Games like Starbound
Looking for games like Starbound? Here are top survival role playing recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Portal Knights, Roguelands or Empyrion: Galactic Survival.
1 77%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storygrinding, stability83% User Score 6,273 reviewsCritic Score 71%27 reviewsLeave the familiar world behind and step into the fantastic unknown with Portal Knights! Play with your friends in this action-packed crafting adventure across dozens of sandbox islands connected by ancient portals. No one can remember how long it’s been since the peaceful world was torn apart by The Fracture, plummeting it into darkness. Is there any soul brave enough to reunite the shattered rea…
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2 78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability78% User Score 2,417 reviewsIn the rush to invent, conquer, and create, the ultimate consequences are sometimes forgotten. Earth lies in ruin. Our ever advancing Aether technology opened a rift to another time, unleashing an ancient beast upon the galaxy. Known as the Destroyer, this massive creature travels from world to world devouring the Aether in planet cores only to leave a dead shell in its wake. You play as a Galac…
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3 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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4 64%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, optimization89% User Score 87,861 reviewsCritic Score 36%18 reviewsSet in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth, in a way that has seen a rapturous response from fans worldwide. Play the definitive zombie surv…
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5 86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability85% User Score 1,097 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsYou wake up and found yourself lying in a hibernation pod, with no food, no clothes, no nothing. All you have to do is survive. Finding ways to use things around you will help you in surviving and uncovering the mysteries of this strange and dangerous planet.
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6 75%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaymonetization, grinding75% User Score 14,503 reviewsStranded in a vast, mysterious world. Surrounded by ferocious beasts and remnants of ancient technology. Awash in treasure, treacherous catacombs and breathtaking vistas... Adventure awaits — From the highest peaks to the furthest depths, through jungles, deserts, and swamps, over pools of acid and lakes of lava, there’s something to discover around every corner, whether it’s rare materials, curi…
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7 59%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization59% User Score 6,096 reviewsPlanet 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.
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8 93%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, optimization95% User Score 31,361 reviewsCritic Score 86%1 reviewsCan you uncover the secrets of the core and return to the world above
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9 83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding92% User Score 44,980 reviewsCritic Score 75%10 reviewsExplore and exploit distant worlds in a game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration. With your gun you can reshape the landscape around you and gather resources. On your journey you come across special artifacts that will provide you with research points, in order to unlock new technologies. These include rovers and spaceships, in order the expand your reach on the planets in the sol…
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10 78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability78% User Score 1,598 reviewsEmbark on your greatest adventure to Planet Centauri! Discover new biomes, explore hidden dungeons, befriend and tame monsters, build and protect a NPC community, craft your own weapons, armor,...
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