Games like EVE Online
If EVE Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are AION 2, New World: Aeternum and The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build empires from scratch, explore uncharted wormhole space 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 EVE Online: 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.
Players who liked EVE Online also play
Steam players who put hours into EVE Online also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
AION 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
AION 2 is the only MMORPG built around a world where the sky is the battlefield. Choose your faction, ascend as a Daeva, and fight a faction war across a world 36 times larger than the original. PC only, on Unreal Engine 5.
New World: Aeternum
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Second-strongest match for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
The Elder Scrolls® Online
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Ranked #4 for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
Black Desert
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with EVE Online.
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
Throne and Liberty
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EVE Online.
Ranked #6 for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!
Neverwinter
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Ranked #7 for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with EVE Online.
Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
Albion Online
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Ranked #8 for EVE Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with EVE Online.
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
Reviewers mention these as similar to EVE Online
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Astrox Imperium
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with EVE Online.
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
Albion Online
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with EVE Online.
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
World of Witchcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with EVE Online.
Immerse yourself in a world where ambition, magic, and lust intertwine.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with EVE Online.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with EVE Online.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
X4: Foundations
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with EVE Online.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Freelancer Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
Avorion
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Reviewers of EVE Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with EVE Online.
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.
Head-to-head comparisons
More from CCP
Other recommendable Steam games by CCP, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
EVE: Valkyrie – Warzone
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with EVE Online.
Another title from CCP, the studio behind EVE Online. Shares Action with EVE Online.
EVE: Valkyrie – Warzone is a first-person spaceship shooter that puts you in the cockpit for fast, fun, intense multiplayer space combat.
Sparc
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with EVE Online.
Another title from CCP, the studio behind EVE Online. Shares Action with EVE Online.
Sparc is a vSport - a unique physical sport only possible in virtual reality, where players challenge each other in fast-paced, full-body VR gameplay.
Gunjack
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with EVE Online.
Another title from CCP, the studio behind EVE Online. Shares Action with EVE Online.
Jump into your weapons turret in the best-selling VR game and annihilate endless waves of enemies determined to blast you and crew into oblivion. With intuitive controls and incredibly immersive arcade shooter action, Gunjack is the ultimate VR experience.
Frequently asked about EVE Online
- Does EVE Online run on Steam Deck?
- EVE Online is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is EVE Online free to play?
- Yes — EVE Online is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does EVE Online have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — EVE Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to EVE Online?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EVE Online are AION 2, New World: Aeternum, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom.
- Who developed EVE Online?
- EVE Online was developed by CCP.
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