Games Like Gratuitous Space Battles

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: Spaceships 35.7% ★, Space 15%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features an incredibly deep ship-building system where the layout of your modules directly dictates your tactical performance in combat.

Have you ever wanted to be admiral of a huge, sprawling space battle-fleet of your own design? Ever wanted to design a fleet of battle-cruisers so powerful they can rip all who oppose them into space-dust? Ever wanted to build a battleship with purple rotating radars and 64 engines? Well we have good news for you...

Why similar: Space 29.2%, Strategy 25.3%, Moddable 16.6%, Simulation 12%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel offers refined graphics and expanded ship customization options that build upon the original's core auto-battler mechanics.

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 26.7%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 19.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Top-Down 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that allows for modular ship construction and fleet management, perfect for players who enjoy designing unique space-faring vessels.

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: Sandbox 25.2%, RTS 21.6%, Strategy 17.4%, Tactical 12.1%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical fleet combat game that emphasizes realistic ship systems, sensor management, and precise positioning in large-scale 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: Auto Battler 48%, RTS 14.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Tactical 8.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a premier modern auto-battler, it focuses on strategic unit placement and counter-play, mirroring the tactical depth of GSB's fleet preparation.

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: Space 24%, Building 21.9%, Strategy 14.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, RTS 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to design your own ships from scratch and pit them against other players in strategic, fleet-based combat.

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: Space 26.7%, Strategy 24.2%, RTS 15.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on strategic fleet management and defensive positioning against an evolving, fluid-like enemy threat.

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

Why similar: Strategy 35.1%, Space 21%, RTS 14.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Difficult 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: An asymmetric strategy game where you must manage your fleet and resources to survive against an overwhelming, intelligent AI opponent.

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.

Why similar: Space 36.3%, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 15%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Moddable 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for large-scale tactical space fleet combat, offering deep strategic control over massive ship formations.

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: Building 23%, Strategy 18.5%, Sci-fi 18%, Tactical 12.8%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct aesthetic and intense ship design mechanics where your custom-built vessels engage in brutal, physics-based tactical combat.

The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Why similar: Space 35.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A hard sci-fi simulation that requires you to design ships based on real-world physics, offering unparalleled depth for engineering enthusiasts.

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 37.9%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Top-Down 13.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Spaceships 7.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers top-down fleet combat with modular ship upgrades, allowing for significant customization of your combat capabilities.

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: Space 28.8%, Strategy 19.5%, RTS 12.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that emphasizes fleet composition and tactical combat in a procedurally generated space environment.

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: Space 23.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, RTS 15.6%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Strategy 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grand-scale space strategy with real-time fleet management, perfect for those who enjoy the macro-level control of space warfare.

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 34.8%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Top-Down 8.8%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on individual ship management, it captures the tension of sci-fi combat and the importance of modular ship upgrades.

Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."

Why similar: Space 27.5%, Spaceships 16.8% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.5%, RTS 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical fleet combat with a heavy emphasis on managing ship subsystems and special abilities during intense engagements.

Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.

Why similar: Spaceships 58.4% ★, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Tactical 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, hex-based space combat game that features deep ship customization and strategic fleet positioning.

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

Why similar: Space 17.5%, Moddable 15.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends ship design, fleet command, and tactical combat into a cohesive experience that rewards careful planning and preparation.

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: Space 31.1%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Strategy 17%, RTS 14.2%, Tactical 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical space combat game that emphasizes fleet management and strategic decision-making in a dark, atmospheric sci-fi universe.

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: Space 25%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 17.8%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Strategy 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides detailed ship building and crew management, with tactical combat that requires careful planning of your ship's layout.

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: Space 31.6%, Building 20.7%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Strategy 15.6%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: A micro-management game where you design your ship's interior and manage systems during tactical, real-time space battles.

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 34.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space simulation that allows for complex ship building and testing in a realistic orbital environment.

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 25.5%, Strategy 21.6%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Top-Down 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action and strategy, requiring you to manage your ship's systems and combat capabilities while navigating through space.

Galcon 2 is a demolition derby in space! Send swarms of ships from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy in this fast paced multiplayer strategy game!

Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Space 24.5%, Moddable 12.4%, RTS 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, minimalist space strategy game that focuses on fleet movement and territory control.

Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.

Why similar: Auto Battler 40.2%, Space 20.3%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Top-Down 11.2%, Strategy 9.6%

A sci-fi roguelike auto-battler. Build a powerful intergalactic starship by interlocking different technologies, then battle through a galaxy populated with other players' creations.

Why similar: Auto Battler 57.5%, Top-Down 16.9%, Strategy 15.7%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: An asynchronous auto-battler that emphasizes inventory management and strategic unit preparation for tactical combat.

Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!

