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Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!

Reviews: Very Positive — 90% — of 102 reviews
Released: 2025-01-14
Developer: Cowmera Games
Genres: Indie, Strategy, Free To Play, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    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!

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  2. #2 PlanetX
    96% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
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    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: Grand Strategy 25.7%, RTS 20.8%, Economy 9.8%, Space 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%

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    94% matchVery Positive84% of 8,167 reviews2024
    Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
    Windows
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    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 28%, Space 23.6%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

  4. #4 Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
    95% matchVery Positive83% of 865 reviews2014
    Dev: Hassey Enterprises, Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 42 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    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 22.6%, RTS 21.3%, Space 19%, Multiplayer 18.7%, PvP 6.7%

  5. #5 Planet S
    94% 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 27.5%, Space 17.8%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Strategy 9.7%

  6. #6 Nova Empire
    93% matchMixed53% of 283 reviews2022
    Dev: Gamebear Tech
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    Build up a Space Empire and establish control of the Galaxy and the Universe! Nova Empire is a multiplayer space game in which the aim is to build your empire and conquer the galaxy in epic space battles against your rivals with other allies worldwide!

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    92% matchVery Positive87% of 99 reviews2019
    Dev: Candy Rufus Games
    Windows

    Send the fleet to capture planets and expand your empire, until you vanquish them all! No ads, no in-app purchases, completely free. Local and internet multiplayer is supported in this galactic strategy game. Six levels of challenging AI await you for practice matches and for making up numbers.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

  8. #8 Solaris
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 86 reviews2021
    Dev: SpacialCircumstances
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?

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  9. #9 War of Dots
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 4,056 reviews2026
    Dev: TeaAndPython
    Windows

    Easy to learn, hard to master. A simple & free RTS game.

    Why similar: RTS 27.2%, Real Time Tactics 21%, Strategy 15.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Top-Down 6.6%

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    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,241 reviews2012
    Dev: Targem GamesPub: Topware Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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.

    Why similar: Strategy 87.4%, Space 6.2%, Sci-fi 3.2%, Multiplayer 3.2%

  11. #11 Idle Expanse
    90% matchMixed55% of 149 reviews2020
    Dev: Lyrical Games LLC
    Windows

    A sci-fi themed incremental game which allows you to expand your capitalistic empire across the galaxy! Hire mercenaries to pillage alien planets for resources, with the singular goal of making as much money as possible as quickly as possible! Totally not a playful commentary on real Terran society.

    Why similar: Strategy 38.5%, Space 23.5%, Sci-fi 20.7%, 2D 11.5%, Management 5.6%

  12. #12 Galactic Ruler
    89% matchMixed49% of 121 reviews2022
    Dev: BattleGoat Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

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  13. #13 Hades' Star
    87% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,643 reviews2019
    Dev: Parallel Space Inc
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 55.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.

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  14. #14 Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
    88% matchMixed66% of 241 reviews2017
    Dev: Desert Owl Games LLCPub: ToHeroes Game Studios LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Helm your own ship, battle for supremacy in a multi-faction war, and conquer the cosmos in this science fiction turn-based strategy game. Select from more than 100+ diverse star ships and fight for territory across a 2D hex-based grid.

    Why similar: Tactical 50.6%, Strategy 49.4%

  15. #15 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!

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    86% matchMixed58% of 94 reviews2021
    Dev: Little Stories
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    2D casual strategy

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    85% matchMixed58% of 4,985 reviews2015
    Dev: KIXEYE
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 90.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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    81% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,122 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    Embark on an interstellar journey with Galaxy Idle Clicker! Conquer galaxies, upgrade your spaceship, and face off against a myriad of enemy ships. With engaging minigames, powerful upgrades, GIC delivers an unparalleled idle space adventure. Join the cosmic conquest today and dominate the universe!

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    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    Windows · Linux
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    76% matchMostly Positive79% of 204 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
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    71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,269 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac
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    74% matchVery Positive84% of 242 reviews
    Dev: StarChart-Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    74% matchMixed63% of 84 reviews2017
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    Windows

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    75% matchMixed40% of 177 reviews2014
    Dev: Corncrow Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,726 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows
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    70% matchVery Positive84% of 406 reviews2021
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    Windows
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    73% matchMixed56% of 409 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    71% matchMixed48% of 58 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac

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    Windows

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    70% matchMixed65% of 231 reviews2023
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    67% matchVery Positive95% of 12,431 reviews2022
    Dev: Walternate Realities
    Windows
    Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

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    68% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,914 reviews2023
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    72% matchMixed58% of 194 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    71% matchVery Positive82% of 239 reviews2010
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    67% matchVery Positive92% of 6,938 reviews2015
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    68% matchVery Positive84% of 818 reviews2019
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    Windows
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    67% matchVery Positive81% of 9,559 reviews2012
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    68% matchVery Positive88% of 626 reviews2015
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    Windows
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    70% matchMixed62% of 124 reviews2016
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    Windows
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    63% matchVery Positive91% of 99 reviews2026
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    Windows

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