Best Space 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 games.

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Captain Forever Remix Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Jun 2016
Aurora Nights Aurora Nights is an entertaining educational game for learning to identify the constellations.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 May 2016
Survive in Space The game is spread over 50 different levels, and Sasaki must fight through them all to redeem his people. The game features five powerful bosses that you will encounter at the end of each sector – every nine levels. Each boss is a skill puzzle of his own, with shifting mechanics and environments that will keep you on your toes.

Price -99% 0.40€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 May 2016
Duskers Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Price -97% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 May 2016
Stellaris Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Price -81% 9.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 09 May 2016
Istrolid In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 May 2016
Star Saviors Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 May 2016
Gun Rocket If you are not prepared for a challenge - turn back now. Gun Rocket is a 2D physics arcade game that is not for the feint of heart or the stiff of fingers. In search of adventure, you have been caught by holes in space and time. Can you escape?

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 6.9
Release 02 May 2016
Offworld Trading Company Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Price -97% 1.03€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Apr 2016
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.

Price -51% 7.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Apr 2016
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 21 Apr 2016
ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA First appearing in arcades in 1981, the masterpiece GALAGA finally comes to Steam! Move the fighter left and right and destroy the waves of incoming aliens!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Apr 2016
Battlezone 98 Redux One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.

Price -95% 1.01€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Apr 2016
Spaceport Hope A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.

Price 2.09€
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Apr 2016
Ascent - The Space Game Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Apr 2016
Apollo 11 VR Apollo 11 VR is the story of the greatest journey ever taken by humankind. This VR experience is a recreation of the events which took place between July 16th and July 24th 1969. Now for the first time ever you get to experience this historic event through the eyes of those who lived through it.

Price 9.69€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Apr 2016
STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D It is a time of great rejoicing in the galaxy. Luke Skywalker, with the help of Wedge Antilles, has blown up the Death Star. But there is little time to celebrate. The mighty Empire is gathering strength for a determined, all-out assault on the Rebel forces.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Mar 2016
Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Eat rats, dinosaurs, gladiators, samurai, pyramids, volcanoes... Everything! Soon you'll be eating the entire planet.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Mar 2016
1993 Space Machine Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
Samorost 3 Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Price -91% 1.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Mar 2016
Polaris Sector Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

Price -66% 13.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Mar 2016
Defy Gravity Extended Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Price -79% 0.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2016
Out There Somewhere You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Price -89% 1.10€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Mar 2016
Star Realms Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Mar 2016
Overload Playable Teaser 3.0 A playable demo of the game Overload, a new six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent. Version 3.0 is from April 2018.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Mar 2016
Chicken Invaders 2 Just when you thought it was safe to eat chicken again, the chickens have returned with an organized invasion to take over the entire solar system! Journey to each planet and fight your way through to save the world (again)!

Price -59% 2.07€
Rating 9.0
Release 04 Mar 2016
Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life. Her only hope lies in trusting those who she has come to regard as her friends.

Price -82% 0.36€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Mar 2016
Sunrider: Liberation Day - Captain's Edition Liberation Day will come... but you will be betrayed. Experience the stunning continuation of Sunrider Mask of Arcadius in this hardcore turn based tactics game with heavy story elements.

Price -80% 4.90€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Mar 2016
Master of Orion 2 Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.

Price 5.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 Feb 2016
Master of Orion 1 Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Feb 2016
Asteroid Bounty Hunter Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter mixed with interesting boss fights and breathtaking visuals, with a reward system to take your skill to another level.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 6.3
Release 24 Feb 2016
Battlevoid: Harbinger Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Feb 2016
Pixel Puzzles 2: Space Pixel Puzzles 2: Space is a traditional style jigsaw puzzle game in a universal style, each piece uniquely shaped like no physical puzzle could be.

Price -91% 0.47€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Feb 2016
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls 2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.

Price 27.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 11 Feb 2016
Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis Still reeling from the life-changing events of the previous episode, Gail seeks out a safe haven with her father in the Delta Pavonis system. However, she soon learns that the politics of Planet Leto can be as treacherous and unpredictable as the local weather.

Price -90% 0.20€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Feb 2016
Bit Blaster XL Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 Jan 2016

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