20 Best Space Simulation Games on Steam

Astro Lords or Astro Lords: Oort Cloud takes you to an amazing Universe Exploration and Combat journey and allows you to engage yourself into epic enemy encounters, trade and management simulation. This brilliant 3D MMO offers real-time battles and combats against the enemies, tons of space exploration and adventures and lets you be in charge of your own Asteroid. Your task is to simply defend your asteroid against the enemy attacks, collect resources to build structures on your asteroid, create various types of spaceships to explore the universe, build a huge base and militarize your every move against the enemies to stay always ahead of their plans. With a brilliantly designed core game-play, MMORTS aesthetics, PvP and PvE combats, and the ability to capture and conquer other Asteroids floating around the Oort Cloud nebula, defeating the enemies in epic encounters, game’s own economy system, unique trading capabilities and a unique Combat system, Astro Lords lets you enjoy experience of a life time. Astro Lords offers wonderful visuals, an immersive game-play and a lot of fantastic things to discover and enjoy beyond limits.

Kerbal Space Program or also known as KSP is a Single-player Space Flight, Building and Construction and Simulation video game by Squad. The game is built using the updated Unity Engine and offers playability on Multiple Platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. The game allows the players to control a whole Space Mission Program named as Kerbal Space Program, Have a Crew of Humanoid Aliens known as Kerbals and enjoy Exploring the Space. Game’s Complex and realistic Orbital Physics helps players learn about the Hohmann Transfer Orbits (Start from a Lower Orbit and end up in a Higher Orbit) maneuvers and enjoy piloting the ship. According to the gameplay and game story, the game tasks the players to head a Nascent Space Program, Control the Kerbals (Intelligent Humanoid Aliens from an Earth-like planet Kerbin) and enjoy learning to maneuver into Space. Kerbal Space Program gameplay is divided into two main parts such as Construction and Flight, and it allows the players to construct various types of Rockets, Aircraft, Rovers, etc. Once the ships are created, the players can simply launch them into Space from in-game launch Pad, explore the Space and complete various objectives of the game. The game offers various types of mission such as Reaching to a Certain Height, Escape the Atmosphere, Reach Stable Orbit, Capture Asteroids, Create Space Stations, Visit different Planets and collect information about them, etc. With all the Space Exploration fun, Unique game Physics and mechanics, and interesting gameplay, Kerbal Space Program is a fun Space Simulation to enjoy.

Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack is a Downloadable Content Pack for original Stellaris video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game mixes the Strategy and Space Simulation elements and offers the player new ways to establish is empire around the stars. In the game, the player starts as the Machine Empire with a task to establish his empire further and progress through the game to become the master. The game introduces unique event chains and features, enabling the machines to expand the empire as a robotic consciousness, and build an artificial intelligence-led network that grows the dominance. The player plays as the Stellarism, a customized robotic civilization. It enables the player to experience the empire-building and science-fiction exploration gameplay like never before. The DLC pack enables the player for the creation of machine empires, where the player can form entirely mechanical societies and can find his place among organics. With improved graphics, gameplay, controls, and environment, Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Sunrider Academy is a mix of Visual Novel, Romance, Anime-style, and Dating Simulation elements developed by Love in Space and published by Sekai Project for multiple platforms. The game lets you step into the shoes of the protagonist named as Kayto Shields, serving as the ordinary man who throws into an extraordinary adventure. According to plot, it was the first day of the protagonist as the vice president of the Sunrider Academy student council when the president of the class selected him to be the manager of school. The game supports Single-player mode only and revolves around Management Simulation gameplay, where the player must manage the clubs on the student council. It comes with new character casts, dozens of line of dialogue and more. The player can interact with NPCs, find his love and can romance to engage in the management simulation. Sunrider Academy offers an epic story, beautiful environment anime-based characters, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Lost Orbit is an Adventure, Exploration and Space Simulation developed and published by PixelNauts. The game supports Single-player mode only and offers an exciting gameplay with 3D graphics and excellent mechanics. The story follows the lone protagonist named as Harrison, who stranded in deep space after his spaceship is destroyed. The protagonist is a lowly maintenance worker and the hero, who must struggle to explore the environment while finding a way to go home. It revolves around the space exploration elements and lets the player takes on the role of the astronaut who sets off on an epic mission to join the civilization, equipped with a relentless spirit and a set of equipment. Without any use, the player must use gravitational forces of different planets to explore the space. There are four unique solar systems available comprises more than forty levels. Each level has a detailed ranking system and an exclusive mode. Lost Orbit offers core features such as Forty Levels, Upgrades, Customization, RPG System, Time Trial Mode, Intuitive Controls, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Mountain is an Indie, 3D and Single-player Simulation created by David OReilly and published by Double Fine Productions. The game offers relaxing gameplay, in which the influence the player can have at the beginning of the game where he is tasked to draw several objectives. This game is developed and designed to be played in the background while the player uses other apps. The game is described by its developer named as David OReilly, as a Mountain Simulation, introducing little interactivity from the player. Upon starting the game, the player must draw responses to a variety of asked questions. It takes input from the player to generate the mountain’s model, floating in space, covered by a small sphere of the atmosphere. During the gameplay, the mountain rotates as the time progresses through the day and night cycles. The player will experience the snow form and melt on the mountain and can plant trees grow. Mountain comes with core features such as 3D Engaging Gameplay, Detailed Graphics, Draw Objects, and more.

