Games Like Slipways

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 17.4%, Science 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines procedural planet generation with strategic resource management and colony expansion in a sci-fi setting.

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Economy 18.5%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the 4X experience into a fast-paced, turn-based format that respects your time just like Slipways.

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: Turn-Based 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based city-builder features space-themed resource management and puzzle-like placement mechanics.

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Science 18.3%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes logistics and transportation networks within a sci-fi city-building framework.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Relaxing 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, tile-placement puzzle game that captures the satisfying feeling of building a growing, interconnected landscape.

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Strategy 26.7%, Puzzle 23.5%, Management 22.1%, Relaxing 12.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the same core loop of network building and efficiency optimization found in Slipways.

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: 4X 30% ★, Turn-Based 17.5%, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Space 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sci-fi 4X game that offers the strategic depth and empire-building feel found in the background of Slipways.

Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Turn-Based 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 4X game that uses deck-building mechanics to keep the strategic decision-making quick and punchy.

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Turn-Based 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Economy 13.2%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined, turn-based strategy game that removes the bloat of traditional 4X titles for a more focused experience.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 33.2%, Turn-Based 24.9%, Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Puzzle 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in turn-based strategy that functions like a puzzle, requiring careful planning and efficiency to succeed.

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: 4X 30.8% ★, Space 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: While much larger in scope, it provides the deep sci-fi grand strategy foundation that Slipways playfully subverts.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 27.3%, Space 20.7%, Strategy 17%, Sci-fi 14.3%, 4X 13.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Designed for shorter play sessions, this game focuses on tactical fleet management in a space-faring setting.

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: 4X 37.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based 13.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Space 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant 4X strategy game that keeps the focus on turn-based combat and empire expansion.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Resource Management 23.1%, Sandbox 21.5%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game that focuses purely on the puzzle of logistics and resource processing.

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: 4X 49.7% ★, Space 17.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Sandbox 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a complex, real-time simulation of a space empire for those who want to see the 'grand' side of the genre.

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: 4X 23.7% ★, Turn-Based 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Space 8.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional 4X game that captures the spirit of classic space exploration and resource management.

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Why similar: Management 21.1%, Building 20.6%, Relaxing 17%, Puzzle 15.4%, Strategy 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: This logistics puzzle game tasks you with building efficient rail networks to connect industries, mirroring the trade-route logic of Slipways.

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: 4X 22.6% ★, Turn-Based 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Procedural Generation 8%, Sci-fi 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi 4X game that allows for exploration and management of multiple planets simultaneously.

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: 4X 26.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Sandbox 13%, Space 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust 4X experience for players who enjoy the sci-fi empire-building aspect of the seed game.

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Management 45.5%, Building 28.5%, Strategy 21.2%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A village-builder that uses card-based mechanics to manage resources and expansion in a compact, puzzle-like way.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: Relaxing 25.5%, Building 21.2%, Strategy 15.9%, Puzzle 14.9%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that rewards careful placement and spatial planning.

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: 4X 25.3% ★, Turn-Based 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Space 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-level management of a space empire, emphasizing the grand strategy elements of the genre.

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Science 18.6%, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that emphasizes the automation of production lines to satisfy consumer demand.

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: 4X 22.5% ★, Turn-Based 15.8%, Economy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Sandbox 10.4%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Science 15.5%, Economy 12.4%, Space 11.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that focuses on the logistics of building and maintaining orbital infrastructure.

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: 4X 23.6% ★, Turn-Based 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Space 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based grand strategy game that focuses on exploration and technological research.

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

Why similar: Science 15%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and resource management aspects of building a planetary-scale industrial base.

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Economy 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that emphasizes diplomacy and empire management in a sci-fi setting.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: 4X 17.2% ★, Economy 14.9%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 12%, Management 9.8%

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

Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Space 13.7%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 38.6%, Strategy 31.1%, Turn-Based 25.5%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist turn-based strategy game that condenses the arc of an empire into a very short, focused experience.

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Science 24.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Space 11.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 10%

Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.

Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Strategy 18.9%, Space 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Economy 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox strategy game that allows for large-scale space empire management and exploration.

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 11.8%, Building 10.9%

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: 4X 35.7% ★, Turn-Based 26.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Space 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.

Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Science 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Management 9.6%, Space 9%

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: 4X 46.7% ★, Strategy 21.5%, Space 18.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Indie 2.8%

Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Why similar: Space 19.1%, Economy 16.6%, Management 13.9%, Trading 12.2%, Science 10.4%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Management 14%, Futuristic 11%

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Management 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Futuristic 12.6%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Resource Management 22.3%, Sandbox 19.4%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Management 13.7%, Building 11.5%

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Turn-Based 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Sandbox 11%, Procedural Generation 9.5%

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based 15.3%, Economy 11.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Predestination is a turn-based sci-fi 4X game set in the distant past of our own galaxy. Ships from countless races are flung back in time by a powerful hostile race known as the Revenants, and must now work to rebuild their empires and somehow stop the Revenants in the past.

Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Turn-Based 23.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Space 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%

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: 4X 44.4% ★, Turn-Based 21.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Space 6.7%

In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Strategy 20.1%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Satellite Command is a realistic, relaxing astrophysics simulator. Complete contracts with real data, launch and take control of ever more powerful Satellites, research advanced technology and build your Space Agency!

Why similar: Science 26.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Economy 12.9%, Space 11.9%, Management 10.7%

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: 4X 38.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%

Islantiles is a cozy but compulsive roguelike deckbuilder. Unlock powerful technology cards, shape your deck to craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory in this ultra-satisfying roguelike!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Relaxing 11.1%

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: 4X 26.2% ★, Turn-Based 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Procedural Generation 19.4%, Relaxing 16.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 13.5%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Resource Management 19.2%, Space 18.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 15.4%, Management 12.8%

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: 4X 21.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Space 8.3%

Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.

Why similar: Resource Management 20.3%, Puzzle 17.4%, Relaxing 16.8%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 15%

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Management 9.3%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Resource Management 18.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 15%, Space 14.7%, Management 13.3%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: Economy 23.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Management 13.2%, Building 12%, Relaxing 11.9%

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: 4X 22.7% ★, Economy 15%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 9.5%, Management 8.7%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: Economy 20.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.3%, Space 10.3%