Space 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Space genre

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Space, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Stellaris is a real-time space strategy game. The local space is procedurally generated, and the local planets are inhabited by different alien races. At the...

Battlevoid: Harbinger

Strategy, Space, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2016

Steam: 79/100

A space strategy game with roguelike elements, Battlevoid: Harbinger centers on exploring procedurally generated galaxies and fighting enemies that threaten...

Stable Orbit

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy, Space

Early Access: Linux → 14 October 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 51/100

Stable Orbit is a sci-fi simulator that will send you to conquer outer space. You will be able to manage your own space station, explore starry space and gaze...

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2016

Steam: 32/100

This physics-based space strategy game with action elements follows an effort to save humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The player leads a team of...

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Turn-based, Exploration, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a management strategy with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. You have to take command of an old powerful base that was...

Duskers

Exploration, Space, Roguelike, Tactics, Top-down view, Science fiction, Horror

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player controls a drone and explores abandoned spaceships to find means of survival and learn how the universe turned into a giant graveyard. Dangerous...

Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares

Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares is a turn-based strategy game. Includes some game mechanics from Master of Magic, as well as new gameplay features. Three new...

X Rebirth: Home of Light

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 6/10

Steam: 90/100

X Rebirth: Home of Light is a large-scale add-on for the space action simulator. It adds three new star systems, missions, technologies, an updated trading system...

Master of Orion (2016)

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Master of Orion (2016) — restart of the popular space strategy with turn-based battles. The new game inherited the main philosophy of the original: explore...

Super Destronaut

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Arcade, Space

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 85/100

Super Destronaut is a retro space action game with pixel graphics in the spirit of arcade machines. The player controls a spaceship and fights against invaders. For...

Space Merchants: Arena

Online, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space, Shooter, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Players: 1/10

Steam: 61/100

Space Merchants: Arena — multiplayer action game with a third-person view, where you have to fly futuristic spaceships and get involved in battles. The year...

Nomad Fleet

Strategy, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Steam: 65/100

A real-time space strategy game about the last human survivors fleeing a mysterious alien race and seeking a safe sector. The player leads a small fleet across a...

ALONE IN SPACE

Adventure, Space, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2016

Steam: 45/100

This first-person sci-fi adventure follows Alex, an employee of an intergalactic terraforming corporation who finds himself alone on the partially terraformed...

Captain Forever Remix

Space, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2016

Steam: 78/100

A spaceship-building roguelike set in a Solar System thrown into chaos by the hero’s mutant younger brother, who has frozen the Sun and brought disaster to the...

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Best Games in the Space genre of 2016 for Linux