Top 25 Space Simulation Games to Pick Up in the Steam Winter Sale!

Also. Not on steam. But starcitizen just today released 4.0 to live. Massively expanded game area 500 people per server. Huge gameplay improvements and just a bunch of game to play. With more detail and immersion then any of the games here.

Infinity Battlescape was 100% worth the buy, even if sometimes there are only a handful of players online. The PVE and missions still run like normal, so hop in and give it a try!

I'm sorely tempted by Infinity Battlespace but the player numbers concern me. I'll have to look if there's AI and if so what it's like.

love emyprion got over 12k hrs in it :)

Thank you a lot!! Just bought 3 of your recommened games, you spared me hours of scrolling through steam games and spared money in games that could be not what i was looking for! Thank you again and have an amazing Merry X.Mas!!!😍 bought Rebel Galxy, Children of a dead Earth, Freespace 2

Your kidding right!!??

House of the dying sun reminds me of Freespace 1/2 (in a good way)

Thank you once again for listing Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator!

Starfield still not worth getting? lol

They all look great, thankfully 2024 is almost over I have well and truly blown my annual game budget this year

X4 and evochron...

FreeSpace 2 - better to buy it from GoG as it works better with the FreeSpace open upgrades - unless you want 25 year old nostalgia, the improvements are worth it

Void Destroyer 2 should get a mention. It plays like a streamlined version of an X game. 60% off atm.

This review is Unparalleled ... 😂

Underspace is one of the best things to happen to the space sim market in years. Something as easy to pick up and play as Freelancer with practically zero need to learn controls or intricacies of how the game works. And the universe is genuinely insanely creative.

Infinity: Battlescape it's a really underrated gem. One of the best space combat simulator out there!!

GOG has Everspace 2, Rebel Galxy, Starpoint Gemini: Warlords, Chorus, and Freespace 2 for about the same price right now. Always go DRM-free if you have the choice. There is also an X4 package that includes Foundations and Timelines for half off right now.

X4 Foundation. If I only had one hard drive and a limit of 1TB, X4: Foundations, Dwarf Fortress and MS Excel would never be left off.

Shout out for Spacebourne 2 as when it gets good it'll be great. Just need them to work on the flight controls for multiple HOSAS devices etc. Not played it recently due to time and being really put off by the UI & flight mechanics, otherwise the tutorials and missions that I have managed to complete are really great.

Which looks less suspicious to the wife? $100 steam card or 17 separate transactions? Decisions, decisions..

Nothing but Love for "house of the Dying Sun".
Such a Pearl in the Ocean of Space Simulations.

No star citizen in this list is a crime

I keep seeing all the space battle games, and few sims.. I did see you at least had empyrion and space engineers.. Why does everything have to be based on battles to be a space sim.. Stationeers is one of my favorite games.. And it's for sure a sim and for sure happens in space lol.. But zero fighting..

Im looking forward to Jump Ship. P.S. Empyrion has VERY twitchy giant spiders and raptors(the dino) as basic fauna. So if you dont feel comfortable playing Space Engineers as a Call of Duty. Id recommend skipping it.

Please mention beside price also the Steam rating.

Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
85% off, 2,24 €. Remastered remake of Space Rangers 2.

Empyrion ❤

Agreed, don't look further and get X4, it is THE space game you are looking for if you want deep and rich single player space game experience.

Here's a drinking game for christmas; everytime Luke says the word 'Unparalelled' you take a shot. You'll be off your a--e before the video is over... 😉

I just want the return of Wing Commander 😊..

Are any of these turn based with controller support, a-la Stellaris is or Galactic Civilizations 4?
That would be my perfect find!

I own so many of these and don't know when I'll find the time to really master any of them. I'm thinking about trying to load and finish Chorus first, and then give Spacebourne 2 a run. I won't have the patience to play the sandbox ones right now.

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Please don't play vanilla Freespace 2, search for FSO (Freespace Open) which expands the game with better ship models, more campaigns (or mods), and much more!

watched a video this week that said we dont own the games on steam we bye so why you you hire a game from them.

good presentation of this list bro'... in my case, with way too many hours snicked in Eve Online, and ED - Elite - and Space Engineers, I've just transitioned to EGS - Empyrion Galactic Survival - which is indeed amazing, tho' not perfect, it's an amazing sandbox where you can claim, build, restore, salvage, destroy ships and bases by bas I also mean space stations, as you please...

No Man's Sky and X4 are both too expensive for my levels of acceptance, even while on sale, so I won't even bother

and like you, I just don't have the time, unless they give us a really amazing deal, that's too good to miss, otherwise my money and time are spent somewhere else... and the Winter sales deals now, are not good enough for those titles...

When it all looks great, but still sucks UTTER ass compared to Empyrion...

(Which is somewhat playable.)

another great video

Rebel Galaxy mentioned!
I almost overlooked this game for being a space game on a 2D plane (basically spaceships acting like boats) but the gameplay was really fun and it really didn't need the full 3D movement. Highly recommend if you want fun broadsider combat without too many complicated mechanics. Also amazing soundtrack!

I know it gets its hate and whatnot but Starfield truly is a fun game if you accept it for what it is. I’ve been hooked with it

Still missing WC4 type of games...

What a Collection Of SHITE games . Refugee games from a Gameboy??
Best suited for a 300 lb prepubescent existing in their Gran's Basement.

Stellaris is also on sale, at $3.99 right now. It's a 4x Empire Sim between many custom space empire and galaxy wide crisis events. It is a paradox game so the EA of RTS games but you can get the worthwhile DLC on sale too. The base game is fun though.

As a member of the Starship Evo community I must mention that the game currently only has Creative mode for all players. Survival mode is in a testing phase and is only available to people who have applied to enter it. The developer of the game has said that when the game exits early access he will include survival mode for everyone, when exactly that happens is a little up in the air. Still if you are very creative and love building ships the game has the best building system I have ever seen in any voxel based building game.

Astrox Imperium is a good one to point out too.. It's like a single player EVE

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