Games like SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
If SPACERIFT: Arcanum System is your kind of game, the closest matches are EVE Online, Rise - The Vieneo Province and Dominus Automa — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About SPACERIFT: Arcanum System: At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.
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EVE Online
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Shares a contemplative mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Top pick for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Rise - The Vieneo Province
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Second-strongest match for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Dominus Automa
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Third-strongest match for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Dominus Automa is an automated multiplayer RPG created for players who love depth but no longer have time for traditional grinding. Your character lives on the server around the clock, acting according to strategy and priorities. You can talk to them and guide them from your phone, wherever you are.
Dual Universe
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Shares a contemplative mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Ranked #4 for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
Avorion
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Ranked #5 for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
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.
DarkOrbit Reloaded
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Shares a retro mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Ranked #6 for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Dark Orbit is a free-2-play space MMO where three companies battle for galactic domination. Customize ships, trade resources, fight aliens and uncover a grand conspiracy on your epic cosmic journey. Thrilling PvP and PvE missions await! Will you lead your faction beyond the final frontier?
Star Conflict
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Ranked #7 for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!
Life is Feudal: MMO
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Ranked #8 for SPACERIFT: Arcanum System fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
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Elite Dangerous
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Reviewers of SPACERIFT: Arcanum System cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Independence War® 2: Edge of Chaos
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Shares a challenging mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Reviewers of SPACERIFT: Arcanum System cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Command four space vessels and a band of revolutionary pirates into an all-consuming battle against impossible odds, because there just isn't enough Space for everyone!
EVERSPACE™
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Reviewers of SPACERIFT: Arcanum System cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
SpaceBourne
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Reviewers of SPACERIFT: Arcanum System cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SPACERIFT: Arcanum System at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under SPACERIFT: Arcanum System on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
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The Lab
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Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SPACERIFT: Arcanum System.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
- Does SPACERIFT: Arcanum System run on Steam Deck?
- SPACERIFT: Arcanum System is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does SPACERIFT: Arcanum System cost?
- SPACERIFT: Arcanum System is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does SPACERIFT: Arcanum System have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — SPACERIFT: Arcanum System supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to SPACERIFT: Arcanum System?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SPACERIFT: Arcanum System are EVE Online, Rise - The Vieneo Province, Dominus Automa.
- Who developed SPACERIFT: Arcanum System?
- SPACERIFT: Arcanum System was developed by Arcanum Team.
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