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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Singleplayer, Sci-fi.

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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 296 reviews
Released: 2020-06-16
Developer: Han Zhiyu
Publisher: ChaosGalaxyStudio
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 5.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 18.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 82%

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    97% matchVery Positive84% of 316 reviews2023
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    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.

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  2. #2 Chaos Sector 混沌宙域
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    It's a retro-style strategy game, you can choose the Northsky Fleet or the Pirates, lead your commanders, controll many kinds of warships and robots, and fight a war with the enemy's fleet and alien horde on the galactic chessboard!

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  3. #3 The Heroic Legend of Eagarlnia
    96% matchVery Positive85% of 1,618 reviews2022
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  4. #4 Super Robot Wars 30
    95% matchVery Positive86% of 6,369 reviews2021
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    Windows
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  5. #5 Star Renegades
    94% matchVery Positive83% of 2,997 reviews2020
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    Windows
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    Windows
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  10. #10 Into the Breach
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  12. #12 Star Dynasties
    89% matchMostly Positive73% of 492 reviews2021
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    77% matchMixed45% of 53 reviews2020
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  36. #36 Star Tactics Redux
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    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%

    Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.2%, 4X 29.1%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Space 8.5%

  53. #53 Halfway
    70% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,012 reviews2014
    Dev: RobotalityPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...

    Why similar: Turn-Based 31.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.5%

  54. #54 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
    65% matchVery Positive87% of 741 reviews2023
    Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.9%, 4X 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, War 15.2%, Strategy 6.8%

  55. #55 Xenonauts
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 5,012 reviews2014
    Dev: Goldhawk Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Turn-Based 13.8%, Sci-fi 7.2%

  56. #56 Ancient Frontier
    69% matchMixed66% of 131 reviews2017
    Dev: Fair Weather Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Sci-fi 11.5%

  57. #57 Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 1,312 reviews2016
    Dev: Massive Damage, Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Space 11.5%

  58. #58 High Strategy: Urukon
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 109 reviews2020
    Dev: Iron Boar Labs Ltd.
    Windows

    Urukon is an experimental grand strategy game inspired by Euro-style board games. You play as one of 32 factions on a dying alien world. Each turn, you get to take just one of 10 actions. To achieve your chosen faction's goal, you'll need to carefully juggle multiple interactive systems.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.5%, Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, War 9.9%

  59. #59 Fragile Allegiance
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 123 reviews2015
    Dev: Gremlin InteractivePub: Alternative Software Ltd
    Windows

    Assemble your fleets, fill your silos with nuclear warheads, conduct research, gather resources, and wage war in a vast galaxy in this unique take on 4X Strategy. Appoint Colony Supervisors to manage your colony and deploy Spy Satellites for the ultimate in skulduggery.

    Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Classic 23.8%, Retro 17.8%, Space 16.1%

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