Top 25 Open World Space Games

Games:
0:00 Freelancer
1:00 Between the Stars
1:32 Breathedge
2:04 EVE Online
2:41 STAR WARS: The Old Republic
3:24 No Man's Sky
4:13 Elite: Dangerous
4:51 Star Trek Online
5:27 Starbound
6:09 Space Engineers
6:51 MASS EFFECT Series
7:32 ASTRONEER
8:03 X SERIES
8:45 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
9:12 Precursors
9:45 Outer Wilds
10:24 Everspace 2
11:06 Avorion
11:39 Evochron Legacy
12:16 PULSAR: Lost Colony
12:49 Rebel Galaxy
13:26 Between the Stars
13:59 Celestial Command
14:38 Void Destroyer 2
15:09 Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls

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[@SentryX7]

No Man Sky does have a story but after it is open world

[@reinerei8294]

you repeated between the stars 2x man. you must really love that game lol

[@Cazpa]

maybe these videos are just lazy cash grab ;D

[@wolverine005]

this shit is ai generated

[@Tampahop]

One game that makes my list that few have heard of because it's not on Steam is Starsector. It may look a little dated because it has top down ship combat, but it has great combat and strong role playing elements. The ships are customizable with different weapons and other gear. The shielding system is pretty innovative and makes combat more interesting than just close and fire. You can even colonize worlds where you can build shipyards to make your own ships. Starsector also has an active mod community.

[@6StimuL84]

Starsector is a blast.....

[@lemusketeer3232]

One helluva game.

[@edwardferrari7342]

I am looking at buying it. It is 15 bucks, right? Also, How does it compare to Endless Sky? Is it similar? I am hoping Starsector is more fucsed on bounty hunting, customization, and action rather than story, but missions are welcome.

[@Tampahop]

@@edwardferrari7342 If you called Endless Sky a short story, Starsector would be a novel. While you can control a single ship as in Endless Sky, you will likely command an entire fleet in Starsector. The ship sizes are fighter, frigate, destroyer, cruiser, and capital ship with carriers in the larger classes. You also have various sizes of troop transports, tankers and freighters. There are three levels of tech for ships and several factions with their own flavor and unique ships. You will start with a single ship or maybe a small fleet of ships, but you can buy, salvage, or even steal ships. Once you have some working colonies, you can build your own. I don't bother manually piloting my ship in combat any more. The auto pilot/combat AI is pretty darn good so I only give strategic orders (capture this command point, escort this carrier, retreat, etc.), although you can micromanage your command ship if you want. The rest you just give strategic orders to anyway. You can customize all of the ships with weapons (ballistic, energy, and missiles), sensors, and special equipment. Each ship has a standard weapon loadout, but you can modify it however you want. The game has some interesting nuances. For example, I love that the game uses transponders. Turning off your transponder reduces your ECM signature and faction patrols will assume you are a pirate, but sometimes it's necessary to sneak into a starbase or sneak by a fleet. The game also asks you when your transponder is off if you want to turn it on before entering a faction controlled sector. You can also "go dark" really reducing your signature, but you move very slowly. The game has very strong economics as well. Your ship needs supplies (food, uniforms, WD-40 and duct tape). and fuel. Running out of either of those is problematic although not necessarily a lost cause. Fuel is only used in hyperspace, and if you run out of fuel, you can send out a distress call and hope somebody nice helps you out, or you could drift towards a gravity source and eventually end up in a system where you can scavenge, kill, or trade for fuel. A properly prepare fleet should have no problem exploring or pirate hunting in the depths of space for extended periods of time. So, are you getting the picture? Starsector has amazing detail and replay ability. Just don't blame me when you become addicted, or end up drifting in space, out of gas, or a Remnant fleet blows you out of the sky, or the Luddic church demands a tithe. Good luck, cadet.

