- #1 Annihilate The Spance
97% matchVery Positive91% of 338 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses. An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships.
Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Destruction 15.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Space 13.4%, War 11.9%
- #2 Executive Assault 2
95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,726 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: RTS 24.1%, Real-Time 20.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 11.2%, Space 10.5%
- #3 Etherium
96% matchMostly Negative37% of 953 reviews2015
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.
Why similar: RTS 36.1%, Sci-fi 30.2%, Strategy 18.5%, Space 14.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #4 Earth 2160
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,542 reviews2006
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Why similar: Real-Time 30.1% ★, RTS 26.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 15.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #5 ShellMobile: Titan Rampart
93% matchVery Positive98% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: 红景天娱乐
Windows
On the cosmic frontier, humanity has fought alien species for a century. As traditional defenses fall to new-gen alien mechs, tech giant ShellMobile—human-centered at its core—kindles new hope via breakthroughs in extraterrestrial titanium ore research.
Why similar: Wargame 23%, RTS 22%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.4%, War 7.6%
- #6 Starport Delta
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 75 reviews2020
Dev: Cloudfire Studios
Windows
Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...
Why similar: RTS 16.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Real-Time 11.8% ★, Space 11.7%
- #7 Byte Lynx
94% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Artful Games
Windows
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Why similar: RTS 27.9%, Base Building 17.7%, War 15.4%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Space 8.7%
- #8 IDUN - Frontline Survival
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 671 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
Why similar: Wargame 17.9%, RTS 16.7%, Building 11.8%, War 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #9 ReEarth
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd
Windows
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
Why similar: RTS 24.9%, Wargame 17.3%, Space 11.7%, War 11.6%, Building 9.5%
- #10 Operation: Polygon Storm
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 285 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: RTS 26.5%, Wargame 24.1%, Destruction 15.2%, War 11.5%, Strategy 7%
- #11 ERA ONE
88% matchVery Positive86% of 1,348 reviews2025
Dev: Team Complex LTD
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Era One is an innovative space game that combines elements of real-time strategy, base building, space survival, and tactical battles. Players can create and customize their bases from scratch, construct various types of structures and warships, manage fleets, and engage in tactical space battles.
Why similar: RTS 37%, Space 22.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #12 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
89% matchVery Positive85% of 14,430 reviews2015
Dev: Planetary Annihilation Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 23.2%, Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, War 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 8.3%
- #13 PERIMETER: Legate Edition
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: K-D LabPub: Association K-D Lab
Windows · Linux
Perimeter is a real-time strategy game with a destructible world. Utilize the environment for resource gathering and defense against enemies. Immerse yourself in the millennia-spanning history of the Chains of Worlds and lead a faction in the struggle for survival.
Why similar: RTS 31.6%, Space 14.7%, Futuristic 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #14 Habitat
91% matchMostly Negative40% of 261 reviews2016
Dev: 4gencyPub: Versus Evil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.
Why similar: Space 53.6%, Strategy 25.3%, Simulation 21.1%
- #15 Space Reign
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 377 reviews2026
Dev: Propulsive Games
Windows
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: RTS 28.8%, Space 22.6%, War 17.2%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Strategy 8.4%
- #16 Stellar Commanders
86% matchMixed58% of 101 reviews2020
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows
Conquer the stars in this straightforward multiplayer real-time strategy game from the creators of First Strike and become a Stellar Commander!
Why similar: RTS 17.4%, Real-Time 17.3% ★, Destruction 13.1%, Wargame 12.3%, War 10.9%
- #17 Rogue Command
83% matchVery Positive92% of 546 reviews2024
Dev: feneq
Windows
Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelite. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.
Why similar: RTS 25.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Space 13.9%, Building 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #18 rymdkapsel
86% matchVery Positive83% of 277 reviews2014
Dev: grapefrukt games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 38.8%, Base Building 21%, Space 17.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 4.4%
- #19 Element Space
85% matchMixed55% of 295 reviews2019
Dev: Sixth VowelPub: Inca Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity. Face overwhelming odds with strategy. Make your choices and save us from extinction.
