12 Best Space Pirate Games for Mac OS

Wing Commander: Privateer is a Single-player, Action-Adventure, and Space Simulation developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It takes place in the Wing Commander Universe and offers the massive space environment where you can take on the role of the protagonist named Grayson Burrows. The story revolves around the protagonist and his efforts to explore the Gemini Sector in order to solve lots of complex mysteries. There are different character classes such as Freelancer, a Pirate, a Mercenary and a Merchant. It has a variety of levels comprises different challenges, tasks, and missions. You must explore the game world, interact with NPCs, trade with them and fight against vicious alien races. Pilot your ship and travel around different galaxies, earn experience points and unlock further content, weapons, and items. Upgrade your ship using different tools and immerse yourself in space exploration. The game includes different factions such as bounty hunters, Militia, Retros, Merchants, Pirates and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, superb controls and stunning visuals, Wing Commander: Privateer is the best game to play and enjoy.

Escape Velocity Nova is an Adventure, Role-playing and Single-player Space video game developed and published by Ambrosia Software for multiple platforms. The game serves as the third title in the series of Escape Velocity of Combat and Space Trading video games. It takes place around start systems in the Milky Way consists of tons of planets and space stations where the player can land on. In the game, each star system is controlled by either a faction or by on one. During the gameplay, the player controls a spaceship and can traverse between start systems by hyper jumping to explore the space environment. He can interact with non-player characters, encounter space pirates and kill them to fulfill the requirements of the objective. In the game, the player as a freelance space pilot must struggle to make the penny in the huge and unforgiving galaxy. There are a series of ways to play the game such as starting the game seeking for funds, become the trader, deliver cargo, and more. As the game advances, other features, planets, and content will be unlocked to play and enjoy. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, Escape Velocity Nova is the best game to play and enjoy.

SteamWorld Heist is an Action-Adventure, Turn-based Strategy, and Single-player video game created and published by Image and Form. The game serves as the third title in the series of SteamWorld and it is the sequel to the SteamWorld Dig. The player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Captain Piper Faraday, who is an occasional pirate and smuggler. The ultimate task of the player is to recruit a team with robots and sets out himself/herself on a space adventure. The player needs to board, shoot and loot his way through enemy spaceships and earn points to upgrade the abilities. The game is played from a side-scroll perspective and mixes the elements of shooting, strategy and turn-based combat with focus on skill rather than chance. Up to 100 various weapons available in the game to use and up to hundred hats to gather. It takes place in the procedurally generated world and brings a set of levels with increasing difficulties. SteamWorld Heist includes core features such as Strategy Focus on Skill, Turn-based Gameplay, compelling Soundtracks, and more. Try it out.

Wandering Willows is an Action-Adventure and RPG video game by PlayFirst, the creator of all-time hits Diner Dash and Wedding Dash video games. The game takes the players on an incredible journey of a whimsical world full of beautiful Wildlife, enchanting Quests and loads of other wonders. The game allows the players to befriend and pet over forty different species of wildlife animals, groom and train them and complete enchanting Quests together. Wandering Willows allows the players to explore a beautiful game world, interact with Gruff pirates and Spaceship Commanders, grow and manage gardens, harvest crops, and bake items, create all the beautifully styled clothes and find huge caches of treasures. Another great feature of the game is that it lets you search for rare Eggs when found, let them hatch and enjoy raising new pets and enjoy your life in Wandering Willows. With all the pleasant and beautiful environment, Wandering Willows lets the players enjoy an addictive gameplay, nice graphics, and all the adventures altogether.

Space Pirates and Zombies (SPAZ) is a cool Action-Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy and a Top-Down Space Combat and Shooter video game that allows you to explore an amazingly huge randomly generated galaxy and fight against the hostile Factions, Zombies and other enemies. Use your best skills to destroy alien ships, installations and facilities. Being in charge of a whole fleet of futuristic and most advanced space ships, and commanding the whole army is one of the best aspects of this super thrilling video game. Enemies include, aliens (Different races), humans and zombies that have infested almost every corner of the galaxy and they have mastered the art of evolving by creating a multi-tiered ecosystem that supports them with their plan of conquering the galaxy. With a lot of ships to fly in and build, pilot etc., a great physics based combat structure, a lot of different enemies, great visuals and an addictive game-play, Space Pirates and Zombies SPAZ is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

StarMade is another marvel and a super cool addition to the Sandbox genre. This brilliant Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie video game takes you to an amazing space themed game world and allows you to explore the whole universe, create or craft ships, weapons, shields to defy the enemy attacks, go planet to planet, collect resources, engage in epic battles with enemy and survive and save your crew members. Ship customization, encounters with space pirates and ability to build the whole space stations etc. are the coolest parts of this wonderful game. With amazing quests, a huge world to explore, lot of collectibles, Economy driven game-play, great visuals and a lot of other exciting things, StarMade is a great alternative to Starbound.

