Games Like Commandeer

Commandeer is a colorful top-down sci-fi shooter centered around a unique “commandeer” mechanic that lets you hijack any ship you see. Take over star-fighters, cargo ships, and even entire battle stations. Everything is fair game. Explore a rich world filled with dark humor, absurd characters, and strange environments, all on a mission to take back your family’s stolen ship. Built for short, action-packed sessions with a continually-expanding ecosystem that makes every jump feel different.

Take control of Axel, our extraterrestrial axolotl protagonist, and eject out of your ship to take over another with the help of your AI companion and house-key, K-33.

Select quests from various factions and plans your route before going out into the void. As you discover different ship types, collects data and scrap to escape with by completing the current mission.

Axel’s adventure is liberally seasoned with bits of story from a galaxy where the sun never set on a corrupt British Empire well into the space age. With shutter-shade-wearing, techno-loving viking raiders pillaging supply lines, and mummified Pharaohs controlled by giant scarab beetles fighting for independence from their imperial overlords, Axel’s peaceful space-faring race of sentient Salamanders are just trying to get by. Players must help Axel go to extremes to recover his family's only means of making a living - their cargo ship.  The Milky Way is quirky and unforgiving, and the ends absolutely do not justify the means, but this celestial axolotl and his AI house-key companion with questionable ethical boundaries are gonna do it anyways.