Why similar: Sci-fi 56.3%, Strategy 43.7%
- #20 Tempest Rising
80% matchVery Positive88% of 10,866 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 53.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Real-Time 8.5% ★, War 5.2%
- #21 Void Destroyer
84% matchMixed60% of 351 reviews2015
Dev: Iteration 11
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Combining the best of space combat and real time strategy. Victory can be tactical, a dogfight or capital ship slugging match - depending on how you decide to achieve it. Space combat on a RTS scale with space sim savagery.
Why similar: Space 28.7%, RTS 27.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.9%
- #22 Nomad Fleet
82% matchMixed67% of 212 reviews2016
Dev: Autarca
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Nomad Fleet is a RTS game where you must lead the last remnants of Mankind to safety after a mysterious alien race has hunted them near extinction. Lead a fully armed fleet of battleships, carriers and fighters through a series of randomized scenarios and encounters where they must fight for their survival while scavenging for resources,...
Why similar: Real-Time 25.9% ★, RTS 23.7%, Space 19.9%, Strategy 15%, Sci-fi 11.2%
- #23 BlackChain
81% matchVery Positive86% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Borington
Windows
A classic single-player RTS set in a Solar System ruled by megacorporations. Journey from Mars all the way to Planet 9 and uncover the secrets of the BlackChain.
Why similar: RTS 24.8%, Base Building 14.5%, War 13.5%, Space 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #24 Five Nations
79% matchVery Positive83% of 265 reviews2021
Dev: SilverForge
Windows
Five Nations is a real-time sci-fi strategy game for PC platform. Encompassing tactical combat in space in real-time mixed with micromanagement of economy, construction, and production featuring different kind of single player modes.
Why similar: RTS 43%, Space 17.4%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 10.3%
- #25 Starship Theory
81% matchMixed50% of 1,100 reviews2017
Dev: Reconnect Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 29.2%, Space 24%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 11.1%
- #26 Ancient Space
82% matchMixed44% of 365 reviews2014
Dev: CreativeForge GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
Why similar: RTS 39%, Space 29.4%, Strategy 17%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #27 Planet S
76% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: RTS 29.3%, Space 17.8%, Building 14%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Futuristic 9.1%
- #28 Uncrewed
79% matchMixed69% of 149 reviews2020
Dev: Quite Different Mechanics
Windows
Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.
Why similar: RTS 29.3%, Real-Time 19.3% ★, Building 13.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 12.7%
- #29 Executive Assault
78% matchVery Positive85% of 1,455 reviews2015
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 36.7%, Real-Time 18.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, War 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%
- #30 IDUN Prologue - Frontline Survival
75% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the arena with IDUN: Prologue, a thrilling slice of our full-length defense RTS where real-time strategy meets rogue-lite chaos. Fight your way through unique mission objectives with overwhelming swarms of enemies.
Why similar: RTS 19.9%, Wargame 16.7%, Base Building 11.4%, War 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #31 Particle Fleet: Emergence
77% matchVery Positive92% of 1,261 reviews2016
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 34.4%, Space 22.7%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #32 Calyx
73% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Why similar: RTS 31.5%, Base Building 19%, Space 17%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Strategy 8.4%
- #33 Crustacean Nations
75% matchVery Positive93% of 505 reviews2022
Dev: Team Beans
Windows
🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!
Why similar: RTS 24.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Destruction 13.4%, War 10.6%, Strategy 8.7%
- #34 Battlevoid: Sector Siege
78% matchMixed58% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Space 21.5%, Real-Time 21% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 10.7%
- #35 Slizer Battle Management System
77% matchVery Positive83% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: slizer88
Windows
Single player, sci-fi, minimalist Real Time Tactics game. Strategy without the stress: complex movement, damage, and detection replaces intense micro and economy management. Units are selected and outfitted before battle. Emphasises tactical choices over mechanical skill.
Why similar: Real-Time 33.9% ★, Strategy 27.9%, Simulation 23.3%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Singleplayer 2%
- #36 PlanetX
74% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, Building 10.2%, War 10.1%, Space 8.3%
- #37 Galaxy Reavers
76% matchMixed70% of 204 reviews2016
Dev: Good Games
Windows
This is a fun yet challenging RTS game. To survive in the vast galaxy, you need to build up your own fleet and customize your warships. You will also learn to control them efficiently in battle to defeat your enemies, conquer planets, and expand your galactic empire!
