The best space sim indie games, ranked by reviews
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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-06-13. Rankings update as data changes.
indielist tracks 25 space sim indie games on Steam, holding 1,063,813 reviews at an average of 84% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is No Man's Sky with 308,241 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.
The ranking
- No Man's Sky · 308,241 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
- Oxygen Not Included · 132,475 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
- Kerbal Space Program · 116,508 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
- Starfield · 113,981 reviews · 57% positive · 2023
- Dyson Sphere Program · 82,756 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
- Elite Dangerous · 81,272 reviews · 77% positive · 2015
- FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,132 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
- Kerbal Space Program 2 · 31,750 reviews · 26% positive · 2023
- Universe Sandbox · 31,404 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
- SpaceEngine · 15,747 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
- Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander · 12,655 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
- EVERSPACE™ · 11,429 reviews · 78% positive · 2017
- Space Haven · 10,735 reviews · 86% positive · 2026
- Planetbase · 10,342 reviews · 80% positive · 2015
- Deliver Us The Moon · 9,368 reviews · 88% positive · 2019
- Spaceflight Simulator · 9,224 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
- Void Crew · 8,315 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
- Starcom: Unknown Space · 4,330 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
- Juno: New Origins · 3,451 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
- Between the Stars · 2,451 reviews · 74% positive · 2024
How this list is built
Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official sales data.
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