17 Best Spaceship Games for Linux

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an Action, Side-scroll Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer Space Shooter video game created and published by Asteroid Base for cross-platform. You can play the game alone or with up to four players. Your job is to pilot a spaceship with a set of stations inside it. The station of the ship controls the engine, weapons, cannon, shield and the map. During the game, you can control the single avatar with a task to protect the ship from damage, maintain the balance and attack enemies to crush them. You will discover gift boxes while exploring the environment which consists of gems. The gems offer the new and enhanced power to the station. The game comprises up to four campaigns, and each campaign has four levels to complete and a boss fight. The task of the regular levels is to locate and save the assortment of abducted creatures including foxes, frogs, bunnies and more. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime includes core features such as Co-op Gameplay, Upgradeable Ships, Deep Challenge, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Achron is an amazingly engaging and addictive Meta-Time Strategy (RTS with Time-Travel) video game. The game lets you choose and customize your character from a number of choices and lets you be an Exiled Achron who lives in hundreds of years in future with all the human populace. Exploration of the Remnant System leads to the discovery of ancient alien’s ruins and technology. The Alien technology helps the humanity in building Teleportation devices that connected all the human colonies with the “Gates”. Everything seemed smooth until a colony stopped responding to the communication grid and the investigations lead to an alien invasion that soon covered every corner of the galaxy and great chaos followed. To cater with the invasion, a huge human spaceship fleet gets called and the player gets to lead the fleet. Unfortunately, due to the alien heavy fire, the fleet gets trapped on the other side of the gate. Your duty is to find ways and clues that will eventually lead you to the correct timeline against the aliens. You must also engage your fleet against the enemy and defeat the by the use of your best strategies, skills and abilities. Achron, with amazing story, great action and strategy based game-play and super fine visuals is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Analogue: A Hate Story combines the elements of Visual Novel, Romance, and Dating Simulation by Love Conquers All Games. The game takes place in the Sci-fi world and supports Single-player mode only. It has a superb story, in which the humans launched a spaceship into the deep galaxy with a task to establish a first colony on an unknown planet. The ship lost his destination and disappeared. After thousands of year, the ship has been found. The story revolves around an unnamed investigator, and his task to find the reason behind the disappearance of an interstellar ship. The plot focuses on NPCs, relationship, and challenging issues and primary follows the elements of traditional marriage, transhumanism and more. Select the character and dive into the game world where you can interact with NPCs, go to date, and make relation with a handsome guy. It has multiple endings and depends on the actions that is taken by you during the gameplay. With addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics, Analogue: A Hate Story is the best game to play and enjoy.

X3: Reunion focuses on Space Trading, Exploration, and Combat. It is the third entry in the series of X Universe Adventure and the direct sequel to X2: The Threat. It supports single-player mode and plays from the first-person perspective. It takes place in the massive space environment and lets the player get into the role of the protagonist who is a space explorer. There are different types of spaceship such as a powerful battleship, freighters, small ship, fast, massive carriers, scouting ships and more. Select one of them and dive into the game world where you can explore the game world freely without any task or could complete a series of challenging missions to earn experience points and trade with NPCs. The story of the game starts where the X2 left off. The game takes place in the fictional Universe called X. According to the story, the Kha’ak are destroying all the popular areas of the Universe and the father of Julian named Kyle is still in a coma. Assume the role of the protagonist, customize your starship and pilot it. Collect rare artifact and use them to unlock further content and enhance your abilities. You can use special gem to open a portal to Earth and can fight against a mysteries alien alliances. Save the world from devastation and complete all objectives. X3 Reunion offers core features, addictive gameplay, and the best mechanics. Try it out.

X3: Terran Conflict mixes different genres such as Trading, Combat, Exploration, and Space Simulation. It is developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the massive space environments and lets the player explore the game world from first-person perspective. To get into the game world, the player must create and customize his/her starship with different items. There are different races such as Xenon, Terran, Split and more and the player can select one of them and start his journey to navigate ship around different sectors. The game world comprises thousands of stations and ships and the player can create his colony, gather resources, and trade with NPCs to earn money. He has to fight against rival alien races to protect his colony and defeat them to earn amazing rewards. The Ship can be upgraded by using experience points that the player earned by complete objectives. X3: Terran Conflict includes key features such as New Factions, Largest X Universe, over 100 Spaceship, Management Tools and more. Try it out.

