Orbital, a top-down space sim x strategy hybrid, where you build out your galatic civilization while exploring in your flagship spaceship, released on Steam

SpaceCraft, an online space exploration and building game, where you can mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, released on Steam in e

Nexus Legacy, a grand strategy MMO, inspired by classic browser space strategy games, where you colonize the galaxy, released on Steam

"Pay the gravity tax": In crushing strategy game Asema, your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast

X4: Foundations' Empire update, out now, delivers the space sim's biggest bout of battle balancing yet, plus RTS-style ordering and ship showrooms for showoffs

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions blasts off into early access today, with a full planet ready for you to explore

Hooded Horse publishing the space action RPG C-Beams

Once Upon The Universe, a new take on the god game, where you play a diety that guides the universe creation process after th big band, released on Steam in early access

There are a million ways to deliver ore in Starminer, a real-time space strategy sim with zero-G physics - just beware your greed doesn't attract the aliens

No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'

Possible One: Lunar Industries, a lunar colony development game with a focus on real world tech, logistics and resource extraction, released on Steam in early access

Glory On Pluto is a chaotic roguelite where you build the most ridiculous rocket engine

Stellar Freight: Endless Horizon, [a] Space Trucking Roguelite, [Where You Manage a Freight Ship and Her Crew While Crossing a Galaxy in Crisis], Opens a Limited Steam Playtest

Space Haven 1.0 Review: A Brutal, Brilliant Colony Sim Worth the Ten-Year Wait

Build a star-system wide factory in the incremental game Starvester

EVE Online's Cradle of War expansion wants to make the space MMO more welcoming to new players, before killing them in galaxy-wide omniconflict

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes review - an iffy take on the sci-fi series that had me contending with Cylons, sabotage, and STDs

Stellaris is getting space nomads and scenarios for its 10th birthday

EVE Online will be used to help train Google DeepMind's AI tech, as company take a minority stake in the former CCP Games

Outworld Station, a space-station factory automation game set in a hostile alien world, released on Steam.

Star Wars: X-Wing and MechWarrior veterans release In The Black, a "serious" space combat sim with Newtonian physics

Space Hauler is a full scale space flight sim set around Saturn where every single button in your ship is functional

Void Ascendancy, a space empire management strategy game with a focus on trade and economic development, released on Steam

SpaceSlog, a top-down survival in space colonysim, in the vein of Stardeus or Rimworld, released in early access on Steam

Planetbase 2 (in development) - Rocket Fuel Dev Update - Landing infrastructure and Rocket Fuel production.

Homeworld junkies rejoice, brilliantly brutal sci-fi strategy sim Nebulous is finally getting its singleplayer campaign

Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good

After his [space ark colony] city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'

Artemis II hype sees Kerbal Space Program beat all-time Steam player record 11 years after launch

Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager, a space exploration company management game where you compete with other corps in colonization, industry and spaceflight (all objects are in motion) across t

Planetary Governor, a macro-focused, planet management game set in a feudalistic space empire setting, with factions, distinct characters with personalities and economic strategy gameplay, released in

UNIT 42: Adrift in Space, a top down spaceship management x automation game, vaguelly reminiscent of games like Stardeus where you travel the galaxy, scavenge resources and expand your ship, released

Fortified Space, a top down spacesim x tower defence hybrid, where you switch between orbital combat and marines landing on planets, with a flash/newgrounds visual aesthetic, released on Steam (demo a

Who Are You!?, a sci-fi psychological horror experience based on real UFO research, with a story centering on a husband and his internal fight to understand the disappearance of his wife, released on

Riftborne, a text based space grand strategy game, with a procedurally generated galaxy, an in-depth economic simulation and RTS-style space combat, released in early access on Steam.

Star Trek Online celebrates Enterprise’s anniversary with a docu-trailer and period starships

Ironseed: Lost Chapter, a standalone narrative expansion for Ironseed (1994), a RPG x strategy spacesim where you manage a spaceship and its crew in a dynamic galaxy, released on Steam

Your citizens don't stay put in Stellaris-style 4X strategy game Final Vanguard - start a war and "entire waves of refugees can emerge"

Stellar Freight: Endless Horizon Revealed as a Space-Trucking Roguelite [RPG] With Tactical Turn-Based Combat

ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Keplerian Space Discovery, a more serious take on the KSP-like realistic spaceship simulator formula, released in early access with an ambitious roadmap

Comet Tycoon, a comet colony management game where you can focus on resource extraction or tourism, released on Steam

One Elite Dangerous fan traded in a model Delorean to fund building the ultimate space sim rig

Modder behind cancelled Star Wars [game, First Assault] unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'

Remembering the 30-year-old computer game that introduced me to Star Wars

After Nearly A Decade Open Space RPG Stellar Tactics 1.0 Launches March 30

New Stars, a galactic grand strategy game where you build out your empire and challange alien civilizations, released on Steam

AETHUS, a top down mining strategy game, with an emphasis on direct control of your character, where you lead an outpost on an unknown world, released on Steam

One of the Legend of Grimrock designers is making a spaceship puzzler inspired by System Shock