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#1 Space Rangers

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Space Rangers is the unique blend of Turn-based Combat and Space Trading Simulation elements, developed by Elemental Games and published by 1C Company. The game supports Single-player mode only and takes place in the dynamic and open-ended environment in the style that has been compared to Star Control 2 and Elite. According to the plot, the peaceful interstellar coalition is threatened by the massive and powerful enemy known as the nuclear warships of the Klissans. In the game, the player commands the protagonist, a ranger, the part of the team of non-military volunteers who has the small ship with an objective to help out the people and struggle to take down enemies. There are six total races such as Maloq, Peleng, Human, Faeyan, Gaal, etc. and the player can select one of them to start his adventure to kill enemies and save the world. The trade prices of the game on planets follow supply and demand, and the conflicts are non-scripted wars, AI-controlled ships have different capabilities, relations and goals, etc. The game introduces seven different ways to accomplish the storyline. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

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#2 Ascent: The Space Game

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Ascent: The Space Game is a Massively Multiplayer Online, Strategy, Science-fiction and Space Simulation by Fluffy Kitten Studios. The game combines the elements of Combat, Exploration, Trading, Research, Asteroid Mining, Farming, Custom Ship and more. It takes place in the massive space environment and lets you create your own starbase and expand it further and further. Gather resources and defend your units. There are over billions star system to explore and enjoy. To get into the game world, you have to customize your ship with different items and weapons. Colonize your own world and decorate it with different accessories. Unlock powerful weapons and fight against aliens races to protect your colony and its inhabitant. Interact with NPCs and trade with them to earn experience points. Harvest resources, and collect rare artifacts from space during exploration. Pilot your spacecraft and move freely where you want. Ascent: The Space Game includes key features such as Exploration, Starbase Construction, and Harvest Resources to Survive, Trading, Discover new Technologies, Build Jump Gates, and more. Ascent: The Space Game is the best game to play and enjoy.

#3 Eve Online

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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.

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#4 Star Trek Online

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Star Trek Online is an amazing Sci-Fi themed MMORPG and Space Exploration video game by Cryptic Studios. The game’s story is based on the popular Star Trek Series and offers a similar gaming experience. Star Trek Online tells the story about the collapse of alliance between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire that started a new war, The Borg Collective threat and the Romulan Star Empire closing in on Dominion. The game is set between the years 2409 and 2410 and takes you to the era after the events of Star Trek: nemesis. Star Trek Online allows you to be a Captain of your own Space Ship, Control a massive number of crew and officers, fly the ship into deep space and target your enemies in order to defeat them and be a skilled and most popular De Facto of the time. Star Trek online lets you select any one of the three main factions (Romulan, Federation and Klingon), select any of the available characters or simply create your own and get into the game world in order to complete a number of amazing objectives. With all the War Drama, Star trek Online lets you explore space and enjoy an amazingly unforgettable experience of Star Trek universe. With a massive game world, Action-packed Environment, immersive game-play and a marvelous MMORPG experience, Star Trek Online is a brilliant game to play.

#5 Vega Conflict

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Vega Conflict takes you to a beautifully created Sci-Fi setting and lets you immerse yourself into the most Epic and unforgettable experience of MMO and RTS game-play. The game tasks you to explore and capture the whole Galaxy and maximize your reign by using all the unique strategy and real-time tactical approach, build your own massive Space Base, upgrade it with the help of all the available upgraders and latest and captured technologies, make your defenses impenetrable, find your friends, make grand alliances and invade your enemies and capture all the neighboring settlements and enjoy ruling over the whole galaxy. The primary objective of the game is to Capture and seize the Space stations built by the enemies, loot their resources and prove your supremacy by the use of advanced weaponry and tactics. When you are on quests to encounter the enemies, remember not to mess with the enemies more powerful than yourself or else you’ll be defeated badly. Start off with the ones less powerful than you, attack them, conquer them and combine them with your forces, build enough muscle and gather enough resources to defeat the bigger enemy forces and expand your reign and terrain. Combats in the game are mostly PvP and PvE based in which you can put on the best show of your might, defeat the enemies and enjoy playing this brilliant game. Try it out and it’ll lets you enjoy the experience of a life time.

