What are the best space-themed games for Android?

For what is now an eleven-year-old game, the classic Bioware RPG game mechanics such as branching dialog and turn-based battles similar to a CRPG (where the player must pause the gameplay in order to choose their commands to then un-pause in order to watch their chosen strategy play out) hold up well. See More

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Gameplay holds up great despite the game itself being pretty old at this point

Top Con

Movement does not work that great on touchscreens

The on screen controls for movement in the game do not work as good as they could giving a sense of non-preciseness. See More

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Controller support allows for more fine controls

Star Wars: KOTOR has in built HID and MOGA controller support, which work great, just as they would on a console or PC. See More

Top Con

Somewhat buggy

Crashes can happen while playing, while not a huge deal they can be annoying. See More

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Engaging story thanks to the superb writing

Being a port of a full PC role playing game, KotOR has a pretty in depth story that feels very engaging. The player takes the role of a someone in the Star Wars universe that eventually has their choice of how they would like to experience the world, as a Jedi master, or a Sith lord through choices they make during the game. These choices are the basis of the story you will experience. See More

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Handles Star Wars license well

Seeing things like Jedi vs Sith and politics in the game that are now staples of the newer movies helps to feel as though the game fits into the cannon quite well. With so many movie license games in the past being quick cash-ins it is great to see the Star Wars license used in a manner that fits with the cannon and of high quality development. See More

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Quite a long story that will take a lot of time to beat

The main story of the game can take a good bit of time to finish as it averages around 30 hours of play, which is pretty lengthy for a mobile game. See More

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A lot of mods

You can find a lot of mods made by the community that improve the game. See More

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Movement works great

You get to decide which components go where, which crew members to assign where, etc. See More

46 Other Games Considered

Star Command

Top Pro

Very in-depth starship management, where you can customize your ship how you like

Top Con

Unstable

The game might crash often so save often. See More

TalentedMuati's Experience

I might have finished this game 3 times over the years. Still one of the best paid games (aka no ads, stupid grinding for days, waiting for hours, etc.) on Android. See More

Specs

Genre:Space simulation management

Star Command relies heavily on minigames and time management based gameplay. See More

Top Pro

Frantic mini-game combat that compartmentalizes the action quite well

Top Con

Incomplete game

The developers themselves have said that the game is about 30% of what they envisioned. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful pixel-art that shows off the care taken in the design of the game

A detailed, colorful and varied aesthetic throughout the game. Ships, menus, and cut-scenes are all beautifully made. See More

Top Con

Regular 30 second ads

Top Pro

Offers a great sense of humor, with a nod to many sci-fi classics

A lot of references to Star Trek and other sci-fi shows can be seen in dialogue and other aspects of the game. See More

Top Con

Game gets repetitive quickly

Since the game is admittedly unfinished, the campaign is quite short and there's not really much to do besides ship combat. Many planets can't be explored and there's no real ending, you just start all over again with the same story. See More

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Open beta testing

Despite the lack of content when compared to the promises made on their kickstarter campaign, the developers have been publishing beta versions of this game with some new old features. See More

Randomized star map, enemies, and loot that allows the game to stay fresh and appealing, as you never know what will happen the next time you play. See More

Battlevoid: Harbinger

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Roguelite gameplay elements gives the game longevity thanks to the randomization

Top Con

Game can get fairly easy to breeze through if you figure out the optimal ship configuration

It starts out very challenging, but as you level up your captain and better ships become available, the difficulty doesn't ramp up enough to keep the challenge going. See More

Specs

Genre:RTS

It's a straight up purchase for the entire game meaning you receive all of the content, all for a singular price. See More

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No IAPs, you get what you pay for upfront

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Plays very much like the popular game FTL, whch should appeal to those familiar or who are fans

For those waiting for FTL to hit android devices, this is very similar: you take your ship, progress through star systems, defeat enemies, gather resources from their remains, upgrade your weapons, take on and complete quests that require you to travel to specific star systems. There is no subsystem targeting or crew management. See More

With game clients developed for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows, you can be sure that you can play Vendetta Online on any of your devices. You could use your desktop computer when you are interested in big battles that require lots of screen space and computer power or use your tablet to mine ore and craft items when you are away from your desktop. The game runs great on mobile devices and is always being updated with new content. See More

Vendetta Online

Top Pro

Cross platform support allows the player to pick up where they left off on any OS they may have the game installed on

Top Con

Subscription required for decent gameplay

You need to pay $9.99 for monthly subscription to enjoy it to the fullest. See More

