Games Like HighFleet

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: Diplomacy 33.6% ★, Military 20.2%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, Tactical 14.6%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most similar experience to HighFleet's tactical, radar-based naval combat and complex ship management.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Military 52.4%, Building 35.7%, Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep, modular ship design and intense physics-based combat that mirrors the engineering challenges of HighFleet.

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: Military 42.1%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 15.6%, Exploration 15%, Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic command of a carrier and its assets, requiring the same level of map-based planning and resource management.

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: Military 32.9%, Building 27.3%, Physics 19.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled level of engineering complexity and physics-based naval combat for those who love building their own war machines.

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: Sci-fi 26.1%, Tactical 24.5%, Strategy 22.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive roguelite ship management game that captures the same feeling of desperate survival and tactical decision-making.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.3%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Action 10.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a tense, claustrophobic experience where managing a complex submarine's systems is just as important as surviving the environment.

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: Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Tactical 26.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmosphere of a lonely, high-stakes journey through a dying galaxy with a focus on tactical fleet combat.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Nonlinear 29.7%, Tactical 21.6%, Exploration 14.5%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Strategy 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique, UI-heavy interface to create a sense of dread and tactical precision while exploring derelict ships.

Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

Why similar: Tactical 35.4%, Strategy 28.9%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Action 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying blend of turn-based tactical combat and long-term management of a mercenary unit and their mechs.

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 27.4%, Sci-fi 23.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Exploration 10.9%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for intricate ship building and tactical combat that rewards clever design and positioning.

Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.

Why similar: Military 54.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Action 10.4%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers high-octane, arcade-style flight combat that captures the visceral intensity of HighFleet's aerial battles.

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: Diplomacy 42.9% ★, Military 22.1%, Tactical 17.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grand-strategy perspective on geopolitical tension and resource management that mirrors the strategic layer of HighFleet.

UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.

Why similar: Military 51.8%, Physics 19.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Action 6.5%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation of submarine warfare that requires careful management of both the crew and the ship's mechanical systems.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Tactical 20.4%, Sci-fi 20.2%, Strategy 17.5%, Action Roguelike 14.4%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical ship infiltration with a roguelite structure, emphasizing creative problem-solving and high-stakes maneuvers.

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: Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Building 22.2%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a crew and ship in a survival-heavy environment where every decision matters.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.8%, Tactical 23.1%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite space combat game that emphasizes permadeath and strategic decision-making in a hostile galaxy.

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

Why similar: Strategy 34.8%, Simulation 30.7%, Sci-fi 26.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hard sci-fi simulation that emphasizes realistic physics and weapon systems in space combat.

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.

Why similar: Military 43.3%, Physics 22.2%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a modern, high-fidelity flight combat experience that emphasizes the destructive power of advanced weaponry.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Exploration 36%, Choices Matter 30.6%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 11.2%, Adventure 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the atmosphere of exploration and the constant struggle to manage your vessel's limited resources in a hostile world.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 53.7%, Inventory Management 28.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty, post-apocalyptic survival feel and the importance of inventory management in a harsh world.

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: Building 42%, Sci-fi 23.2%, Exploration 19.8%, Simulation 15%

Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox exploration with modular ship building, allowing for massive scale and tactical combat.

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.

Why similar: Exploration 44.7%, Sci-fi 33.6%, Simulation 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore space-sim that focuses on the gritty reality of ship maintenance and survival in a decaying solar system.

Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 20.9%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Simulation 19.5%, Action 11%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space exploration with RPG elements and real-time combat, focusing on the captain's role in a larger conflict.

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Tactical 48%, Sci-fi 24%, Strategy 20.4%, Singleplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal extraction-based roguelike that emphasizes inventory management and tactical survival in a dark sci-fi setting.

When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.

Why similar: Tactical 34.5%, Strategy 19.4%, Exploration 15.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Action 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy strategy game that puts you in charge of a massive naval vessel during wartime.