[@lauge3493]

Hey hey people

[@emperornovian464]

YES FINALLY FREELANCER MY NOSTALGIC GAME! I HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS FOR YEARS! Now it bringing me memories c:

[@joelreis5366]

Ohhh you missed a brilliant game: Darkstar One. You control a fighter type ship with unknown alien origin, which you can upgrade with certain key items, that you get along the main story mode and others by doing some exploration. Graphics are a bit dated, but the combat is amazing. All in all, great list. Will definitely try out a few games i saw here and would like to recommend everyone to try out Rebel Galaxy. Instead of the usual dogfighting with fighters, you have capital ship battles, with massive broadsides and missiles barrages. And it has an amazing rock & roll soundtrack that really gets you in the mood to blast giant ships apart. Well done.

[@kevinlawson1746]

It's amazing that very few people ever talk about Parkan II . If you've never played it it's a great game.

[@leonoliveira8652]

Hopefully someone mentioned this, but the universe in starbound is not completely randomly generated. It has a seed that is the same for everyone if the game is in its vanilla state, and gets altered with mods that add content. Coordinates can be shared between people with the same modlist, and the found planets and systems will be the same - the difference is that you spawn in a random coordinate, and the maximum coordinates are VERY far from the center. If alternate Dimensions were implemented in Starbound, it would be as big as No Man's Sky.

[@peterattilakriszt3150]

I remember the Dark Star and Edge of chaos games as well.

[@kristoferjakistam832]

Freelancer. I wish there will be sequel for that game.

[@arvydasgaming]

Thanks for inspiration, what to play. At least half I know, and some even played very long. But much to play yet.

[@RonnieBowlsby]

Freelancer and Freelancer Discovery GC brings so much nostalgia.......

[@lemusketeer3232]

Elle dangerous, fairly regular updates?.. You need to have a chat with your researchers because that one statement is so far from correct that it ruined the rest of the video..

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

It does get regular updates, you mark.

[@lemusketeer3232]

I don't consider new community decision gameplay, bug fixes, optimisation nor the slowly evolving space bug story as updates. To my mind these are either the Minimum Viable Product for a live service game or fixed for a badly released dlc. Not updates in my opinion others do disagree which is cool. Believe it or not I play the game and have since release so my comments perhaps are due to fatigue with fdev 🤣

[@vanhaver5150]

@@methamphetamememcmeth3422The hell it does

[@Swooper86]

100% agree, implying Elite is well supported made me doubt every statement about the games I haven't tried.

[@rektleftist]

They probably asked Frontier how often they add new content and took they're word for it.

[@user-stanrbm]

No Man's Sky on 1st place!

[@usernamesmeh4757]

yah no lmao

[@MStreppelhoff]

No one noticed that "Between Stars" is twice in the video ? :D

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

Between the stars is on this list twice, also you forgot Darkstar One.

[@-CrimsoN-]

Pretty cool to see Precursors getting name dropped. Also may as well add Parkan 2 if we're gonna add Precursors.

[@catafest]

Freelancer was a good game... can be found on the web?

[@finnm.2582]

Another one for the list: Starsector. It costs 15 bucks and kept mir entertained for almost 1000 hours now.

[@Azuria969]

Hey hey people, Sseth here

[@AlanRangel5]

Great games, played many and loved. Now we have also Starfield which is great, I love the graphics and ship personalization with full detailed interiors.

[@woodenman999]

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[@grahamtech]

Star citizen??

[@Ben-crzy]

Between the Stars so good you had to list it twice?

[@mauricebetait6674]

Stellar Tactics is a real good upcomming game.

[@truettjbillups]

Starlink: Battle for Atlas? I loved that game.

[@MrParis215]

I literally just started playing this base on this comment.... Mannnnnnn I'm having a BLAST😂😂👍🏽

[@CyberRaccoon]

Your videos are a source of inspiration for fellow gamers. Keep inspiring and entertaining us!

[@BannorPhil]

Between The Stars is mentioned twice (1:00 and 13:26)?

[@spikespike2492]

I think that Spacebourne 2 should be mentioned. It is very well designed and one of the best Space Games out there

[@IAMMASONDAVIDSONGOBIN]

STAR WARS GALAXIES IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MMORPG

[@tankstriker6634]

i would give an honorable mention to galaxy on fire 2. its what got me into the space open world and led me to rebel galaxy and everspace.

