The Best Spaceships Games for Linux

Update : Seren Nova added at rank #2.
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Avorion (2017)

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A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.


  • space
  • spaceships
  • building
  • voxel
  • pve
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • choices
  • flight
  • trading
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • sci-fi
  • open-world

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Seren Nova (2024)

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Seren Nova is a top-down 3D retro sci-fi game set in a solar system at war. Choose the best ship to complete each mission and take out the enemy across various planets. You can even land your ship and take the war to the enemy on foot. Featuring a fun retro sci-fi live-action cutscenes and puppets!

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  • spaceships
  • fmv
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • 1990s
  • lgbtq
  • top-down
  • wargame
  • flight
  • 3d
  • vehicle
  • shooter

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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder (2024)

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Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 5 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • mars
  • space
  • spaceships
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • automation
  • building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • physics
  • replay-value

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Defending Earth (2023)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

As the Earth faces the greatest asteroid storm in the solar system, players must strategize and use a variety of weapons, tools and other resources to protect the planet. With a countdown to the incoming storm, players must act quickly and make strategic decisions to save Earth from the asteroids.

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  • space
  • simulation
  • real-time
  • spaceships
  • immersive
  • grand-strategy
  • life
  • tactical
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • strategy
  • physics
  • 3d
  • 2d

5

Stardust Exile (2023)

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Stardust Exile is a MMORTS set in the Milky Way galaxy, containing currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics. The remaining star systems are procedurally generated based on currently known data. You can create your own ship designs with an in-game ship generator.

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  • spaceships
  • real-time
  • space
  • procedural
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • mmo
  • 4x
  • base-building
  • multiplayer
  • grand-strategy
  • open-world
  • 3d
  • simulation
  • exploration

6

REVO (2021)

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Neon shoot ‘em up to a retro fueled synthwave soundtrack. You’ve drifted into a sinister space storm far from civilization. Dark ships quickly close in on you. Rescued by a mysterious symbiotic vessel, your only hope of escape is to equip for combat and fight for your life.

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  • top-down
  • spaceships
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • space
  • shooter
  • linear
  • fast-paced
  • attack
  • score
  • retro
  • colourful
  • futuristic
  • arcade
  • old-school

7

Alien Tag (2024)

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Alien Tag is an free, immersive VR game that puts you in the shoes of an extraterrestrial trying to tag other aliens!

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  • spaceships
  • mars
  • conversation
  • aliens
  • parkour
  • cyberpunk
  • space
  • vr
  • futuristic
  • immersive
  • choices
  • colourful
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • sci-fi

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Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails (2021)

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Dodge bullets and click to destroy enemies with your sniper attack! This is a classic Shoot'em up mixed with Shooter on Rails mechanics! We challenge you to dodge all the shots and destroy all the enemies!

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  • attack
  • unforgiving
  • spaceships
  • nostalgia
  • on-rails
  • score
  • time
  • modern
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell

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