The Last Starship similar games & best alternatives

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The Last Starship

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2026

Should you play it?

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

What works

  • Deep ship building and customization
  • Engaging resource management and combat
  • Active developer support and frequent updates
  • Strong community and modding support
  • Multiple gameplay modes and strategies

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with bugs and incomplete features
  • Limited multiplayer and cooperation
  • Some ui and tutorial shortcomings
  • Combat can be frustrating or simplistic
  • Content depth still developing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Particle Fleet: Emergence

  • Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

  • Galactic Civilizations III

  • VoidExpanse

  • Airships: Conquer the Skies

  • Star Ruler 2

Less competitive

Games that feels like The Last Starship but with less competition against others

  • Stardeus

  • Odd Realm

  • Space Architect

  • Final Upgrade

  • FTL: Faster Than Light

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

More social

Games that feels like The Last Starship but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

  • Space Crew: Legendary Edition

  • Avorion

  • Pixel Starships

  • Enemy Mind

  • Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like The Last Starship but with less of a community feel

  • Duskers

  • LONESTAR

  • Horizon's Gate

  • Approaching Infinity

  • Polaris Sector

  • Distant Worlds 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Uplink

  • Prison Architect

  • DEFCON

  • Darwinia

  • Multiwinia

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).

The Last Starship: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026