Games Like Cantata

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: 4X 27.6% ★, Management 17.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Building 9.7%

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 27.9% ★, Moddable 24.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Management 11.9%

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Why similar: 4X 39.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Management 14.2%, Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%

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 25% ★, Moddable 23.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.1%

A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.

Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 11%

Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.

Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Moddable 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Moddable 22.7%, 4X 21.8% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11.3%

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 43.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Management 14.1%, Sci-fi 11%, Strategy 10.9%

Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.

Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Local Multiplayer 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 10.6%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Sandbox 19%, Base Building 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Management 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Moddable 23.5%, Sandbox 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Management 11.2%

Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.

Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Moddable 23%, 4X 22.1% ★, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11.2%

A pixel-art turn-based Galaxy total war game. You can select 14 factions, 61 heroes, hundreds of warships and mecha, and command multiple fleets to carry out grand strategic operations on the map of the galaxy.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 20.9%, 4X 20% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%

Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.

Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Multiplayer 8%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Moddable 23.6%, 4X 22% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11%

Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse. Embark on a challenging single-player quest or dive into the thrill of ranked or casual multiplayer modes to become the best Athena Crisis player!

Why similar: Level Editor 22.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Sci-fi 9.4%

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Why similar: 4X 46.1% ★, Strategy 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Multiplayer 4%

A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.

Why similar: 4X 24.1% ★, Moddable 22.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Management 9.7%

A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up various buildings, study technology, and lead fleets to carry out grand strategic actions on the map of the galaxy.

Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Moddable 21.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Management 9.2%

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: Moddable 26%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 15%, Management 11.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Sandbox 18.1%, Moddable 16.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Strategy 9.4%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Moddable 19.1%, 4X 19% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 11.6%

Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Why similar: 4X 61.8% ★, Strategy 27.2%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 42% ★, Strategy 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.

Why similar: 4X 38.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Management 14.6%, Strategy 10.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Moddable 25.3%, Base Building 19.9%, Automation 19%, Management 11.5%, Building 8.2%

Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.

Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Strategy 10.1%

An approachable turn-based grand strategy sandbox. Lead a nation, forge alliances, wage wars and rewrite history. Play solo or with friends, create your own maps and scenarios, and explore community mods on Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Level Editor 27.9%, Sandbox 27.1%, Moddable 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Base Building 31.6%, Strategy 26.1%, Sci-fi 22.8%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

Lead a paramilitary force against a growing space Cult threat. Program your units, build a fleet, trade, research, and engage in deep tactical combat in this RPG-strategy hybrid.

Why similar: Moddable 29.1%, Sandbox 23.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 8.7%

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Why similar: Strategy 78.7%, 4X 10.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 3.3%, Sci-fi 3.2%, Multiplayer 1.6%

Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.3%, Strategy 28.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.3%, Management 14.6%, Story Rich 3.6%

Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Management 13.2%, Building 10.8%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Sandbox 17%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

Why similar: 4X 49.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Strategy 16.9%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Multiplayer 4.6%

Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.

Why similar: 4X 47.9% ★, Management 20.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?

Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Management 13%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Moddable 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 7.3%

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 9.8%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Moddable 24%, Automation 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.1%

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 11.8%, PvP 5.9%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 15%, Management 13.3%, Building 10.2%

In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!

Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.1%

Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Automation 23.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Sandbox 17.1%, Management 14.2%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Moddable 19.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 10.9%

Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Why similar: Sandbox 48%, Strategy 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%

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: Sandbox 20.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Management 16.1%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 9.6%

Star Sonata 2 is a space sandbox MMO that combines elements of action, RPG, and empire creation into a truly unique MMO. Explore the sandbox style universe, build persistent bases, construct trade ships, and even fight your way to the top and claim the Emperor’s Throne!

Why similar: Sandbox 36.1%, Base Building 30.5%, Building 20.1%, PvP 13.3%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.9%, Base Building 28.6%, Management 23.7%, Strategy 14.8%

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

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Moddable 11.1%, Level Editor 9.1%

In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

Why similar: Strategy 32.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.9%

Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.

Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 14.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: 4X 39% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.4%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Moddable 40.1%, Sandbox 20.9%, Management 17%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Sandbox 23.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Building 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%