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Exploration and Shooting video game. The game is set on an unknown Alien Planet where you start off your journey in a little spaceship. Your task is to simply go through a number of Alien Environments, interact with objects, solve some challenging puzzles in order to unlock more and move from platform to platform while exploring the world around you. Battling against the bizarre creature, solving challenging puzzles and avoiding all the hazards of the Alien world, you must reach down to the center of the planet and complete the game objectives all based up on the story. You must upgrade your Ship time to time as it will need your constant attention, or else you’ll not be able to go to the advanced levels of the game. With an astonishing setting, appealing and quite enhanced visuals, loads of stuff to discover and puzzles to solve along with cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is one of the best alternatives to Deadlight.

RimWorld is a 2013’s top trending Construction and Management Simulation by Ludeon Studios. The game focuses on the objectives of the game to Explore and Expand a newly built colony of Survivors of a deadly Spaceship Crash. The primary tasks are to explore, collect resources and repairing the ship so the survivors can escape the planet. With a remarkable Top-down 2D view, RimWorld offers a randomly generated storyline and an open world to explore. RimWorld offers three AI (Artificial Intelligence) Storytellers in the game named as Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy. The story of RimWorld revolves around several characters, and it allows the players to control three characters initially at the early stages of the game. One fantastic feature of the game is that it allows the players to keep on generating the characters until they are satisfied with their particular attributes. As the time passes, more and more colonists join the game and in particular the Colony. The new colonists can act upon their will individually, or they can be taken as prisoners and forced to join the Colony. During the gameplay, the Storytellers keep on throwing random events at the players and the players gets to select between accepting the event or they can reject them. Accepting the events as quests can be good for the players as they offer tons of rewards. The characters in the game can keep on progressing until they have all escaped the planet, and that is when the game ends. With a very familiar and easy to understand gameplay and controls, beautifully created visuals and immersive gameplay, RimWorld is a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy.

Astro Lords or Astro Lords: Oort Cloud takes you to an amazing Universe Exploration and Combat journey and allows you to engage yourself into epic enemy encounters, trade and management simulation. This brilliant 3D MMO offers real-time battles and combats against the enemies, tons of space exploration and adventures and lets you be in charge of your own Asteroid. Your task is to simply defend your asteroid against the enemy attacks, collect resources to build structures on your asteroid, create various types of spaceships to explore the universe, build a huge base and militarize your every move against the enemies to stay always ahead of their plans. With a brilliantly designed core game-play, MMORTS aesthetics, PvP and PvE combats, and the ability to capture and conquer other Asteroids floating around the Oort Cloud nebula, defeating the enemies in epic encounters, game’s own economy system, unique trading capabilities and a unique Combat system, Astro Lords lets you enjoy experience of a life time. Astro Lords offers wonderful visuals, an immersive game-play and a lot of fantastic things to discover and enjoy beyond limits.

System Shock 2, a great Action, RPG and a First-Person Shooter and Horror Survival video game developed by Irrational Games in association with Looking Glass Studios and published by Electronic Arts EA for PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The game takes place in a revolutionary spaceship in the year 2114 and features the character of a soldier who struggles to cure a deadly infection that is infecting the ship with every passing minute. The infection gets boosted up in speed in the presence of the enemies who spread it, the protagonist picks up his gear and engages in heavy gunfights and combats with them to save the ship and engages in melee combats using the melee weapons and techniques as well. System Shock 2 features dynamic 3D graphics, a well-written story-line and a game-play filled with destructively thrilling and quite addicting action adventure and role playing elements. Play this game and you’ll definitely enjoy it a lot.

Creatures 3 serves as the third installment in the series of Creatures, and it comes with several modifications, improved graphics and new content, developed by Creature Labs and published by Mindscape. The game mainly revolves around Artificial Life genre and introduces the captivating storyline, revolving around the female protagonist named as Shee who have left Albia in the spaceship to find out the more spherical world. In the story, the Ark was abandoned because a Metroid hit the ship, but the infrastructure remains in working position. The game features six different metarooms on the ship such as Grendel Jungle, the Norn Terrarium, Engineering Room, Ettin Desert, and more. The player can safely hatch and raise his norns in the Norn Terrarium. The game is played using a point-and-click interface, and the player has accomplished the assigned tasks to move to the next level. Other levels will be unlocked as the player advances through the game and the difficulty will be increased. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and smooth controls, Creatures 3 is the best game to play.

Chicken Invaders 2 is an Action, Shoot ‘em up, and Single-player video game developed and published by InterAction Studios for multiple platforms. The game is set in the space environment invaded by chicken invasion. According to the story, waves of chickens are planning to take over the entire solar system. The game introduces a variety of planets where it takes place and puts the player in the charge of hero who must pilot his spaceship from a vertical-scroll and struggle to take down hordes of chickens to save the entire galaxy. In the first chapter of the game, the player defended the planet Earth against the hordes of intergalactic chickens looking for revenge. The ship of the player is loaded with weapon which he can use to attack chickens who are throwing eggs on it. Using the power-ups, the player can enhance his shooting abilities and scan clear the stage from all chickens to unlock further. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning visuals, Chicken Invaders 2 is the wonderful game to play.