Luxen's Experience

Best on PC, but playable for limited f2p on mobile and some VR devices supported, this is "quake with spaceships" - and so much more! All platforms join in a single universe. Controller or extended input system recommended, but not necessary. See More

Specs

Genre:MMO, Space combat game, 3rdPS

Vendetta Online has twitch based controls, that allow you, the captain of your ship, to be in total control of the way you fight in battles by not relying on dice rolls or other behind the scenes decisions, VO lets the player's skill in combat determine the outcome, the more you practice the better you get. See More

Top Pro

Good twitch controls that allow the player to have full control

Top Con

Has in-app-purchases

Vendetta Online is free-to-play but does have in-app-purchases that range from $0.99 - $99.99 per item. See More

Top Pro

Extremely large playable universe where you can spent plenty of time exploring

The playable area in Vendetta Online's universe is huge. It is said that in some regions of the online galaxy you could fly for weeks in the same direction, before you ever reached the end of that sector. In a space game you want to have a very large game area, it is space after all, that is infinitely explorable and gives the player unlimited ways to play the game. See More

Top Con

Cross platform play leads to mobile users having less control in PvP Mobile

Android and iOS players are all playing together with desktop PC players, which means during dog fighting sequences, the PC players have much finer grained controls over their mobile player opponents. This makes for unfair matching that can lead to mobile players loosing out more often than not if they are facing a PC player. This is also exacerbated by the fact that no one is able to know what platform an opponent may be playing on. See More

Top Pro

Free demo mode lets anyone check out the game without any commitment

Vendetta Online gives new players a free demo mode to try out the game before purchasing the full version. You are provided with eight hours to get comfortable with your new space ship and the game. After a nice tutorial section, you can choose to play in the single player sandbox or join the galaxy with all of the other VO players. See More

Out There procedurally generates the game by generating random modular elements on each playthrough, making for a unique experience on every play through. See More

Out There: Ω Edition

Top Pro

Each playthrough is unique thanks to the procedurally generated levels

Top Con

Each replay feels very similar

There is a multitude of ways to die in Out There, and being that the game is a roguelike, there will be a lot of restarts. Each and every death brings the player back to the beginning, to do everything over again. This can be frustrating, and a cause for lulls in play at each beginning. See More

Specs

Genre:Roguelike / Strategy / Simulation

The game has beautiful hand drawn graphics as well as a great score with lonely overtones, which creates a fantastic and original feeling atmosphere. This sort of polish in a mobile game is not always the norm, which is why Out There tends to stand out above many other options. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful art that shows off tons of polish, making for a gorgeous looking game

Top Con

The graphics are a power-hog

While the graphics are beautiful, the 3D graphics are a hog and if you're going to be playing this on the go you should probably grab a powerbank if you want to play it for any extended periods of time. See More

Top Pro

Challenging game that will take a lot of time to explore and suss out

Lots of exploration and upgrades, not to mention tons of challenge in the gameplay itself, where you try to get as far as you can on each playthrough. See More

Top Con

Uninspiring gameplay

There is an extremely limited number of actions to undertake. Playing it sometimes feels like a grind. See More

Top Pro

Fun turn-based resource management where you are always juggling items on the fly, which requires a lot of quick thinking

Out There features a great mix of turn based strategy with complex resource management. The resource management works by only allowing you so many slots to store needed materials. These materials are collected on and around planets, and vary depending on where you are. So it makes for a situation where you need to carefully manage your inventory in order to have the necessary materials on hand to survive, which is no an easy task. See More

Top Con

Always restart from the beginning

There is a multitude of ways to die in Out There and being that the game is a roguelike, there will be a lot of restarts. Each and everyone brings the player back to the beginning to do everything over again, which can be frustrating and cause for lulls in play at the beginnings. See More

Top Pro

Lots of different ships to choose from and customize

There are a lot of ships in the game to discover, each with their own unique look and storage space. This makes for some fun of discovering all these different ships you can use. See More

For players without internet or those just wanting to play without the interference of others, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD is a single player only game. Galaxy on Fire uses a few different types of game play, story-driven, mission-based and sandbox modes allow you the player to be in control of how you play the game. See More

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD

Top Pro

Offline single player gameplay is great for players that don't always have an available internet connection

Top Con

Includes in-app purchases

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD has included in-app purchases that range from $0.99 - $51.82 per item. However, for the base game, which is free, you don't actually have to make any purchases at all. Same for any of the expansions you choose to purchase, which aren't that expensive at all. They add entirely new stories to the game and all of them are under $7 each. There is a combo of Valkyrie & Supernova which is about $9 but it's two expansions not just 1. Any other in-game purchases are completely optional. You don't need them to enjoy the game. See More

