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Games like Starflight

1986 Classic

A classic of space exploration: as a starship captain you freely roam a huge galaxy, trade, fight, manage your crew and gradually uncover a big mystery behind an impending catastrophe.

What defines Starflight:

  • Open world
  • Lots to discover
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Starflight are X2: The Threat, X3: Reunion and X: Beyond the Frontier. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Starflight special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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X2: The Threat

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2003 PC −80 % 4.99 € 0.99 € 12 days left

  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover

A space sandbox where you fly ships as Julian Gardna, trade, and build stations and factory networks within a living economy. Combat, trading and expansion blend into a complex, open-ended universe.

Starsector

Open world

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.

Space Pirates and Zombies 2

Open world

A space sandbox where you lead a fleet through a collapsed, post-apocalyptic galaxy. You scavenge, trade, fight real-time ship battles and customize ships, while AI captains pursue the same goals as you.

Starcom: Nexus

Open world

You captain a small survey ship stranded in an unknown galaxy, trading, fighting or allying with alien species while upgrading into a battlecruiser. A space adventure built on discovery and a lingering mystery.

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Realistic visuals

A space tactics RPG with real-time-with-pause combat where you build a mercenary fleet in an anarchic galaxy, take contracts, and upgrade your ships and pilots.

Ostranauts

Open world

An extremely detailed spaceship ownership and living sim set in the NEO Scavenger universe. You captain a ship through a dystopian solar system, scraping together fuel, food and money while fending off debt, with grounded physics and survival systems.

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