Most played space games on Steam

The space games with the most people playing on Steam right now, from Steam's own live player counts, refreshed every ten minutes. The top ten have 68,323 players between them.

Every kind of game Most played overall

The most played of the space games right now

No Man's Sky

32,609 at its 24h peak

27,566

playing now

Ranked by players right now

Players in game this minute, with each game's peak over the last day.

Current24h peak

No Man's Sky

27,566 playing · 33K peak

27,56632,609 2

Stellaris

13,777 playing · 14K peak

13,77713,777 3

Among Us

5,494 playing · 8,086 peak

5,4948,086 4

Dyson Sphere Program

4,324 playing · 4,324 peak

4,3244,324 5

EVE Online

4,323 playing · 4,882 peak

4,3234,882 6

Elite Dangerous

3,376 playing · 4,773 peak

3,3764,773 7

Kerbal Space Program

2,891 playing · 3,303 peak

2,8913,303 8

Starfield

2,657 playing · 3,648 peak

2,6573,648 9

Space Engineers

2,473 playing · 3,456 peak

2,4733,456 10

ASTRONEER

1,442 playing · 1,559 peak

1,4421,559 11

FTL: Faster Than Light

968 playing · 1,342 peak

9681,342 12

Starbound

626 playing · 728 peak

626728 13

Space Haven

318 playing · 318 peak

318318 14

Surviving Mars

310 playing · 353 peak

310353 15

Star Valor

141 playing · 157 peak

141157 16

Creeper World 4

110 playing · 150 peak

110150 17

Dead Space (2008)

78 playing · 107 peak

78107 18

NEBULOUS: Fleet Command

Void Crew

Kerbal Space Program 2

ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator

20 playing · 26 peak

2026 23

Interstellar Space: Genesis

Earth 2160

Crying Suns

X2: The Threat

Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

Darkstar One

X: Beyond the Frontier

3 playing · 3 peak

33 30

X: Tension

2 playing · 3 peak

A game is in this list when its Steam players voted “Space” as one of its defining tags. Counts are Steam players only, from Steam's player API, and exclude creative software.

Frequently asked

What is the most played space game on Steam?

Right now it is No Man's Sky, with 27,566 people playing on Steam, followed by Stellaris (13,777) and Among Us (5,494). The ranking uses Steam's own live player counts and refreshes every 10 minutes.

How many people play space games on Steam?

The ten most played space games have 68,323 players on Steam between them right now. These are Steam players only: games that also run on their own launcher or on console have players this number cannot see.

Which games count as space games?

Games whose Steam players voted "Space" as one of their defining tags: among the game's five most-voted tags, with at least half as many votes as the top one. A game that merely has a few Space votes does not count, which keeps the list to games that are space games, not games with a Space moment in them.