DiplomaticBanebdjedet's Experience

Game crashes at launch. See More

Specs

Genre:Space combat game

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD has a huge expansive game universe. With over 30 different systems of stars, planets and space station, you will explore and adventure all over the galaxy. See More

Top Pro

Expansive game universe where you get to explore many different star systems

Top Con

Campaign could be longer and bit more interesting

Top Pro

Nice graphics and music

The graphics and music are very well done. The music is slightly dynamic in that there are different scores that play depending on what's going on in the game. The graphics for this were good even before the update and are even better since it was updated. Many have said they are nearly 'console quality' and they are right. The graphics are actually better than a lot of console games out there and even better than a few PC ones. See More

Top Con

You can't enter into the planets

You can't enter into the planets. See More

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Engaging storyline

A really well done storyline with great depth and various conversation options, even though it is a bit linear. See More

Top Con

No multiplayer

Just the campaign. See More

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Closest thing you'll get to a space engineer style PVP game

This game could put stuff on PC to shame. See More

Top Con

Game takes up a lot of storage space

This Game takes up almost 1GB of space. See More

Top Pro

Free to play, no ads, no micro transactions

You can buy expansion packs giving two additional storylines (also including new ships, weapons, systems...), definitely worth the money. See More

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Updated HD Graphics over first title allows the game to shine on modern HD devices

All of the graphical textures and effects have been updated and reworked from the original game Galaxy on Fire. Including highly detailed 3D models and stunning specialFX, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD graphics are optimized for Android devices and provide beautiful visuals. High-quality visuals including detailed 3D models, hi-res textures and breath-taking Special FX See More

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Many different types of missions

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Great combat system and challenging game

This CON can be fixed easy if the community would remember not to update their add-ons for Windows and other platforms making Android versions no longer work. Also the page for add-ons seems to have limits on downloads at one time as I always have issues updating many of then all at once. There needs to be some form of holding area for the mods for the version you have so the makers can move on but we do not lose the add-on just because they move on to the newest version that needs the mod to be changed. It is just something that kills the fun when suddenly the mods page loses the mod or the mod is made for a newer version, you do not have any, you can not get the old one without digging deep... See More

Mindustry

Top Pro

Good for practicing critical thinking

Top Con

When add-ons are made, Adroid users seem to be forgotten

ひろしXaphiron's Experience

It's a factory-based sandbox tower defense game. You defend your base while creating complex factories and assembly lines. Conquer the spore-covered planet while researching the factory and defending technology of the past inhabitants of Serpulo. It will become more space-themed in the next update, as interplanetary travel will be possible. See More

Specs

Genre:Sandbox/Tower Defense

Co-Op:yes

You won't lose anything if you don't like it. See More

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Fun and addictive

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Free

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Unique gameplay

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Tutorial

Has a good tutorial. See More

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Big campaign

There is a big campaign if you want to play alone. See More

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Great graphics

One of the best looking 2D games. See More

The mobile interface is really only suitable for large devices but this port is otherwise perfect and this older 4x game holds up very well. Ground combat was always boring but not unbearably so and Doomstacks are definitely the tactic of choice but the game play is surprisingly solid. See More

Star Chart

Imperium Galactica 2

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Interesting space battles

Grant Fisher's Experience

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Diplomacy

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Espionage

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Epic story

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Design your own units

You can customize your ships with different loadouts. See More

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Interesting ground battles

Drop tanks and take over planets. Use the terrain to your advantage with hover tanks, or take the direct approach with heavy armor. Call in airstrikes from any starfighters that survived the space battle, or paint a target for your capital ships to bombard from orbit. See More

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City building features

Plan colony cities on planets. Buy buildings and levy taxes. Make sure there's enough food and power. Plan defenses against ground forces. See More

Star Traders is a very challenging and replayable game. The developers have constantly added content and upgraded the game over the years. This game is an example of what a good game should be. See More

Star Traders RPG

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Quality gaming

Top Con

Learning curve can be high

Although the game provides with guides and difficulty levels, you can get stranded without fuel, your crew mutinies, your faction law enforcement confiscates your smuggling goods... aliens destroy you! Yeah, you can die pretty easily depending on the difficulty you play on. See More

GutsyRoog's Experience

I love it. Who would have known that simple RNG would fit to See More

Specs

You can play and explore multiple ways: tilt the balance of the galaxy with political schemes, enrich yourself taking advantage of surpluses and exploring ancient ruins or just pirate around. It's almost impossible to be liked by all factions though. See More

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Multiple strategy paths

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Low weight app, mostly text based

This game doesn't need graphics, the small icons for your ship and planets are all you need. See More