Polynomial 2: Universe of the Music is an Action, Open World, 60DOF, and First-person Space Simulation created and published by Dmytry Lavrov. The game takes place in the thrilling sci-fi procedurally generated environment and mixes the elements of Fast-paced, VR (Virtual Reality), and Exploration. The game takes you in the endless universe of stars with fractal nebulae that shine as you interact and engage in space combat. There are nine levels available and each level offers different scenarios and a set of missions. Select your spaceship and get into the randomly generated environment where you needs to complete a variety of tasks to earn points by exploring the world and fighting against enemies. The game will increase the level difficulty, as you become advance through it. Unlock further features in the game to upgrade your weapons, spaceships, and equipment and become the master by defeating more than 10 different types of enemies. Polynomial 2: Universe of the Music includes fantastic features such as 9 Unique Levels, over 10 Enemies, 4 different Weapon, more than 6 Modes, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Descent: Underground developed and published by Descendent Studios is an Action-Adventure and First-person Shooter video game with Shoot-em-up elements for multiple platforms. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the thrilling sci-fi space environment. It follows dogfight between fighter airship deserves six degrees of freedom. There are multiple spaceships featured by the game and you can claim one of them to start your journey against the rival faction. In the beginning, you have to customize your ship and choose the best weaponry for it. After customization, you are ready to pits against enemies. Explore the environment from a first-person perspective, interact with non-player characters and battle against enemies to crush them. As the game progresses, it becomes challenging to play and unlocks further content in the match to involve yourself in realistic dogfight experience. During manipulating, you can collect multiple power-ups to enhance your abilities and use your points to upgrade weapons, airship, and more. Descent: Underground offers prominent features such as Achievements, Storyline Missions, Mine for Resources, and more. Descent: Underground is the best game for hardcore players, looking for dogfight games.

GoD Factory: Wingmen is an Action-Adventure and Dogfighting video game played through intensely tactical 4 vs. 4 player combat arena. The ultimate task of the player is to struggle to demolish the 13KM long enemy’s carrier before they destroy the player’s ship. The game mixes the Action, Exploration, Shooter, and Space Simulation with Virtual Reality elements. To get into the space environment, the player needs to select and customize his spaceship, equip it with deadly weapons and interact with other players to team up. Explore the environment from both third-person or first-person perspective and effort to complete multiple missions to progress in the game. The player receives experience points for destroying enemy spaceship and uses his or her points to unlock tons of gunship parts with different statistics, split into four playable species. The game increases his level difficulty as the player becomes advance. GoD Factory: Wingmen offers key features such as Team-based Co-op Multiplayer, 4 vs. 4 Gameplay, Fast-paced Space Shooter, Dozens of Abilities and more. Try it out, and enjoy its prominent features to enjoy.

Universe Sandbox 2 is an Education, Interactive Space and Gravity Simulation developed by Dan Dixon and available to play on Microsoft Windows platform. The game takes place in the massive space environment full of galaxies, planets, moons and asteroids. By playing the game, the players can see the gravity’s effects on different objects in the massive universe and can run scale simulations of the solar system, while interacting and controlling time, gravity, other objects like moon, black holes, planets and more. The game comprises many realistic and fictional simulations. It is the sequel to Universe Sandbox and introduces new features such as atmosphere, randomly generated textures on gas giants, realistic collision system, Chart mode, visualization of black holes, and more. It has two different collision modes such as combine and bounce. Using the game, players can create their own universe by placing multiple planets, moons and asteroids. Universe Sandbox 2 offers core features such as Multiple Color Modes, Control (Speed, Gravity and Time), Two Collision Modes, Particle Grid, Ring Systems, and more. Check out the game and have fun.

