Best Space Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated space games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Space games on Steam.

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House of the Dying Sun House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Nov 2016
The Survey In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.

Price -55% 2.25€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
WARSHIFT Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Price 8.19€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Oct 2016
Syndrome Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.

Price -92% 1.76€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Oct 2016
Particle Fleet: Emergence 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.

Price -46% 8.15€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2016
Astroflux Play Astroflux - a retro styled, action packed MMO space shooter.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Sep 2016
Children of a Dead Earth The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2016
Stellar Tactics A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with over 160,000 star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 2016
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Sep 2016
Space Rogue Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 15 Sep 2016
Event[0] Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Price -88% 2.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price -95% 0.89€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
Star Crusade CCG Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Sep 2016
Redout: Enhanced Edition Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Sep 2016
The Turing Test The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Price -73% 5.46€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Master of Orion The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Price 20.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
Grow Up Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.

Price -57% 4.33€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Aug 2016
No Man's Sky No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Price -78% 13.06€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Aug 2016
Headlander Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.

Price -97% 0.63€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Jul 2016
Starbound You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Price -86% 2.01€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jul 2016
Polarity Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Jul 2016
Mind Spheres Inspired by two not so different worlds, Mind Spheres brings you an exclusive and awesome experience. A physics puzzle with minigolf + pinball unique mashup. Figure out puzzles in order to proceed to the next level.

Price -96% 0.21€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jul 2016
LEGO® STAR WARS™: The Force Awakens The No. 1 LEGO® videogame franchise triumphantly returns with a fun-filled, humorous journey based on the blockbuster film. The game will also feature brand new story content from the Star Wars Universe that explores the time between Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jun 2016
Space Run Galaxy Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 6.2
Release 17 Jun 2016