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2012PC75 % positive14.79 €

You play an independent space mercenary who decides whether to take contracts or carve your own path. Trading, mining, bounty hunting and racing blend together in a sprawling sandbox galaxy.

Sandbox with your own goals
Open world
Choices with consequences
Sci-fi setting

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The closest matches for Evochron Mercenary are Endless Sky, X: Beyond the Frontier and Wing Commander: Privateer. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Evochron Mercenary special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Endless Sky 93% match – Sandbox with your own goals
Newest alternative: Flatspace IIk 88% match – released 2017

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Endless Sky

93 %Match

2015PCSteam Deck playable92 % positivefree

You begin with a modest shuttle and build your way up through trading and combat to a formidable flagship or fleet. The freely explorable 2D galaxy, full of missions and hidden secrets, lets you chart your own path.

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X: Beyond the Frontier

Sandbox with your own goals

A classic space sandbox where you play a stranded pilot who trades, fights and grows a personal empire of ships and stations. Freedom and a living economy matter far more than the story.

Wing Commander: Privateer

Choices with consequences

You live as a freelance outlaw on the frontier of Terran space, choosing whether to trade, smuggle, hunt bounties or fight. The open galaxy full of pirates and Kilrathi is what makes this space game special.

Evochron Legacy

Sandbox with your own goals

You pilot a spacecraft through a vast freeform universe where you choose your own mix of trading, combat and exploration. The simulation asks for patience to learn, but rewards you with a lot of freedom.

Starpoint Gemini 2

Sandbox with your own goals

You captain your own spaceship in an open galaxy, mixing real-time space combat with trading, missions and RPG-style progression through ship upgrades and skills.

X3: Albion Prelude

Sandbox with your own goals

A vast, freely explorable space sandbox where you fly ships, trade, fight and build your own economic and fleet empire. The focus is on freedom and simulation rather than a tightly told story.

X3: Reunion

Sandbox with your own goals

A vast space sandbox where you fly ships, trade, build factories and stations, and carve your own path within a living simulated economy.

Flatspace IIk

Sandbox with your own goals

A top-down space game set in a randomly generated universe where you freely trade, fight and explore while upgrading your ship. Every playthrough differs since you pick your own profession and path.

X3: Terran Conflict

Sandbox with your own goals

A vast space sandbox where you fly ships, build trading empires and factory complexes, and get drawn into conflicts between rival races. Freedom is huge, but the learning curve is steep.

Starsector

Sandbox with your own goals

A space sandbox where you pilot a ship and build a fleet, trading, exploring and fighting in tactical real-time battles. You choose freely whether to become a trader, mercenary, pirate or warlord.

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