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

0:27 You *HAD* to add that funny little information huh? 😂🤣

[@user-zt2xv9le3g]

hi thanx for video

[@d-ray1084]

Pulsar is good fun with friends or friendly strangers.

[@baitposter]

Anyone know any games that focus more on managing a ship's interior? Like as one-person crew or part of a crew?

[@JanuszRejduch]

Also great games: Starpoint Gemini series.

[@DjeronX2]

The most favorite and atmospheric game for me remains Space Rangers 1-2. The game gives what I can't find in new games so far.The living world and the economy as the basis and very soulful quests and the atmosphere of the game itself. There is of course a re-creation of the game in the Steam "space rangers hd a war apart" I can't say that it is worse than the original games, it's just different and somewhat simplified. If you want a real adventure and a challenge to your spirit, I advise you to find the original space ranger 1. You will live in this world and realize that the game is alive.

[@_R8ze_]

Space rangers was awesome!

[@fredpryde8555]

space engineers is the best space i played especially with the recent updates

[@user-hb1ms9dy8c]

Empyrion (old browser game) was instead of Starship Evo game (best about spaceship building after starmade and galactic junk)

[@Batler631]

Legendary is an accurate term for Freelancer. I have to confirm that. That time 20 years ago (2003) the game had no graphical competition. I played it on and off for 12 years.... and it was a joy to turn on every time. A simple, catchy game. You just wanted to play it, explore the universe. Today's games are extremely cluttered, there's too much, too much confusion, too many options... Freelancer reminds me of the movie "Ready Player One" where "James Halliday" was all about the Easter egg. It's not about winning, there's nothing to win in Freelancer. It's just playing, and playing, exploring, looking for "Jump Holes",bases, planets, better ships, wrecks with the best weapons. I remember when I messed up my reputation and couldn't buy a Titan battleship, so I had to settle for a ship called the Eagle.

[@lickweedkewl]

You've put Between the Stars twice - #2 and #22

[@SaudBako]

Outer Wilds is one thing. ALL other games in this list is just one other thing.

[@bemancio-elotrocanal]

And Cosmoteer 👌

[@joelreis5366]

Arggh, dont talk about that game!! Those annoying ships with powerfull retro rockets just stay at max railgun range and snipe me all the time. Yes, it is an amazing game. Sunk a lot of hours in.

[@wolverineprime2886]

Why do you have Between the Stars on the list twice? Short memory? LoL

[@randalthor6872]

@3:30 No Man's Sky DOES have a story. Just wanted to correct you.

[@fedunAlex]

Where's Spore?

[@Luki7xD]

Vast = fav word xd

[@trinity5150]

Once you mentioned Star Citizen at about 0:29 that was a deal breaker for that game. Nice how the devs at Star Citizen gave all their fans and backers the middle finger in 2022. I do have a few of the other games already and this list was really cool :)

[@DerEchteBold]

What do you mean? What did they do?

[@Scorpio_1974]

I never played it becasue its too damn $$$ its BS!

[@DerEchteBold]

@@Scorpio_1974 Haha, yes, keeps me from trying as well.

[@slavenmatuhina2151]

There are periods when you can play it for free for about 2 weeks or so. You don't need to spend more then 45$ to play the game without any restrictions, however I don't recommend it for most ppl for now because it's still in alpha with bugs and there's a steep learning curve. Having said that if you have the patience and understand what your getting into it's the best space sim even at it current state IMO.

[@irekmuzylo4600]

Empyrion - Galactic Survival the best game here!

[@randalthor6872]

I just downloaded it! Can't wait to try I had no idea it even existed. Looks like my dream game on paper : )

[@lspaceyx]

check out "Chorus" game

[@zephyrzavala1695]

Nothing from the Starpoint Gemini series? that's kinda sad.

