Starship EVO similar games & best alternatives

Starship EVO - starship-evo_1.avif
Starship EVO - starship-evo_2.avif
Starship EVO - starship-evo_3.avif
Starship EVO - starship-evo_4.avif
Starship EVO - starship-evo_5.avif
Starship EVO - starship-evo_6.avif

Starship EVO

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

What works

  • Extensive creative freedom in building
  • Intuitive and versatile building and logic systems
  • Large procedural galaxy to explore
  • Active solo developer with frequent updates
  • Stable performance even with large builds

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with bugs and missing features
  • Limited multiplayer and social features
  • Minimal current gameplay beyond building
  • Slow development pace due to solo dev
  • Basic character animations and art style

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • SimplePlanes

  • MachineCraft

  • Main Assembly

  • LEGO® Worlds

  • SimplePlanes 2

  • No Time

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Starship EVO but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Forever Skies

  • Space Engineers

  • Empyrion - Galactic Survival

  • Subnautica: Below Zero

  • Astrometica

  • Breachway

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Starship EVO but with more leadership over others

  • Void Destroyer 2

  • Avorion

  • Star Wolves 3: Civil War

  • SpaceBourne 2

  • X4: Foundations

  • Starpoint Gemini Warlords

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Starship EVO. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Starship EVO. These titles are not in What to play next.

Starship EVO: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Story, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026