The Spaceships Zone

Games featuring spacecraft, ship combat, fleets, piloting, or interstellar travel.

Latest Standouts

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

eXoSpace Combat Engineer - Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!
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Sep 22, 2026
88% 👍
of 164
Ostranauts - Players say: As an indebted space scavenger, strip derelict ships for parts or cash, rebuild your vessel, and manage life across the solar system. Players like: Satisfying Salvage Loop · Flexible Shipbuilding · Immersive Space Life ·
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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.

Starminer - Players say: Build and pilot modular spacecraft, mine asteroids for materials, grow a space operation, and defend it as alien attention rises. Players like: Modular Shipbuilding · Hands-On Mining · Newtonian Flight ·
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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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May 27, 2026
73% 👍
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BattleGroupVR2 - BattleGroupVR2 is a virtual reality real-time space strategy where you explore the galaxy and lead a fleet of powerful warships from the bridge of your flagship. Explore, mine, trade, hunt. Grow your fleet, upgrade your ships, train your captains, and battle the enemy from the captain's chair.
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Nov 7, 2025
85% 👍
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Star Vortex - Star Vortex is a fast-paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight through hostile alien sectors solo or with friends, salvage rare weapons and experiment with powerful builds until nothing can stand against you.
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Jul 28, 2025
86% 👍
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Starless Abyss - Earth has fallen. Science and the Occult have united forces to brace for the arrival of the Eldritch. But will the efforts against this strange, alien race be enough? Play as one of many Proximae used to help defend humanity in this turn-based, roguelike, intergalactic deck builder.
Clonizer - Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder - Players say: Build vertical colonies on hostile alien planets, manage settlers and resources, then assemble a physics-based ship to escape. Players like: Relaxing Colony Building · Vertical Base Layouts · Simple Resource Planning ·
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Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

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Wildgate - Players say: Crew a spaceship in a PvPvE shooter: scavenge and upgrade, fight or board rival ships, then escape with the Artifact. Players like: Ship-to-Ship Combat · Crew Coordination · Flexible Tactics ·
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Wildgate is a PvPvE multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced first-person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the Artifact... or the last crew left flying.

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Jul 22, 2025
76% 👍
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Hidden Gems

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

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% 👍
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Godrop - One level of warning, cosmic droplet rampage! A roguelike game featuring impact piercing. Collect holy relics, build up your energy, and morph the droplets to invade the solar system and destroy the ignorant human fleet to the ground!
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Apr 3, 2024
95% 👍
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Flight Of Nova - Players say: Pilot VTOL spacecraft across the Noren system, carrying cargo and searching outposts through atmospheric flight and orbital maneuvers. Players like: Realistic Flight Physics · Satisfying Orbital Maneuvers · Immersive Flight Atmosphere ·
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Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

Psycho Starship Rampage - You play the psychotic A.I. of a warship lost in space which tries to come back to Earth. Build your spaceship from scratch. Load it with weapons. And use your creation to destroy waves of innocent aliens throughout numerous levels. Loot their carcasses, extend your ship and jump to the next sector for more action!
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Sep 28, 2015
87% 👍
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Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime - Cross blades with space knights in this epic physics-based roguelike where space-age and medieval combat collide. Die often, upgrade, and battle your way across the galaxy, defeating rival ships in methodical skirmishes on a quest to save your kingdom from destruction!
Darkstar One - Players say: Pilot the evolving Darkstar One through story missions, alien systems, artifact hunts, space combat, and credit-earning jobs. Players like: Engaging Story · Nostalgic Spaceflight · Evolving Starship ·
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Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.

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Feb 13, 2008
83% 👍
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Top Rated

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

Spaceflight Simulator - Players say: Design physics-driven rockets, plan staged launches, master orbital travel, and land payloads across a 2D solar-system sandbox. Players like: Rocket Design · Orbital Mechanics · Creative Sandbox ·
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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% 👍
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PULSAR: Lost Colony - Players say: Crew a starship across a changing galaxy, balancing distinct shipboard roles, tactical battles, missions, and planetary expeditions. Players like: Crew-Based Co-op · Hands-On Ship Systems · Exploration and Quests ·
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The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

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Jun 22, 2021
90% 👍
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Space Run - Players say: Deliver valuable cargo through pirate- and asteroid-filled routes by building defenses and engines onto a spaceship in real time. Players like: Fresh Tower Defense · Ship-Building Puzzles · Tense Real-Time Play ·
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Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

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Jun 13, 2014
85% 👍
of 2.2k