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.

Player reviews say 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 544
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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Board and Steal Ships
  • …Fight Through Interiors
  • …Design Custom Ships
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Astrox Imperium

84% 👍 OF 1.3K
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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Mine Asteroid Resources
  • …Refine Ore Into Parts
  • …Build a Mercenary Fleet
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Rising Star 2

94% 👍 OF 692
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.

Player reviews say 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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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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Pilot Capital Ships
  • …Command Battle Fleets
  • …Expand Star Territory
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X3: Terran Conflict

86% 👍 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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Trading Empires
  • …Construct Factory Networks
  • …Board Capital Ships
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Spaceflight Simulator

97% 👍 OF 9.9K
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.

Player reviews say 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 534
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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore 130 Sectors
  • …Mine Asteroid Ore
  • …Build Weapon Factories
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X: Beyond the Frontier

75% 👍 OF 398
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.

Player reviews say 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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Kenshi

96% 👍 OF 116K
About This Game

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …throw someone into acid to melt their legs off, then install bionic scout legs so they can outrun everyone and steal dinosaur eggs.
  • …leave a shop door open, watch a camel wander in, and trigger a chain fight where shopkeepers, guards, and caravans brawl across town.
  • …get enslaved for stealing food, train lockpicking and stealth at night, free other slaves, and sprint into the wilderness with guards chasing you.