Top 15 Transcendence Alternative and Similar Games | Nov 2024

A 2D space exploration, combat and trading game of epic proportions!

Get ready to battle pirates, trade goods with a variety of civilizations some human some not and fulfill the destiny that the Domina has laid out for you. The journey will be dangerous but with your trusty ship and a variety of weapons, armor and equipment available (for a price) you just might make it!

Get ready for a journey of a lifetime!

1. Endless Sky

Endless Sky Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find......

2. Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, hundreds of towns, caves and regions with various wildlife. The world persists as long as......

3. Escape Velocity Nova

Escape Velocity Nova The player starts as a freelance space pilot in a shuttlecraft, out to make a penny in the vast and unforgiving galaxy. There are many ways to play Nova; for example, a starting player seeking funds can become a trader or courier, delivering cargo between worlds; become a pirate or......

4. Eden Star

Eden Star Eden Star is an immersive Sci-Fi survival game that blends innovative physics based combat, destructible environments and free-form construction with the exploration of a hostile alien world. Explore and gather resources from the environment of Pharus 7, use these materials to construct defensive outposts, craft powerful weaponry and upgrade your......

5. Empyrion

Empyrion Empyrion features space & planetary exploration, building & construction, mining & resource gathering, survival, crafting, as well as space & land combats. Using the Unity 3D engine, Empyrion uniquely combines elements from space simulations, construction games, survival games and ego-shooters. The game is currently under development by Eleon Game Studios.Empyrion......

6. SwordCraft

SwordCraft Building, Crafting, RETRO Sandbox RPG!SwordCraft is a 2D building game in the style of Minecraft, Junk Jack, Blockheads or Terraria.The game is currently in early Alpha testing.Content is continuously being added.......

7. Dig or Die

Dig or Die Crash land on an hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it.You are a representative of the CRAFT & Co company. You are selling automated fabrication tools across the galaxy when your spacecraft crashes into a hostile planet. Use......

8. Planet Centauri

Planet Centauri Embark on your greatest adventure to Planet Centauri! Discover new biomes, explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame monsters, build and protect a NPC community, craft your own weapons and create your own magic spells! Save and protect the native Chlorinian species from the evil Night Walkers! Develop and raise the......

9. NAEV

NAEV Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game, in a similar vein to Escape Velocity. Naev is played from a top-down perspective, featuring fast-paced combat, many ships, a large variety of equipment and a large galaxy to explore. The game is highly open-ended, letting you proceed at your own......

10. Gnomescroll

Gnomescroll Gnomescroll is a multiplayer survival RPG in surreal environments. Kill demons, raise puppies and collect rocks.......

11. Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries

Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries Are you afraid of the big bad Woolfe? Step into the boots of a vengeful Red Riding Hood in this twisted-fairytale platformer. Defeat deranged fairytale bosses with your trusty axe, explore a gorgeous fantasy universe and piece together the truth behind the mysterious passing of Red’s fatherGreat Graphics, release: 2015Wine......

12. The Dead Linger

The Dead Linger The Dead Linger is a sandbox zombie game, the world is randomly generated as you move in to it.......

13. Gnomoria

Gnomoria Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere. Craft items, build structures, set traps and dig deep underground in......

14. Mine Blocks

Mine Blocks Mine Blocks is a video game series created by Zanzlanz.In this game, you can explore large worlds containing rolling hills of trees and flowers, dark caves teaming with creatures & glorious loot, and portals to other dimensions that only the bravest of adventurers would set foot in. The game is......

15. Destination Sol

Destination Sol Destination Sol is a free-to-play hardcore space arcade/RPG. You start as a pilot of a small fighter ship on the edge of a star system, and you're free to explore the game world, land on planets, fight with enemies, upgrade your ship and equipment, hire mercenaries, mine asteroids, and more.Key......