6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Space Crew. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Space Crew.
Release Date: 17/03/2022
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
This Means Warp is a strategy combat game where four players work together to run a spaceship as you travel the solar system. Together you have to manage the ship, repair damage and take charge of shooting enemies. It's frantic battling and a lot of fun...
Release Date: 14/09/2012, updated in 2014
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy. Unusually, you have complete control of every function of your ship and must manage systems, crew and scenarios. It's a hard...
Release Date: 12/01/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
Tharsis is a tough strategy-simulation game where you must survive a doomed mission to Mars. You roll dice whose outcome can either help repair the ship or make things worse by injuring crew mates or causing further damage. The dice foreground the...
Release Date: 12/08/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Bomber Crew is a cartoon-styled World War 2 strategic bombing simulator. While it avoids the grim reality of these missions, it connects players to the extreme difficulty and danger of making it out and back again.
Release Date: 30/10/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Hand-Made
Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a role-playing game about commanding a spaceship crew on missions. You get to design and upgrade your team in a similar fashion to tabletop roleplay games, like Dungeons and Dragons. Here though, it's a sci-fi world. It's the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Open World and Pixels
Farworld Pioneers is a colony-building strategy game where you must adapt to extreme elements, grow self-sufficient communities and deal with aliens. It's a game with simple visuals but surprisingly open play, as you collect resources, develop...
15 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Space Crew. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Space Crew.
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Bake 'n Switch is a puzzle fighting game where 2-4 players are apprentice bakers fighting the "Mould" and taking on various Guardian bosses. It's ridiculously cute and a lot of silly fun, as you catch, merge and sacrifice the anthropomorphised dough...
Release Date: 26/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Pikmin 3 Deluxe is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to...
Release Date: 02/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Star Wars: Squadrons is a shooting game where you master piloting spaceships. Squadrons offers a single player, narrative-based game, in which you play as two pilots (one in the Galactic Empire and one in the New Republic) where you'll fight in battles...
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space. It's a world viewed from side-on, with simple visuals that enable it to offer complex systems and hundreds of items for players to discover their own...
Release Date: 19/09/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime offers a space-survival challenge where you must collaborate to defend your circular spaceship. Each player needs to take on specific tasks to manage offensive or defensive duties.
Release Date: 08/04/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
First Class Trouble is a survival puzzle game where six players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. It's a social deduction game, like Among Us, so the real trick to surviving is working out which players are robot Personoids.
Release Date: 10/03/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Guns of Icarus (Online/Alliance) is an online battle between teams of steampunk airships. Join up to 32 players for epic airship battles, with four players manning each ship. Or you can team up with a few friends to fight the AI that learns your habits....
Release Date: 01/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
No Plan B is a tactical role-play game where you plan missions to neutralise various threats. Unusually, you don't directly control your team during the action. Instead, you plan orders for them ahead of time then watch as they execute your commands in...
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Catastronauts is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm...
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
No Heroes Here is a cooperative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Release Date: 21/12/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Sail Forth is a sailing simulation where you take charge of a ship in a vast ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. You play by working with the wind and sails to explore, take on tasks, fight pirates and slowly...
Release Date: 21/09/2017
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Heat Signature is a tactical shooting game where you break into spaceships on missions to hijack them, steal important technology, assassinate crew members and rescue captives. With simple visuals, viewed from above, you can approach this in many ways...
Release Date: 21/07/2023
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Day and Night
Pikmin 4 is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy...
Release Date: 24/09/2009, updated in 2011
Platforms: PS3 and Wii
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Dead Space: Extraction is a shooting game where you only control the aiming, like a light gun game. It's a spin-off prequel from the main Dead Space series and follows survivors of a mining colony as it is overrun by deadly monsters.
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Platforms: PC, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
From Space is a shooting game where squads of four players liberate the earth from an alien infestation. Play is in B-Movie style with over-the-top weaponry and a cartoony post-apocalyptic world. It stands out for combing the classic dungeon action of...
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