Best Space Games on Steam
Games set among planets, stars, spacecraft, orbital stations, or cosmic frontiers.
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1Among Us - An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!
Nov 16, 2018
In this game, you can…
- crawl through vents and pop out somewhere unexpected.
- kill someone, then report the body yourself and lead the investigation away from you.
- get killed or voted out and still keep doing tasks to help your team win from beyond the grave.
- find a body, report it, and instantly drag everyone into a meeting to reconstruct who was where.
- lock doors to trap someone in a room, cut off their escape, and kill them in private.
- trigger an oxygen or reactor emergency that forces everyone to sprint to fixes while you pick off someone separated from the group.
- pretend to do tasks while everyone watches the task bar for proof you're actually helping.
- watch security cameras or the admin map to spot suspicious movement without being in the room.
2Deep Rock Galactic - Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
May 13, 2020
In this game, you can…
- drink a round that rockets the whole team forward, then slam into each other and the station while shouting and tossing mugs.
- freeze enemies solid, drill them to pieces, and heal off them while they can't move or fight back.
- hit the drop pod with seconds left, spot a teammate down far away, and turn the escape into a full rescue run mid-extraction.
- turn a pre-mission lobby into a hangout with beer, dancing, minigames, and physical goofing around instead of menus.
- grapple to impossible-to-reach minerals, then have a teammate shoot a platform under you so you can mine safely and get out.
- finish the objective, call extraction, then carve a brand-new tunnel straight to the drop pod while bugs race you through it.
- fight off swarms in caves that aren't preset arenas, so every defense turns into a new improvisation based on cliffs, tunnels, and open voids.
- bring a solo drone that mines, lights caves, carries minerals, digs paths, and can revive you so you can still finish missions alone.
3Halo: The Master Chief Collection - The Master Chief’s iconic journey includes six games, built for PC and collected in a single integrated experience. Whether you’re a long-time fan or meeting Spartan 117 for the first time, The Master Chief Collection is the definitive Halo gaming experience.
Dec 3, 2019
In this game, you can…
- swap between the 2001 and anniversary visuals instantly, mid-mission, while everything else keeps playing normally
- get blindsided when a straight sci-fi shooter mission suddenly turns into claustrophobic survival horror
- build custom maps and modes, then jump into weird community-made games people invented in the browser
- storm a beach, then spill into a huge open battlefield where you choose the route, vehicles, and targets for the assault
- dual-wield guns and turn a normal firefight into a two-weapon rushdown
- play the entire campaign in 4-player co-op as your own spartans, start to finish, with everyone in the same missions
- remix the whole campaign with skulls that change how combat works, turning familiar levels into totally different challenge runs
- fight 16-player multiplayer battles with tanks, aircraft, and alien weapons all on the same map
4Kerbal 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.
Apr 27, 2015
In this game, you can…
- spot a tiny gray dot in the sky, zoom out, and discover there's an entire star system to explore.
- dock engines onto an orbiting space station to turn it into a ship, then fly it to a gas giant and tour its moons.
- build and fly totally different vehicles from the same parts: rockets, planes, rovers, shuttles, and even boats.
- build a rocket, reach orbit, then realize you have to learn moon navigation next.
- turn a stranded moon mission into learning docking, then snowball into landing on another planet and returning.
- send ten separate rescue planes to the same crash site, then finally pull off a pickup after hours of attempts.
- build a relay network of satellites, run experiments from orbital stations, and mine resources from a moon base.
- land on the moon with your kid after they hit the separation buttons, turning the mission into a hands-on moon lesson.
5Oxygen 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.
Jul 30, 2019
In this game, you can…
- see gases behave like real layers, with oxygen drifting, carbon dioxide sinking, and rooms turning into live pressure puzzles.
- build a closed-loop bathroom where toilets flush into a tank, sewage gets treated, and the whole colony runs on recycled waste.
- turn a steam vent, a cold biome, or a magma lake into an engine: melt ice by accident, boil sewage into steam on purpose, and pull clean water back out.
- trigger a domino disaster by digging one wrong tile and watching your water supply flood straight into sewage.
