Games Like Airships: Conquer the Skies

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Naval Combat 26.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.1% ★, War 11.7%, Military 11.6%, RTS 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in modular vehicle construction and physics-based combat that mirrors the complexity of the seed game.

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Military 52.4%, Building 35.7%, Strategy 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct dieselpunk aesthetic and intense tactical airship management that captures the same atmosphere and strategic tension.

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: Building 52.2%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Strategy 13.3%, 2D 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular ship design and tactical 2D combat, providing a very similar gameplay loop of building and battling.

Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 22.4% ★, Wargame 15.8%, Military 15.1%, War 13.9%, Tanks 12.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed modular vehicle design experience with a focus on realistic physics and military performance.

Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 19.4% ★, Tanks 18.9% ★, Naval Combat 17% ★, Steampunk 13.5% ★, War 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes modular vehicle construction and physics-based destruction in a gritty, industrial setting.

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!

Why similar: Naval Combat 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Military 12.3%, War 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intricate design of naval vessels and tactical fleet management in a historical war setting.

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: Building 75.5%, Strategy 14.2%, 2D 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D space game centered on modular ship construction and tactical fleet combat against evolving AI factions.

Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!

Why similar: 4X 45.8% ★, Steampunk 29% ★, PvP 20.4%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines airship trading and combat with a focus on building and customizing your own fleet in a steampunk world.

Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Alternate History 16.6%, Competitive 14.9% ★, Military 14.4%, War 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, tactical fleet combat experience that emphasizes positioning and complex weapon systems.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Building 39.9%, Vehicular Combat 30% ★, Multiplayer 15.6%, PvP 9.8%, Strategy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for creative modular vehicle building with a strong emphasis on combat and resource gathering in an open world.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Naval Combat 26.9% ★, Moddable 23.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 22.2% ★, Building 11.2%, PvP 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based construction game where players build siege engines to destroy targets, sharing the same satisfying destruction mechanics.

Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

Why similar: Steampunk 67.5% ★, Multiplayer 18.7%, Competitive 13.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Captures the steampunk airship combat experience through team-based tactical cooperation and ship management.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Building 59.1%, PvP 40.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex vehicle engineering and physics-based systems that reward players for building functional, efficient machines.

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, Wargame 19.1%, War 17.1%, RTS 15.1%, Military 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical simulation game where you manage a carrier and its fleet of vehicles to dominate the battlefield.

Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

Why similar: Naval Combat 30.9% ★, Tanks 17.6% ★, Wargame 16.7%, Military 11.6%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated sandbox for building and testing naval vessels with a focus on modularity and realistic combat physics.

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

Why similar: RTS 15.4%, Mechs 15.3% ★, Alternate History 13%, Real-Time 11.7% ★, War 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS set in an alternate-history dieselpunk world that captures the aesthetic and military feel of the seed game.

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Why similar: RTS 28%, Moddable 23.7% ★, Real-Time 20.8% ★, Mechs 8.5% ★, War 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D RTS that captures the scale and base-building feel of the seed game in a more traditional strategy format.

If you like warships but wish they could kickflip, Waves of Steel is for you! Build your own custom warship and embark on a sprawling campaign filled with enemy ships, planes, submarines, and bizarre superweapons. Fast-paced arcade naval action is here!

Why similar: Naval Combat 24.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 17.8% ★, Alternate History 12.7%, Moddable 11.8% ★, War 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines ship building with arcade-style naval combat, offering a more accessible approach to the genre.

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Moddable 15.4% ★, Alternate History 12.6%, War 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A complex grand strategy game that focuses on long-term planning and technological development on a global scale.

ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.

Why similar: Naval Combat 19.1% ★, Military 18.4%, Moddable 18.2% ★, RTS 16.5%, War 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic wargame that emphasizes the management of global military assets and the destruction of enemy infrastructure.

A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.

Why similar: Naval Combat 33.8% ★, Steampunk 17.5% ★, RTS 17.4%, Wargame 13.5%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D tactical game focused on building and managing warships to destroy the enemy in real-time.

Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 33.4% ★, Steampunk 26.1% ★, Building 17.3%, PvP 10%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op game that allows players to build and crew their own steampunk airships for aerial combat.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Moddable 44.3% ★, Building 21.5%, PvP 17%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular construction and physics-based engineering in a space environment, allowing for highly complex ship designs.

Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.

Why similar: Naval Combat 52.4% ★, War 13.1%, Wargame 12.3%, Military 7.9%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A naval strategy simulation that focuses on fleet management and tactical combat during World War II.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 59.1% ★, Building 40.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space game that allows for extensive modular ship building and exploration in a procedurally generated galaxy.

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 20.9%, Grand Strategy 20% ★, War 15.3%, Mechs 12.8% ★, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale RTS that emphasizes massive destruction and strategic control over entire planetary systems.

The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

Why similar: Real-Time 35.7% ★, RTS 22.7%, Building 16.5%, War 13.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hybrid RTS and FPS that allows you to build your base and command units while participating in the combat directly.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.