[@SouthernHavoc]

Open world space game list that doesn’t include the most popular open world space game, got it.

[@insomnolentcrow]

What game is it?

[@grahamtech]

Star citizen

[@joelreis5366]

@@grahamtech Lol? the game thats already way above 800 million dollars raised and shows no sign of being released after 13 years? yes very famous. I remember 10 years ago when i wanted to try the game and saw a 42 dollar pay wall. We will probably see a Bethesda game launch with no bugs before we see Star Citizen being released.

[@cubanflow453]

@@grahamtech really jajjjajja

[@TrexelCat]

Pioneer. The game is open-ended, and you are free to eke out whatever kind of space-faring existence you can think of. Explore and trade between millions of star systems. Turn to a life of crime as a pirate, smuggler or bounty hunter. Travel through vast territories of various factions, experience beautiful scenery, be the first to witness foreign stars being eclipsed by alien worlds. The universe is whatever you make of it. Pioneer is under constant development and has a friendly community of players, modders and developers around it.

[@NORKIE]

the industry and hobby as a whole needs a new type of space MMO.

[@swedensy]

100USD to you who just give me name of the that pc game im looking for. Space Game.IF i rem corectly there was only demo version, maybe maybe not (cause there was restrictions. The space music was also very beautiful. Main source of resources was meteor mining. Its like in skyrim there are many different clan or races..Map is very hard to navigate cause its full of galaxies icons. Game is full of missions, depends on mission you can be assigned few npc to destroy pirate ship or go to investigate. its also old. it was like in world of warcraft game, you could mine asteroids to build stiff and explore areas that are dangerous. You could even issue commands over radio to friendly npc "Drop your Cargo" they would blow you up in seconds :D There are few ships with different main stats. Not a strategic. I can paypal you for helping me, ty. i keep notifications on. Its a 3d game ,first or second person view. Has meteor mining and no resttricted areas. A unique thing about this game is you can come closer to other space ships and initiate hacking via radio frequency if failed the whole fleet will shoot you to pieces. If succeed, withdraw hacked amount of digital currency.

[@777mustdie]

it had multiplayer or single player only?

[@swedensy]

Single player@@777mustdie

[@leviathan161]

Astrox imperium?

[@swedensy]

@@leviathan161 nope. Its an older game for Intel HD family graphics. But ty for suggestion.

[@joelreis5366]

Homeworld? was the opening theme "Adagio for strings"? That opening gives me the chills.

[@marcelgregorik3477]

KSP didn't make it to top 25?

[@Swooper86]

Also, was this narrated by a robovoice? The emphasis was very strange in some sentences.

[@codymckinney4934]

Co op games?

[@usernamesmeh4757]

you put Between the Stars on here twice

[@josephhodge7343]

No love for Spacebourne 2?

[@brettleisy356]

Eve's economy was destroyed years ago, and to gain skills can draw out months or even years, of course sped up by P2W. but as mentioned the economy is ruined by a rich guy years ago spending millions completely offsetting what things are worth with hyper inflation. funny they didn't mention that Empyrion has block by block constructions of hover vessels, small vessels, capitol vessels and bases, and with the Reforged Eden mod soon to have massive capitol vessels. and each play through whether single player or multi player will have different experiences as it is generated off of seeds changing the entire galaxy (hundreds even thousands of solar systems to explore). I thought it was silly and yes graphics are a strain on weaker systems and not top end. but has become an addiction, specially the building.

[@Cuckold_Cockles]

is this an AI voice? cuz if not I swear I listened to an audio book read by this guy

[@GhostoVurbo]

probably is

[@johnnykeener3727]

Privateer 3!?!?!?

[@Max_Kheler]

KSP?!?!?

[@Vigilence]

Missed starsector.

[@seancairns9749]

rebel galaxy rules

[@suwudchaikaewmart-ud8dg]

น่าเข้าไปเล่นได้จริงๆนะมันพะยะค่ะ

[@tenryuta]

no starpoint series, weird.

[@tohafi]

Rebel Galaxy has the best soundtrack!

