Best Spaceships Games on Steam
Games featuring spacecraft, ship combat, fleets, piloting, or interstellar travel.
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1Avorion - 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.
Mar 9, 2020
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.
- shape your first real ship block by block from a tiny mining cube.
- command fleet battles where dozens of your ships warp in while AI captains handle mining, escorting, and fighting.
- claim a huge asteroid, turn it into a mine, and start generating serious income from it.
- build factories, shipyards, and supply chains that generate money in the background across multiple sectors.
- lose a ship, then rebuild the exact design instantly from a saved blueprint and get back in the fight.
2Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander - Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Oct 24, 2022
In this game, you can…
- shove an entire asteroid field into a harvest pile with a giant front plow.
- design a tractor-beam ship that pushes or pulls other ships or stations into a star.
- host your single-player ship, extrude a barely-attached new hull, blow it in half, and hand a friend control of the fragment.
- iterate a railgun ship from 2 rails to 10 rails and 500 crew, while an unarmed collector trails behind vacuuming the debris.
- use one ship to soak enemy fire while another flanks, snipes the cockpit, boards the wreck, repairs it, and keeps it as a new ship.
- tear ships apart by targeting reactors, engines, weapons, and cockpits, then rebuild from the wreckage you just made.
- watch your crew physically run batteries and ammo through the corridors to keep guns, engines, and factories working.
- stumble into two NPC fleets fighting, wait it out, then salvage the whole battlefield into upgrades.
3Spaceflight Simulator - In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Feb 17, 2022
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.
- design a multistage rocket, reach the Moon, then slam into it at 10,000 km/s.
- build a space station module-by-module, keep expanding it over time, and recreate things like the ISS in your own orbit.
- build rockets so huge they can crash your phone or overload your PC.
- fly to Jupiter and its moons, then hit a moon at 50,000 km/s after hours of planning and burning fuel.
- visit every planet, set up colonies, stations, rovers, and even build a reusable starship.
- miss a docking or re-entry and turn a perfect mission into a two-hour crash landing.
4PULSAR: Lost Colony - 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
Jun 22, 2021
In this game, you can…
- fly inside an asteroid and detonate your own reactor to stop it hitting a planet.
- strip oxygen on an enemy ship, suit up, beam aboard, and neutralize the crew to claim the vessel.
- sell massive quantities of biscuits to an alien brain.
- dive into an asteroid cavern for cover, push the reactor past safe limits, then teleport onto an enemy ship to finish the fight.
- eject the reactor core mid-battle to prevent a meltdown.
- pilot a ship through killer laser fields, engine-off slingshot through sound-activated mines, then beam into a prison to extract a hostage.
- authorize a blind warp jump to escape a losing fight and arrive somewhere even worse.
- rob traders or smugglers, hide stolen goods during inspections, and rack up bounties until the whole galaxy hunts you.
5Unnamed Space Idle - Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.
Jul 27, 2023
In this game, you can…
- break into higher synth tiers, then chain it into harder warps, better salvage, and even bigger power spikes.
- warp to special enemy locations to harvest essence that feeds a huge upgrade tree.
- prestige into new ships and permanent tools, where each reset can reveal a fresh layer instead of just bigger numbers.
- build and refit your spaceship mid-run, picking weapons, shields, utilities, and parts that change how entire sectors play.
- use a limited number of retrofits per run, so every mid-run ship rebuild is a real commitment.
- hit a wall, then realize a whole new upgrade system just unlocked and suddenly your run accelerates.
- watch huge waves of enemy ships evaporate once your build clicks.
- earn AI points from achievements and spend them to automate chores while choosing what still stays manual.
6Space Pirates and Zombies - Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
Aug 15, 2011
In this game, you can…
- destroy enemy ships to steal their designs, then build those hulls and weapons for your own fleet.
- fight a zombie infection that can spread through battles and actually convert your own ships into zombie vessels if it gets loose.
