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: Science 17.2% ★, Turn-Based 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural, turn-based colony builder that emphasizes efficient resource management and strategic expansion on a planetary scale.

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 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based city-builder that shares the same puzzle-like approach to resource management and space colonization as Slipways.

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 20%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Relaxing 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxing tile-placement game captures the same satisfying, puzzle-focused strategy feel found in Slipways.

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 28.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Economy 18.6%, Resource Management 14%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined 4X game that distills the grand strategy experience into a fast-paced, turn-based format.

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 18.2% ★, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed city builder that focuses heavily on logistics and transportation networks for resource management.

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 15%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An automation and logistics game that emphasizes puzzle-like factory design and efficient resource routing.

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 26.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines 4X strategy with deck-building mechanics to create a fast, tactical experience perfect for short play sessions.

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 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Economy 13.3%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, turn-based 4X game that focuses on quick decision-making and efficient expansion.

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Management 22.4%, Strategy 22.3%, Relaxing 14%, Puzzle 13.7%, Building 13%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same network-building and optimization challenges as Slipways, but with a focus on road traffic management.

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 23.3%, Management 22.2%, Relaxing 12.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist logistics puzzle game that challenges you to build efficient networks under pressure, much like the trade routes in Slipways.

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

Why similar: Relaxing 25.6%, Building 21.2%, Strategy 15.9%, Puzzle 14.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%

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

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 33.4%, Turn-Based 24.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that functions like a high-stakes puzzle, requiring careful planning and resource usage.

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 19.2%, Turn-Based 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Space 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that features a vibrant art style and streamlined mechanics for space exploration.

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 25.4% ★, Turn-Based 22.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Space 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that focuses on the high-level management of an empire rather than tedious micromanagement.

The critically acclaimed roll and write game that is all about connections. Plan your routes, connect the exits around your board, expand your transportation system, and reach networking nirvana! Play solo to beat your own best scores, or challenge players from all over the world!

Why similar: Puzzle 27.6%, Relaxing 25.5%, Management 24%, Building 14.2%, Family Friendly 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A network-building puzzle game that emphasizes creating efficient connections within a limited space.

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Why similar: Puzzle 47.2%, Science 22% ★, Sci-fi 14.7%, Space 5.6%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A complex automation and puzzle game that requires the same logical planning and optimization as building a trade empire.

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: Sci-fi 30.1%, Building 25.1%, Space 22.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to design and manage space vessels with a focus on modular construction and tactical efficiency.

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 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space 9%

Why You'll Like It: A space 4X game that emphasizes exploration and research in a traditional turn-based strategy framework.

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 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Sci-fi 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based 4X game that offers a blend of exploration and diplomacy with a focus on turn-based progression.

Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.

Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Puzzle 38.9%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: A city-building puzzle game where you must manage space and resources to build the most effective urban layout.

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Puzzle 61.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 13.4%, Indie 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: An automation puzzle game that rewards efficient design and clever resource manipulation.

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 30.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.4%, Strategy 20.2%, Space 16.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on artillery combat between planets, emphasizing tactical positioning.

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 45.4%, Building 28.7%, Strategy 21.1%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Resource Management 23.2%, Sandbox 21.3%, Economy 19.3%, Management 16.5%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and supply chain management in a way that mirrors the trade-focused gameplay of Slipways.

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 35.8% ★, Turn-Based 26.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Space 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 4X title that remains a benchmark for space-based empire management and turn-based strategy.

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%, Sandbox 14.1%, Space 13.9%, Economy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox space strategy game that allows for emergent gameplay and empire building in a procedural universe.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Resource Management 23%, Sandbox 22.7%, Building 17.1%, Management 15.4%, Relaxing 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resource management and automation, requiring you to program units to build and expand your colony.

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 38.7%, Strategy 31.1%, Turn-Based 25.3%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, casual strategy game that compresses the experience of empire development into a very short timeframe.

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 25.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Economy 14.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that focuses on diplomacy and expansion within a challenging sci-fi setting.

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 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Space 8.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%

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 30.3% ★, Turn-Based 23%, Strategy 14.6%, Space 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that features unique planetary colonization mechanics and ship design.

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 30.1% ★, Turn-Based 17.4%, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Space 11.1%

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

Why similar: 4X 44.2% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.2%

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 17.1% ★, Economy 15%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 12%, Management 9.8%

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 24% ★, Turn-Based 16.8%, Economy 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Sandbox 11.2%

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 15.5%, Sandbox 13%, Space 10.5%, Management 9.4%

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 49.9% ★, Space 17%, Strategy 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Sandbox 4.5%

🚀 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 12.5%, Space 11.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 18.5% ★, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.8%

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 27.6%, Space 20.5%, Strategy 17%, Sci-fi 14.2%, 4X 13.5% ★

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 30.9% ★, Space 15.1%, Sandbox 15%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%

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 23.3% ★, Resource Management 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 11.8%, Building 10.8%

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 25.3% ★, Science 21% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Management 9.7%, Space 8.9%

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 46.8% ★, Strategy 21.5%, Space 18.5%, 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 18.9%, Economy 16.8%, Management 13.9%, Trading 12.3% ★, Science 10.4% ★

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 14.9% ★, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Building 10.2%

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 19%, Turn-Based 15.1%, Economy 11.5%, Strategy 8.2%

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 22.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Management 13.7%, Building 11.4%

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

Why similar: Resource Management 20.8%, Puzzle 17.2%, Relaxing 16.8%, Space 16%, Strategy 15%

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 44.6% ★, Turn-Based 21.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Space 6.6%

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 22.6% ★, Turn-Based 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.6%

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 19.7%, Space 18%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 15.3%, Management 12.7%

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 13.1%, Space 11.7%, Management 10.8%

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 11.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Space 8.2%

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 26.3% ★, Turn-Based 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%

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 13.9%, Management 9.3%, Sci-fi 9.2%

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%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

Why similar: Economy 19.5%, 4X 17.3% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Trading 11.1% ★, Space 10.1%

StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.

Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Space 14.2%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Turn-Based 10.9%