Strike Suit Zero is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Space Shooter, and Single-player Space Simulation with Sci-fi and VR (virtual reality) elements developed and published by Bom Ready Games. The game revolves around dogfight gameplay and introduces a new mode called Strike Mode. It takes place in the futurist sci-fi space environment in the year 2299, and puts the player in the control of the protagonist, equip with Strike Suit and can transform into a space armor’s hulking suit. The primary objective of the player is to defend the world from vicious enemies and rescue it from destruction. In the game, the player can engage himself in fleet battles where his dogfighting skills and abilities will affect the cosmos’s fate. There are up to seventeen stunning missions and each mission needs a completion of individual objectives to progress through the game. The game rewards the player with experience points for complete missions and he can use them to unlock further content like items, equipment, armor suit, weapons and more. With most prominent features, fast-paced gameplay, multiple endings, customization and smooth controls, Strike Suit Zero is the best game to play and enjoy.

X Rebirth is an addictive Space Simulation by Egosoft and offers the similar gameplay like Sins of a Solar Empire. It is an Action-Adventure, Combat, Trading, Sandbox, Sci-fi, and Single-player game. The game takes place in the X-Universe near the future. In the game, the player can assume the role of the protagonist and the game revolves around combat, piracy, trade, and others. The primary goal of the player is to gain wealth and build his own space station and control fleet of starships and expand it. It sets the player on an epic adventure where he must collect items and fight against aliens and other factions with the use of various weapons, and must defeat them to save his space station and earn a lot of money. The game offers the open-ended game world and allows the player immersive himself in action-packed space combat experience. In the game, the player can build his own empire, trade with large factories, and crush his enemies. X Rebirth includes core features such as Trade, Build, Customization, Fight, Upgrades, Unique Weapons System, Economy System, and others. With the exciting gameplay, brilliant mechanics, superb visuals, and smooth controls, X Rebirth is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is a Turn-based Strategy, Free-to-play, Anime-based and Single-player Simulation with Visual Novel element developed by Love in Space. The gameplay is a mix of Romance and Role-playing elements, and it puts you in the role of the captain. The game takes place on a fictional planet destroyed by an alien faction. The protagonist named Captain Shields and his minted vessel known as the Sunrider, are the last hope of their people. You have to navigate the environment to find your allies around the starts and recover your hometown and restore the peace. It has a variety of levels, and each level offers challenging gameplay. Find and gather a team of pilot, create a relation with them and take part in battles to defeat the evil factions and win amazing rewards. Command your allies in tactical missions and manage resources to survive longer on the battlefield. Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius offers core features such as Travel through the Galaxy, Hi-Tech Graphics, Command your Team, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Universe Sandbox is an Action, Education, Physics-based, Space, Adventure and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Giant Army. The game takes on a massive space environment where you can build, and destroy anything that you imagine. It focuses on real-time gravity, collision, climate, space exploration, and material interaction. Your ultimate task is to navigate the environment, interact with objects and NPCs and reveal the secrets behind the scenes. There are tons of stars, planets, and galaxies are available to manipulate. In the game, you can encounter various alien species and can combat against them to score the points. Unlock other items using your points and dominate the galaxy. Learn about space, planets, black hole, and the atmosphere of space, etc. in this game and show off your skills and abilities by creating different things like planet, stars, etc. Universe Sandbox includes core features such as Simple Introduction, Fun-filled Activities, Physical Quantities in units (seconds, meters, and kilograms, etc.), 3D Mode, Two Collision modes (Combine and Bounce), and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

X3: Reunion focuses on Space Trading, Exploration, and Combat. It is the third entry in the series of X Universe Adventure and the direct sequel to X2: The Threat. It supports single-player mode and plays from the first-person perspective. It takes place in the massive space environment and lets the player get into the role of the protagonist who is a space explorer. There are different types of spaceship such as a powerful battleship, freighters, small ship, fast, massive carriers, scouting ships and more. Select one of them and dive into the game world where you can explore the game world freely without any task or could complete a series of challenging missions to earn experience points and trade with NPCs. The story of the game starts where the X2 left off. The game takes place in the fictional Universe called X. According to the story, the Kha’ak are destroying all the popular areas of the Universe and the father of Julian named Kyle is still in a coma. Assume the role of the protagonist, customize your starship and pilot it. Collect rare artifact and use them to unlock further content and enhance your abilities. You can use special gem to open a portal to Earth and can fight against a mysteries alien alliances. Save the world from devastation and complete all objectives. X3 Reunion offers core features, addictive gameplay, and the best mechanics. Try it out.