Why similar: Spaceships 38.5% ★, Space 11.2%, Building 9%, Moddable 8.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%

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: Spaceships 42.4% ★, Space 16.9%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space game that excels at modular ship building and allows you to command a fleet of your own custom-designed vessels.

Spaceships, lasers, and… chickens! What more could you ask for?Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is a creative new take on space-themed videogames that merges the deep, thoughtful gameplay of strategy games with the intuitive accessibility of physics-based games.

Why similar: Strategy 34.3%, Space 25.3%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Indie 9%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features physics-based space combat that adds a unique layer of strategy to traditional fleet-based engagements.

Turn-based strategy game full of spacefleet battles. 30+ hours of gameplay, randomized battles, huge campaign with different ways of completion. Experience infinite tactical situations and outsmart the tricky AI using dozens of ships and special abilities.

Why similar: Strategy 55.8%, Simulation 29.3%, Indie 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based space combat game that emphasizes the importance of positioning and fleet composition.

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: Space 30.9%, Top-Down 18.2%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Difficult 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical ship management and combat, requiring you to make critical decisions about your ship's systems during battle.

An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships. 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.

Why similar: Space 26%, Building 16.7%, RTS 16.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Strategy 10.3%

From the creators of Halo Wars and Age of Empires, Fleetbreakers is an action RTS roguelite with satisfying fleet combat in bite-sized sessions. Strategic depth meets cataclysmic space battles in an ever-evolving campaign that keeps you coming back for just. One. More. Run.

Why similar: Spaceships 46.7% ★, Space 13.3%, RTS 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Building 7.8%

Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.

Why similar: Space 28.1%, RTS 16.9%, Top-Down 14.7%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale space strategy game that focuses on fleet management and large-scale tactical combat.

The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Strategy 21%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Top-Down 7.5%, Difficult 5.4%

Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.

Why similar: Space 31.7%, Auto Battler 24.8%, Sci-fi 14%, Spaceships 12.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%

Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.

Why similar: Auto Battler 30.5%, Space 12.2%, RTS 11.1%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%

Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.

Why similar: Spaceships 50% ★, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11.2%, Physics 3.6%

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 33.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Sci-fi 14%, RTS 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%

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: Space 36.5%, RTS 17.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Tactical 7.4%

Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle. Customize your ship, control its movement, weapons, and energy distribution or go to one of the hangars to join the battle in a smaller fighter!

Why similar: Space 27.1%, Sci-fi 17.8%, RTS 16.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 7.5%

As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.

Why similar: Space 36.7%, Strategy 26%, Sci-fi 16.1%, RTS 15.7%, Indie 4.9%

Deep idle game with NO ads, NO in-app-purchases. Watch your fleet battle automatically. Collect items and upgrade your buildings and fleet to reach progressively higher levels!

Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Space 24%, Sci-fi 17%, Building 16.6%, 2D 8%

Space Menace is a sci-fi space RTS and battle game. You play as a space captain, seeking fortune and glory as you see fit. Leave your mark on the world and determine the fate of the galaxy with your decisions.

Why similar: Spaceships 33.9% ★, Space 16.1%, RTS 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Top-Down 9.2%

Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!

Why similar: Space 31.9%, Sci-fi 28.2%, Strategy 24.8%, Tactical 11.4%, Action 3.6%

The ultimate space capital ship combat compendium is the evolution of hard core space combat sims. The only game of its kind currently in existence.

Why similar: Space 38.1%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 3.3%

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: Space 36.9%, Strategy 25.5%, RTS 18.8%, Sci-fi 15%, Indie 3.8%

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

Why similar: Spaceships 53.5% ★, Space 16%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Building 3.4%

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 33.2%, Sandbox 23%, Building 15.2%, Sci-fi 11%, Strategy 5.5%

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: Space 34.2%, Strategy 19.4%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Moddable 8.7%, RTS 7.5%

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: Auto Battler 38.7%, RTS 13.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Strategy 9.7%

Autobattler where you send misfits into vehicular combat. Your job is to prepare them, deploy them, watch them struggle and finally watch them die or win in massive explosions.

Why similar: Auto Battler 54.2%, RTS 18.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%, 2D 4.7%

Aetherspace is a game about turn-based battles between outlaw gangs. In space. With starships.

Why similar: Strategy 78.1%, Indie 21.9%

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: Space 38.4%, Strategy 35.2%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Multiplayer 3.6%, Indie 1.7%

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: Space 36.8%, Strategy 28.9%, RTS 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Indie 5.6%

Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.

Why similar: Space 38.5%, Sci-fi 25.5%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Starborne: Frontiers is a free-to-play tactical autobattler with hundreds of unique ships. Form your fleet, customize it with a variety of equipment, and use strategy to create the perfect battlefield formation. Take on bounties, engage in the PvP arena, and bring order to the Frontier.

Why similar: Auto Battler 49.5%, Space 18%, Strategy 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Tactical 6.3%