Why similar: RTS 38.6%, Space 29.8%, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 12.9%
- #38 Elements and build
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 215 reviews2024
Dev: ChuTouMiao StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win
Why similar: Base Building 35%, Building 33.2%, Strategy 24%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #39 Creeper World 4
71% matchVery Positive95% of 4,620 reviews2020
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: RTS 17.6%, Wargame 14.8%, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, War 11.9%, Space 10.4%
- #40 Dominari Empires
74% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny RTS
Windows
Got 5-10 minutes? Annihilate your enemy in a lightning fast micro 4X/RTS game set in deep space. Gameplay relies heavily on strategy, forward-thinking, and twitch-like reflexes.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #41 Stellar Warfare
72% matchVery Positive84% of 406 reviews2021
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
Why similar: RTS 28.5%, Wargame 17.9%, Space 17.4%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Strategy 7.6%
- #42 WARSHIFT
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 697 reviews2016
Dev: Cyril Megem
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.
Why similar: RTS 62.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Sci-fi 16.6%
- #43 Grey Goo
73% matchMixed68% of 4,315 reviews2015
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Six Foot
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
Why similar: RTS 48.4%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 13%, Space 3.7%
- #44 Nuke Them All
70% matchVery Positive83% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indie PapaMikePub: GameEraStudios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An RTS classic reborn with a twist. Time is of the essence, Commander! Capture the flags, conquer the territories, and eliminate the enemy fort. And finally, nuke them all! This old-school sci-fi Indie real time strategy game, crafted by devoted team, revives the genre's enduring allure.
Why similar: RTS 30.3%, Wargame 22.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Space 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #45 Space Cycle
68% matchVery Positive94% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Some Sugar Studio
Windows
Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe. Allocate resources, upgrade defenses, and repel relentless enemy attacks! With over 50 unique units and deep strategy, experience real-time tower defense!
Why similar: Space 43.6%, Sci-fi 27.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Casual 3.5%
- #46 Microcosmum 2
70% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Satur Entertainment
Windows
A relaxing strategy game featuring unconventional gameplay. Your objectives include development, evolution, border expansion and protection of your hive.
Why similar: Real-Time 20.4% ★, RTS 17.6%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.4%, Space 11.4%
- #47 Alien Marauder
71% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: RTS 25.9%, Wargame 18.3%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #48 Taur
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,078 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Why similar: RTS 19.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Destruction 11.9%, Strategy 11.7%, War 9.5%
- #49 Dust Fleet
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: Orbiting DiscoPub: indie.io
Windows
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Why similar: Real-Time 28.9% ★, Space 17%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Wargame 9.7%, RTS 9.6%
- #50 Line War
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,158 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Centurion
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: RTS 29.2%, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Wargame 15.4%, War 11.9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #51 Element TD
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 98 reviews2017
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Light, Darkness, Water, Fire, Nature, and Earth elements come together in this tower defense focused on combinations.
Why similar: RTS 78.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #52 Rogue Station
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 228 reviews2023
Dev: Quint Studio
Windows
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Space 23.8%, Building 20.7%, Strategy 11%, Top-Down 7.3%
- #53 First Strike
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,985 reviews2017
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Why similar: RTS 23.7%, Destruction 17.8%, Wargame 17.2%, War 16.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #54 Lazy Galaxy
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 204 reviews2018
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lazy Galaxy is a mix between RTS and idle/clicker game. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe!
Why similar: RTS 33.8%, Space 25.5%, Strategy 21.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Casual 4.7%
- #55 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
67% matchMixed63% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: RTS 23.9%, Wargame 20.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 13%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #56 Project Astra Dominium
66% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Snob Entertainment UG
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.
Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Space 24.4%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Futuristic 12%, Strategy 10.2%
- #57 ICBM
66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,897 reviews2020
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: RTS 33.7%, Destruction 26%, War 20.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 8.1%
- #58 Minimalist Tower Defense
63% matchVery Positive95% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: Happy213
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
Why similar: Wargame 26.5%, Base Building 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Top-Down 11.7%
- #59 Circle Empires
65% matchVery Positive90% of 4,100 reviews2018
Dev: LuminousPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.
Why similar: RTS 43.7%, Real-Time 29.6% ★, Strategy 19.9%, Casual 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%