Games Like Endless Sky Similar Exploration & Role-playing 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Steam
     
  2. 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!.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Steam
     
  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
     
  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
     
  5. A massive, space adventure game based on the original Star Control game series.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    Space RPG 3 vs Endless Sky Comments
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    Its just so similar - hystory, battles and everything!

    • Space RPG 3 is Paid and ProprietaryEndless Sky is Free and Open Source
  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
     
  9. Described as "Meccano Asteroids", Captain Forever lets you pilot your own modular spacecraft, while simultaneously constructing it.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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...

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    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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    Reassembly vs Endless Sky Comments
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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.

    • Reassembly is Paid and ProprietaryEndless Sky is Free and Open Source
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