Why similar: Steampunk 89.3% ★, 2D 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike spin-off that retains the core steampunk aesthetic and combat mechanics of the original game.

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

Why similar: Wargame 28.7%, Military 26.2%, War 24.1%, Multiplayer 10.6%, PvP 10.4%

A new type of RTS with elements from 4X, Wargame, and Real-Time Tactics. Draw commands and execute a superior strategy to defeat your opponent, focusing on high-level decisions rather than constant micromanagement.

Why similar: 4X 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15% ★, RTS 13.7%, Tanks 13.6% ★, Wargame 12.2%

The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Why similar: Moddable 33.8% ★, Building 25%, RTS 17.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic design of fleets and the tactical observation of large-scale, automated space battles.

Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.

Why similar: Mechs 26.3% ★, Wargame 22.3%, RTS 15.2%, War 14.7%, PvP 10.7%

In a post-apocalyptic world submerged by the sea, the wake of the enemy is apparent at every turn. From turning the tides of naval warfare to dominating the skies in break-neck aerial combat, every decision you make will change the outcome of the battle.

Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Tanks 14.8% ★, Wargame 13.2%, Military 10.2%

Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!

Why similar: War 27.5%, RTS 26.9%, Wargame 19.8%, Vehicular Combat 19.3% ★, Strategy 6.4%

Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

Why similar: RTS 34.4%, Real-Time 32.6% ★, War 17%, Strategy 9%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Uber-Hardcore, Turn-Based, Steampunk, Squad Tactics. Battle 6 other factions for control of Pangea in emergent, tactical gameplay.

Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Steampunk 21.8% ★, Wargame 15.6%, War 13.1%, Military 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game set in a steampunk world that focuses on airship combat and tactical squad management.

Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.

Why similar: Steampunk 82.3% ★, Competitive 8.9% ★, Multiplayer 5.9%, PvP 2.2%, Strategy 0.7%

Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

Why similar: Tanks 51.8% ★, War 32.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Multiplayer 4%

ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Wargame 21.9%, RTS 14.8%, Military 10.5%, PvP 10.2%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Alternate History 16.1%, Tanks 15.4% ★, Wargame 13.4%, War 12.9%

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: 4X 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Moddable 24.8% ★, Building 12.6%, Strategy 3.7%

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Moddable 36.9% ★, Military 22.3%, Building 20%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Strategy 5.7%

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Real-Time 18.7% ★, RTS 16.7%, Competitive 10.7% ★, PvP 7.1%

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Why similar: Naval Combat 15.9% ★, Tanks 13.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 13.6% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Mechs 11.1% ★

An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 37.6% ★, RTS 28.8%, War 26.6%, Strategy 7.1%

Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!

Why similar: Tanks 22% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Wargame 14.6%, Vehicular Combat 14.4% ★, War 12%

Victory at Sea Pacific is the exciting game of naval RTS combat set during World War II. Bringing an epic approach to real time strategy war gaming, search and destroy enemy fleets across an open world sandbox in a desperate attempt to change the course of history.

Why similar: Naval Combat 22.4% ★, Real-Time 19% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, Wargame 12.1%, RTS 10.5%

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

Why similar: Wargame 19.2%, Tanks 18% ★, Military 15.5%, RTS 12.6%, War 12.3%

From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.

Why similar: Naval Combat 37.5% ★, Real-Time 23.8% ★, Military 15.1%, War 12.6%, RTS 5.7%

In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

Why similar: Building 41.9%, RTS 27.2%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Strategy 11.5%, 2D 3.4%

Sink player-made battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines in this physics-based game. Use pre-built ships and sink the enemy by deploying aircraft, torpedoes, depth charges or shells. Or built your own ships in the extensive ship-editor.

Why similar: Naval Combat 46.3% ★, Wargame 21.6%, War 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 4.1%

Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.

Why similar: Wargame 22.1%, Alternate History 17.5%, RTS 16.3%, Steampunk 14% ★, Military 13.6%

Conquer the stars in this straightforward multiplayer real-time strategy game from the creators of First Strike and become a Stellar Commander!

Why similar: Real-Time 22% ★, Wargame 14.3%, Competitive 14.2% ★, RTS 11.9%, Military 11.9%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Building 77.5%, Strategy 22.5%

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Why similar: Wargame 22.9%, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, War 16.8%, RTS 16%, Building 13.6%

Steampunk Tower 2 is an action-strategy game set in the alternative Steampunk universe. In Lord Bingham’s military service there is a new secret weapon under your command, the gigantic aircraft Carrier transporting the Battle Tower.

Why similar: Steampunk 56.6% ★, Alternate History 18.8%, Military 13.8%, Strategy 7.5%, 2D 3.3%

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

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: RTS 64.7%, Strategy 30.5%, 2D 4.8%

Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail is a tactical wargame from the creators of the Ultimate General series set amidst the epic naval campaigns in the period of the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Why similar: Naval Combat 63.3% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Vehicular Combat 8% ★, Wargame 7.8%, RTS 7%