[@Jacksonace1]

I'm just looking for something to replace Elite with since they abandoned consoles.

[@randalthor6872]

I really wish console gamers got more love from the space game developers. There's just not that many available on console : (

[@Lap-ie6pw]

спасибо гугл переводчику что я зашел на буржуазийский ролик

[@user-po9vr2uo1f]

мне кажется этот фраер раньше на нашем вещал, а потом решил амеррикосов дурачить😅

[@TheMolodcom]

раньше он был не буржуйский, видимо пора одписатся

[@No_Name59]

Так как в приложении Discord сосредоточилось основная масса геймеров,то:

[@No_Name59]

Русскоязычные сервера Discord очень опасны. Discord не стоит того чтобы там находится вовсе. А если общаешься в приложении Discord, то общайся минимально. Настолько минимально насколько это возможно из возможных. Но в данном приложении Discord не обойтись без минусов: 1)Разнообразный коллектив который не всегда подстать себе найдешь; 2)В приложении дискорд на жалобы сквозь пальцы смотрят.могут и не отреагировать; 3)Конфиденциальность в общении не в почёте. 4)Странное комньюнити которое как "стая пчел". 5)На жалобы техобслуживание долго не реагирует.но попытаться можно. 6)Само общество дискорда может окунуть тебя в грязь.Если им что-то не нравится.У них своё представление о том или ином человеке.Они живут в своём собственном мирке под названием Discord. 7)Есть определенные "особые" личности которым всё непочем.и они суются куда не следует. Проблема русскоязычного Discord независит от сервера. Сейчас русскоязычный Discord самое поганое место обитания.

[@No_Name59]

Весьма аккуратнее со словами в русскоязычных серверах Discord. Самые суровые условия нахождения. Основная зараза прогнившего насквозь дискорда. Каждого разорвут на части буквально. Могут накол насадить буквально. Также это единая система общения где одно другому не мешает, а когда помешает, то порвут на месте.

[@No_Name59]

Русскоязычные сервера Discord опасны в потаённых недрах самих серверов. Тварь дискорда останется тварью приложения Discord. Опасайся серверов.

[@No_Name59]

Текст носит исключительно познавательно - предупредительный характер.

[@Lap-ie6pw]

@@No_Name59 не забыть времена деанонов и коллективного гнобления, не забуду чудный дискорд

[@elvinismayilov4308]

star citizen

[@Zalta-gg4es]

You forgot Star Citizen in the list Freelancer's sequel

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

Star Citizen in not a game, its not even in alpha, its DEMO. Just because Chris Roborts show you brand new shiny graphics each year at CitizenCon dose not make it a "game" AI: 0% Economey: 0% Alien Factions: 0% NPC Ships: 0% But at citizencon today you all cried and cheers for sweaty faces, and water that kicks up as you fly over it, and your hair as it waves in the wind...its not even a game anymore, just a simulator were you can go poop and walk around 3 empty planets.

[@Zalta-gg4es]

It’s a simulation not a game

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

@@Zalta-gg4es Its not a simulator, its a demo :D

[@Zalta-gg4es]

Sure thing

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

@@Zalta-gg4es Enjoy your 11 year Demo of 3 planets and zero NPC's ships, AI, Economy, and Alien Factions...but hey, you can sweat on your characters face now....big stuff for a Demo :D

[@djaouedbenras1059]

bro u forget ksp 2 and star citizen

[@thecomplextheroy]

Dont forget about starfeild in semptember

[@s.e.c.u.8340]

Starfailed (meme)

[@user-ww6dw4by9w]

why to do that ? starfield do not even have " space " its al labout teleports..

[@s.e.c.u.8340]

yeah@@user-ww6dw4by9w

[@joelreis5366]

Starfield, despite being released in September, will be ready to play in April next year probably.

[@thecomplextheroy]

@@joelreis5366 cap I'm playing it right now it's good

[@skeletonkingvr8977]

Starforce

[@armink.4173]

Chorus

[@CreatorOfWorlds]

Spacebourne 2 would have been nice on the list.

