Eve: Echoes similar games & best alternatives

Eve: Echoes

Android, iOS • 2020

Should you play it?

What works

  • Faithful eve online sandbox experience on mobile
  • Vast universe with player-driven economy
  • Deep strategic gameplay and skill progression
  • Strong social and cooperative elements
  • Stunning graphics for a mobile mmo

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and overwhelming ui for new players
  • Repetitive pve and mission design
  • Paywall and subscription model limits free players
  • Server instability and lag in large battles
  • Limited character customization and narrative

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Nexus Legacy

  • Starblast

  • Perpetuum

  • Pixel Starships

  • Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas

  • Star Conflict

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Eve: Echoes but with less of an idle filler feel

  • EVE Online

  • BattleGroupVR

  • Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion

  • Elite Dangerous

  • ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition

  • Airships: Conquer the Skies

Less competitive

Games that feels like Eve: Echoes but with less competition against others

  • X3: Terran Conflict

  • X4: Foundations

  • Star Wolves

  • Starpoint Gemini Warlords

  • PULSAR: Lost Colony

  • Star Trek™: Bridge Crew

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Eve: Echoes: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 05/08/2026