VoidExpanse is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Space Exploration, Sci-fi themed, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by AtomicTorch Studio for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge world and mixes the Action Role-playing, and Science-fiction element set in deep space. The player takes on the role of the spaceship pilot with a task to manipulate the large galaxy, encounter planets, space stations, space pirates and several alien species as well as friends. During the gameplay, the player needs to mine asteroids for valuables, collect resources, trade to upgrade his ship, and effort to complete the requirements of story-based missions offered by one of different faction each with its unique agendas, characters, and skill trees. It offers Sandbox feature, enabling the player build, craft, trade, explore, deploy, battle and trade his way to earn experience points. VoidExpanse offers prominent features such as Open Exploration, Upgrade your Ship, Real-time Combat System, Multiple Factions, Character Customization, Trading System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Drox Operative is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi themed Single-player and Multiplayer 4X video game developed and published by Soldak Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers a starship action gameplay with warring alien species and fierce space battles. It takes place in the stunning galaxy full of planets, asteroids, space stations, moon, and new worlds. The player serves as the protagonist, a spaceship pilot, who must manipulate the galaxy to encounter new worlds, discover new stars, and battle against alien species to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a top-down perspective, interact with non-player characters and earn money by trading, defeat enemies, and more. There are several playable factions available each with a set of objectives, upgrades, and ships. The player explores the evolving and dynamic galaxy, take part in the galactic war between various alien races and can destroy hundreds of enemy starships to become the master. Dynamic Galaxy, Monsters, Galactic War, Hundreds of Enemy Starships, Build your Starship, etc. are prominent features in the game.

7 Days a Skeptic is a Graphic Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by Fully Ramblomatic for Linus and Microsoft Windows. The game takes place four-hundred years after 5 Days a Stranger, set in the sci-fi environment. The player assumes the role of the protagonist named as Dr. Jonathan Somerset, who is a psychiatrist on a spaceship. According to the story, one day, the crew finds a strange artifact floating outside the doors of the ship. When the team brings the artifact in the ship, it appears to be a coffin with the body of John DeFoe. The crew of the ship believes it’s nothing and leaves it. But at night, the captain of the ship goes missing. The game comprises fewer puzzles and more action elements compared to its predecessor. During the gameplay, the player explore the land from a side-scroll, interact with environment and objects to advance through the story. There are multiple levels and the player must complete each one to uncover the truth behind the mystery. 7 Days a Skeptic includes core features such as Interaction, Action Gameplay, Tricky Puzzles, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

Starsector is a 2D Space Exploration, Trading, Combat, and Single-player video game developed and published by Fractal Softworks for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge space environment comprises planets, moons, star systems, and several space stations. The player acts as the spaceship pilot with a task to select his ship at the beginning of the game. He must equip his ship with weapons, and embarks on a journey to discover new stars, explore new worlds, mine asteroids for valuable resources and collect them to trade with others to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can command his fleet in tactical battles and effort to take down enemies to advance through the game. He can explore the galaxy from a top-down perspective and encounter several alien species as well as non-player characters. As the game advances, it becomes difficult to play. There are a series of missions that the player has to complete to unlock further content like side-missions, new areas, and more. Starsector offers core features such as Pilot your Ship, Command your Fleet, Gain Experience Points, Customization, Upgrades, Star System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Descent: Underground developed and published by Descendent Studios is an Action-Adventure and First-person Shooter video game with Shoot-em-up elements for multiple platforms. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the thrilling sci-fi space environment. It follows dogfight between fighter airship deserves six degrees of freedom. There are multiple spaceships featured by the game and you can claim one of them to start your journey against the rival faction. In the beginning, you have to customize your ship and choose the best weaponry for it. After customization, you are ready to pits against enemies. Explore the environment from a first-person perspective, interact with non-player characters and battle against enemies to crush them. As the game progresses, it becomes challenging to play and unlocks further content in the match to involve yourself in realistic dogfight experience. During manipulating, you can collect multiple power-ups to enhance your abilities and use your points to upgrade weapons, airship, and more. Descent: Underground offers prominent features such as Achievements, Storyline Missions, Mine for Resources, and more. Descent: Underground is the best game for hardcore players, looking for dogfight games.