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.




NAEV is described as 'Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions' and is a role-playing game in the games category. There are seven games similar to NAEV for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best NAEV alternative is Endless Sky, which is both free and Open Source. Other NAEV like games are Transcendence, The Ur-Quan Masters, Ascii Sector and nuu.
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.




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.


A massive, space adventure game based on the original Star Control game series.



Ascii Sector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You start with a simple spaceship and can then accept missions or trade goods to earn enough money to upgrade your ship or buy a new one.




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.

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.



Unending Galaxy is a top down 2D sandbox, simulation and strategy game based in space. The game allows you to play at any level from being a small time pirate to the ruler of a large empire. You can fight, trade, explore, build factories, and amass a fleet to form your own...



