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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Ikaruga Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!

Price 8.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Feb 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 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Feb 2014
Descent Prepare To Start Your Descent.Sensory overload in 360° 3-D.Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Feb 2014
Jets'n'Guns Gold Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.

Price -89% 0.93€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Feb 2014
Signs of Life Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jan 2014
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.

Price -89% 0.57€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Nov 2013
Earth 2150 Trilogy Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?

Price -97% 0.38€
Rating 7.3
Release 01 Nov 2013
Syder Arcade Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.

Price -92% 0.80€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Oct 2013
Solar Flux Travel across the universe and save dying suns from extinction in this unique and challenging puzzle strategy game. You are the last hope to bring salvation to a perishing universe as you collect and deliver fragments of plasma using your omni-directional ship.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.0
Release 24 Oct 2013
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Oct 2013
Startopia A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Price -91% 0.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Oct 2013
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator Artemis is designed for anyone who watched Star Trek and dreamed of what it would be like to sit on the bridge of a star ship. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. You cannot play Artemis single-player!

Price -42% 4.00€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Sep 2013
LOST PLANET® 3 The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 26 Aug 2013
The Swapper What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 May 2013
System Shock® 2 (1999) "Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 May 2013
Strike Suit Infinity Ok, cadet. This is it. All your training has brought you to this point - you are here for one reason only: to be the best.Strike Suit Infinity is a frantic high score chaser where your skill is the only thing that matters. Whatever combat experience you have had so far is considered irrelevant.

Price 5.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Apr 2013
Warframe Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Mar 2013
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.

Price -80% 0.81€
Rating 6.3
Release 19 Mar 2013
Strike Suit Zero Immerse yourself in massive fleet battles where your dog-fighting skills will directly affect the fate of the cosmos.

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Jan 2013
Waking Mars In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Price -96% 0.34€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Dec 2012
PlanetSide 2 PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Nov 2012
Cargo Commander Alone in space, light years away from your family, armed with only your Fistcannon™; you are Cargo Corps' latest recruit, a Cargo Commander.

Price -93% 0.37€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Nov 2012
Natural Selection 2 A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Price -51% 2.45€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Oct 2012
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Oct 2012