The Space Zone

Games set among planets, stars, spacecraft, orbital stations, or cosmic frontiers.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Astrobuilder - An AI-driven space management RPG in a living galaxy. Explore 150+ planets and interact with 600+ NPCs whose lives and relationships evolve over time. Trade, run shops, build a Commerce Guild, join Military Factions, govern planets, and command fleets in war. Your every choice reshape the galaxy.
Ostranauts - Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Cosmodrill - Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?
Procelio - Procelio is a multiplayer vehicle builder/shooter set amidst a proxy war on the red planet. Build and refine your custom machines from orbit, then pilot them in a distant war against CPU and enemy players.
Exo Rally Championship - Exo Rally Championship is the galaxy’s most dangerous off-road racing event - remote, unexplored, extreme exoplanetary rally. Master a brutally realistic racing simulation and fight for every second gained on your quest to become a champion.
Far Mining - Far Mining is a short and relaxing incremental game about mining asteroids. Mine resources, upgrade your ship, unlock new tools, and find your way out of deep space.
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Jun 4, 2026
96% 👍
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Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Chorus - Take control of Nara on a quest to destroy the dark cult that created her. Unlock devastating weapons & mind-bending abilities in an evolution of the space-combat shooter. Along with Forsaken, her sentient starfighter, explore ancient temples, engage in zero-g combat & venture beyond waking reality.
Polygoneer - Test your reflexes in POLYGONEER, defend yourself from prolygonal shapes taht comes from everywhere, just hitting is not enough you need to match the right color shot to the polygon too! Are you ready for the challenge?
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Aug 24, 2017
80% 👍
of 1.8k
Cyberhunt - Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!
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May 19, 2017
85% 👍
of 2.9k
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr - Enter the Chaos-infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man! W40k: Inquisitor – Martyr is a grim Action-RPG featuring multiple classes of the Inquisition who will carry out the Emperor’s will.
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Jun 5, 2018
76% 👍
of 22k
Stars in Shadow - Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
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Jan 19, 2017
78% 👍
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The Survey - In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.
PLANET ALPHA - PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.
Aven Colony - Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Alien Breed 3: Descent - Experience the final explosive chapter in the Alien Breed series and uncover the horrifying truth surrounding the existence of the Breed. Launch discount good thru Nov. 24 10am PST.
Entropy Survivors - Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op!
Farlanders - Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Star Dynasties - Take the reins of a feudal dynasty in a divided galaxy following the destruction of earth. Star Dynasties is a turn based, procedurally generated narrative of human drama and personal politics, mixed with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

UnLoop - ⚠️VR-only. Your mic is recording. Your actions too.⚠️ Infiltrate a retro space station. Get trapped in a time loop. Your past copies will replay every word you said and every mistake you made. You're the team. You're also the problem.
her tears were my light - a love story between time and space
Sunshine Heavy Industries - Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.
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Aug 17, 2021
99% 👍
of 429
Second Stellar - Join the enigmatic Starfarers as they traverse the cosmos in this unique dual-character action roguelite, unraveling the mysteries of their galaxy and beyond in pursuit of the Voyager.
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Dec 10, 2025
99% 👍
of 343
Star Leaping Story - Players will help a white-robed girl and her friends uncover the truth of the planet using unique dash gameplay. The storyline is fully voiced by renowned actors, with meticulously designed levels and energetic music for you to enjoy!
Aero GPX - Aero GPX is an anti-gravity racer focused on high velocity, flight, machine-to-machine combat, and responsive controls that are easy to pick up but difficult to master. Fight for the best position possible with high speeds, risky maneuvers, and visceral attacks!
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Aug 6, 2024
98% 👍
of 964
Crystal Caves HD - Return to the underground classic world of treasures and traps in the HD remake of Crystal Caves! Guide Mylo through puzzles and arcade challenges of your favorite episodes, then explore the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards and help Mylo get back home!
Corona Blossom Vol.2 The Truth From Beyond - Breaking news! Space pirate-turned-maid Lily and her cohort Yunie have a nefarious plan to kidnap R-ne and sell her as raw materials! Can Keiji and our other heroes save the day, or is R-ne destined to be melted into scrap? And is there an even greater threat looming in the background?
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Oct 26, 2016
98% 👍
of 184
UFO: Unidentified Falling Objects - Unidentified Falling Objects is a unique mashup of platforming and puzzle destroying gameplay. Players are dropped into the puzzle where they must dodge the falling obstacles and destroy blocks to make big combos.
Space Court - As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
The Final Earth 2 - The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Picayune Dreams - Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack - Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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May 25, 2010
98% 👍
of 42k
Aliya: Timelink - The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Gravitas - Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.
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Aug 23, 2019
98% 👍
of 7.1k
Oxygen Not Included - Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Jul 30, 2019
97% 👍
of 142k
Dyson Sphere Program - Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Spaceflight Simulator - In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
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Feb 17, 2022
97% 👍
of 9.6k
Disney•Pixar WALL-E - Based on the 2008 computer animated film from Pixar Animation Studios, the video game version of WALL-E involves playing as the lonely robot as he navigates a trash-tainted world and begins an unlikely trek across the cosmos.
Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator - Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator inspired by the early NASA space programs, from orbiting Earth in Mercury and Gemini, to the moon landing in project Apollo. Learn the procedures. Operate the spacecraft. Complete the mission.
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Nov 7, 2025
97% 👍
of 1.3k
A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰 - The starry sky spreads far and wide overhead... This story full of love, comedy, and excitement follows our protagonist and his stargazing friends as they grow together. "A Sky Full of Stars" is a coming-of-age astronomy tale by the same team who brought you "If My Heart Had Wings".
Kerbal Space Program - In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Apr 27, 2015
96% 👍
of 145k