These recommendations are grouped by the systems players tend to love in EVE Online—not just by setting or art style.
Albion Online
PlayableFantasy • PC / macOS / Linux / Mobile
A cross-platform sandbox MMORPG built around crafting, trade, territory warfare, a player-driven economy, classless equipment-based progression, and risk-based PvP.
Full LootOpen PvPCraftingPlayer EconomyTradingTerritory ControlClassless
Starbase
PlayableSci-Fi • Windows PC
Frozenbyte's highly technical space sandbox MMO built around voxel/vertex construction. Players mine resources, design and manufacture ships, build stations, trade, form companies and fight in a persistent, destructible universe. The game remains online in Early Access, although active development has been limited for long stretches.
SandboxSpaceShip BuildingStation BuildingVoxel ConstructionMiningCrafting
Dual Universe
OfflineSci-Fi • Research pending
A former single-shard voxel sandbox MMORPG; the official MMO service is shut down and myDU remains separately playable.
Single ShardSpaceBuildingPlayer EconomyTradingIndustryMining
Star Citizen
PlayableSci-Fi • Windows PC
A persistent space sandbox with cargo, mining, salvage, piracy, bounty hunting, multicrew ships and reputation.
SpaceTradingCargoMiningSalvageBounty HuntingPiracy
Elite Dangerous
PlayableSci-Fi • Windows PC; legacy console versions also exist
Frontier's long-running space sandbox MMO: explore a 1:1 Milky Way, trade, mine, fight, influence factions and Powerplay, operate Fleet Carriers and participate in a persistent background simulation.
SpaceTradingMiningExplorationPvPPvEPlayer Factions
Vendetta Online
PlayableFantasy • Windows / macOS / Linux / Android / iOS and other supported devices
A persistent skill-based space MMORPG with real-time combat, trading, mining, guilds, faction warfare and player-built capital ships, playable across desktop and mobile platforms.
SpaceTradingPlayer EconomyMiningPvPGuildsFaction Warfare
Star Sonata 2
PlayableFantasy • PC
A persistent space MMO combining arcade ship combat with RPG progression, player-built stations, colonies, resource extraction, robotic trade routes and empire creation.
BuildingColoniesPlayer EconomyCraftingTradingEmpire BuildingSpace
Entropia Universe
PlayableFantasy • Windows
A long-running sci-fi MMO built around a real-cash virtual economy, hunting, mining, crafting, trading, land ownership, professions and open-ended skill progression.
Player EconomyReal Cash EconomyClasslessCraftingMiningTradingLand Ownership
Shores of Hazeron
OfflineFantasy • PC / TBD
An unusually ambitious science-fiction MMO simulation where players began on a planet, founded cities and industries, designed and built spacecraft, colonized other worlds and eventually created interstellar empires in a vast procedurally generated universe.
SandboxPersistent WorldCrafting