Games Like NEBULOUS: Fleet Command

From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.

Why similar: Military 33.3%, War 26.1%, RTS 13.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the sensor-based combat and missile-centric tactics found in NEBULOUS within a naval setting.

Command: Modern Operations is the next generation in cross-domain modern wargaming. It enables you to simulate every military engagement from post World War II to the present day and beyond. The scale is primarily tactical/operational, although strategic scale operations are also possible.

Why similar: Military 35.7%, RTS 17.6%, Simulation 13.9%, Grand Strategy 12.5% ★, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for realistic sensor management and modern tactical warfare simulation.

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: Diplomacy 33.4% ★, Military 20.3%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, Tactical 14.7%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the intense atmosphere of radar management, electronic warfare, and tactical combat in a unique, high-stakes environment.

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: Real-Time with Pause 15.6% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Alternate History 9.6%, Military 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features hard sci-fi fleet management and realistic orbital mechanics that resonate with the simulation-heavy nature of NEBULOUS.

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: RTS 19.4%, Military 19.3%, War 18.2%, Sandbox 13%, Space 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled depth in ship design and physics-based combat simulation that appeals to the engineering side of fleet management.

Experience the thrill of leading American aircraft carriers to victory in this innovative full 3D command simulation wargame set in the Pacific in 1942. First-person or God’s eye, you lead your fleet and planes right from the center of the battle.

Why similar: World War II 21% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Military 15.4%, RTS 13.1%, Historical 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a high-fidelity tactical simulation of naval warfare that emphasizes command and control.

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: Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, RTS 20.4%, War 20.2%, Military 17.3%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tactical vehicle management and sensor-based warfare, requiring careful coordination of assets.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Why similar: RTS 32.7%, Space 31.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Co-op 6.4%, War 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers tactical 3D space combat with a strong focus on fleet composition and real-time maneuvering.

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

Why similar: World War II 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Military 13%, Historical 9.8%, Strategy RPG 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for deep ship customization and tactical naval combat that rewards careful design and positioning.

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: RTS 29.7%, Space 20%, Tactical 14.6%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a premier 3D space RTS, it offers the verticality and tactical movement that define the genre.

Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.

Why similar: World War II 50.2% ★, War 12.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Military 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides detailed naval tactical combat with realistic damage modeling and fleet positioning.

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.5% ★, Space 16.6%, Real-Time with Pause 15.8% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation of space fleets and logistics for players who enjoy the grand-scale management aspect of space warfare.

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: Real-Time with Pause 49.3% ★, Space 19.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intricate ship design with physics-based tactical combat, rewarding players for thoughtful engineering.

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: RTS 27.3%, Space 23.7%, Tactical 14.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a refined 3D space RTS experience with complex fleet management and tactical depth.

Victory at Sea Pacific is the exciting game of naval RTS combat set during World War II. Bringing an epic approach to real time strategy war gaming, search and destroy enemy fleets across an open world sandbox in a desperate attempt to change the course of history.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.8% ★, World War II 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, RTS 11%, Alternate History 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on real-time naval combat with a strong emphasis on fleet management and tactical decision-making.

In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.5% ★, Military 12.7%, Alternate History 11.4%, War 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides grand-scale space strategy with tactical elements that appeal to fans of fleet-based warfare.

"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 20.1%, RTS 20%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Space 12.3%, Real-Time with Pause 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes asymmetric space warfare and deep strategic planning, requiring players to outsmart superior forces.

Experience one war through two epic sagas where you will be a part of history or change it. Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War. Relive some of the grandest and most critical naval battles of recent history and for the first time, choose to lead your fleet to a completely different ending...

Why similar: World War II 45.8% ★, RTS 11.1%, Military 10.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Historical 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines action-oriented naval combat with tactical depth, allowing for direct control of fleet assets.

Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.

Why similar: Military 16.4%, War 15.7%, Historical 15.5%, RTS 15.1%, Strategy RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a tactical military simulation that emphasizes the command and control aspects of modern warfare.

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 18.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, World War II 11.6% ★, Military 10%, RTS 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive military simulation that allows for granular tactical control over large-scale forces.

BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, RTS 16.6%, Space 12%, War 12%, Tactical 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an immersive space combat experience that emphasizes tactical fleet control from a commanding perspective.

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: Real-Time with Pause 35.1% ★, RTS 22.5%, Space 16.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides tactical space combat with a unique focus on flow, positioning, and area control.

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: Diplomacy 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Military 12.5%, RTS 11.8%, Space 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It remains a foundational 3D space RTS that emphasizes fleet composition and tactical maneuvering.

International waterways become theaters of war when the world's most formidable maritime powers exchange their fatal blows. With entire fleets at your command, you must strategically deploy vessels from every class - frigate to aircraft to nuclear submarine - to maintain the precarious balance of naval power and gain position for the...