X3: Terran Conflict mixes different genres such as Trading, Combat, Exploration, and Space Simulation. It is developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the massive space environments and lets the player explore the game world from first-person perspective. To get into the game world, the player must create and customize his/her starship with different items. There are different races such as Xenon, Terran, Split and more and the player can select one of them and start his journey to navigate ship around different sectors. The game world comprises thousands of stations and ships and the player can create his colony, gather resources, and trade with NPCs to earn money. He has to fight against rival alien races to protect his colony and defeat them to earn amazing rewards. The Ship can be upgraded by using experience points that the player earned by complete objectives. X3: Terran Conflict includes key features such as New Factions, Largest X Universe, over 100 Spaceship, Management Tools and more. Try it out.

RymdResa is a non-violent Rogue-like Space Exploration video game by Morgondag. The game features a procedurally generated world in which it allows the players to explore various planets, collect epic loots and enjoy the game. RymdResa offers Survival and RPG elements as well and lets the players decide what type of Spaceship they want to use. Once the ship is selected, RymdResa lets the players customize it by the utilization of all available options, start exploring and survive in a retro-styled universe. The core objective of the game is to find a new Home after the destruction of your former home by an asteroid. To find the new home, you must get out in the open space and follow the coordinates to many random locations. The game features a procedurally generated game world, random loot, loads of cool customization options, three different chapters with entirely different stories and gameplay, beautiful art style and original background music. It offers beautiful graphics, addictive gameplay, and loads of things to discover. Do try it out for an amazing Space Exploration experience.

Star Conflict or also known as Star Conflict: Dogs of War is a an immense Action and Thrill-packed MMO, Exploration video game that sets you up into the character of a pilot and allows you to be part of massive leagues and engage yourself into epic interplanetary Skirmishes against the equally equipped and tactically advanced enemies. This epic space simulation allows you to go against the enemies in an amazing new fashion and engage yourself into PvP battles and PvE missions, go on some amazing quests in order to hunt down your enemies, choose best ever and advanced ships, explore a number of different places, earn experience points and collect upgrades by simply eliminating your enemies, produce massive battle ships and be a commander of whole fleets. Star Conflict offers an amazing battle oriented environment where you as the commander can choose your own path, survive as long as possible in the outer space and enjoy some of the best and longest campaigns ever. With a super engaging game-play, enhanced and state of the art graphics and amazing story-line Star Conflict is a great game to play.

Homeworld is an amazing Real-Time Strategy and Tactics Space Simulation by Relic Entertainment. It originally released back in 1999 and was the first fully 3D RTS ever. With a number of sequels (Homeworld: Cataclysm, Homeworld 2, Homeworld: Remastered), this game is still famous among all the hardcore RTS and Tactics enthusiasts. According to the storyline, Homeworld is set in Outer Space where Gravity is much less and all the ships can travel into Three Dimensional directions filled with a number of different obstacles such as Radiation, Dust Clouds and Asteroids etc. The game allows you to either play in Multiplayer Online mode or you can also play the game as Single player, control the character after selecting the Race (Kushan, Taiidan, Bentusi, Kadeshi, Turanic Raiders and Galactic Council etc.), lead your own fleet of ships, and go hunt down the enemies. Homeworld offers loads of resource types that you can collect, store them on your mothership and use them as per requirements. With a minimalist user interface, amazing space-based environment, epic encounters with the equally equipped enemies and loads of other cool things that Homeworld offers, this game is one of the best RTS games to play and enjoy.

FTL: Faster than Light, developed by Subset games is a Rouguelike Real-time Strategy (RTS) and Shooting Simulation by Subset Games. The game provides with Permadeath Mechanics and allows you to engage yourself in an amazing space themed environment. According to the story, you control a crew and an FTL (Faster Than Light) capable spaceship (Owned by the Galactic Federation) that is tasked to deliver critical information to an allied fleet of spaceships eight sectors away and is also being chased by a huge rebel spaceship fleet. Your task is to guide your ship safely all the way to your allied fleet and deliver the information by dodging and saving your ship from the rebel ship attacks. “FTL: Faster than Light” lets you defeat your enemies by directly getting into the permadeath styled combats, in a roguelike fashion. The Galactic Federation is on the verger of a drastic and mega devastation after they lost the great war against the Rebels. You must capture and contain the data packets, captured from Rebel ship communication intercept and deliver it to the Federation. The Federation will then use the information to attack and defeat the Rebel Factions and save the world. With a very well-written and quite involving storyline, beautifully created Ultra-HD graphics and a totally very addictive gameplay, FTL: Faster than Light is one amazing Space Exploration and RTS video game to play and enjoy.