Games Like Starminer

Starminer

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

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Avorion

90% 👍 OF 14K
About This Game

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

In this game, you can…

  • …watch enemy ships break apart exactly where you hit them, then scoop the flying wreckage up as loot.
  • …set up autonomous mining ships that jump around, refine ore, and keep collecting resources while you're away.
  • …sell weapons to both sides of a faction war, then loot the battlefield when they're done fighting.
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Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls

67% 👍 OF 538
About This Game

2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.

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Rising Star 2

94% 👍 OF 681
About This Game

Start a band, and take on the world in this music industry simulation/role-playing game. Success doesn't come without hard work, and making connections in your local music scene is the only path to stardom.

In this game, you can…

  • …import your own JPEGs and MP3s to make custom album art, shirts, posters, and even use your own music in a run.
  • …piece together a song from four parts, drop the lyrics for an instrumental, then recombine parts to upgrade the finished track.
  • …trash hotel rooms on tour for a boost, then pay the damage bill out of your own money.
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Astrox Imperium

84% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

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Starpoint Gemini Warlords

73% 👍 OF 3.6K
About This Game

Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

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X3: Terran Conflict

85% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

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Spaceflight Simulator

97% 👍 OF 9.4K
About This Game

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

In this game, you can…

  • …launch an expedition in pieces, dock everything in orbit, swap control between vehicles, and pump fuel from a main ship into probes.
  • …survive the Sun, burn an engine forever, or try to fly through Jupiter until gravity stops working.
  • …deorbit Earth into the Sun and use your space program to do ridiculous, destructive experiments.
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X2: The Threat

83% 👍 OF 524
About This Game

X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.

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X: Beyond the Frontier

75% 👍 OF 393
About This Game

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

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Endless Sky

92% 👍 OF 7.1K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …bribe a hostile planet governor with something as small as chewing gum to land safely.
  • …use a luxury liner as a boarding ship, letting escorts disable targets so you can capture them with passenger bunks.
  • …provoke the Republic by capturing and selling their fighters until capital ships come after you and the whole faction turns hostile.
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Star Traders: Frontiers

84% 👍 OF 3.8K
About This Game

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.