Out There is an Adventure, Rogue-like and Single-player video game developed by Mi-Clos Studio for multiple platforms. The story of the game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, in which there are limited resources remain on the planet Earth, and the humanity is going to end. An astronaut is sent to space to the Jupiter’s moon in order to locate resources and supply to Earth. You assume the role of the hero, who must navigate the space, gather resources to supply Earth while facing the terrifying space entities like aliens, pirates, and monsters. During the journey, the astronaut sleeps until reaching his destiny. He wakes up and discovers that he stuck on a strange planet populated creatures. There are three different civilizations, and you have to select your favorite one to start the game. It focuses on resource management and exploration. You start the game with a small ship loaded with some equipment, oxygen, fuel, and hull metals. Out There includes prominent features such as Sci-fi Adventure, 59 Achievements, Leaderboard, 10 Spaceship No Combat element, Crafting System and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Space Grunts is the mixture of Strategy, Turn-based, Role-playing and Rogue-like genres and brings a fabulous gameplay for those players, who love playing Rogue-like games with Sci-fi elements. The game features Pixel Graphics and supports Single-player mode developed and published by Orangepixel. It takes place in the procedurally generated dungeon and introduces the futuristic environment takes place in 2476. According to the story, the space federation of the Earth has been constructing moon bases around the galaxy. One of those moon space has sent a signal. The Space-federation sent to a group called Space Grunt to investigate and solve the problem. You are a part of the space team, and your primary goal is to locate the way into the base and figure out what has happened. Go deep into the moon-base and find the core problem while facing terrifying monsters, aliens and space pirates. During the gameplay, you will discover a collection of consumables all around the moon-base from destructive toys to weapon enhancers, armors, system hack, and explosives. Use the weapons wisely to progress deeper into the base and collect enough points and loot to become the master. Space Grunts is the incredible game with prominent features to play and enjoy.

Flinthook mixes the Rogue-like, Platform, Side-scroll and Action elements and supports Single-player mode only developed and published by Tribute Games for multiple platforms. In the game, the player commands a space pirate who must explore the randomly generated ships while searching for treasure. The player uses the grabbling hook to travel the ship to complete the level. The player controls the Captain Flinthook, who is equipped with a plasma gun, enabling the player to slow down the speed of time. The player explores the world from a side-scroll perspective and can jump to grab the hook and move to the next world. He uses the weapons to kill enemies and can collect treasure and other gems to score the highest points. The player can run, jump, and fire his way through a set of levels to progress through the game. Up to twenty-three soundtracks available and the game offers unique background for each level. Flinthook offers core features such as Character Design, 23 Soundtracks, Gather Relics, Uncover Mysteries, Blast your Way, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

VoidExpanse is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Space Exploration, Sci-fi themed, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by AtomicTorch Studio for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge world and mixes the Action Role-playing, and Science-fiction element set in deep space. The player takes on the role of the spaceship pilot with a task to manipulate the large galaxy, encounter planets, space stations, space pirates and several alien species as well as friends. During the gameplay, the player needs to mine asteroids for valuables, collect resources, trade to upgrade his ship, and effort to complete the requirements of story-based missions offered by one of different faction each with its unique agendas, characters, and skill trees. It offers Sandbox feature, enabling the player build, craft, trade, explore, deploy, battle and trade his way to earn experience points. VoidExpanse offers prominent features such as Open Exploration, Upgrade your Ship, Real-time Combat System, Multiple Factions, Character Customization, Trading System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Steredenn is a Side-scroll and Space Shooter video game created by Pixelnest Studio and published by Plugin Digital. It takes place in the space world and puts you in insane boss battles. According to the story, your land is in danger and dreadful space pirates are planning to destroy your land from the galaxy to steal the resources. You are the last hope of the world, and your primary objective is to set out yourself in on an epic adventure to fight against enemies using a ship equipped with multiple upgradeable weapons. You have to survive as long as possible in the never-ending battles and show off your abilities by destroying enemies. The game offers a procedurally generated environment where it takes place and full of enemies who want to crush you along your land. There are different spaceships available, and you can select one of them to jump into the awesome battle. Up to thirty-five weapons and twenty-five upgrades are available with combos and interactions. Steredenn includes prominent features such as Ruthless Gameplay, Endless Arcade Mode, 35 Weapons, Daily Run, Unlockables, Online Leaderboard and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Space Pirates and Zombies 2 is an Action, Strategy, Role-playing, Sandbox, and Single-player video game developed and published by MinMax Games Ltd. for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in the space environment and offers a procedurally generated environment where the player as the survivor must struggle to survive in the post-apocalyptic environment. According to the plot, the zombie threat has defeated, infrastructure has collapsed, and scavenging means survival. The massive galaxy has tons of fleets, trying to survive as long as possible. Artificial captains are trying to do everything the player can, and the player isn’t special and isn’t the galaxy’s center. During the game, the player needs to explore the environment, struggle to gather resources, and battle against the threat to restore the peace. The game begins with the player choosing his territory from available with an objective to establish and defend territories, install the resource hub, and create bases. Space Pirates and Zombies 2 includes core features such as Two Persistent Captains, Build your Faction, Randomly Generated World, and more. Check it out, and have fun.