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: Tactical 31.2%, Sci-fi 26.2%, Strategy 19%, Action 10.3%, Indie 8.9%

Sky Rogue is a fwooshy rogue-lite action flight simulator! Blow things up over land, sea, and air, on an infinite number of procedurally-generated islands. Go toe-to-toe with enemy aces or assault giant flying aircraft carriers, but watch out for volleys of missiles; when you die, you're dead.

Why similar: Military 36.9%, Action Roguelike 32.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Indie 7.3%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated flight combat game that focuses on quick, arcade-style action and roguelite progression.

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Strategy 37.7%, Simulation 23.3%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Action 9.9%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based roguelike that emphasizes fleet management and tactical combat against overwhelming odds.

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: Strategy 48.2%, Sci-fi 29.8%, Indie 16.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game focused on managing a fleet of ships while surviving in a hostile, resource-scarce environment.

Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.

Why similar: Tactical 29.8%, Choices Matter 22.4%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Strategy 14.4%, Action 6.1%

In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.

Why similar: Tactical 34.6%, Strategy 19.6%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Exploration 12.6%, Simulation 9.1%

Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.

Why similar: Tactical 27.2%, Choices Matter 23.4%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Action 6%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Building 27.8%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Strategy 15%, Exploration 14%, Simulation 12.7%

Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.

Why similar: Sci-fi 30.5%, Exploration 21%, Building 19.5%, Action 10%, Adventure 8.8%

Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.3%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging space survival game where managing your ship's systems is the only way to avoid a quick death.

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: Tactical 28.8%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Strategy 20.2%, Exploration 17.3%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that features unique 3D space combat and a focus on exploration.

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.

Why similar: Building 27.4%, Sci-fi 23.8%, Exploration 23.7%, Indie 7.7%, Action 7.4%

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 31.3%, Tactical 29.2%, Sci-fi 18%, Indie 9.8%, Simulation 6.9%

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: Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Sci-fi 18.4%, Action 11%, Indie 10.7%

Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Why similar: Tactical 33.9%, Strategy 19.3%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Simulation 10.6%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Physics 28.2%, Sci-fi 24.5%, Simulation 15.7%, Building 14%, Strategy 10.1%

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: Tactical 40.7%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Action 13.1%, Adventure 11.6%

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

Why similar: Military 35.8%, Strategy RPG 31.3%, Building 24%, Simulation 8.8%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32%, Building 22.8%, Exploration 13.7%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Singleplayer 6.3%

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: Tactical 30.9%, Sci-fi 19%, Strategy 16.7%, Military 15.9%, Simulation 10.9%

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: Building 21.3%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Action 8.2%

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21%, Tactical 18.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Strategy 11.2%

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 46%, Strategy 15.9%, Sci-fi 9%, Exploration 6.6%, Action 6.4%

Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.

Why similar: Tactical 37.4%, Sci-fi 24.5%, Strategy 22.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Singleplayer 6.3%

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Action 36.7%, Indie 36%, Singleplayer 16.9%, Simulation 10.4%

Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.

Why similar: Military 70%, Strategy 30%

The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, Action 28%, Singleplayer 20.9%

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: Diplomacy 31% ★, Military 18.7%, Building 12.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%

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: Strategy 32.8%, Sci-fi 31.6%, Tactical 22%, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Indie 6.2%

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: Strategy 42.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Indie 18.2%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Command your crew in Boat Crew, a gripping action-strategy experience amidst the Pacific War. Take charge of a PT boat against Imperial Japan, skillfully managing resources and personnel by any means necessary to ensure victory in this high-stakes conflict.

Why similar: Nonlinear 21.5%, Strategy RPG 19.2%, Tactical 14%, Physics 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.7%

House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Why similar: Simulation 24.8%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Action 15.8%, Tactical 15.4%, Indie 11.8%

Gunner, HEAT, PC! (GHPC) is a simulation game about modern mounted combat, with special attention to authenticity and fun.

Why similar: Military 71.4%, Simulation 20.5%, Action 8.1%

A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.

Why similar: Building 36.8%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Stylized 12.2%, Indie 7.6%