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No ads

Space Agency may not be as deep of a game or have the same type of graphics and physics but it is a fun game that you can play on your mobile devices. Developed for both Android and iOS, Space Agency can be played on many mobile devices. See More

Space Agency

Top Pro

Similar to Kerbal Space Program, but with the convenience of being made for mobile devices

Top Con

Certain parts must be unlocked via IAP

Specs

Genre:Simulation

Space Agency is not a particularly hard game, it's just difficult and takes time to master. Space Agency plays out in a series of tasks that must be accomplished within time, these tasks play as a series of mini-games that link to each other as you progress. If you make a mistake in any of these stages you will probably have to start over, but play enough and you will begin to complete tasks and progress through the levels of the game. See More

Top Pro

Challenging difficulty that takes time to master, but is rewarding in the end

Top Con

Has in-app purchases

Space Agency, even though it is free to play, does have in-app purchases that range from $1.07 - $4.99 per item. These items aren't required, however they are useful in the Sandbox game mode, where people will spend most of their time in the game. See More

Top Pro

Simplified rocket physics keeps the game accessible

Rocket Science can be tough, but Space Agency makes it fun. Using a simplified physics model for space, this game will help you understand the basic concepts of space travel. You will build a rocket powerful enough to lift out of Earth's gravity and then place that craft in an orbit around your favorite place in the solar system. See More

Top Con

The building aspect is limited

Although the building is good, it has a limitation: you cannot place extra objects beside your rocket, requiring you to build stations piece-by-piece (The exception being boosters, which help you get beyond the atmosphere.) Along with that, there are some objects, such as the Voyager 1 parts, which are difficult to piece together, and can't be taken in the same launch, as well as being badly-designed. (For example, to construct the Voyager One, you must have enough space to back up toward the body piece and release the head piece, instead of just connecting the bottom of the head to the body, which is how it'd be done easier and less dangerously.) See More

Top Pro

The historical rockets lend some real world credence for fans of historical space programs

For fans of space travel Space Agency has a large selection of parts from many historical space programs, including rockets from British, Soviet and US space programs. You will be able to build rockets with parts from your favorite rockets. See More

Over the last few years gameplay has been heavily dependent on premium in-game currency. See More

VEGA Conflict

Top Con

Pay2Play

Top Pro

Differing user strategies can work equally well, giving a lot of choice as to how to play the game

Whether on wants to focus on defense or offense when building their bases either can work in the grand scheme of the game. By going with one over the other it does not limit or hobble that player meaning one is free to go with what kind of gameplay suits them best. See More

ExcitedTheia's Experience

This "was" a good game. Great interface with controls for individual ships, same ship type groups, or full fleet. Good alliance (guild) play, with missions and balanced game play. Cross platform, allowing players to casually play on mobile (like ship/base management etc) while they are out, and do some serious space pewpew on their home PC. However, this game turned into a pure cash-grab dumpster fire. It had gotten to the point where it was impossible to play against the whales who constantly threw hundreds, even thousands, of dollars into the newest tech and ships the first day those were available. And if you were one of those with deep wallets, well, after the next patch, all those expensive tech and ships were now obsolete because a new mysterious alien artifact was just discovered (or whatever marketing spin they thought of for that update)! And even if you had the money to burn, you also had to deal with (or play with) hacks to keep up with everyone else who was hacking. Like I said, it "was" a good game. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Strategy

It's free to play, but a much heard criticism on Steam is that because of recent changes you will have to pay quite a lot to be able to enjoy the game. See More

Top Con

Not really free

Top Pro

Well designed graphics that communicate even the smallest of info with ease

The UI in the game, while busy, is quite readable, making for an easy game to navigate. See More

Top Con

Cross platform play leads to mobile users having less control in PvP

Mobile (Android, iOS) players are all playing together with desktop PC players, which means during dog fighting sequences the PC players have much finer grained controls over their mobile player opponents. This makes for unfair matching that can lead to mobile players loosing out more often than not if they are facing a PC player. This is also exacerbated by the fact that no one is able to know what platform an opponent may be playing on. See More

Top Pro

Fun social gameplay where players build alliances, giving a sense of community to the player

Throughout the game players are able to build up relationships with other players through alliances. The alliances can be used for help during the games such as asking for aid. There is also no limit to how much one can help other players, and in doing so makes for a game where much of it is social where joining an alliance can exponentially reward the player. See More

Top Con

Works best on a tablet

With how small many of the interfaces elements can be, playing on a tablet works best. See More

