Indie · 2D · Space games to play together

70 Indie · 2D · Space games your group can play together online, including Starlathe, Space Defender: Frontier Squadron, and Down with the Ship.

All games: 24

Starlathe

Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it. Play solo or in online co-op.

88% positive of 150 reviewsPlaying now: 90$14.99

Space Defender: Frontier Squadron

A top-down space shooter with deep RPG progression. Fly a voiced story in four acts, from a war across three galaxies to the gravity wells of Kepler, lead your wingmen, hunt pirate captains and hold a collapsing front. Solo, or with a friend on the second controller.

97% positive of 126 reviewsPlaying now: 13$6.99

Down with the Ship

Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.

93% positive of 861 reviewsPlaying now: 44$14.99

Stellar Odyssey

An Idle Space MMORPG where you progress at your own pace, but the universe is built together. Explore a procedural galaxy of nearly 50 million star systems alone — or join a Squadron to pool resources, raise space stations, upgrade shared buildings, and expand across the stars as one.

67% positive of 137 reviewsPlaying now: 99Free

Space Station: Beyond

Play as a variety of creatures or characters and try to survive either maintaining or attacking a space station while everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong.

80% positive of 142 reviewsPlaying now: 49Free

Nexus Legacy

Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.

65% positive of 382 reviewsPlaying now: 97Free

Once Upon a Galaxy

ONCE UPON A GALAXY is an easy to learn Card Battler with incredible strategic depth and near infinite fun! Which of your favorite characters from myth and fairy tale will you choose?

75% positive of 765 reviewsPlaying now: 100Free

Astroloot

Loot, level up, and obliterate everything in your path. Astroloot is a sci-fi bullet heaven with deep ARPG systems, featuring a massive skill tree, deterministic crafting, and near-endless build possibilities.

91% positive of 597 reviewsPlaying now: 10$6.99

Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL

Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL is a rhythm game for keyboard set against a space exploration backdrop. Captain your science vessel alongside your navigator Shii as you explore the vast Sixtar system!

86% positive of 1,424 reviewsPlaying now: 5$24.99

Star Vortex

Star Vortex is a fast-paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight through hostile alien sectors solo or with friends, salvage rare weapons and experiment with powerful builds until nothing can stand against you.

84% positive of 159 reviewsPlaying now: 1$24.99

Relentless Expanse

Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!

91% positive of 113 reviewsPlaying now: 1Free

DemonStar

The shareware legend DemonStar comes soaring back with new game modes and revised gameplay. Originally published in 1997, DemonStar has earned the Computer Gaming World's "Shareware Game of the Year 1999" award..

94% positive of 251 reviewsPlaying now: 1$2.99

Pixel Starships

Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.

72% positive of 3,033 reviewsPlaying now: 129Free

Chicken Invaders Universe

A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.

90% positive of 3,851 reviewsPlaying now: 22Free

CryoFall

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

78% positive of 4,910 reviewsPlaying now: 50$19.99

Gaia Project

Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.

80% positive of 352 reviewsPlaying now: 6$24.99

Beat Hazard 2

Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

89% positive of 1,395 reviewsPlaying now: 2$18.99

Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition

Sign up to be a galaxy trucker today! An adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil’s award-winning board game is now on Steam. Already includes the ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES expansion!

88% positive of 216 reviewsPlaying now: 6$9.99

ZeroRanger

This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...

95% positive of 2,061 reviewsPlaying now: 11$11.99

Worbital

With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

87% positive of 419 reviewsPlaying now: 5$12.99

Heat Signature

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

94% positive of 6,867 reviewsPlaying now: 27$14.99

Starblast

Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.

79% positive of 1,058 reviewsPlaying now: 29$9.99

Starbound Co-op: Build a Shared Universe Together

Explore planets, follow a story campaign, and build homes together in a four-player online sandbox where every friend has a ship of their own.

91% positive of 120,658 reviewsPlaying now: 824$14.99

Super Hydorah

Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.

85% positive of 290 reviewsPlaying now: 2$1.99