Games like Ascent: The Space Game
Looking for games like Ascent: The Space Game? Here are top open world role playing recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Elite Dangerous, Starbase or Astrox Imperium.
1 77%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding76% User Score 94,098 reviewsCritic Score 79%31 reviewsTake control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy. Elite: Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure into the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.
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59%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding59% User Score 8,444 reviewsStarbase is a massively multiplayer online game with gameplay focused on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat. Alternatively the game features a sandbox mode where players can explore the game alone or with selected friends in their own universe. Set in a universe of vast scale and detail, the fully-destructible environment…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization88% User Score 1,702 reviewsClimb from your cryo-pod and enter the Void... Astrox Imperium is a space based rpg that offers familiar game play in an open-world universe. With tons of ships, upgrades, and options, being lost in space might just be fun.
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68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding68% User Score 1,070 reviewsInterstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Players will need to survive in a hostile galaxy with their own custom designed and constructed starship. Space is vast but you wont have to face it alone, other players will be able to join your ship and help out, or build their own rival fleet and fight you across the galaxy!
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63%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability59% User Score 8,514 reviewsCritic Score 85%1 reviewsHardcore medieval multiplayer sandbox with terraforming, free preset and modular building construction, rich crafting (smelting, forging, farming, animal breeding etc.), survival, no target physics based combat, original combat formation system and numerous other features. Taking place in the fictional medieval world, game imposes a realistic system of global politics, economy, and socialization.
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65%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding65% User Score 344 reviewsCSC is a sandbox space MMO with a robust Play-to-Own Economy. Mine, Own, Battle, and Explore in this open-world space sim built like no other. Powered by True Digital Ownership and blockchain technology, you can enjoy the freedom to buy, sell, and trade in CSC's free-market, player-owned economy.
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50%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, optimization51% User Score 628 reviewsCritic Score 60%3 reviewsDual Universe is a Continuous Single-Shard sandbox MMORPG taking place in a vast Sci-Fi universe, focusing on emergent gameplay with player-driven in-game economy, politics, trade and warfare. Players can freely modify the voxel-based universe by creating structures, spaceships or giant orbital stations, giving birth to empires and civilizations.
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67%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, optimization67% User Score 3,414 reviewsStarMade is a 3D sandbox space shooter created by Robin "schema" Promesberger, founder of Schine. The game allows players to explore the vastness of space; building factories; creating ships, space stations and structures out of various block types. Both single-player worlds and multi-player servers are available players. StarMade is currently in Alpha, and is a free-to-play game.
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, optimization79% User Score 17,016 reviewsGet a great start into Empyrion - Galactic Survival with the Complete Edition! It includes the base game plus the Dark Faction DLC, where you must survive a terrible new threat to the galaxy.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization77% User Score 19,846 reviewsCritic Score 75%1 reviewsX4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the successful X series, brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. Fly every ship, EXPLORE space or manage an empire; TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK carefully, while you embark on an epic journey.
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