The Best Space Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 12 October 2023: Star Trek: Infinite added at rank #19.

Here are our 10 Best Space Games for Nintendo Switch:

Play Video: We Love Katamari Reroll + Royal Reverie

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Get ready to roll your way to stardom in We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie! As the Prince, you'll roll up everything from everyday objects to creatures, creating stunning stars. With revamped graphics, new challenges, and a selfie mode, this game offers a simple yet deep experience that's a must-play for all.

• Lots of rolling gameplay
• A must-buy for Katamari fans
• More content and touching story
• Quality of life improvements for completionists
• Solid replay value

• Some levels with specific criteria can be less enjoyable
• Lacks bonus content

• anxiety
• controller-support
• third-person
• remake
• classic
• 3d
• funny
• space
• local
• cooperative
• platform
• difficult
• multiplayer
• similarly-sized
• heavily-stylized

Good match + 8 Bad match

Play Video: Terraformers

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.

• Focus on strategy
• Various difficulty levels
• Unique victory conditions
• Nice graphics and UI
• Rich soundtrack

• Only one way to lose the game
• Some bugs present
• Game can become repetitive

• turn-based
• mars
• space
• resource-management
• science
• rogue-like
• nonlinear
• card
• procedural
• board-game
• colony
• sci-fi
• choices
• simulation
• management

Good match + 7 Bad match - 6

Play Video: EarthX

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EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

• space
• simulation
• family-friendly
• colony
• management
• grand-strategy
• base-building
• immersive
• building
• education
• competitive
• minimalist
• atmospheric
• 3d
• relaxing

Good match + 16 Bad match

Play Video: Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator

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Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.

• space
• medical
• simulation
• trading
• moddable
• economy
• cyberpunk
• management
• surreal
• funny
• aliens
• horror

Good match + 56 Bad match - 142

Play Video: Mars Horizon

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Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

• simulation
• space
• mars
• turn-based
• historical
• exploration
• management
• historically
• science
• alternate
• education
• logic
• choices
• immersive
• building

Good match + 175 Bad match - 328

Play Video: Opus: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition

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Echo of Starsong is a visual novel style adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.

• visual-novel
• emotional
• soundtrack
• japanese
• fiction
• 2.5d
• anime
• space
• walking-simulator
• interactive
• story
• jrpg
• exploration
• 2d
• atmospheric

Good match + 11 Bad match - 30

Play Video: Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

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Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves. Strap into a variety of spacecraft, settle a score in a filthy space-bar over a game of 8-ball, rock out to over 24 hours of music, and engage in white-knuckle dogfights.In the Dodge Sector it’s hard to get by – and even harder to get even.

• space
• simulation
• sci-fi
• space-sim
• old-school
• pirates
• open-world
• action-adventure
• combat
• rpg
• sims
• third-person
• dice
• flight
• space-western

Good match + 231 Bad match - 416

Play Video: Space Crew

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100 players awake in a room alongside a prize of $1 Billion. Your goal, pass 7 deadly challenges and be the last one standing.

• space
• simulation
• strategy
• sci-fi
• management
• immersive
• tutorial
• choices
• first-person
• pve
• combat
• shoot-em-up
• 3d
• battle
• character

Good match + 105 Bad match - 210

Play Video: Orbt XL

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Stay in orbit while avoiding obstacles or being sucked into a black hole. Survive as long as you can while dodging and weaving between the various obstacles, the closer you orbit to the center; the faster you achieve points. The longer you last, the harder it gets. Good Luck and have fun playing with gravity!Simple one button controls; just pressing the Orbt button allows your planet to move away from the black hole, not pressing the button forces your planet to be sucked towards the black hole. Features:

• arcade
• space
• fast-paced
• attack
• score
• casual
• 2d
• endless
• family-friendly
• addictive
• soundtrack
• single-player
• challenging
• replay-value
• sci-fi

Good match + 83 Bad match - 192

Play Video: Space Crew: Legendary Edition

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Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!

• space
• simulation
• sci-fi
• management
• survival
• strategy
• rogue-like
• perma-death
• challenging

Good match + 11 Bad match - 20

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