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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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!

Price 10.25€
Rating 7.4
Release 02 Dec 2011
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

Price -81% 1.95€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Nov 2011
Gemini Rue Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Price -86% 1.16€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Oct 2011
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.

Price -61% 3.95€
Rating 9.4
Release 28 Sep 2011
Supreme Commander For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.

Price -69% 3.15€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Sep 2011
Alien Hallway Players measure stamina with a never-ending stream of green creatures within the borders of a special military mission.

Price -91% 0.46€
Rating 6.2
Release 19 Aug 2011
Space Pirates and Zombies Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Aug 2011
Solar 2 Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Price -91% 0.88€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jun 2011
Red Faction®: Armageddon™ Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Jun 2011
Capsized Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!

Price -26% 7.27€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Apr 2011
LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™ LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will allow fans to explore endlessly and laugh their way through the Star Wars galaxy in the most humorous, accessible and action-packed LEGO game to date.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Mar 2011
SpaceChem Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Price -53% 4.62€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Mar 2011
Dead Space™ 2 Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Jan 2011
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda You are the ultimate weapon with an ultimate sidekick – Collect secret items and get power ups to become the perfect weapon.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 Jan 2011
EVE Online Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Dec 2010
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II The Star Wars® Saga continues with Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Dec 2010
Alien Breed 3: Descent Experience the final explosive chapter in the Alien Breed series and uncover the horrifying truth surrounding the existence of the Breed. Launch discount good thru Nov. 24 10am PST.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Nov 2010
X: Beyond the Frontier The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

Price -88% 0.63€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Oct 2010
Star Ruler Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Price -80% 1.34€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Sep 2010
VVVVVV VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Sep 2010
Moonbase Alpha NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Jul 2010
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.

Price -83% 1.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Jun 2010
Alien Breed: Impact Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.

Price -80% 1.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Jun 2010
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.6
Release 25 May 2010
Beat Hazard Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Apr 2010
Shatter Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.

Price -65% 0.57€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Mar 2010
Star Wolves Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Price -82% 0.74€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Mar 2010
Star Wolves 3: Civil War Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Price -84% 0.83€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Mar 2010
Supreme Commander 2 Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!

Price -79% 2.80€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Mar 2010
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Dec 2009
Samorost 2 Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.

Price -95% 0.27€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Dec 2009
Gratuitous Space Battles The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Nov 2009
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 12 Nov 2009
AI War: Fleet Command "You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Oct 2009
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Sep 2009
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™ The Legacy of Star Wars Dark Forces™ and Star Wars® Jedi Knight lives on in the intense first-person action of Jedi Outcast.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Sep 2009

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