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Games like Frantic Freighter

2016PCSteam Deck playable2.99 €

You pilot a constantly disintegrating freighter across space, scrambling to patch it up, trade parts and dodge pirates. It is optimized for VR but also playable without it.

  • Driving or flying
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

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In short: Games like Frantic Freighter

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Frantic Freighter special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Planetbase

78 %Match

2015PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable79 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Frantic Freighter: a sci-fi setting, gameplay over story and a demanding difficulty.

A sci-fi colony builder where you balance oxygen, food and power to keep settlers alive on hostile planets. Meteors, storms and tight resources turn every expansion into careful planning.

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Surviving Mars

Pure single-player experience

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

R.U.M.A

Pure single-player experience

A small indie space game where you pioneer deep-space resource collection by gathering unstable matter, accompanied by a wry onboard AI. It mixes simulation, strategy and action in a compact, experimental package.

From the Depths

Driving or flying

A deep vehicle-building sandbox where you design warships, submarines, aircraft and spaceships block by block, then test them in battles or a strategic island campaign against eight factions. Its engineering depth in weapons, propulsion and construction rewards dedicated tinkerers.

Stardeus

Pure single-player experience

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

TerraTech

Driving or flying

You assemble custom vehicles from blocks to mine resources, build bases and fight your way across a procedurally generated planet. The appeal lies in creative tinkering and testing your own contraptions.

The Last Starship

Challenging difficulty

A starship simulation from Introversion Software where you build your own ship from hull, engines, life support, sensors and weapons, then set out across the galaxy. It is an early alpha, so this rating is provisional.

Starport Delta

Pure single-player experience

You build and run a space station, balancing resources, maintenance and the needs of your residents as it grows. Every expansion brings new pressures from the void.

The Final Earth 2

Pure single-player experience

A relaxed, vertical pixel-art city builder where you grow an exploration ship into a sprawling space colony. Gathering resources, researching tech and optimizing your city floor by floor is the core loop.

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