Why similar: RTS 44.7%, Military 24.7%, War 17.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic naval simulation that shares the tactical focus and command-heavy gameplay of NEBULOUS.

Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19% ★, War 12.5%, Historical 12.2%, Military 11.9%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a simulation-heavy approach to military vehicle management and development.

Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Diplomacy 23.2% ★, RTS 13.2%, Space 10.1%, Military 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers grand strategy with fleet-based combat mechanics that allow for tactical engagement in a sci-fi setting.

Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.

Why similar: World War II 15.6% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 8.8% ★, War 8.3%, Military 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides deep military logistics and fleet management for players interested in the grand-strategy side of war.

This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?

Why similar: World War II 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, Historical 12.2%, Military 11.5%, War 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features tactical wargaming with a focus on unit management and historical combat scenarios.

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17% ★, Space 13.4%, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Sandbox 8.9%

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.1% ★, Diplomacy 27.7% ★, Space 12.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 37%, War 33.5%, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 10%

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

Why similar: Military 22.1%, RTS 19.2%, War 16.2%, Historical 13%, Tactical 8.9%

Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history. Play massive campaigns as one of the principal nations, set-piece scenarios of famous battles, or set your own victory condition and play as any nation in the world in Sandbox mode.

Why similar: World War II 16.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 14.8% ★, Historical 9.4%, RTS 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed military simulation with a focus on historical wargaming and strategic deployment.

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: RTS 34%, Space 23.2%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10%

The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, RTS 12.3%, Military 12.1%, War 10.8%, Co-op 7.5%

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 39.7%, Sandbox 23.7%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Open World 6.5%

Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.7% ★, Historical 23%, RTS 17.4%, War 16%, Strategy 15.3%

Command the mighty Scharnhorst in this immersive WWII naval simulation. Walk her decks in first-person, control gunnery, radar, and navigation, and lead your fleet through the Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean. Battle convoys, outwit enemies, and survive the stormy seas of war.

Why similar: World War II 36.4% ★, War 20.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Historical 12.1%

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 29.9%, Sandbox 24.1%, Open World 17.1%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 5.9%

Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

Why similar: World War II 31.1% ★, Military 21.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, War 18%, Strategy 6.1%

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: RTS 36.6%, Space 30.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Tactical 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Space 18.3%, Strategy RPG 15.8%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 11.8%

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 27.6%, Space 23.7%, War 22.3%, Tactical 15.4%, Strategy 9.4%

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: World War II 17% ★, Real-Time with Pause 13.4% ★, RTS 11.1%, Grand Strategy 10.5% ★, Military 10.3%

Battlefield Commander WWII is a real-time tactical game where you lead the soldiers and vehicles that battled across the globe during this time in history. Play hundreds of unique units across multiple game modes.

Why similar: World War II 26.5% ★, RTS 16.7%, Historical 13.4%, Military 13.1%, War 10.1%

Turn based tactical and strategic naval combat. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies or Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the longest military campaign of WWII, The Battle of the Atlantic.Take command of surface ships, submarines as well as carrier and land based aircraft in the deadly struggle for control of Atlantic shipping...

Why similar: World War II 52% ★, War 15.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Historical 8.9%

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 27.8% ★, Space 20.2%, Real-Time with Pause 19.7% ★, Strategy 11.1%, RTS 10.5%

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

Why similar: Space 41%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 22.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, War 16.7%, RTS 16.5%, Military 16.3%, Tactical 11.4%

Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Military 12.6%, War 9.4%

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: Grand Strategy 27.6% ★, Space 26%, RTS 25.7%, Strategy 19.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 24.3%, RTS 23.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Space 18.8%, Open World 14.1%

Blitzkrieg 3 is a WW2 RTS made for true admirers of strategic mastery! Challenge your tactical skills in historical campaigns and defeat powerful Neural Network AI in competitive matches.

Why similar: World War II 20.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 16% ★, Military 12.1%, RTS 11.7%, War 10.6%

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: World War II 36.9% ★, War 19.9%, Strategy RPG 17%, Tactical 13%, Strategy 7.1%

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: Diplomacy 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, RTS 13.6%, War 12.3%, Tactical 9.2%

Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.

Why similar: Military 28.3%, Alternate History 22.8%, World War II 22.7% ★, Historical 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

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: Space 24.6%, Tactical 24.5%, Military 14.2%, Strategy 13.2%, RTS 12.9%

True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.

Why similar: RTS 27.6%, Military 26.6%, Tactical 18.6%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 8.6%

Victory At Sea Atlantic transports you to the cold, unforgiving waters of the Atlantic Theatre in WWII. With a vast array of ships, planes, and subs, engage in epic sea battles & secure your place in history. Victory At Sea Atlantic is the ultimate naval warfare experience.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, World War II 21.8% ★, RTS 15.2%, Historical 10.3%, Tactical 7.1%