Games like Pixel Starships
by SavySoda
Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.
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$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Space · 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
$19.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Oct 24 · Walternate Realities
Both: Sci-fi · Space · 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
$34.99Starbase
Jul 29 · Frozenbyte
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Space Sim · Space
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
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
$9.99Interstellaria
Jul 17 · Coldrice Games LLC
Both: Space · Pixel Graphics · Sci-fi
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
SpacePixel GraphicsExplorationDiplomacySci-fiSoundtrackRTSManagementTradingSpace Sim👍 353
-75%$4.99Starcom: Nexus
Dec 12 · Wx3 Labs, LLC
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Space Sim
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
SpaceSci-fiRPGExplorationActionAdventureIndieOpen WorldSpace SimTop-Down👍 2,295
$9.99Gemini Wars
Nov 2 · Camel 101
Both: Space · Base Building · Space Sim
Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.
4XGrand StrategyWargameSpaceWarBase BuildingReal-TimeRTSSpace SimStrategy👍 141
$19.99PULSAR: Lost Colony
Jun 22 · Leafy Games
Both: Space Sim · Space · 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
-90%$1.99Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Feb 25 · Radiation Blue
Both: Sci-fi · Base Building · Space Sim
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Sci-fiAction RoguelikeFPSBase BuildingOpen WorldRogueliteManagementHorrorBuildingSpace Sim👍 1,567
$14.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Sep 29 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Pixel Graphics
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
StrategyIndieSimulationSpaceRTSReal-Time with PauseSci-fi2DSingleplayerPixel Graphics👍 1,198
$5.99Phantom Signal — Sci-Fi Strategy Game
Jan 16 · Veslo Games
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Space Sim
Phantom Signal is a real-time sci-fi strategy game with unusual mechanics. Explore mysterious star systems and reveal the secret of the phantom signal.
StrategyCasualSimulationTower DefenseSpaceSci-fiIndieSingleplayerSpace SimRTS👍 134
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Space · 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
$9.99Flotilla
Apr 29 · Blendo Games
Both: Sci-fi · Space Sim
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
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Space · Base Building · Space Sim
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
$29.99Stardeus
Oct 12 · Kodo Linija
Both: Base Building · Space · Sci-fi
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Early AccessExplorationColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalSpaceStrategySci-fiResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 1,431
$4.99X2: The Threat
Jul 21 · Egosoft
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Space Sim
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
SpaceStrategySimulationSci-fiSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomySpace SimSandboxTrading👍 444
$5.99Space industrial empire
May 24 · 游戏养家工作室
Both: Automation · Space
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
AutomationSpaceIndieManagementIdlerStrategyLootCasualSingleplayerWord Game👍 1,022
$4.99Hexfactory
Aug 24 · Aquila Industrial
Both: Space Sim · Automation · Space
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