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Games like Star Explorers

Looking for games like Star Explorers? Here are top open world role playing shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Long Journey Home, RODINA or Scavenger SV-4.

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  1. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    50% User Score Based on 796 reviews
    Critic Score 64%Based on 12 reviews

    The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver friends? Attempt to make allies with everyone, or pin your hopes on the tougher races, and hope they never turn on you? Jump by jump, make hard decisions and live with the consequences, in a uni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Long Journey Home.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 2,240 reviews

    RODINA is an immersive space exploration game with allows players to seamlessly travel across an entire, full-scale solar system. Seamless means your character can travel anywhere - in space, on planets, and in your ship - with no loading screens! Walk around your space ship, or anywhere on full-size planet landscapes. Fly through a planet's atmosphere to its surface, or out into deep space. Des… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to RODINA.

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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization
    91% User Score Based on 534 reviews

    Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scavenger SV-4.

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  4. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    71% User Score Based on 6,071 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 16 reviews

    Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage. A massive space hearse suffers a wreck in the deep space, leaving the area filled with debris, coffins, dead passengers and yourself. Survive in this interstellar dump, uncover a glob… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Breathedge.

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  5. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    89% User Score Based on 2,269 reviews

    Take control of your own spaceship, with a vast galaxy to explore, mine, quest, trade, fight and even craft your own weapons. Start small, improve, complete missions, gather allies (or hire mercenaries), grow big and powerful. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Valor.

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  6. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 44,980 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to null.

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  7. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 94,098 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 14 reviews

    Includes: Yogscast Cobra Mk III Paint Job Take control of your own starship in a cutthroat galaxy. Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Elite Dangerous.

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  8. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 4,854 reviews
    Critic Score 71%Based on 7 reviews

    Discover Forever Skies on the official PlayStation website - screenshots, trailers, release date information, game features If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Forever Skies.

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  9. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    85% User Score Based on 362 reviews

    Advanced 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evochron Legacy.

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  10. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    80% User Score Based on 2,258 reviews

    Ostranauts is a detailed simulation of owning and living aboard a spaceship, in a solar system where honest living is a slow death sentence. Set in the NEO Scavenger universe, where Earth has suffered cataclysmic collapse, the rest of the System lives on in a state of capitalistic dystopia. Players will create their captain, build or customize their starting ship from the spoils of their career h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ostranauts.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    76% User Score Based on 1,731 reviews

    Salt is an ocean based adventure and exploration game set in a infinite procedurally generated world. Experience pure freedom to play the way you want as you sail across a vast ocean and explore huge islands in your search for adventure. During your travels you will fight pirates, bosses and other creatures, complete quests, customize your ships, hunt wildlife, sail huge waves, loot and craft item… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Salt.

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  12. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    79% User Score Based on 20,953 reviews

    Get 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Empyrion: Galactic Survival.

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  13. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    80% User Score Based on 4,868 reviews

    Your legacy is calling. Prepare yourself for fast-paced space combats. Take your ship, gird on your best gears and raise your new galactic empire. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceBourne 2.

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  14. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 7,130 reviews

    Team up to operate an advanced starship and explore a randomized galaxy falling into chaos. Each player assumes a role aboard the ship: Captain, Pilot, Scientist, Weapons Specialist and Engineer. Coordination between your crewmembers will be essential in order to survive the perils that await you. Control the various stations that run your ship. Reroute power between ship systems, scan alien plan… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PULSAR: Lost Colony.

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  15. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    54% User Score Based on 354 reviews

    Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellaria.

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  16. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    85% User Score Based on 7,777 reviews

    In The Last Caretaker, you play a reawakened machine with a mission to secure humanity's future. Craft tools and weapons from salvaged technology, navigate a treacherous ocean world, and explore forgotten facilities that hold the key to humanity's survival. The Earth has been swallowed by the ocean as towering megastructures rust under a yawning sky. The Last Caretaker isn't just about survival, i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Caretaker.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    71% User Score Based on 336 reviews

    QANGA - Now Available in Early Access! Please Note: QANGA is an Early Access game, actively being developed by a small independent team. By choosing to purchase QANGA now, you are directly supporting its development and contributing to the ongoing improvement of the game. Expect to encounter bugs and see some features still in progress. Your support and feedback are crucial in helping us create… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to QANGA.

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  18. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    75% User Score Based on 1,369 reviews

    Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cubic Odyssey.

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  19. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 3,472 reviews

    Starcom: Unknown Space is an action adventure RPG of space exploration, ship building and fast-paced tactical combat. Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.Explore Explore a fully-open world universe with over a hundred star systems filled… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starcom: Unknown Space.

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  20. 55%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    50% User Score Based on 537 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Objects in Space is a modempunk stealth space-trading game set in Apollo, a huge cluster of star systems dozens of lightyears away from earth. You are a lonesome ship's captain, buying and selling wares in order to keep your bucket of bolts afloat and stay one step ahead of pirates, organized criminals, corrupt governments and shady laws. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Objects in Space.

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  21. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 3,148 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 10 reviews

    Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Control: Origins.

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  22. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    91% User Score Based on 1,860 reviews

    Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starcom: Nexus.

