20 Best Space Games That LET YOU EXPLORE & BUILD

If you love space games, we've got 20 great ones for you...whether you're building, fighting, or exploring!

0:00 Intro
0:20 Deliver Us The Moon
1:22 FTL: Faster Than Light
2:22 Homeworld 3 Remastered Collection
3:19 The Universim
4:06 Breathedge
4:54 Chorus
5:38 Stellaris
6:22 Moonbase Alpha
7:07 Astroneer
7:40 Kerbal Space Program
8:36 Endless Space 2
9:10 Everspace 2
9:50 Hardspace Shipbreaker
10:37 Surviving Mars
11:16 Starfield
12:06 Outer Wilds
12:57 Eve Online
12:40 Elite Dangerous
14:23 Mass Effect Legendary Edition
15:26 No Man’s Sky

[dr.bherrin]

No Mans Sky gets maximum credit for 8 years of completely free updates. Pay once and done. That deserves a helluva lot of credit on it's own.

Now, some titles you missed:

Space Engineers - If you want more freedom that Starfield gives you to build a ship, but also bases and land vehicles, this is the game you want.

Empyrion - Similar to Space Engineers but a little less complicated.

Icarus - You spend your time on a a planet, but you live on a space station. You go down to complete mission, level up and gather resources, then go back to station and take a new mission.

Industries of Titan: You run a corporation that is trying to establish outposts on Jupiter's Moon, Titan. You get space ships delivering supplies, try to find rare alien artifacts. It's a strategy building game.

Starpoint Gemini - There are several Gemini games, but the most recent are similar to Everspace, and are great space combat games.

Space Crew - My favorite on this list. It's very Star Trek like, without being Star Trek at all. You manage a crew on a ship, you have to move your people around to various tasks. If you have to attack, you need someone on guns, but maybe you have to not have someone at navigation. Or you need to man the guns, so you have to take someone away from Medical.

Managing the ship crew and loadout for each mission it a big part of the game. Maybe you're retrieving a malfunctioning satellite, or maybe you have to destroy some pirate looting space lanes. It's not about high end graphics or cinematics, and that's good because the gameplay is what makes this game great.

[HeronHQ]

You missed out on The X-Games. X4 is a huge space sandbox where you can build a huge empire or just pirate along, fight big wars, conquer whole systems, etc.

[blackryan]

I really like Space Engineers. You can build soo many different things in that game. But its not a full game yet IMO. Very fun to play for people who enjoy building things

[DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

What i really want is another space opera rpg like Mass Effect, that was peak sci-fi

[slowerthinker]

There is nothing as satisfying in gaming as that first time you manage to successfully land softy on the surface of The Mun in "Kerbal Space Program".

Also. There is nothing quite as frustrating as then realising that you didn't put a ladder on the side of your spaceship so your little green Kerbals can't get back in the rocket to go home again.

[WebbanationX]

I have never been more proud of a studio than Hello Games. Not taking the loot and running but instead doubling down and surpassing your vision is some next level sheeit

[KingShado]

Prey 2017 is gonna give you more than enough space feel, especially from a technical view of how a space station works like and how floating in space with just a booster backpack would be like.

[gsawcomic]

The trick is making the exploration interesting.

[DeepSeeker]

The redemption arc of No Man's Sky is something truly remarkable. For anyone reading this, if you can I urge you to buy the game and try it. I have sunk hundreds of hours into the game and it still has something new to offer. It has an incredibly helpful and thriving community to get guidance when stuck on things as well.

[TheUnorthodox]

Love Starfield, the amount of realistic content mixed with fantasy is amazing.

[Orionn]

Today I came back to No Man’s sky after two years. After playing I went to youtube and saw this video xD it is a sign that I made a good decision.

[jonathanlebon]

X4: Foundations
Definitely worth an honourable mention.

And R.I.P. "Fractured Space", the game which had the best soundscape or feeling of being in space.

[samburch]

Outer Wilds genuinely is one of the best games I’ve ever played and I’m almost 40. If you’ve never played it I promise you you’ll feel the same

[hollisyeano]

Aw The Outer Worlds didn't make it

[KleanMe]

My name’s Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite channel on YouTube

[Kosvolan]

Good to see Chorus get some love. A great AA space fighter with interesting combat. Story wanders into space magic territory but not too corny and had good emotional beats.

[albertvisagie]

If we're talking about hands-on terraforming and if yiu like seeing numbers go up - the planet crafter is the way to go

[temhirtleague-chess]

It is insanity to miss on X4 Foundation .... this was a massive miss Jake.

[Muldaak]

How can you make a video like this and NOT have The X series? X4 is a Godsend of a game.

[jonnyethco]

Give 'Pulsar: The Lost Colony' a look. It's one of the best co-op space games I've ever played. It's you and 4 friends running your own space ship in a fully explorable galaxy. You can do missions for different factions all while searching for a missing civilization. Highly recommend it.