Games Like Heat Signature

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 21.7%, Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, Roguelike 16.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Perma Death 6.6%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 41.6%, Top-Down 13.7%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.8% ★, Space 17%, Roguelike 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Roguelite 8%

Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

Why similar: Stealth 23%, Space 17.7%, Roguelike 14%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 32.7%, Real-Time with Pause 17% ★, Roguelike 14.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Roguelite 7.7%

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.4% ★, Space 29.4%, Strategy 16.3%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Indie 7.3%

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Roguelite 14.9%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 30%, Sci-fi 25.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Open World 11%, Indie 6.8%

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Roguelike 27%, Top-Down Shooter 11%, Perma Death 10.7%, Action Roguelike 10.2%, Top-Down 8.6%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 39.4%, Roguelike 25.9%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Open World 14%, Singleplayer 2.5%

In this strategy-roguelike game, you command a space ship on a desperate last mission in the asteroid belt. Negotiate, battle your foes, and upgrade your ship. Get stronger as you progress into increasingly hostile space. Only the boldest, most skilled captain will make it to Ceres. Will you?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27% ★, Space 16%, Roguelike 12.5%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Roguelite 6.7%

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.1% ★, Tactical 19.6%, Top-Down 17.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Top-Down Shooter 4.3%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Roguelike 23.5%, Procedural Generation 21%, Open World 7.8%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 53.1%, Sci-fi 21.9%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Singleplayer 3%

WARPSQUAD is a space exploration rogue-lite in an ever-changing galaxy to be played solo or co-op. Encounter a wide range of hostile spaceships, special events, and upgrades to your ship and crew. Master the ship terminals and crew with unique traits to survive this hostile world.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.5% ★, Space 15.3%, Roguelike 11.3%, Stealth 11%, Roguelite 8.6%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.1% ★, Space 18.6%, Roguelike 10%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Roguelite 9%

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Roguelike 23.7%, Stealth 20.7%, Roguelite 20.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Action Roguelike 10%

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Stealth 28.8%, Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelite 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.3%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Roguelike 32.7%, Perma Death 19.5%, Roguelite 14.9%, Open World 9.3%, Action Roguelike 8.3%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Open World 58.2%, Action 23.9%, Adventure 15.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21% ★, Space 15.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Roguelike 9.5%, Roguelite 8.8%

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Space 47.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Action Roguelike 11.1%, Roguelite 9.6%, Roguelike 7.7%

Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.3% ★, Space 16.3%, Roguelike 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 38.8% ★, Space 26.3%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 4%

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Stealth 73.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 6.9%, Action 4.7%, 2D 3.2%

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Indie 74%, Singleplayer 15.3%, 2D 10.6%

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Space 21.3%, Roguelite 12.7%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Roguelike 10%, Strategy 8.8%

Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!

Why similar: Space 21%, Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX

Why similar: Space 24.9%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Roguelike 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.

Why similar: Stealth 78.7%, Action 8.5%, Open World 6.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%, Adventure 2.6%

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Why similar: Space 59.9%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Open World 8.1%, Top-Down 5.4%, Action 3.2%

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Space 31.2%, Roguelike 18.3%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Roguelite 11.4%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Open World 29.5%, Indie 11%, 2D 9.5%, Singleplayer 6.3%

Regulators is a tactical top-down shooter where you lead a team of mercenaries to clear the city from mutating villains using your weapons, gadgets, special super powers and intelligence.

Why similar: Stealth 21.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Top-Down 11.5%, Roguelike 9.6%, Roguelite 8.5%

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 52% ★, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Top-Down 7.7%, Indie 5.4%

Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

Why similar: Space 49.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Open World 6.8%

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Stealth 48.7%, Procedural Generation 27.8%, Open World 9%, Action 4.8%, Indie 4.3%

Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29% ★, Space 16.7%, Roguelike 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Top-Down 9.2%

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 48.9%, Top-Down 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Action 5.5%

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Why similar: Indie 77.1%, Singleplayer 22.9%

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Roguelike 33.5%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Perma Death 11.5%

SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

Why similar: Roguelite 25.3%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Roguelike 13.8%, Action Roguelike 10.5%, Top-Down 8.9%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Indie 11%, 2D 9.6%, Action 8.1%, Singleplayer 5.8%

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Space 75.4%, Sci-fi 7%, Open World 6%, Indie 4.5%, Strategy 3.9%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Roguelike 35.4%, Roguelite 17%, Top-Down 16%, Open World 9.6%, Indie 7.7%

Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.

Why similar: Space 52.4%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Top-Down 11%, Open World 6.1%, Action 5.5%

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Roguelike 47.9%, Roguelite 32.9%, Strategy 19.1%

Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

Why similar: Space 25.8%, Sci-fi 24.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Tactical 16.3%, Action 5.1%

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Roguelike 32.2%, Procedural Generation 25.1%, Perma Death 19.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Open World 5.9%

Trapped in the vastness of space as a Life Support AI with no crew. Find your way home by salvaging and upgrading your ship in a sci-fi rogue-like adventure.

Why similar: Space 29.1%, Roguelike 21.7%, Top-Down 7.6%, Action Roguelike 6.4%, Strategy 6.3%

Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.

Why similar: Stealth 49.2%, Open World 23.5%, Action 11.5%, Strategy 6.5%, Adventure 4.9%

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space 35.4%, Top-Down 17.8%, Procedural Generation 17%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Open World 6.3%

Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?

Why similar: Stealth 24.2%, Space 14.3%, Roguelike 10.3%, Roguelite 9.6%, Top-Down 9.1%

A roguelike horror game set in a randomly generated labyrinth. Escape from the complex labyrinth of pyramids while running from unknown entity that lurks in the labyrinth!

Why similar: Stealth 35.5%, Roguelike 25.2%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Roguelite 12.3%, Action Roguelike 5.1%

You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.

Why similar: Stealth 35.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Action Roguelike 7.7%, Action 7.6%, Indie 7.6%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Indie 71%, Singleplayer 22%, 2D 7%

Sneak your way past guards and obstacles through as many levels as you can in this turn-based roguelite stealth game, getting top secret documents and super cool gadgets on the way!

Why similar: Stealth 39%, Roguelike 19.8%, Perma Death 9.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Roguelike 25.1%, Space 23.7%, Procedural Generation 16%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Tactical 8.7%

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

Why similar: Tactical 46.5%, Strategy 20.1%, Indie 14.4%, Adventure 9.6%, Singleplayer 9.4%