- run out of oxygen, switch to water-based oxygen, add coal for power, then pile on more machines that eat that same water and power until everything depends on everything.
- move heat around the asteroid with cooling loops, pump super-cold liquid through walls, and redesign farms when rising temperature starts killing crops.
- launch a rocket to space after hundreds of cycles of building, surviving, automating, and finally reaching the top of the asteroid.
6ASTRONEER - 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.
Feb 5, 2019
In this game, you can…
- build a ramp from a mountain up through the atmosphere until you're literally in space, with the planet rotating under you.
- activate alien gateways that teleport you to a planet's center, then solve a system-wide chain that ends above the star.
- sculpt terrain into actual architecture: wall off your base, add a lip to catch debris, then roof the whole thing with engineered entrances.
- steer your drop pod on the way down and pick your landing spot.
- print modular machines right out of your landing pod and snap them into a working little space base.
- dig a perfectly sloped tunnel hundreds of feet down, then hit loot, hostile plants, and oxygen-bearing crystals in the dark.
- lay tethers as an oxygen lifeline that leaves a visible trail back home while you explore.
- hook trailers into absurdly long rover convoys, then switch to trains to move stuff through huge cave networks.
- fly off to a new planet in your first shuttle, then realize you only packed enough fuel for two trips and you're stuck there.
7Starbound - You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- colonize a fiery planet, build a whole city of residents, and watch a single giant meteor wipe it off the map.
- build and fully customize a mech, then fly it through space into enemy ships and space stations.
- take bounty missions, track down criminals across planets, capture them, and send them to space jail.
- start stranded with a broken ship, beam to a planet, and rebuild it until you can jump from star to star.
- upgrade your starship into a moving home, recruit crew from your colonies, and bring them along as you travel.
- land on planets with radiation, no oxygen, acid seas, and frozen oceans, then gear up to survive each environment.
- teleport into a robotic-knight castle with a rocket launcher, loot everything valuable, and even rip out the doors.
- collect artifacts, fossils, fish, and bugs from ruins and villages, then turn them into a museum you built yourself.
8Outer Wilds - Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- die in a 22-minute loop when the sun explodes, then restart and sprint somewhere new with only what you learned.
- explore a planet as it collapses under you and drops whole sections into a black hole mid-investigation.
- learn a few rules about quantum objects, then use only that understanding to reach a moon you could have visited immediately if you'd known how.
- wake up, get a ship and suit, and just fly to any planet with no quest markers or locked areas.
- advance the entire story with knowledge alone, then use a clue from one planet to crack a mystery on another.
- set autopilot to a planet, smash into something you didn't notice, spacewalk to patch the hull, and watch your ship fly away without you.
- race through an underground city before it fills with sand, because the landscape shifts in real time as the loop ticks.
- finish the entire game in under 20 minutes if you already know what to do.
9Dyson 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.
Jan 20, 2021
In this game, you can…
- lift off a planet and fly to another one with no loading screens.
- launch parts into space and watch a Dyson Sphere grow around a star, layer by layer, until it's visible from the ground.
- set up drones and ships that automatically move parts between planets while you build elsewhere.
- cover an entire planet in factories, then move on to build whole specialized production planets in the same system.
- wrap a belt line all the way around a planet's equator and let it feed projects on the far side.
- build solar panel rings and then fill orbit with thousands of solar sails.
- unlock warp travel and jump to other star systems, visit a black hole, then return with rare resources.
- save a factory layout as a blueprint and stamp the same module down across planet after planet.
10FTL: Faster Than Light - This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Sep 14, 2012
In this game, you can…
- vent rooms into space to suffocate boarders or put out fires.
- reach the final boss, win the fight, then learn it has three phases and the battle keeps escalating.
- teleport your crew onto an enemy ship to sabotage systems and fight room-to-room, then lose them if the ship explodes first.
- hit a wrecked ship system again to open hull breaches that keep repair crews dying inside.
- pause mid-fight to queue repairs, reroute power, and fire weapons, then unpause for a second to let the plan land.
- get a run-ending chain reaction where fires, breaches, no oxygen, and boarders all happen at once.
- hack or mind-control enemy systems so their own doors trap their crew while your weapons tear the ship apart.