[@usernamesmeh4757]

That game sucks ass, its a broken mess I crashed 5 times getting to weapons

[@Patrykov007]

where gods and idols ??

[@melobeatlover4006]

Team eve online 😎

[@kirillminin5978]

BtS actualy double so its 24 game and not all of them about space and open world...

[@genericdataflow1680]

You didn't include spaceborne and its not only better than everything here its made by 1 guy

[@randalthor6872]

playing spaceborne 1 right now and I totally agree! I can't believe one guy made this. It's so fun and has all the great exploration I could hope for. Can't wait to beat this and jump into Spaceborne 2 : )

[@wolf4640]

I forgot about Chorvs ❤

[@winkekatze5593]

You? More like he forgot about chorus.

[@raymondboyett7230]

This video reads and sounds like it was done by AI

[@mrmiffmiff]

Thank goodness I thought I was the only one.

[@djordjesamuilovic5069]

Ty. All of these look more interesting than Starfield. Even pixelated ones 😂

[@iliyanshmilev]

There is only one real open world space game - EVE Online

[@terrylandess6072]

'Real' game, heh.

[@maiqlieschtein3903]

Where the X series?

[@vanhaver5150]

Did you even the video?

[@manepie0076]

and where is Star Citizen ? This is one of the best Spacegames

[@vanhaver5150]

Where is Star Citizen? A question for the ages.

[@cubanflow453]

SC jajaja yes where is it?

[@usernamesmeh4757]

lmao no

[@user-oz6vl1yw4j]

NOW+ STARFIELD

[@pika6049]

Это странно - заголовок на русском, а видео на английском

[@nolicenseracer6499]

no star citizen? seriously?

[@atlantic_love]

ONLY because it hasn't been released. It's an extremely beautiful and realistic space simulator game that has two things going against it: 1. been in development for many years, but never released 2.unoptimized, will stutter and lag on the best of machines

[@adawg3032]

Its not released yet, but star citizen is pretty awesome. Nothing like it, its just in a niche of its own. Some may not like the game, some will love it.

[@clscormier]

Why can't we just get an updated version of Freelancer? Nothing since has come close to capturing that spark of fun without going too extreme in other systems that feel like chores (like Starfield)

[@slavenmatuhina2151]

Everspace 2 kinda felt like an updated Freelancer. I recommed you try it if you haven't.

[@porterwake3898]

Chris Roberts didn't do shit on Freelancer. He got kicked off the project and then it got done. No Man's Sky does not have 18 quntillion planets, it has about 18 quintollion copies of about 10 different planets.

[@Swooper86]

Some of these aren't even space games though 🤨

[@barnabyfontana7528]

SWTOR open world exploration space game? starbound? yeah right. I think you just took every space game made in the past 20-30 years and decided to add them to the list, 'cause you obviously do not understand the genre.

[@bronsonblack8222]

Star Citizen shits on all of these

[@SOVIETMAPPER-xu6rc]

написано по русски но говорит иностранец

[@ivanho1]

Lol no Star Citizen?

[@zerolegacy7821]

Please no....

[@carstenkomdeur7256]

What do you mean please no? Yes, it's hella buggy. But it's one hell of a open world space game.@@zerolegacy7821

[@voidLogicx]

Enjoy that shiz yourself

[@vadim6656]

game is a scam and does not deserve a listing

[@ivanho1]

@@vadim6656 100% agreed. Money graders, God will make them prey

[@paulwalkerfan8949]

StarField is also One of the best Games

[@simonrockstream]

Warframe should be on this list.

[@RobouteGuilliman972]

No it's not

[@jackorta1613]

To repetetive unfun and just not realy a good exploration game

[@lgscteam]

Warframe is trash

[@-Seek-17]

It's not about exploring though it's just an fps imo

[@UresAeIl]

​​@@lgscteamWarframe is a game where you need to grind a lot with lot of patience, it's not a game for people who can't hold back their excitement for hack slash and mad about why its bad no story or more