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  23. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 6,104 reviews

    Endless 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endless Sky.

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  25. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    88% User Score Based on 1,702 reviews

    Climb 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrox Imperium.

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  26. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    71% User Score Based on 1,840 reviews

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Occupy Mars: The Game.

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  27. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    72% User Score Based on 913 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 6 reviews

    Ripout is an online Co-Op horror FPS that will have players fight their way through procedurally generated derelict ships filled with mutants capable of reconfiguring their alien bodies. Survive with your trusty Pet Gun companion, collect loot, and customize your character to fit your playstyle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ripout.

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    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    74% User Score Based on 995 reviews

    Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and raise an army of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to advanture. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SpaceBourne.

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    82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    82% User Score Based on 1,661 reviews

    Immerse yourself in Astrometica, a space exploration and base-building survival game. After an explosion at a mining space station, you awaken inside an emergency pod adrift in the vastness of space. To survive, you must harness your skills, explore the endless universe, and search for other survivors’ emergency pods or outposts. Space Exploration: Experience the thrill of exploring the vastness o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrometica.

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  30. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 2,112 reviews

    Between the Stars is a space action game with RPG growth and real time combat that places you at the helm of an interstellar cruiser. Your mission will be to protect the civilized world from the Children of the Sun, a faction that dominates border planets in the known universe. In order to undertake your mission you must cross the galaxy, face new challenges at each warp jump, and make difficult d… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Between the Stars.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 1,024 reviews

    Feel your pulse quicken while piloting your 150,000t warship between asteroids in the vacuum of space in real time. All with fully simulated physics. Balance material requirements with power, tonnage, and size while building your fleet to maximum efficiency, piece by piece, module by module. Will you create a large number of smaller, more nimble vessels or double down on a massive station pa… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starminer.

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  32. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    86% User Score Based on 9,078 reviews

    Embark on a space journey with your patched-together crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony sim. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Haven.

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  33. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    62% User Score Based on 1,168 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Windbound.

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  35. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    76% User Score Based on 444 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 4 reviews

    Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy is a roguelite action-RPG and prodigious sequel to the critically acclaimed indie gem, Unexplored. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy.

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  36. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    79% User Score Based on 1,295 reviews

    A classic Sci-Fi RPG set in the harsh environment of deep space. Gather your team, equip your ship and explore the far reaches of deep space. Bringing back the nostalgia, excitement and wonder of classic RPG's, Stellar Tactics will thrill you with a compelling narrative, deep strategic turn based ground combat system and rewarding open world space exploration. Build your team, equip your ship, ex… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Tactics.

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  38. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    68% User Score Based on 1,070 reviews

    Interstellar 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! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellar Rift.

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  39. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    64% User Score Based on 998 reviews
    Critic Score 64%Based on 7 reviews

    Forced into the deep oceans by a Great Flood that occurred countless centuries ago, humanity now lives trapped under a thick layer of unbreakable ice and their survival hangs by a tenuous thread. However, their penchant for perseverance is strong, and a new civilization has emerged with distinct kingdoms, religions and cultures. By a twist of fate you, an aspiring submarine captain, have been give… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Diluvion.

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  40. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    78% User Score Based on 959 reviews

    Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter! Destination Sol is a free-to-play hardcore space arcade/RPG. You start as a pilot of a small fighter ship on the edge of a star system, and you're free to explore the game world, land on planets, fight with enemies, upgr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Destination Sol.

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  41. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    74% User Score Based on 749 reviews

    Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to VoidExpanse.

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  42. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 3,567 reviews
    Critic Score 74%Based on 2 reviews

    Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Trucker.

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  43. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    59% User Score Based on 6,096 reviews

    Planet Explorers is an open world voxel based sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planet Explorers.

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  44. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 1,191 reviews

    Introversion Software, the indie legends behind Prison Architect, Darwinia, DEFCON and Uplink, present to you the broken, unfinished and bug filled Alpha of The Last Starship. Pick a ship hull, kit her out with engines, life-support, sensors and rail guns and start your galactic adventure! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Starship.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    71% User Score Based on 2,373 reviews

    FarSky is a short survival game in the depths of the Ocean. Collect all the pieces of your submarine and reach back the surface. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FarSky.

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  46. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    66% User Score Based on 626 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 7 reviews

    You play ION, a young exploration unit on a mission to secure natural resources. When you crash-land on an alien planet your ship is almost completely destroyed. Not only do you have to survive in a strange new world full of dangers, but to have even a hope of escape you must find a way to contact your home planet for help. With only your ship’s A.I. for company, you set out to explore your new h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Phoning Home.

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    90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    90% User Score Based on 14,354 reviews

    Avorion 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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Avorion.

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  48. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    77% User Score Based on 19,846 reviews

    X4: 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to X4: Foundations.

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  49. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    84% User Score Based on 372 reviews

    Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.

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  50. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    95% User Score Based on 3,619 reviews

    The unexpected discovery of valuable minerals within the rings of Saturn has sparked a thriving space excavation industry. Experience hard sci-fi, top-down space simulator, with every aspect backed up by real physics and science. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rings of Saturn.

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