You can trade, mine, be a Bounty Hunter, do militaristic jbs... it's an amazing open world game. There are lots of ships to choose from with your own custom loadout. You can upgrade anything on your ship from the type of guns to your shields and generators. You can play the game over and over, there are thousands of ways to play the game and thousands of different strategies to go with it. See More

Interstellar Pilot

Top Pro

You can do anything

Top Con

In-app purchases

The bright side is the DLC is fairly cheap. About $1 to $2 for each of the 3 DLCs currently out. See More

SuccessfulIlmarinen's Experience

Awesome game has a newer version now a almost complete free and open worldsim See More

Top Pro

No advertisements

None, nada, zilch. Play it forever with no pop ups or interruptions. See More

Top Con

There seems to be no more updates

There were no more updates after the UI reworks. See More

ResponsiveEnbilulu's Experience

You can literally so anything in this game. BUT by the time you arrive in late game you'll be monopolizing the entire economy and the npc factions (other than the bandits) will stop moving for they dont have credits anymore. Trust me, I know. Ive played unhealthy amounts of time in this game. See More

Top Pro

Enjoyable and overall sense of achievement

Especially when you build up your little one man army into a 50 ship armada, it takes time. See More

JollyOeyangganshin's Experience

Best. Mobile. Game. Ever. See More

Back when the developer made this to support his model rocket hobby, I paid for this and emailed and was assured that I've paid for all updates forever and will get them for free. He was nice and helped when an update made me lose my copy. He saw I paid so he just gave me another by a code. Now he will not communicate, he removed all his original text of what you get. Many more people were brought on to help build the game, and they seem to have taken all the good things I once had with the developer and made me feel like I am talking to EA. The founders update did not even include me as having paid and no one would address this. I paid and then talked to someone who never got back to me. I paid again and then paid to unlock all the extras and then MORE IAP??? He said this would never happen. He hated them like all of us. He and the fans of when I first paid made jokes that if EA owned this then you would have to pay for each stage. Seems this app is moving to an EA way of pushing away users who were the true founders and acting like that never happened. I will never support this developer again. Also the people working on the game seem to have a love/hate relationship with the developer. They post his party life and where he puts all the money after he got too big to remember us, who he would listen to and talk with to make this game have a base and good start. He still has not returned the electrics to the game it had and messed up all the builds that needed them. I now am way more happy with Simple rockets and all from that developer. See More

Galactic Phantasy Prelude

Spaceflight Simulator

Top Pro

Fun and good

Top Con

After supporting the developer in the begining, promises for a lifetime access were broken

IndustriousNortia's Experience

This is way relaxing and we can make glitches and bp edit easily ad amazingly See More

Top Pro

A open world game + better accuracy

Impressive that a 2D Game can become a open world game, the accuracy getting to orbit, interplanetary burns and etc. is very similar. See More

Putt to the delightful bosanova sounds of the space age, the sound track and music in Putt the Planets is really nice 50's style sci music. One of the best most original sound tracks I have heard in an Android game, I would pay the dollar just for the music. See More

Putt the Planets

Top Pro

Awesome Space Age music

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Controls are easy for all skill levels

Putt the Planets is a very fun miniature golf game, it has an easy control setup that will be easy for anyone of all ages to pick up and play. The simple button layout provides for a great game experience while not taking away from the excellent planetary backdrops. See More

Top Pro

Out of this world Space locations

Each planet is rendered with spectacular settings and vista. You will see what the surface of each of the planets in our solar system looks like. Visit Mars, Saturn and the Moon, and play golf there! See More

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Educational Fun!

Play golf on all of the planets in our solar systems while learning facts about space, physics and our planets. 3d planet landscapes based on current scientific data give a wonderful environment for fun and learning. See More

Several enemies, creatures and scenarios. See More

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Space Conquest 3D

Top Pro

Variety

Top Con

No multiplayer

ReliablePallas's Experience

Variety, different sifficulty levels, different enemy and a lot of options. A good game plus a good teaching tool about the Universe! See More

Specs

It has a great quality and it's very light for devices. See More

Top Pro

Good quality

Top Con

You can go underwater in planets with water

ComposedPachamama's Experience

Fantastic! The best for me. See More

Top Pro

You can explore the planets

EmbiggenedShapash's Experience

Big one, unique See More

Top Pro

It has a lot of missions

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It has wormhole and blackhole features

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You can go out of the spaceship

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You can repair the spaceship and build a shelter

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You can go under water on planets that have water

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Educational

The game allows visiting various planets in our solar system as well as an asteroid belt, a couple of nebulas and the sun. It mixes fact with fiction. See More

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You can do whatever you want in an open-world scenario

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Adventure

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Addictive

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Open world