#6 Sins of a Solar Empire

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Sins of a Solar Empire is a Single and Multiplayer, Sci-Fi MMORTS and Tactical Combat video game developed by Ironclad games. The game allows you to select anyone of the three races The Industrial Tec, The Psychic Advent and The Alien Vasari, and get into the game-play. You must select a campaign and spawn yourself on a planet, build mega structures, train troops, gather resources and attack on any of the neighboring or far away planet systems to conquer. Sins of a Solar Empire provides with a fully 3D and a massive Sci-Fi environment that features hundreds of thousands of Galaxies, Stars, Planets, Asteroids etc. for you to conquer and gather resources. You can also play the game with AIs and other online players, make alliances or get into conflicts with one another. Your main objectives are to explore the space and conquer as much star systems and you can by the use of your strategic approach and your armies. Sins of a Solar Empire includes cool 3D graphics, Great mission objectives, thrillingly addictive game-play and easy user interface and controls. Do try it out, it’s a fantastic MMORTS and Tactical Combat video game to play and enjoy.

#7 Battlestar Galactica Online

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Battlestar Galactica Online is probably the coolest ever Sci-Fi RTS, Space Exploration and Combat video game that lets you be an in charge of a whole fleet of ships and tasks you to lead them to a world they can settle on. The game is based on a TV series of the same name and offers a truly epic space exploration and combat experience. After the invasion of Cylones, humanity was forced to leave earth and now they are wandering into the deep space in search a place they can call home. With enemies tailing your whole bunch of ships, your task is to be a commander and pilot and lead the fleet to safety and with the use of your best strategies, powerful weapons and your wit, defeat the enemies. The game allows you to team up with other online players in multiplayer mode, make allies, maximize your power, engage in epic PvP and PvE events, defeat the enemies and ultimately rule all over the galaxy. With great visuals, an amazingly engaging game-play, lots and lots of upgrades and other cool stuff, Battlestar Galactica Online is a great game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.

#8 DarkStar One

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DarkStar One is another great Space Exploration, Trading and Combat Simulation similar to Freelancer. The game is actually a remake of the super popular DarkStar One: Broken Alliance and offers a similar game-play, enhanced visuals and mechanics and takes you to the same Universe as its predecessor. As the main character of the game Kayron Jarvis, your tasks are to control the Ship named As DarkStar One, passed to you after the death of your father in a sabotage. You must accept the ship, go on hunting the ones who sabotaged the station and killed your father. As a mercenary by nature, you’ll have to explore various planets, gather resources, trade for items and make your ship more powerful in order to eliminate the enemies, and to earn respect among other pilots. DarkStar One offers a number of different paths to choose and allows you to either be Pirate, a Bounty hunter or a Trader by choice, act accordingly and enjoy a marvelously immersive game-play. DarkStar One, with all the wonderful elements such as beautiful visuals, engaging game-play and a well-written story-line, is one of the best alternative to Freelancer.

#9 Evochron Mercenary

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Evochron Mercenary is another popular Space Exploration, and Combat oriented simulator like Freelancer. The game is set in the same Universe as the famous Star Wraith Series and offers a similar game-play, enhanced mechanics and action-packed encounters with enemies. Unlike other games of this type, Evochron Mercenary tasks you to explore the Space alone on your own, survive and complete a number of tasks in order to earn reputation and wealth. As the Mercenary, you’ll have to accept a number of jobs, either to simply explore the world, collect resources, transport the passengers or go hunting your enemies in epic Dogfights. The trading element of the game allows you to bargain for parts and enhancements for your ship, weapons and resources etc. Multiplayer element enables you to interact with other players and enjoy a unique gaming experience. With an involving and quite immersive game-play, state of the art visual details and a lot of cool stuff, Evochron Mercenary is a great alternative to Freelancer.

