Best Space Sim Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated space sim games.

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Underspace The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2024
Dune: Imperium The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.

Price 22.54€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Mar 2024
Between the Stars Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.

Price -99% 0.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Mar 2024
Sputnika Game A Cosmic twist on a Suika-style game with space gravity. Help our little friend Sputnik on his journey to become the Sun.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Feb 2024
Executive Assault 2 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.

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Oct 2023
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!

Price -98% 0.79€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Sep 2023
Beam Eye Tracker Enjoy more immersion in hundreds of PC games. Works with your webcam or phone, no extra hardware needed. Free demo.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Aug 2023
BattleGroupVR BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2023
ΔV: Rings of Saturn 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.

Price -87% 1.14€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jul 2023
EarthX EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2023
Lightracer Spark Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.

Price -30% 8.95€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Apr 2023
Industries of Titan Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Price -50% 14.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 31 Jan 2023
Juno: New Origins Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2023
Stars End Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Price -98% 0.51€
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Jan 2023
Tower! Simulator 3 Immerse yourself in an ultra-realistic environment that brings the challenges of air traffic control right to your fingertips. With brand-new lighting system, intuitive 2D graphical user interface (GUI), improved voice recognition, 9 airports included, Tower! Sim 3 sets a new gold standard.

Price 49.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Dec 2022
Final Upgrade 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!

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Dec 2022
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander 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!

Price -30% 13.29€
Rating 9.2
Release 24 Oct 2022
Stardeus 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.

Price -2% 29.43€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2022
Marauders Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

Price -52% 14.43€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Oct 2022
The Final Earth 2 The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Price -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Jul 2022
Redout 2 The fastest racing game in the universe. Redout 2 is a tribute to classic arcade racing games and the sequel to the critically acclaimed Redout. Reach impossible speeds in exhilarating futuristic races across an extensive single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jun 2022
Flight Of Nova Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 May 2022
Fly Dangerous Extremely high skill-ceiling 6dof flight racing in a variety of environments with leaderboards, multiplayer and VR support

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 24 May 2022
Hardspace: Shipbreaker Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Price -99% 0.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 May 2022
Tin Can You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 May 2022
Prosperous Universe In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Apr 2022
Spaceflight Simulator In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Feb 2022
Frontier Pilot Simulator FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 07 Dec 2021
Chorus Take control of Nara on a quest to destroy the dark cult that created her. Unlock devastating weapons & mind-bending abilities in an evolution of the space-combat shooter. Along with Forsaken, her sentient starfighter, explore ancient temples, engage in zero-g combat & venture beyond waking reality.

Price -96% 1.17€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Dec 2021
Exo One A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.

Price -75% 4.12€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Nov 2021
Deep Space Battle Simulator Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle. Customize your ship, control its movement, weapons, and energy distribution or go to one of the hangars to join the battle in a smaller fighter!

Price -89% 1.10€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Nov 2021
First Class Trouble First Class Trouble is a party game where players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. The goal is to shut down a deadly A.I. Some players are impostors, secretly playing as human-looking killer robots intent on betraying the other players.

Price -92% 1.19€
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Nov 2021
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Oct 2021
Fractal Block World This is a surreal exploration game. Explore a massive fractal with great complexities. You can shrink infinitely to go deeper into the fractal. Or you can become larger by growing. Inner space awaits you in this infinite world.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Oct 2021
Starmancer From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2021
The Fermi Paradox The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Jul 2021

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