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Space Commander: War and Trade
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Games like Space Commander: War and Trade

A single-player space sim featuring combat, exploration, trading, and fleet command, with mixed early reviews and an approximate six-hour playtime.

Void Destroyer 2
A single-player open-world space sandbox about building an empire from a basic ship, with slow-burning, challenging combat that rewards persistence over roughly 15-20 hours.
2020-02-06
- Action
- Adventure

Strategy

Indie

Simulator

Role-playing (RPG)

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SpaceBourne 2

A single-player space sim RPG blending flight combat, base building, and empire expansion, held back by bugs and UI issues.

2025-11-18

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Starpoint Gemini Warlords

A 4X space strategy with hands-on capital ship combat, fleet building, and spaceship customization, offering a lengthy single-player campaign that reviewers found fun but flawed.

2017-05-23

Action
Warfare
First person
Science fiction
Strategy
Third person
Tactical
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Sandbox

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Space Reign

A near-future indie space-sim strategy where you fight fleet battles, take contracts, and claim territory, with mixed but generally positive reviews and about 24 hours of median reviewer playtime.

2026-03-10

Action
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Starcom: Unknown Space

A single-player space exploration action RPG focused on starship building and uncovering alien mysteries across uncharted worlds.

2024-09-02

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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SpaceBourne

An open-space combat and exploration RPG with faction choices, featuring a rough-around-the-edges ~10-hour story.

2020-07-18

Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Darkstar One

A story-driven space flight sim with RPG elements and ship upgrades, offering a mostly linear galaxy despite its open-world pretenses, with about 26 hours of playtime.

2008-02-13

Action
Science fiction
Simulator

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Between the Stars

An indie space-captain action-RPG/sim in which you upgrade your ship, make decisions, and fight across a roughly 20-hour mission to save the Republic, with fun but basic execution.

2024-03-07

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Star Trucker

A single-player space-trucking sim where you haul cargo, trade salvage, and manage your rig through jump gates, with a mostly positive but janky-feeling experience.

2024-09-03

Comedy
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Simulator

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X2: The Threat

A single-player space simulator centered on trading, combat, exploration, and terraforming in a complex futuristic universe.

2006-07-21

First person
Science fiction
Strategy
Third person
Simulator
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

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Star Wolves 3: Civil War

A compact single-player space combat RPG/sim set in a post-war ship graveyard, featuring leveling, merchant trading, and spacecraft customization.

2010-03-02

Science fiction
Strategy
Third person
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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Starpoint Gemini 2

A single-player 3D space sim with tactical combat, RPG depth, and a post-war galaxy, offering an approachable experience that reviewer logs suggest lasts around 51 hours.

2014-09-26

Action
Science fiction
Strategy
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Sandbox