#10 DarkOrbit

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DarkOrbit is one of the best Free-to-Play Space Exploration and MMO video game similar to Freelancer that lets you suit up as a Spaceship pilot. With a huge Community and fantastic game-play, DarkOrbit allows you to be part of a community having millions of online players, select and customize your online avatar, get into the game world and start exploring, engage yourself into epic real-time Combats, participate in the massive game economy and enjoy trading for goods by using both real and game currency. Combat element in DarkOrbit allows you to go against the pirating enemies, destroy their fleets of ships, recover the goods and trade them for earnings. You can always use the available resources to buy upgrades that will help you modify your ships like mounting more weapons on the Hull or installing some metal piercing laser beams etc. Eliminating the NPC Ships and defeating the enemies rewards you with various rewards and that rewards are a way to show your supremacy over the enemies. Multiplayer feature of the game allows you to interact with online players, forge alliances and go hunting the enemies as a combined force. DarkOrbit is one of the best alternatives to Freelancer, do try it out.

#11 Ace Online

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Ace Online combines the Action and 3D MMO genres together and offers a brilliant Strategy and RPG game-play in a very beautiful manner. The game is set in a Futuristic setting and allows you to be the Pilot of your own Fighter Spaceship named as Gear, immerse yourself in to an amazing game-play, explore the world around you, engage into epic combats and encounters with the enemies, be part of the always raging PvP and PvE events and defeat your enemies to level up. The MMO feature allows yo to interact with other online players, make great alliances and fight off the enemies for good. With a lot of new Missions, game world maps and the ability to challenge online players and NPCs makes this game even more engaging. Every PvP or PvE Combat event win allows you to seize control over a mapped territory, build your own base and defend it against any enemy incursions. With a super thriller nature, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Ace Online lets you enjoy an amazingly addictive gaming experience. Try it out as an alternative to Freelancer and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#12 Pirate Galaxy

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Pirate Galaxy is a cool Browser-based Sci-Fi MMO video game that takes you to the depths of Galaxy to explore various Star-Systems, engage in epic fights with the enemies in order to seize control over Planets and to complete various game missions. Pirate Galaxy offers a beautiful Story-Driven game-play in which your task is to Pilot your own Spaceship, Complete different Quests, battle against enemies of different types and earn points to upgrade your ships in order to have an edge over the enemies. Pirate Galaxy offers a chance to immerse yourself into epic PvP and PvE combat events, defeat your enemies and earn upgrades and stuff. The trading and economics element of Pirate Galaxy allows you to trade items with other online players, buy new ships, weapons and gadgets to make your ships impenetrable and always have an edge over the enemies. Pirate Galaxy offers multiple environments, enemies and game maps to explore, browser and client based platforms to play the game on, Multiplayer support and a number of other modes to enjoy.

#13 Astro Lords

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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.

#14 Star Conflict

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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.

#15 Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

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Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is a Roguelike Real Time Strategy and Sci-Fi video game set in the distant space settlement. The game puts you into the character of a Space Fleet commander who struggles to lead a whole fleet of Ships to safety. The enemies, on the other hand are trying hard to destroy the fleet and kill all of the occupants. You must lead your fleet from right in the middle of the enemy territory and make strategies to defeat them if they attack. You must use your tactical skills and upgrades to make your ships and defenses impenetrable. If you are able to pass through the enemy territory safe, the game will advance you to next level, but if you are killed by the enemy, the game ends. “Distant Star: Revenant Fleet” allows you to attack on your enemies from different directions to damage their ships and once they are damaged enough you can destroy the ships by one big blow. Some other great features of the game include clean 3D graphics, well designed game maps and levels, easy user interface and a lot of themes to keep engaged till the end. “Distant Star: Revenant Fleet” is a great roguelike game to play and enjoy, Do try it out.

