Sandbox · Space Sim games to play together

31 Sandbox · Space Sim games your group can play together online, including Approximately Up, Starlathe, and Astro Colony.

All games: 24

Approximately Up

Design, build, and pilot fully modular spaceships in first person, solo or with up to 4 players. Explore 15 unique planets, complete challenging missions, face the dangers of space, and unlock new components to improve or completely rethink your ship.

92% positive of 1,125 reviewsPlaying now: 79$24.99

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

Astro Colony

Astro Colony throws you into an endless Universe of exploration, automation and survival! Build interconnected colonies, alone or with friends, and turn planets into thriving industrial hubs! Design conveyor systems and take care of your Astronauts as you expand your intergalactic empire!

80% positive of 2,436 reviewsPlaying now: 189$19.99

Blossom: The Seed of Life

Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

87% positive of 1,056 reviewsPlaying now: 28$16.99

Mars First Logistics

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

94% positive of 3,551 reviewsPlaying now: 51$19.99

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

SpaceCraft

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

62% positive of 2,713 reviewsPlaying now: 317$29.99

CM-SS13

The year is 2182, but the engine is from 2003. Join the Falling Falcons in a massive tactical deathmatch RP fest held together by spaghetti code and duct tape. Build bases, perform surgery, or evolve as the Hive. It's laggy, it's complex, and it is the most fun you will have dying in space.

65% positive of 184 reviewsPlaying now: 11Free

Archean

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

86% positive of 245 reviewsPlaying now: 13$19.99

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

68% positive of 747 reviewsPlaying now: 1$4.79

Underspace

The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.

80% positive of 436 reviewsPlaying now: 3$9.99

QANGA

QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.

70% positive of 567 reviewsPlaying now: 1$19.99

Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!

74% positive of 907 reviewsPlaying now: 15$29.99

Empyrion - Galactic Survival

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

78% positive of 29,243 reviewsPlaying now: 566$19.99

Avorion

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

89% positive of 13,057 reviewsPlaying now: 415$24.99

Starship EVO

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

82% positive of 1,347 reviewsPlaying now: 45$24.99

Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

78% positive of 1,764 reviewsPlaying now: 16$4.99

Interstellar Rift

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

65% positive of 1,414 reviewsPlaying now: 11$19.99

Space Engineers: Build and Explore Together

Share a Creative or Survival world in Space Engineers, where your group turns mined resources and block-by-block ideas into ships, bases, and missions.

88% positive of 102,789 reviewsPlaying now: 4,445$19.99

The Orville - Interactive Fan Experience

Step aboard the USS Orville (ECV-197), the Planetary Union's finest mid-level exploratory class cruiser. With every room on every deck recreated with painstaking accuracy, you are free to explore the ship at your leisure and engage in all manner of shenanigans!

88% positive of 1,051 reviewsPlaying now: 2Free

No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

83% positive of 319,010 reviewsPlaying now: 13,372$23.99

Build a shared galaxy in StarMade

Build ships, stations, and factions with friends in StarMade’s online voxel sandbox. Create your own goals across a generated universe, with server-based co-op and PvP.

66% positive of 2,200 reviewsPlaying now: 7$14.99

EVE Online

Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

72% positive of 39,770 reviewsPlaying now: 5,419Free