Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Everest Drive – a multiplayer spaceship crew simulator in the browser
Hi HN! I'm working on an open-world multiplayer space sim with submarine-warfare-inspired combat. Crew a ship, haul cargo, run heists, hunt your foes with passive and active sensors. Browser-based, free, no install. Some of its features: - Submarine-style passive sensors. Contacts start as a bearing line (direction, no distance), resolve into an uncertainty circle, then into a full track. You triangulate over time by moving. - Silent running. Cut your emissions and witnesses can't ID you. - Newtonian flight. No drag, no auto-brake. Flip 180° and burn to stop. - Boarding combat. Dock with…
Everest Drive is a free, browser-based multiplayer space simulator where players crew ships, transport cargo, conduct heists, and engage in combat. The game features submarine-style passive sensors that gradually… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I've seen quite a few simming discussions on HN, so thought some of you might like this - I've created a map-centered, tactical submarine simulator and it's been a blast to make. I grew up playing Silent Service II on Atari ST with my dad, then got into Silent Hunter IV in the 2000s, and most recently have been loving the more recent UBoat. In each case, the part I always enjoy the most is the plotting and charting aspect - essentially beating uncertain estimates with geometry. So I decided to see how far I could get making my own sim that focused nearly entirely on that aspect. You listen…
May 2026 · silentshark.app · its alternatives →
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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I built this with Claude cause I always wanted to tinker with a simulation economoy and I love space themes. A space-economy sim where nothing is scripted. A few hundred autonomous ships each run their own planner. Some chase the best trade route, take a delivery contract, refuel, retrofit at a shipyard, or dock so the crew can rest before morale tanks. Markets price everything off supply with shortage-urgency multipliers, factions tax and subsidize, populations migrate when they're unhappy, and stations that go broke get abandoned and rot. It started as an Elixir/Phoenix prototype, but…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An open world starship simulator (Early Access Game)
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Did this a few years ago. Seems apropos. Sources and more here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Mooncraft2000
Apr 2026 · mooncraft2000.com · its alternatives →
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Pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle to the ISS!
2020 · iss-sim.spacex.com · its alternatives →
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This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 - taken from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration. To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the "Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom left, and follow the instructions…
2023 · thapen.itch.io · its alternatives →
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A submarine knife fight simulator by Carl Kolon.
2025 · bearingsonly.net · its alternatives →
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Games in general and multiplayer games have been a big part of what my friends do together (not just digital; sports, board + card games) And it moved to online games as more of us moved to other places and party games became our go-to Love jackbox and gaming couch (that I discovered here on HN) I saw the vibej.am for this year and I couldn't think of a good enough idea till about the 3rd week but here I am! This is a game made for me and my friends and it's also very inspired by what I thought the PS3 6-axis controller would be when I first heart about it Thanks for reading this and I hope…
Apr 2026 · simdrive.xyz · its alternatives →
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SpaceSim▲7Explore a free 3D space simulator in your browser. Travel across the Solar System, change time, inspect source-backed worlds, and collect postcards.
Jul 2026 · spacesim.co · its alternatives →
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2019 · urk-3d-multi-space-game.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Second only to working at Space X
2015 · kerbalspaceprogram.com · its alternatives →
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A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the…
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A hard sci-fi space exploration game
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A side scrolling combat racing game set in outer space
2016 · intergalacticroadwarriors.com · its alternatives →
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Sandbox game focused on building a space station
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Astroneer▲98A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration
2015 · astroneer.space · its alternatives →
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Travel through galaxies into deep space
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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