#16 Flotilla

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Flotilla is a 3D Turn-based Co-Op Multiplayer Space Exploration and Combat video game by Blendo Games. Set in a Randomly generated Galaxy environment, Flotila allows you and your opponents (Both Online and NPCs) to control a whole fleet of Spaceships, issue orders to engage in real-time combat and keep on repeating the process until any of the sides is defeated. With a turn-based environment, Flotilla allows you to have one of the best Co-op experiences and enjoy the game-play. Flotilla lets you issue three man types of orders (Attack Move, Flank Move and Focus Fire) to your fleets and reverse the enemy attacks by engaging at the right time and attacking at the right place. In the start, Flotilla allows you to have only two ships, but as the time passes, you can have more ships in your fleet by simply visiting the game shop and upgrading to a number of desired ships while remaining in the limit to spend your resources and rewards. Single player mode of the game allows you to go exploring the world, engage in epic enemy encounters and enjoy the game-play even more. With a brilliant setting, a unique combat oriented game-play and brilliant 3D visuals, Flotilla is an immersive game to play and enjoy.

#17 Homeworld

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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.

#18 Sword of the Stars 2: Enhanced Edition

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Sword of the Stars 2: Enhanced Edition comes with amazing upgrades and offers a wonderfully enhanced characteristics. This brilliant RTS and Tactics packed game allows you have more quantity of DLC (New characters, Skins, Combats, Badges etc.) and lets you have your own fleet of futuristic starships, explore the vastness of space, hoist your flags in the far reaches of the galaxy and expand your empire in order to conquer more worlds. Other tasks are to search for new alien technologies, engage into epic Real-time battles, skirmishes and turn-based game-play. With new races, amazing new weapons, new missions, great visuals, and immersive game-play etc. Sword of the Stars 2: Enhanced Edition is a wonderful game to play.

#19 Haegemonia Gold Edition

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Haegemonia Gold Edition is a great RTS and Tactical Strategy video game. The game offers both Haegemonia: Legion of Iron and Haegemonia: The Solon heritage and allows you to explore deep space territories, command over a huge fleet of ships, engage into amazing battles in between the people of Colonized Mars and Earth and show off your great strategic and tactical skills. Colonizing distant planets, terraforming them, setting up civilizations, managing resources and building research facilities etc. are among other tasks of the game. This marvelous galactic journey lets you have a totally immersive gaming experience and offers brilliant visuals, great storyline and a wonderfully engaging game-play. Do give it a try.

#20 Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a great RTS and Tactical Strategy video game that offers loads of similarities to the popular Homeworld video game. The game is set in 22nd century and lets you be an aspiring captain named Marcus Cromwell who commands over a starship named Stiletto and other ships in the fleet. Your task is to try and get out of an unwanted conflict across the galaxy by engaging yourself into epic battles against the enemies and the hunger to find out more futuristic alien technologies. With a unique combat system, Nexus: The Jupiter Incident provides with a number of missions, rewards and upgrades in order to complete the game objectives. A campaign that offers a number of episodes, 20 tantalizing missions , 6 different alien races to battle with, 50 characters to choose between and over 90 amazing and futuristic weapons are the key elements of this cool game. You must play this wonderful game. It a bit old but is quite good and is still pacing up in the markets.

#21 Space Borders: Alien Encounters

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Space Borders: Alien Encounters is a cool RTS and Tactical video that takes you to an amazing space journey where your task is to control a massive starship fleet, wage epic wars against the alien enemies, collect resources and hunt for advanced alien technologies in order to benefit the human race. Space Borders: Alien Encounters offers 15 different types of ships all laced up with different skill sets (Fighters, Destroyers, Scavengers etc.) along with amazing 3D visuals, wonderful training missions and more advanced game Mods. With and endless campaign, 8 separate missions and a lot of other great things, Space Borders: Alien Encounters features great visual details, engaging and quite immersive game-play and a brilliant storyline to follow.