Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- SteamOS




There are many alternatives to StarMade for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Archean. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Dyvox Pytheas. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to StarMade and ten of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to StarMade are Space Engineers, ScrumbleShip, Avorion and Shores of Hazeron.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.




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