a fleet! Turn a rag tag team into an armada. Aliens build relationships. Crew/attributes/skills/mastery/magic(legendary/unilegendary/unique)items. WORLD FIRST: Multicore MMO & INFINITE PLAYERS! Soon: Conquer star systems & Tax Players.
Space SimSpaceSci-fiMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerRPGAliensBase BuildingMMORPGScience
-50%$9.99Space Engineers
Feb 28 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Building · Open World
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
$19.99Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Aug 5 · Eleon Game Studios
Both: Building · Open World · 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
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Base Building · Building · Sandbox
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
FreeEVE Online
Dec 15 · Fenris Creations
Both: Space Sim · Open World · Sandbox
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Space SimExplorationOpen WorldAdventureDifficultSpaceSimulationTradingSandboxMassively Multiplayer👍 7,803
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Sandbox · Building
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$19.99Dyson Sphere Program
Jan 20 · Youthcat Studio
Both: Base Building · Building · Open World
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementOpen WorldSimulationSci-fiManagementSandbox👍 83,546
$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Sandbox · Base Building · Sci-fi
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!
StrategySandboxSpaceSimulationSingleplayerBase BuildingSci-fiSpace SimBuildingMining👍 1,625
$29.99X Rebirth
Nov 15 · Egosoft
Both: Sci-fi · Space Sim · Sandbox
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
SimulationSpaceSci-fiActionSpace SimSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomyTrading👍 5,156
$19.99Elite Dangerous
Apr 2 · Frontier Developments
Both: Space Sim · Open World · Sci-fi
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Space SimSpaceOpen WorldExplorationSci-fiSimulationMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerVRFirst-Person👍 82,421
$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
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: City Builder · Building · Base Building
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
ManagementSpaceTower DefenseCity BuilderColony SimBuildingCraftingEconomyBase BuildingSpace Sim👍 190
$7.99Voxel Turf
Sep 13 · L Twigger
Both: Sandbox · Voxel · Open World
Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!
ActionSimulationSandboxStrategyIndieVoxelOpen WorldMultiplayerCity BuilderBuilding👍 524
$29.99ASTRONEER
Feb 5 · System Era Softworks
Both: Open World · Base Building · Sandbox
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldSpaceSurvivalExplorationBase BuildingCo-opSandboxAdventure👍 118,872
$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Base Building · Open World · Building
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 3,277
$9.99Void Destroyer 2
Feb 6 · Iteration 11
Both: Space Sim · Open World · Sandbox
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.
Space SimOpen WorldSandboxActionStrategySimulation4XSpaceSci-fiIndie👍 652
$19.99Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
Mar 26 · Tomas Sala
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Open World
Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.
CasualProcedural GenerationMinimalistCity BuilderExperimentalBase BuildingOpen WorldBuildingSandboxSteampunk👍 1,381
$14.99Reassembly
Feb 19 · Anisoptera Games
Both: Building · Sandbox · Open World
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
BuildingSpaceSandboxStrategy2DActionIndieSingleplayerTop-DownOpen World👍 3,611
$14.99Keplerth
May 23 · TARO
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Building
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
SandboxAdventureExplorationSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingSci-fiCasualRPGMultiplayer👍 3,698
$19.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Oct 24 · Walternate Realities
Both: Sci-fi · Building · Space Sim
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
$19.99Final Upgrade
Dec 6 · TaosX
Both: Base Building · Building · Sci-fi
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementSimulationSci-fiManagementSandboxStrategy👍 437
CSC | Space MMO
Sep 3 · Lucid Sight, Inc.
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Sandbox · Sci-fi
CSC is a casual space MMO with fast-paced combat, a robust player economy, and an uncapped crafting system. CSC is a game in active development.
Massively MultiplayerSpaceSandboxSci-fiMMORPGOpen WorldIndieFree to PlaySpace SimSpaceships
$24.99TerraTech
Aug 10 · Payload Studios
Both: Building · Sandbox · Open World
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
BuildingSandboxOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftRobotsMultiplayerCraftingActionSurvivalAdventure👍 20,575
Tree of Life
Aug 17 · OddOneGames
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Sandbox · Open World
Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMassively MultiplayerSandboxOpen WorldBuildingRPGCraftingIndieCo-op👍 5,131
$9.99Kinetic Void
Nov 21 · Badland Studio
Both: Sandbox · Sci-fi · Building
Kinetic Void is a 3D space adventure with a focus on customization and enjoyable space simulation. The shipyard allows players to construct their ship piece by piece. Ships can be as simplistic as a cockpit, a hull, a engine and a gun, or as complex as a player wants.
SpaceSimulationIndieActionSandboxSci-fiSingleplayerBuildingSpace SimAdventure👍 1,384
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Open World
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029
$19.99Nova Lands
Jun 22 · BEHEMUTT
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Open World
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
AutomationBase BuildingSandboxAdventureOpen World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsResource ManagementSurvivalRobotsOpen World👍 2,512
-20%$23.99Space Engineers 2
Jan 27 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Building · Sci-fi
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
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Space Sim
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
$29.99The Riftbreaker
Oct 14 · EXOR Studios
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Base BuildingOnline Co-OpMultiplayerTower DefenseSurvivalAction RPGHack and SlashExplorationSandboxBuilding👍 22,140
$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Open World · Building · Base Building
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingCraftingExplorationBase BuildingCo-op👍 214
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,638
$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
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Open World
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$9.99ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21 · Kodera Software
Both: Sci-fi · Space Sim · Open World
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
SpaceSci-fiPhysicsSingleplayerExplorationTop-DownSpace SimImmersive SimVehicular CombatOpen World👍 2,883
Osiris: New Dawn
Jan 18 · Fenix Fire Entertainment
Both: Open World · Sci-fi · Building
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Open World Survival CraftHorrorSurvivalSpaceOpen WorldMultiplayerSci-fiBuildingAdventureCrafting👍 13,081
$4.99Hexfactory
Aug 24 · Aquila Industrial
Both: City Builder · Space Sim · Building
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
SimulationCity BuilderColony SimSpace SimExploration3D Platformer3DAutomationBuildingSpace
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Space Sim · Sandbox
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Base Building · Building · Open World
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$12.99FortressCraft Evolved!
Nov 9 · ProjectorGames
Both: Sandbox · Building · Base Building
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Open World Survival CraftAutomationSandboxCraftingBuildingSurvivalIndieStrategyBase BuildingAdventure👍 2,653
$34.99IXION
Dec 7 · Bulwark Studios
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Building
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
SpaceCity BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSimulationExploration👍 15,288

