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Games like X Rebirth

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

About X Rebirth: X Rebirth is set in the distant future, when the X universe undergoes a profound and irreversible change. The player takes on the role of a young adventurer who, together with an unlikely female ally, flies an old, battered ship with a glorious past. The game combines action-packed space combat, trading in a fully simulated economy, fast travel across space, and building your own empire of stations and factories. You choose whether to fight for the military, work for the police, or become a lawless pirate, and you decide when and where to join the story.

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

X: Beyond the Frontier

X: Beyond the Frontier is a simulation and strategy game and the first part of Egosoft's X-Universe series. You play as pilot Kyle Brennan, who sets out five hundred years later in an experimental ship with technology for crossing vast distances on its own, but a malfunction traps him in a closed group of sectors inhabited by aliens, where he is hunted and has no way home. The game offers trading in over fifty sectors with more than fifty kinds of goods, building stations, and fighting pirates and attacks by the Xenon.

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.

Starpoint Gemini 2

Starpoint Gemini 2 is a tactical 3D space simulator with plenty of RPG depth, in which the player captains their own ship and roams the galaxy. Two years after the second Gemini war, the wartorn system is as unresolved as ever: the Gemini League lost its influence after losing its leaders and the Empire used the re-opened Starpoint to occupy the Gemini sector. When the Imperial fleets halted their armada and fortified Starpoint heavily, rumours spread that they fear something coming through the T-gate. The player explores the whole dynamic world at once, travels via T-Gates, wormholes and riftways and trades over a hundred commodities.

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.

Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD

Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD is an action RPG space simulation built around ship development, exploration of an immersive universe and freedom of choice. Once the pilot leaves the starting zone, an almost unlimited space opens up, with planets, asteroids, comets, black holes, star bases and floating cities. Players trade, craft, negotiate and fight, solve quests and improve their ship, picking from ten professions and fourteen spacecraft while earning money and experience points to advance in levels. Prices differ from one system to another, so finding good trade routes pays off, and new ships or upgrades can be bought at stations.