Games like Elite Dangerous

The closest matches to Elite Dangerous: No Man's Sky, X4: Foundations, EVE Online, Starfield, and Kerbal Space Program. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Elite Dangerous is your kind of game, the closest matches are No Man's Sky, X4: Foundations and EVE Online — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its build crafting and engineering upgrades. 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.

Elite Dangerous, released in 2015 by Frontier Developments, is a space simulation game set in a 1:1 scale representation of the Milky Way galaxy. Players can explore, trade, mine, and engage in combat across a persistent universe, with faction politics and powerplay systems that shape the galaxy over time. The game offers deep buildcrafting and engineering upgrades for customizing ships, alongside a flight model that rewards mastery. Frontier supports VR and the game runs playable on Steam Deck, with reviewers noting an atmospheric experience at a $19.99 price point. Players describe feeling a sense of freedom to pursue any goal or none at all, with the galactic scale and faction systems creating what they describe as an immersive, living universe. The game holds a Metacritic score of 80 and maintains 77% positive reviews from over 52,000 Steam users.

About Elite Dangerous: 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.