Games Like Endless Sky Similar Exploration Games like Endless Sky

Endless Sky is described as 'Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war' and is a exploration game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Endless Sky for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam and Web-based apps. The best Endless Sky alternative is NAEV, which is both free and Open Source. Other Endless Sky like games are Destination Sol, Transcendence, SolarWolf and The Ur-Quan Masters.

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  1. NAEV icon
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    Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Steam
     
    • NAEV is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Endless Sky.

    • NAEV is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Endless Sky.

    • NAEV is Free and Open SourceEndless Sky is also Free and Open Source
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    Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Steam
     
    • Destination Sol is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Endless Sky.

    • Destination Sol is Free and Open SourceEndless Sky is also Free and Open Source
  3. Transcendence icon
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    A 2D space exploration, combat and trading game of epic proportions!

    Get ready to battle pirates, trade goods with a variety of civilizations some human some not and fulfill the destiny that the Domina has laid out for you. The journey will be dangerous but with your trusty shi.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  4. SolarWolf icon
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    SolarWolf is an action/arcade game written in Python. It is free and open source, created with the Pygame game development library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    A massive, space adventure game based on the original Star Control game series.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
    • Space Pirates and Zombies is the most popular commercial alternative to Endless Sky.

    • Space Pirates and Zombies is Paid and ProprietaryEndless Sky is Free and Open Source
  7. Star Sonata icon
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    Star Sonata is a space-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO), that uses a third-person 2d overhead view similar to that of Asteroids. In addition the game offers complex and involved commerce, construction and team systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. nuu icon
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    NUU is to be an open-source (massive) multiplayer game of space trade and combat. NUU is heavily inspired by Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity. It's excellent open-source cousin naev currently lends NUU it's assets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Node.JS
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
     
    • nuu is the most popular Web-based alternative to Endless Sky.

    • nuu is Free and Open SourceEndless Sky is also Free and Open Source
  9. Space RPG 3 icon
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    Space RPG 3 is a space-themed role playing action game, where you start as a novice captain with a small ship and work your way up in the galaxy by trading and doing missions, or even becoming a rogue pirate.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    Comments about Space RPG 3 as an Alternative to Endless Sky
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    Its just so similar - hystory, battles and everything!

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    • Space RPG 3 is Paid and ProprietaryEndless Sky is Free and Open Source
  10. Pacewar icon
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    In the distant future, two factions fight for control over space. As neither side has any particular advantage over the other, it is a constant stalemate. Only absolute domination by one of the factions can end this perpetual war, and this can only be achieved by pure piloting...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Reassembly icon
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    You're too busy crafting the perfect vessel, a spaceship pristine and precise and, perhaps, powerful, agile, and envy-inducing. Your shapes and colors will induce both fear and wonder into the electronic hearts of whatever insectoid, angley, squarish, plantlike race of alien...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
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    This game is about building your own little fleet of ships in a build menu and then going around and just killing things. It has no story and it has no jumps.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Reassembly is Paid and ProprietaryEndless Sky is Free and Open Source
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