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Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2022

Should you play it?

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

What works

  • Addictive and satisfying gameplay loop
  • Immersive zero-g physics and controls
  • Engaging progression and upgrades
  • Relaxing yet challenging experience
  • Well-realized sci-fi setting and atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Story can be heavy-handed and unskippable
  • Limited ship variety and procedural content
  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Repetitive gameplay over long sessions

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Star Trucker

  • Retro/Grade

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Juno: New Origins

  • AETHUS

  • Cloudbuilt

More violent

Games that feels like Hardspace: Shipbreaker but with more combat and destruction

  • EVERSPACE™

  • STRAFE: Gold Edition

  • Party Hard 2

  • System Shock

  • Heart&Slash

  • EVERSPACE™ 2

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Hardspace: Shipbreaker but with more leadership over others

  • X4: Foundations

  • Exogate Initiative

  • Star Wolves 3: Civil War

  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown

  • X2: The Threat

  • IXION

Less competitive

Games that feels like Hardspace: Shipbreaker but with less competition against others

  • Skin Deep

  • Dyson Sphere Program

  • Space Trash Scavenger

  • Timelie

  • Digger: Galactic Treasures

  • Breathedge

Choose your own criteria ->

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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).

Hardspace: Shipbreaker: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 04/08/2026