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2014PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable77 % positive19.99 €

A space sim recreating the entire Milky Way at 1:1 scale, letting you pilot your own ship as a trader, bounty hunter, miner or explorer across billions of star systems. Demanding flight controls and sheer vastness create an unmatched sense of scale and solitude.

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Sci-fi setting
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The closest matches for Elite: Dangerous are Star Citizen, Ark: Survival Ascended and Ark: Survival Evolved. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Elite: Dangerous special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Star Citizen

93 %Match

2013PC

Open world
Lavish presentation
Sci-fi setting

A sprawling, still-in-development space MMO where you fly seamlessly from planet surfaces into orbit to trade, fight, haul cargo or crew huge multi-person ships with friends. Its level of detail is astonishing, though bugs and rough edges come with the territory.

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Ark: Survival Ascended

Lavish presentation

You are stranded on islands full of dinosaurs, taming and riding prehistoric beasts, building bases and surviving alone or with tribes of other players. The Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the huge sandbox world look far more impressive.

Ark: Survival Evolved

Co-op or multiplayer

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

X4: Foundations

Open world

A deeply complex space sandbox where you pilot ships yourself, run trade routes, build stations and grow an entire economic empire inside a living, simulated universe.

Space Engineers

Open world

A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.

Scum

Lavish presentation

Hardcore multiplayer survival on a huge prison island with deeply simulated metabolism, injuries and skills. You scavenge, craft and fight puppets, mechs and other players in a brutal reality-show setting.

Hellion

Open world

A first-person space survival game where you scavenge oxygen, fuel and supplies to stay alive in the hostile void. Other players can become allies or deadly threats.

Icarus

Open world

A cooperative survival game on an alien planet where you drop from an orbital station on timed missions, gather resources, build, and fight weather, wildlife and cold. Persistent progression between expeditions keeps players coming back.

Generation Zero

Open world

An open-world shooter set in 1980s Sweden where you fight huge killer machines alone or with up to three friends. Ammo is scarce, so you mix sneaking, distraction and precise weak-point shots.

StarRupture

Open world

A first-person survival base-builder on an alien planet: extract resources, automate industrial production lines and fend off hordes of alien monsters, solo or in co-op.

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