Games like Elite Dangerous
Looking for games like Elite Dangerous? Here are top open world role playing shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Evochron Legacy, X4: Foundations or Evochron Mercenary.
1 85%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability85% User Score 362 reviewsAdvanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.
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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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76%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability76% User Score 684 reviewsCritic Score 79%1 reviewsTrading commodities while sneaking past hostile forces, racing the best pilots in the area, mining for diamonds, negotiating for survival, spying for a curious energy company, cleaning dirty solar arrays, transporting an impatient passenger... and that's just on a Monday. The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. At times, you may choose to work under contract, while at ot…
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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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93%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability93% User Score 6,104 reviewsEndless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization73% User Score 21,985 reviewsCritic Score 75%3 reviewsEve Online is a community-driven spaceship MMO where players can play free, choosing their own path from countless options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles, mining, industry and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox.
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89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability89% User Score 85,786 reviewsSpace Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed.
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability90% User Score 14,354 reviewsAvorion is a procedurally generated sci-fi sandbox where players start out at the edge of the galaxy and must find their way to its core. Players build their own ships, which they will use to explore the galaxy, trade and fight. Space ships are mainly of large scale, with crews, turrets and energy systems that you will have to manage. The galaxy gets more hostile, but also more rewarding the close…
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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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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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