
Colonize newly-discovered planets, control the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions in real-time or turn-based action.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Sci-fi, Space, Indie.

Colonize newly-discovered planets, control the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions in real-time or turn-based action.

Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.

Planets Under Attack
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
Explore. Strategize. Conquer.In the far future, Mankind has nearly exhausted all of earth’s natural resources. Fragile alliances between nations are tested to their limits as fierce wars ignite across land and space.MoonBase Commander puts you in charge of your own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire in space.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Classic 26.9% ★, Sci-fi 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: Strategy 58.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.3%, Sci-fi 14.2%
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: Strategy 42.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.1%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Futuristic 14.8%
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.
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: Strategy 36%, Classic 28.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Sci-fi 15.2%
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Strategy 35%, RTS 28%, Top-Down 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Action 9.5%
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: Strategy 50.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.7%, Sci-fi 23%
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
Why similar: Strategy 56.9%, Classic 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Sci-fi 8%
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: Strategy 39.2%, RTS 28.3%, Futuristic 17.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%
"Forbidden Planet" is a Space Strategy and Tower Defence like Game. You control a small spaceship and your main goal is to protect your own home planet. Explore the universe for resources. Colonize other planets. Defend from the asteroids.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
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: Strategy 55.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Action 13.5%
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: Strategy 39.8%, RTS 36%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Action 10.9%
Discover the uncharted during the Age of Exploration in this strategy game of exploration, combat and colony management.
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: Strategy 38.4%, RTS 27.3%, Futuristic 17.6%, Sci-fi 16.7%
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Why similar: Strategy 45%, Futuristic 22.1%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Action 15.3%
“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: Strategy 36.4%, RTS 29.4%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Top-Down 16.5%
Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
Why similar: Strategy 92.6%, Action 3.1%, Sci-fi 2.8%, RTS 1.4%
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.7%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Futuristic 12.1%, Action 0.9%
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: Strategy 34.1%, RTS 24.3%, Futuristic 16.6%, Top-Down 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.6%
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: Strategy 32.7%, RTS 28.2%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Futuristic 15.4%, Top-Down 6.7%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: Strategy 75%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.1%
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: Strategy 43.4%, RTS 27%, Futuristic 17.1%, Sci-fi 12.5%
After assuming command of one of four human or alien factions vying for galactic dominance, immediately define your game’s scope. Play for minutes to hours across tens to hundreds of planets in single-player skirmish or multiplayer modes—it’s entirely up to you.
[MARS] Total Warfare uses authentic Martian landscapes to create an intense RTS experience best described as a hybrid between team multiplayer and massively multiplayer online. Fight over natural resources vs human or AI opponents and conquer a crater ridden world, with pink sky and blue seas!
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
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.
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36.1%, Futuristic 34.5%, Sci-fi 29.4%
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
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: Strategy 37%, RTS 29.5%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Top-Down 14.9%
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: Strategy 47.3%, RTS 19%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Classic 16.5% ★
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: Strategy 59%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.3%, Sci-fi 16.7%
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
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.
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
Why similar: Strategy 56.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.4%, Sci-fi 18.1%
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: Strategy 37.1%, RTS 27.1%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Action 15.1%
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Sci-fi 22.2%, Top-Down 17.6%, Action 14.2%
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: Strategy 46.3%, RTS 31.6%, Action 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.5%
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: Strategy 43.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Futuristic 17%
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: Strategy 45.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 33.4%, Sci-fi 20.8%
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Strategy 54%, Futuristic 23.3%, Sci-fi 22.7%
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Why similar: Strategy 38.5%, RTS 20.3%, Futuristic 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Action 10.2%
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: Strategy 49.7%, Sci-fi 27.5%, RTS 20.6%, Action 2.2%
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: Strategy 44.9%, RTS 16.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Action 10.6%, Futuristic 10.2%
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: Strategy 51.3%, RTS 42.3%, Futuristic 2.9%, Action 2%, Top-Down 1.6%
Spoids is a challenging throwback to the original brand of tower defense games. Command the Remote Defense Space Station and respond to distress calls of those who are being attacked by the invaders. Travel from planet to planet using your powerful arsenal to hold back the Spoids.
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
An epic struggle for control!
Control Craft 3 is a fast paced RTS which brings together quick thinking and clever tactics for some veritable planet conquering action!
Why similar: Strategy 34.7%, RTS 30.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.8%, Action 10.2%
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: Strategy 36.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.3%, Futuristic 22.7%, Sci-fi 16.9%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: RTS 36.1%, Top-Down 18.7%, Futuristic 15.3%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Strategy 11.8%
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!
Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun
Why similar: Strategy 40.1%, RTS 30.3%, Top-Down 15.6%, Sci-fi 14.1%