- command an ever-growing fleet and instantly switch which ship you're piloting mid-battle.
- drift and dodge in 2D fights where your ship's facing controls your guns, so you're constantly outmaneuvering and leading shots.
- unlock capital ships and go from scrappy skirmishes to piloting enormous warships with huge firepower.
- custom-build every ship's engines, armor, reactors, shields, weapons, modules, and even cloaks to create wildly different craft.
- pin an enemy fleet with gravity missiles, then sweep through the immobilized ships with a massive beam barrage until they're erased.
- blow up faction bases or stations to force access, loot the wreckage, and push deeper when bribes are too expensive.
- repair and refit ships in the middle of combat, rebuilding your force live while the battle keeps raging.
7Astrometica: Prologue - Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
May 22, 2024
In this game, you can…
- build a vehicle, summon it to you, and spend hours cruising around with jetpack upgrades to reach far-off structures.
- follow a broadcast marker to a hidden underground base, crack it open, and walk out with a massive silver haul that unlocks your next wave of crafting.
- deploy drills into asteroids, sweep a mining laser, and eventually run auto-miners that keep extracting materials while you do other things.
- expand your starting habitat into a multi-level base with sloped hallways, then keep building outward once you get the building gun.
- boost and strafe in any direction in zero-g, threading through open space between asteroids and huge structures with full flight control.
- keep adding machines until the power demand outpaces your grid, then watch parts of your base shut down until you expand energy production.
- recycle old gear to recover materials, including getting resources back when you crafted the wrong thing.
- shoot aliens and robots when you run into them, turning a mining run into a sudden firefight.
- find and take an alien egg back to your base, then decide what to do with it later.
8Arcade Moonlander - Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.
Oct 25, 2017
In this game, you can…
- drop into a huge map with checkpoints, teleport pads, and multiple routes while you search for the landing pad.
- fly through gravity wells, falling stalactites, space worms, satellites, asteroids, and hostile terrain that can wreck a clean run.
- find fuel tanks mid-run and chain them to collect enough fuel to clear every path in one go.
- nail a vertical landing on fumes before your ship explodes.
- thread your ship through maze-like caverns where the safe route costs too much fuel and the shortcut is wall-scraping tight.
- choose between a safer tunnel that might make you run out of fuel, or a narrow high-risk passage that saves seconds and gets you to the pad.
- use a heavy thrust burst for split-second saves, trading a brutal fuel drain for a desperate correction.
9Deep Space Cache - Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.
Nov 15, 2024
In this game, you can…
- fire around 80 bullets a second once your ship is fully upgraded.
- walk away for a bit and come back dramatically stronger because your upgrades kept working.
- hit the point where the screen fills with projectiles and asteroids melt away almost instantly.
- unlock homing shots, spinning shots, orbitals, and homing missiles, then stack them into one ship build.
- turn asteroid loot into generators that produce the real currency for ship upgrades.
- start with scarce asteroids, then push through dense fields of harder rocks to unlock better generators.
- finish a full run from fragile starter ship to fully upgraded end state in about 2–3 hours.
- buy mines that quietly feed skill points into your upgrade tree, then suddenly realize you've banked a bunch already.
10Sunshine 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.
Aug 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- make a replica of the Master Sword out of mostly guns.
- put air horns and propellers on a spaceship and still have it work.
- watch your completed ships show up later as silhouettes in the background and on the title screen as part of your personal ship gallery.
- start with a ship that meets the requirements, then keep rearranging parts until it actually looks good.
- juggle leaking radioactive parts, exterior-only gear, engine cooling, and fuel pumps while you're not allowed to rebuild the whole ship.
- use smaller engines to save money, then reposition pumps and heat sinks so one placement fixes two problems and creates a third.
- rebuild the same contract a dozen different ways, from profit-obsessed min builds to a SpongeBob-shaped ship that still qualifies.
- do a daily challenge where the goal is the lowest-cost ship that meets the spec, then compare it on a leaderboard.
