Unending Galaxy Alternatives

Unending Galaxy is described as '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' and is a exploration game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Unending Galaxy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam and Online / Web-based. The best alternative is Endless Sky, which is both free and Open Source. Other Unending Galaxy like games are NAEV, The Ur-Quan Masters, Space Pirates and Zombies and Destination Sol.

Unending Galaxy alternatives are mainly Exploration Games but may also be Sandbox Games or Role-playing Games. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Unending Galaxy.

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Unending Galaxy

Freemium • Proprietary
Exploration Game
Windows

Unending Galaxy is a top down 2D sandbox, simulation and strategy game based in space. The game allows you to play at any...

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Endless Sky
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Free • Open Source
Exploration Game
Sandbox Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
16 alternatives to Endless Sky
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.
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Endless Sky Features
1. Single playerEndless Sky has one or more single player game modes.
Quests
Trading
Sandbox
NAEV
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Free • Open Source
Role-playing Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
7 alternatives to NAEV
Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.
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1. Single playerNAEV has one or more single player game modes.
2. MultiplayerNAEV offers a game mode for more than one player.
Trading
The Ur-Quan Masters
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
12 alternatives to The Ur-Quan Masters
A massive, space adventure game based on the original Star Control game series.
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The Ur-Quan Masters Features
1. Single playerThe Ur-Quan Masters has one or more single player game modes.
Space Pirates and Zombies
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Paid • Proprietary
Exploration Game
Open World Game
Adventure Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
Steam
9 alternatives to Space Pirates and Zombies
At its core, Space Pirates and Zombies is an action based, skill oriented, top down space combat game. It’s similar to the ones we knew and loved in years past, but now using full physics simulation and modern graphics for those oh so pretty explosions.

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Destination Sol
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Free • Open Source
Exploration Game
Sandbox Game
Open World Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
Android Tablet
Steam
9 alternatives to Destination Sol
Destination Sol is a free-to-play hardcore space arcade/RPG. You start as a pilot of a small fighter ship on the edge of a star system, and you're free to explore the game world, land on planets, fight with enemies, upgrade your ship and equipment, hire mercenaries, mine...
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1. Single playerDestination Sol has one or more single player game modes.
Procedurally generated
Transcendence
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Free • Proprietary
Role-playing Game
Sandbox Game
Exploration Game
Windows
6 alternatives to Transcendence
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.
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Transcendence Features
1. Single playerTranscendence has one or more single player game modes.
Sandbox
Trading
Star Sonata
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
9 alternatives to Star Sonata
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.

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Captain Forever
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Freemium • Proprietary
Online
10 alternatives to Captain Forever
Described as "Meccano Asteroids", Captain Forever lets you pilot your own modular spacecraft, while simultaneously constructing it.

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Reassembly
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Paid • Proprietary
Exploration Game
Sandbox Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
Steam
10 alternatives to Reassembly
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...

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VoidExpanse
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Paid • Proprietary
Exploration Game
Open World Game
Mac
Windows
Linux
Steam
9 alternatives to VoidExpanse
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!.
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Endless Sky Features

NAEV Features

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Transcendence Features

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