Games Like EVE Online

These sandbox MMOs overlap with EVE Online through player economies, industry, corporations, territorial conflict, logistics, trading, mining or persistent space gameplay.

These recommendations are grouped by the systems players tend to love in EVE Online—not just by setting or art style.

Albion Online

Playable
Fantasy • 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

Playable
Sci-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

Offline
Sci-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

Playable
Sci-Fi • Windows PC
A persistent space sandbox with cargo, mining, salvage, piracy, bounty hunting, multicrew ships and reputation.
SpaceTradingCargoMiningSalvageBounty HuntingPiracy

Elite Dangerous

Playable
Sci-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

Playable
Fantasy • 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

Playable
Fantasy • 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

Playable
Fantasy • 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

Offline
Fantasy • 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