14 Best Space RPGs on Steam

Drox Operative is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi themed Single-player and Multiplayer 4X video game developed and published by Soldak Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers a starship action gameplay with warring alien species and fierce space battles. It takes place in the stunning galaxy full of planets, asteroids, space stations, moon, and new worlds. The player serves as the protagonist, a spaceship pilot, who must manipulate the galaxy to encounter new worlds, discover new stars, and battle against alien species to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a top-down perspective, interact with non-player characters and earn money by trading, defeat enemies, and more. There are several playable factions available each with a set of objectives, upgrades, and ships. The player explores the evolving and dynamic galaxy, take part in the galactic war between various alien races and can destroy hundreds of enemy starships to become the master. Dynamic Galaxy, Monsters, Galactic War, Hundreds of Enemy Starships, Build your Starship, etc. are prominent features in the game.

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.

NAEV is a Space Exploration, Combat, and Single-player video game developed and published by Naev Team for Steam and Microsoft Windows. It takes place in the huge galaxy comprises lots of planets, space stations, and alien species. It mixes the Navigation, Combat, Trading, and Real-time Resource Management elements to offers the thrilling gameplay. According to the story, the space environment is full of dangers, alien species and friends. The player as the protagonist must select one of different spaceships in the beginning of the game and start his adventure to earn money by fighting, trading and performing various missions. It comes with a huge environment with hundreds of planets and moon to navigate. The game offers the similar gameplay to Escape Velocity series and introduces multiple factions each with unique personalities and unique ship design. The player needs to pilot his ship his way, explore the huge space, land on planets, space stations or moon the player wish to collect items and trade with non-player characters to raise his as money as much as possible to become the master. NAEV offers prominent features such as Semi-Newtonian Gameplay, Buy different Ships, Multiple Factions, Freedom of Modelling and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Endless Sky is a 2D Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi, Sandbox, Space Trading, and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Michael Zahniser for multiple platforms. It mainly focuses on space trading and combat elements and offers the superb gameplay inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. You as the protagonist must work your way up from a cargo ship, wimpy shuttle, or a fighter, to customize and upgrade the flagship to progress through the game. The game rewards you with money for each completed levels, and you can use to unlock further content. Earn as much money as possible by carrying passengers or cargo, bounty hunting, escorting convoys, or plundering the enemy ships. It takes place in the large galaxy consists of hundreds of start system, planets and several alien species with unique technology. The game becomes tough to play, as you advance to score enough points. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, encounter alien species and take down them to advance through the story. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Endless Sky is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Interstellar Marines Developed by the Zero Point Software, Interstellar Marines is a wonderful Action, RPG, FPS and Horror-Survival video game that takes you on some amazing missions in the 22nd century. The game tasks you to go on epic space exploration missions, hunt for the resources, face the challenges, dangers and get the ultimate rewards while encountering the alien enemies. Discover the true nature of ultimate space adventures, engage yourself into epic conflicts and be the heroes and the saviors of the human race. With some amazingly customized game modes, Unique combination of RPG and Tactical elements, Futuristic weaponry and advanced battle tactics, brilliant characters, interactive open world gaming environments, super cool visual details, a great story and an engagingly immersive game-play, Interstellar Marines is a marvelous addition to this specific genre. Try it out for an out of this world Action, RPG and FPS gaming experience, you’ll definitely love playing this game.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Developed by 2K Australia is an amazingly thrilling and Action-Packed First-Person Shooter video game. The story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist Jack who works for Hyperion Corporation. The company loses its Helios Space Station to Military after the Operation Lost Legion and sends you in along with four playable characters. Your task is to fight off the captives from Helios Space Station and regain the control by defeating the Lost Legion. The game lets you interact with a lot of NPCs and switch between the four playable characters according to the needs and the situations you go through. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! offers super best visuals, a great story, a lot of weapons and upgrades etc. For a great FPS experience, you must play this action-filled game, it’ll leave you spellbound for sure.

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.

For all those Sci-Fi Shooter enthusiasts who dearly love playing games, Dead Effect is actually a gift. This amazing game is packed with hardcore Action, Thrill, Stealth and Horror-Survival elements and offers a unique game-play experience. The game takes you to outer space and leaves you in a Star Ship fitted with a new FTL technology. The ship’s destination is a planet named as Tau Ceti F and after setting the course, all crew goes into hyper-sleep but when an elite member of Unit 13 wakes up, he finds the ship crowded with the Undead. In order to survive the Zombies, he starts finding the means to save himself and the story goes on. Dead Effect offers amazingly brutal encounters with Zombies, and leaves you alone to survive and to find other survivors. Your task is simple, get up, lace yourself with all the available weapons, start hunting down the undead and use your stealth abilities to prey on your targets. With amazing single-player and long campaigns, exploration, survival, loads of in-game achievements and state of the art weapons, and eerie soundtracks, Dead Effect offers brilliant visuals, a great story and a fantastic game-play.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II combines the Tactical Role-playing, and Real-time Strategy elements developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. It takes place in the fictional Universe of Warhammer 4K and serves as the sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game. There are different playable armies available for players such as Tyranids, Space Marines, Eldar, and Orks. The game offers the differ gameplay from its previous title and expansion pack. It has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and the player has to choose his favorite class to get into the world where he has to lead his team to destroy the enemy bases while trying to defend his own. Using customization, the player can design his player character, recruit his army and lead it on the battlefield against enemies. A massive arsenal of weaponry can be used during combat and can upgrade them using points that the player won by completing multiple tasks. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II offers core features such as Brutal Frontline Action, Non-Linear Gameplay, Single-player Campaign, Co-op Multiplayer, and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay and smooth controls, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

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.

Sunrider Liberation Day: Captain’s Edition is an Action, Visual Novel, Role-playing, and Single-player Strategy video game developed by Love in Space. The game takes place in the stunning world and puts you in the role of the protagonist named as Captain Kayto Shield. Your ultimate goal is to lead your allies to victory and fend off enemies in turn-based combat. It combines the elements of Anime-based and Strategy and offers ruthless gameplay where every victory like a triumph and every mistake like a punishment. Explore the environment to interact with NPCs, fulfill your objectives, fight against enemies and take down them to progress through the game. The game offers two different NPCs to assist you during the gameplay and features multiple endings, depending on the decisions taken by you. With superb gameplay, exciting story, and wonderful mechanics, Sunrider: Liberation Day – Captain’s Edition is the best game to play and enjoy.

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.

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.

Eve Online, developed by CCP Games is a fantastic MMORPG video game set in a Persistent World. With a Sci-Fi background and theme, the game lets you be a pilot who can fly a customizable spaceship in a galaxy that is home to almost 7800 star systems in which the stars are connected by portals named as Stargates. You can also choose any of the given professions and be a manufacturer, Miner, Trader, Explorer or a Warrior and take part in both PvP and PvE combat events. With responsibilities like Exploration, Resource Collecting, Building, Leading Massive Armies etc. this game tasks you to be an ultimate conqueror and a savior to the entire galaxy. Eve online was released back in 2006 but because of worldwide fame and a huge user base, this game is still rocking on the internet. With all the fantastic Visuals, engaging and quite addictive gameplay, Eve Online is a brilliant Space Exploration video game to play and enjoy.