SIMILAR GAMES

Games like Elite Dangerous

Enjoyed Elite Dangerous? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as VoidExpanse, X2: The Threat, X: Tension. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Elite Dangerous: Elite Dangerous is a massively multiplayer space game in which you take command of your own starship and carve your path through an ever-changing galaxy. You can pursue combat, mining and trade or head into the unknown, as the galaxy is built from real astronomical data at 1:1 scale and holds 400 billion star systems. Over 35 customizable spacecraft are available, strange worlds can be explored with a Surface Recon Vehicle, and you can play alone, in a Wing with up to three friends or in a Squadron. System Colonisation and Community Goals let players shape the galaxy.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

About these games

VoidExpanse

VoidExpanse is an open-world science fiction action-RPG set in deep space, where you play as a spaceship pilot. Mine resources from asteroids, trade, upgrade your ship with hundreds of modules and devices, and complete story missions for one of several factions with their own agendas, people, territories and storylines. Characters advance through diverse skill trees, and fights against hostile aliens, mercenaries and pirates run in real time. In free-play mode you can explore procedurally generated galaxies, run persistent multiplayer worlds, or expand the game with a custom scripting API.

X2: The Threat

X²: The Threat is a space simulator in which you play Julian Gardna, carrying on the story told in X: Beyond The Frontier. There are over 130 sectors to explore, with nebulas affecting your ships and stations, and asteroids to mine for materials to sell. You can fly over 60 ships, from scouts to carrier-class battleships, add upgrades, including ones using the scripting engine, mount weapons such as the Ion Disruptor and Mass Driver, and build factories to produce and sell them. Station boards offer missions such as defending convoys or destroying Xenon fleets, and above all you help defend the universe from the Khaak.

X: Tension

X-Tension is an expansion for X: Beyond the Frontier with no linear storyline. Players expand their empire in new ways and take on missions offered throughout the game. You can buy and pilot every fighter and small transport and capture new Pirate ships. The universe has grown by over 40 new sectors to explore, trade in and fight in, and the 2.0 update lets you pilot the larger TL class freighter. You trade across more than 90 sectors with over 50 goods, upgrade your ship with dozens of wares from 5 unique alien races, and defend yourself against the hostile Xenon.

Avorion

Avorion is a procedural co-op space sandbox in which players build their own spaceships from freely scalable blocks. It offers space battles, exploration, mining, trading, wars between factions and building your own empire. Players start at the edge of the galaxy and work their way toward its core, where danger grows but so do the rewards. The story revolves around a catastrophe that tore the galaxy apart several centuries ago, and around the alien Xsotan and a mysterious metal called ‘Avorion’.

DarkStar One

Darkstar One is an action space game offering a great deal of freedom of choice. Story-driven missions gradually take the player deeper into the galaxy, toward new races, technologies and increasingly strong opponents. The player explores many solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, which are needed to upgrade the Darkstar One ship. Credits are earned through assignments, bounty hunting, piracy, smuggling, trading, escorting and transporting, and are spent on better weapons and shields.

Starbase

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex space MMO set in a fully destructible, endlessly expanding universe where thousands of players share one persistent world. Playing as robots, players design and build spaceships and stations down to the smallest bolt, mine asteroids, craft, trade, haul cargo and fight. Deep physics simulation makes structural failures real, and in-game programming chips open the way to automation. Success is measured by ingenuity and teamwork rather than hours played.