Get ready to blast off into the cosmos with our curated list of the Top 25 Space Simulation Games you won’t want to miss during the Steam Winter Sale! Whether you’re commanding massive starships, exploring procedural galaxies, engaging in epic fleet battles, or surviving the void as a lone astronaut, there’s something here for every space enthusiast.
From classic space RPGs and tactical fleet sims to cutting-edge sandbox adventures and cooperative starship games, these titles will have you charting unknown territories, facing dangerous enemies, and building the ultimate spacecraft.
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Everspace 2
01:27 Starship Evo
01:50 Underspace
02:15 Infinity: Battlescape
02:39 Power of Ten
02:58 Pulsar: Lost Colony
03:28 Rebel Galaxy
03:48 Space Reign
04:09 Starcom: Unknown Space
04:33 Starpoint Gemini: Warlords
04:58 Chorus
05:24 Freespace 2
05:50 Reentry: A Spaceflight Simulator
06:18 Spacebourne 2
07:00 Empyrion
08:01 Liberation
08:48 Avorion
10:17 Space Engineers
11:09 Evochron Legacy SE
12:39 Elite Dangerous
13:37 No Man’s Sky
14:30 Children of a Dead Earth
15:11 Space Engine
16:44 House of the Dying Sun
18:04 X4: Foundations
19:17 Conclusion
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Top 25 Space Simulation Games to Pick Up in the Steam Winter Sale!
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Avorion is top notch!
where is QANGA ?
So many words and I learned nothing about the games shown
Empyrion WAS a good game… until they sold out to Tencent and released a paid DLC instead of fixing the base game that clearly still needs work.
hadleys run on steam is also a really good space game
I always return to Empirion. The community is huge. There is a huge steam workshop full of scenarios and player builds. There is an unlimited number of systems and planets to build. It is a steep learning curve and does not hold your hand. The Reforged Eden scenarios are popular upgrades.
x4 is great except on geforce now. Do not mess with video settings in game while on GEFORCENOW. you could very easily put yourself in a situation where if it was your pc you would be able to configure a file or properly minimize to desktop to investigate issue but since your streaming through geforce now you cant do that and it will be messed up until you can get to your pc, start the game outside of geforce now, save it, delete your cloud saves, and then when you get on geforce now it will work.
AAAAAAH you forgot StarSector and Nebolous Fleet Command
I once made the mistake of buying a game on Steam, because it was the only place it existed. I learned from that and will never buy any digital only game.
Nor will I own a single player game that requires I be connected to the net to play it.
I have zero interest in associating with people that try to control my life.
If you like rts in any regard then do yourself a favor and play avorion 👏
19:16 It's a pretty good game that has a tutorial system designed to get itself uninstalled immediately and lacks certain QoL basics from its predecesdor. Come for the promise, stay for the station construction.
H O U S E O F T H E D Y I N G S U N M E N T I O N E D ! ! !
love how you used the star citizen music in the background!
I used to enjoy Empyrion when it was still new.. played with random people on a server and even made my Capital Ship in the image of a galleon.. which then got rekt by someone's cubic capital ship with cubic ships that served as auto turrets..
is there a size limit to space engineers vessels ?
Another great list, wish Star Sector was on it. However I think I may pick a few of these up that I don't have already.
A couple of decent ones you missed are Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. 80% off. The prequel to Rebel Galaxy and gives you a choice of ships from small fighters to large cargo ships. Can be played from the cockpit view or 3rd person.
Juno: New Origins. 60% off. Formerly known as Simple Rockets 2, this is similar to Kerbal Space Program with somewhat simpler flight controls and the ability to pre-program flights.
Star Wars Squadrons. 95% off. While primarly a team based PVP game, it has a single player campaign and supports VR, trackIR head tracking, and most flight controllers.
X4 is the best.
Thanks for mentioning Liberation, it's an honour to be in a list of such amazing games
I second House of the Dying Sun, especially the VR mode. Still the best space shooter VR experience I ever had.
Avorion o7
The ones that interest me: Infinity Battlescape, Rebel Galaxy, Starpoint Gemini Warlords, Chorus, Spacebourne 2, Elite Dangerous, House of the Dying Sun, X4 Foundations.
I grew up on Xwing, Tie fighter and my all time favorite Wing Commander III
Elite dangerous main problem is ridiculously overcomplexed handling. They need to make a simple mode and advanced mode because games like Everspace 2 are completely playable out of the box and ED is completely unplayable out of the box.
"So many games you have covered so many times"?! Yet you have NEVER covered Stellar Tactics, a Sci-fi cRPG with space and ground combat!
Space engineers is worth your time and money. But only if you’re willing to invest time learning how the game works. It’s a steep learning curve but a deep sandbox experience that can last hundreds or thousands of hours.
..what was this fartý bethesda game called again ?!? 🤔"star shitting" ?!? 😂🤣
So, how can I get a 99% sale on Star Citizen space ships? I would like that 10,000 dollar bundle.
Infinity: Battlescape and X4 are my favourite.
Inifinity probably has the best combat of all space games ever.
X4 is just all things to all men. During the days of X3, I spent a significant amount of time as a Bounty Hunter in a fighter as I loved the "drifty" flight model. X4 is a similar story, everything in it just feels solid.
Empyrion is an amazing multiplayer universe tradeing game with lot of resources and factions bases to raid solo and in party , pvp , space bosses and stations , action house , craft , amazing custom ships build , etc . YES BAD GRAPHICS but for me and i am sure for many only what is behind graphics matter.
Hey do you play EVE Online? I recommend it to everyone watching
I'm surprised there's a list about space sim games that doesn't include Delta V: Rings of Saturn.
Nebulous Fleet Command for a more hardcore Homeworld style RTS experience.
still waiting for a House of the Dying Sun sequel ;-;
Dont buy space engineers new space engineers 2 is coming up on 27th jan.
I cannot recommend Elite: Dangerous enough. It's so goddamn good. Perfect? No. Amazing? Yes.