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Games like Space Rogue

2016PC65 % positive

As a starship captain you explore new worlds, fight real-time ship battles, upgrade your vessel and recruit a crew. You decide whether to be a peacekeeper or a pirate.

Sci-fi setting
Lots to discover
Tactical depth
Strong character progression

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In short: Games like Space Rogue

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Space Rogue special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Starsector

90 %Match

2013PC

A space sandbox where you pilot a ship and build a fleet, trading, exploring and fighting in tactical real-time battles. You choose freely whether to become a trader, mercenary, pirate or warlord.

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Star Wolves

Strong character progression

A space tactical RPG where you lead a mercenary squadron of pilots and ships, upgrading them and directing real-time battles with pause against pirates and rogue AIs.

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Strong character progression

A space tactics RPG with real-time-with-pause combat where you build a mercenary fleet in an anarchic galaxy, take contracts, and upgrade your ships and pilots.

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Strong character progression

You build starships module by module, from floor plan to weapons and engines, then take them into real-time battles and campaigns in space. Your design choices directly determine how well your ship performs in combat.

Parkan: The Imperial Chronicles

Pure single-player experience

A cult Russian genre blend of space sim, first-person shooter, strategy and RPG: you fly through space, explore planets and robot bases, and decide whether to be a trader, mercenary or pirate.

Endless Sky

Strong character progression

You begin with a modest shuttle and build your way up through trading and combat to a formidable flagship or fleet. The freely explorable 2D galaxy, full of missions and hidden secrets, lets you chart your own path.

X3: Terran Conflict

Sci-fi setting

A vast space sandbox where you fly ships, build trading empires and factory complexes, and get drawn into conflicts between rival races. Freedom is huge, but the learning curve is steep.

X3: Albion Prelude

Sci-fi setting

A vast, freely explorable space sandbox where you fly ships, trade, fight and build your own economic and fleet empire. The focus is on freedom and simulation rather than a tightly told story.

Distant Worlds: Universe

Sci-fi setting

A vast 4X space strategy game in pausable real time where you build an empire across a whole galaxy. Extensive automation lets you manage enormous realms, and the simulation runs remarkably deep.

Star Wolves 2

Strong character progression

A space tactics RPG where you command a mercenary squad of fighter pilots, take contracts across an open galaxy, and upgrade ships and crew. Combat runs in real time with pause.

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