Space Hidden Gems on Steam

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Starward Rogue Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

Price -91% 1.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Jan 2016
Shooting Stars! This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can!

Price -96% 0.20€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jan 2016
Evochron Legacy SE Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.

Price -20% 19.60€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Jan 2016
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -71% 14.22€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation 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.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 30 Nov 2015
Little Big Adventure Little Big Adventure is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1994. Equipped with your Magicball, you will have to face the evil Dr. Funfrock to save your girlfriend and the world of Twinsun.

Price -81% 1.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Oct 2015
Planet of the Eyes An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Aug 2015
RymdResa A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Price -84% 2.07€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Aug 2015
Subspace Continuum THE legendary free online multiplayer space shooter! Addictive, fast-paced, easy to learn, and impossible to master.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Jul 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
SimpleRockets I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.

Price -91% 0.73€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Jun 2015
Quintet A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 11 May 2015
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Price -94% 0.45€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 May 2015
Space Colony: Steam Edition Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Price -90% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
STAR WARS - X-Wing Alliance A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival family who will stop at nothing to destroy your trading company.

Price -65% 3.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Apr 2015
STAR WARS : TIE Fighter Special Edition The Imperial Navy is called upon to eradicate the last of the rebellion and restore law and order. As an Imperial navy starfighter pilot, you will safeguard imperiled lives thoughout the galaxy. Join the Emperor's cause in eliminating the Rebel uprising as the Empire strikes back!

Price -50% 4.87€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Apr 2015
Cosmochoria A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places.

Price -69% 3.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Apr 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
VoidExpanse Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2015
Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -73% 1.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock Crash-landed on a desolate, alien planet, what should've been a routine work-for-hire job for Powell has become a deadly mission to save the merchant vessel Morningstar and her crew.

Price -88% 1.24€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Feb 2015
David. You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price -65% 0.69€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015
Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2015
Echoes+ Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter that will test your reaction and concentration levels to the max!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jan 2015
Verde Station What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Dec 2014
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

Price -97% 1.11€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Oct 2014
STARWHAL The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Price -89% 1.10€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2014
Beyond Gravity Beyond Gravity is procedurally generated "platformer" where you jump in-between planets and try to collect as many pickups as you can. This gets progressively harder the further you jump. No need to worry tho as you can upgrade your character with loads of upgrades and power-ups!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
6180 the moon Simple space, dynamic jump. 6180 the moon offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen.

Price -61% 1.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Sep 2014
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Sep 2014
Halfway Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...

Price -81% 2.47€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Jul 2014
Enemy Mind A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.

Price -60% 3.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Jun 2014
Freespace 2 FreeSpace 2, the follow up to the classic Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is ready to engage you in the second round. Follow the Grand Terran Vasudan Alliance further into the mysteries of the Shivans. Get your flight stick and hit the flight deck. The last time was just a warm up.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Jun 2014
The Last Federation From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2014
Parkan 2 Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the new master of the galaxy. Unforgettable adventures in the Parkan II universe await you!

Price -82% 0.74€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Apr 2014
Drox Operative Drox Operative is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Mac.Eons ago the Drox ruled the galaxy through their mighty Operatives. These elite starship captains were trained to accomplish the impossible at whatever cost necessary.

Price -93% 1.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Feb 2014

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