The Best Space Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Directive 8020 added at rank #14.
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Lunar Lander: Beyond (2024)

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Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X j

Guide a roster of colorful pilots, eclectic advisors and state-of-the-art landers through a taxing series of missions. Deliver cargo, retrieve resources, and rescue stranded pilots as you navigate a mysterious universe of moons and planets.


  • psychological
  • space
  • perma-death
  • comic
  • flight
  • book
  • hand-drawn
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • economy
  • horror
  • grunt
  • story
  • 2d
  • anime

12

Broken Universe - Tower Defense (2022)

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Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack. A variety of stages that change each time depending on how you play them.


  • tower-defense
  • deckbuilder
  • base-building
  • pve
  • building
  • space
  • attack
  • score
  • hand-drawn
  • logic
  • strategy
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • survival

13

Space Crew: Legendary Edition (2020)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!


  • space
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • management
  • survival
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • challenging

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Directive 8020 (2025)

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Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.


  • survival-horror
  • space
  • choices
  • psychological
  • horror
  • dystopian
  • cinematic
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • survival
  • drama
  • demons
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • interactive

15

Power of Ten (2021)

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Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Find and unlock 10 unique playable star ships. Choose your ship's upgrades carefully to create an unstoppable machine. Equip powerful and sometimes a bit crazy weapons. Discover combined weapons that slap two together making devastating combos.Explore and battle through three unique regions and conquer a final epic battle.


  • rogue-like
  • space
  • spaceships
  • top-down
  • mining
  • perma-death
  • loot
  • flight
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • sci-fi
  • skill

16

Breakpoint (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Breakpoint is an arcade-style space shooter with neon explosions, unique enemies, and a variety of melee weapons that you can use to dispatch your adversaries. You can level up your weapons and build up a "breakpoint" meter to unleash powerful attacks that clear the screen efficiently. Compete in high score challenges and aim to best your own personal record.

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What we like:
  • Unique spin on classic arcade trope
  • Variety of melee weapons with unique light/heavy attacks
  • Fast restarts and pick-up-and-play addictiveness
  • Catchy electronica dance track intensifies with each passing enemy
  • High score leaderboards both local and global
What could be improved:
  • Single game mode - no set level mode
  • More game modes would be nice

  • top-down
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • space
  • attack
  • score
  • shoot-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • fast-paced
  • arcade
  • futuristic
  • colourful
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • 2d

17

SHINORUBI (2022)

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Inspired by classic Japanese shooting games, SHINORUBI is a pure dose of adrenaline and frenetic arcade action with all the best aspects of Japanese bullet hell games, optimized for modern PC in ultra HD, all in a polished, accessible with many levels of difficulties.


  • top-down
  • military
  • futuristic
  • on-rails
  • shooter
  • faith
  • space
  • flight
  • bullet-hell
  • vertical
  • arcade
  • aliens
  • attack
  • score
  • 2d

18

Space Otter Charlie (2021)

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Mac OS Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4

Adorable characters? Check! Makeshift weapons? Check! Otter dressed in a foam shark suit. Umm. Check? Join Charlie and his ragtag team of sea mammals as they jump, float, and rocket through Otter Space in this Zero-G Puzzle Platformer!

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  • spaceships
  • platform
  • space
  • puzzle
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • cute
  • futuristic
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • physics
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • local
  • arcade

19

Liberation (2023)

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Linux Mac OS google stadia Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox 360 PC Windows Playstation 3 vita

Fight back against the evil Galactic Federation! It'll be good for humanity and probably OK for you. if you only play one space game this year, play Starfield, if you play two, play Liberation!


  • space
  • horror
  • simulation
  • action-adventure
  • dystopian
  • sci-fi
  • first-person
  • lore
  • survival-horror
  • psychological
  • soundtrack
  • retro
  • 1990s
  • flight
  • open-universe

20

Space Commander: War and Trade (2021)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Fight, explore the stars, trade, and lead your fleet across the galaxySpace Commander: War and Trade is an ultimate single player space-sim featuring spectacular graphics, intuitive combat and deep mechanics.

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  • space
  • rpg
  • base-building
  • economy
  • flight
  • trading
  • 3d
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • pirates
  • simulation

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