>> best Space Sim games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Space Sim games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Space Sim games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Space Sim fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

beats 76%

87 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Dyson Sphere Program	115 players	beats 72%
03	Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander	37 players	beats 73%
04	Stardeus	12 players	beats 75%
05	Mars First Logistics	17 players	beats 74%
06	Ostranauts	9 players	beats 75%
07	Starcom: Unknown Space	12 players	beats 74%
08	X3: Reunion	7 players	beats 76%
09	No Man's Sky	415 players	beats 70%
10	Blossom: The Seed of Life	6 players	beats 75%
11	Elite Dangerous	148 players	beats 68%
12	Deliver Us The Moon	12 players	beats 70%
13	Space Haven	30 players	beats 69%
14	Kerbal Space Program	202 players	beats 67%
15	Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown	6 players	beats 72%
16	Space Colony: Steam Edition	5 players	beats 73%
17	Void Crew	18 players	beats 68%
18	FTL: Faster Than Light	236 players	beats 66%
19	Heliopedia	4 players	beats 73%
20	Star Shelter	3 players	beats 75%
21	Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager	5 players	beats 70%
22	Terraformers: First Steps on Mars	8 players	beats 62%
23	X4: Foundations	46 players	beats 59%
24	Final Upgrade	8 players	beats 59%
25	SpaceEngine	15 players	beats 57%
26	House of the Dying Sun	5 players	beats 58%
27	Star Trucker	24 players	beats 56%
28	Starfield	88 players	beats 55%
29	Astrometica: Prologue	4 players	beats 57%
30	Juno: New Origins	7 players	beats 54%
31	The Last Starship	11 players	beats 54%
32	Redout 2	4 players	beats 54%
33	Freaking Meatbags	4 players	beats 54%
34	Chorus	9 players	beats 53%
35	SOL: Exodus	3 players	beats 54%
36	Star Trek™: Bridge Crew	7 players	beats 52%
37	Tin Can	14 players	beats 52%
38	Power of Ten	5 players	beats 52%
39	Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®	8 players	beats 51%
40	ΔV: Rings of Saturn	23 players	beats 51%
41	Astrox Imperium	4 players	beats 51%
42	Exo One	11 players	beats 51%
43	Endless Sky	23 players	beats 51%
44	Marauders	7 players	beats 51%
45	1000 days to escape	4 players	beats 51%
46	Between the Stars	10 players	beats 51%
47	Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder	6 players	beats 51%
48	Space Engineers	172 players	beats 50%
49	Rover Mechanic Simulator	18 players	beats 50%
50	Starminer	7 players	beats 50%
51	STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™	5 players	beats 50%
52	Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor	28 players	beats 50%
53	Universe Sandbox	48 players	beats 50%
54	EVERSPACE™	51 players	beats 50%
55	Empyrion - Galactic Survival	35 players	beats 50%
56	Farlands	5 players	beats 49%
57	SpaceBourne 2	8 players	beats 49%
58	60 Parsecs!	35 players	beats 48%
59	Galactic Mining Corp	10 players	beats 47%
60	Spaceflight Simulator	7 players	beats 46%
61	Void Miner – Incremental Asteroids Roguelite	12 players	beats 42%
62	Stable Orbit - Build your own space station	4 players	beats 39%
63	Last Horizon	4 players	beats 38%
64	Starship EVO	3 players	beats 37%
65	Astrometica	4 players	beats 37%
66	Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator	4 players	beats 37%
67	Strike Suit Infinity	12 players	beats 40%
68	Avorion	20 players	beats 40%
69	Evochron Mercenary	4 players	beats 36%
70	Mars Horizon	10 players	beats 39%
71	Dune: Imperium	7 players	beats 37%
72	STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™	3 players	beats 33%
73	Vanguard Galaxy	5 players	beats 35%
74	HELLION	7 players	beats 35%
75	Surviving Mars	130 players	beats 37%
76	Starbase	12 players	beats 34%
77	Rebel Galaxy	22 players	beats 35%
78	Kerbal Space Program 2	10 players	beats 32%
79	Rebel Galaxy Outlaw	3 players	beats 25%
80	X Rebirth	3 players	beats 25%
81	STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition	4 players	beats 27%
82	Eterium	3 players	beats 25%
83	Parkan 2	3 players	beats 25%
84	Gaia Beyond	3 players	beats 24%
85	Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD	13 players	beats 32%
86	PULSAR: Lost Colony	19 players	beats 32%
87	Little-Known Galaxy	5 players	beats 27%
88	Starcom: Nexus	8 players	beats 30%
89	Star Traders: Frontiers	4 players	beats 25%
90	Universe Sandbox Legacy	37 players	beats 32%
91	Detached	4 players	beats 25%
92	Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation	5 players	beats 26%
93	Digger: Galactic Treasures	9 players	beats 29%
94	Nimbatus - Drone Creator	4 players	beats 23%
95	The Spatials: Galactology	5 players	beats 25%
96	X-COM: Interceptor	5 players	beats 25%
97	Interkosmos	6 players	beats 26%
98	Take On Mars	6 players	beats 25%
99	Starpoint Gemini Warlords	6 players	beats 25%
100	Interstellar Rift	6 players	beats 24%
101	Flotilla	7 players	beats 25%
102	X3: Terran Conflict	14 players	beats 28%
103	Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition	9 players	beats 26%
104	Cosmonautica	8 players	beats 25%
105	Kinetic Void	7 players	beats 24%
106	EarthX	12 players	beats 25%
107	Dreadnought	11 players	beats 24%
108	Orbit HD	3 players	beats 13%
109	Idle Sphere	17 players	beats 25%
110	Strike Suit Zero	20 players	beats 25%
111	Pixel Starships	12 players	beats 23%
112	Galaxy Idle Clicker	28 players	beats 25%
113	Starpoint Gemini 2	25 players	beats 25%
114	Star Conflict	38 players	beats 25%
115	Space Crew: Legendary Edition	38 players	beats 25%
116	X: Beyond the Frontier	4 players	beats 14%
117	EVE Online	116 players	beats 25%

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