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Games like Vanguard Galaxy
Bat Roost Games · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 90 % positive of 604 reviews, as of Oct 28
A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.
24 games that play like Vanguard Galaxy and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation, Endless Sky and Elite Dangerous.
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Plays and looks like Vanguard Galaxy
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Vanguard Galaxy
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
84 % positive of 446
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
Endless Sky
92 % positive of 7,153
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Top-Down
Elite Dangerous
76 % positive of 82,813
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
Rebel Galaxy
85 % positive of 7,269
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
Sector Space
94 % positive of 150
Shared: Space · Top-Down · Space Sim
Starbound
89 % positive of 87,438
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Crafting
Galaxy Idle Clicker
74 % positive of 1,225
Shared: Idler · Space · Clicker
Star Traders: Frontiers
82 % positive of 3,686
Shared: Sandbox · Space Sim · Sci-fi
Starlathe
88 % positive of 150
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Top-Down
Star Valor
87 % positive of 3,307
Shared: Space · Sandbox · Top-Down
Far Mining
96 % positive of 426
Shared: Idler · Space · Clicker
SpaceCraft
62 % positive of 2,713
More matches
- Astrox Imperium84 % positive of 1,263Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
- Avorion89 % positive of 13,057Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
- Unnamed Space Idle91 % positive of 4,562Shared: Idler · Space · Clicker
- Astronomics88 % positive of 727Shared: Space · Top-Down · Space Sim
- Starminer71 % positive of 1,860
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
- helionaut94 % positive of 204Shared: Space · Crafting · Sci-fi
- Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander94 % positive of 12,107Shared: Space · Space Sim · Exploration
- Galactic Mining Corp84 % positive of 870Shared: Space · Loot · Space Sim
- Astrobuilder88 % positive of 353Shared: Space · Sandbox · Top-Down
- X4: Foundations79 % positive of 25,510Shared: Space · Sandbox · Space Sim
- SPACERIFT: Arcanum System77 % positive of 414Shared: Space · Space Sim · Crafting
By look
Looks like Vanguard Galaxy
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Endless Sky
92 % positive of 7,153
Particle Fleet: Emergence
92 % positive of 1,202
Star Valor
87 % positive of 3,307
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
84 % positive of 997
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
96 % positive of 4,110
Nienix: Cosmic Warfare
86 % positive of 338
Stellaris
85 % positive of 139,715
Reassembly
93 % positive of 3,616
Zero-K
92 % positive of 4,426
Gangs of Space
75 % positive of 433
Galactic Civilizations III
77 % positive of 8,340
Unnamed Space Idle
91 % positive of 4,562
More matches
- NEBULOUS: Fleet Command80 % positive of 4,109
- Heat Signature94 % positive of 6,867
- Interstellar Space: Genesis83 % positive of 718
- eXoSpace Combat Engineer87 % positive of 180
- PULSAR: Lost Colony89 % positive of 4,413
- Transcendence87 % positive of 214
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation75 % positive of 2,712
- Avorion89 % positive of 13,057
- Stellar Warfare80 % positive of 320
- Naev81 % positive of 237
- Astroloot91 % positive of 596
- Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls65 % positive of 488
At a glance
What games like Vanguard Galaxy have in common
- The tags they share most often with Vanguard Galaxy: Space (21 of 24), Sandbox (13) and Space Sim (13).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, 5 of them after Vanguard Galaxy (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander (94 % positive of 12,107).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.