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 17.8%, Science 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title features procedural generation and resource management on a planetary scale, capturing the expansionist feel of the seed game.

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%, Sandbox 15.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Relaxing 11%

Why You'll Like It: Like Slipways, this game focuses on relaxing, tile-based puzzle strategy where you build a world through careful placement and planning.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Economy 25.1%, Resource Management 19.4%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Management 14.5%, Space 12%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the economic and resource-management side of space strategy in fast-paced, bite-sized sessions.

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 18.6%, Economy 15.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed logistics and city-building game that focuses on managing complex supply chains and transportation networks.

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 26.5%, Puzzle 23.9%, Management 21.8%, Relaxing 12.6%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of optimizing a growing network of connections, mirroring the logistical puzzle of Slipways.

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

Why similar: Relaxing 25.5%, Building 21.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Puzzle 15.2%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

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

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 47.6%, Science 21.8%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Space 5.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the logistical and optimization puzzles of Slipways, this game offers deep, complex automation challenges.

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 32.7%, Turn-Based 25.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Sci-fi 9%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly tactical, turn-based experience that feels like a puzzle, perfect for those who like the 'think before you act' nature of Slipways.

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 16%, Economy 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex, high-stakes geopolitical simulation that rewards long-term planning and strategic resource allocation.

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: Strategy 22.3%, Management 22.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Relaxing 13.9%, Building 13%

Why You'll Like It: A direct evolution of network-building puzzles that challenges your ability to adapt to changing logistical demands.

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 23.6% ★, Turn-Based 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Space 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that captures the classic feel of space exploration and empire building.

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 26.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Space 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 4X experience that offers deep empire management for players who want a more traditional take on the space strategy genre.

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 22.4%, Sandbox 21.6%, Management 12.7%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the satisfying process of building and optimizing complex production lines.

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 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While much larger in scope, it provides the definitive space grand strategy experience for those who want to see where the genre's mechanics originate.

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

Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Space 13.9%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Procedural Generation 11%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep simulation of a space empire, perfect for players who want to dive into the minutiae of galactic management.

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 45.3%, Building 28.7%, Strategy 21.1%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A village-builder that uses cards to manage resources, offering a compact and addictive strategy experience.

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 62.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 13.4%, Indie 7.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly rewarding puzzle game about building machines to solve logistical problems, sharing the 'engineering' satisfaction of Slipways.

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 23.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the design and logistical efficiency of starships, appealing to those who enjoy the ship-building aspects of space strategy.

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 37.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based 13.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Space 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a vibrant art style and accessible turn-based mechanics that make 4X strategy approachable.

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 35.5% ★, Turn-Based 26.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Space 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential classic 4X game that established many of the mechanics found in modern space strategy titles.

🚀 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 15.8%, Space 12.2%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space station construction and management game that emphasizes efficient design and resource flow.

Take the reins of a feudal dynasty in a divided galaxy following the destruction of earth. Star Dynasties is a turn based, procedurally generated narrative of human drama and personal politics, mixed with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy.

Why similar: Turn-Based 18.2%, Science 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the political and social management of a space empire, offering a unique twist on the grand strategy genre.

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 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Space 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that focuses on the role of the emperor, emphasizing high-level decision-making over micro-management.

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Economy 15.9%, Sandbox 15%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A rich management RPG that lets you captain a ship and navigate the political and economic landscape of a sci-fi universe.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Building 58.6%, Strategy 36.2%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, minimalist strategy game that focuses on base management and expansion in a beautiful, side-scrolling format.

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 23.5% ★, Turn-Based 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Space 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space 4X game that focuses on exploration and research, providing a solid foundation for empire building.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.3%, Strategy 26.3%, Space 15.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based city builder that requires careful resource management to survive on an alien world.

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 38.2%, Strategy 30.9%, Turn-Based 26.1%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, turn-based strategy game that is designed to be played in short bursts, much like Slipways.

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 24.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Space 12%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.7%

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 27.9% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Space 14.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Economy 12.8%

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

A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.

Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Economy 12.9%, Space 11%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Management 8.6%

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 29.9% ★, Turn-Based 17.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Space 11.3%

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 49.8% ★, Space 17.4%, Strategy 14%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Sandbox 4.4%

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%, Space 21%, Strategy 16.8%, Sci-fi 14.3%, 4X 13.4% ★

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 17.4% ★, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Management 9.6%

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 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%

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 18.9%, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10%

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 25.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Economy 14.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Management 8.3%

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 29.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Economy 18%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 11.6%

Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.

Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Resource Management 12%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Space 10.4%

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 19.6%, Economy 16.1%, Management 13.7%, Trading 12%, Science 10.6%

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 15.2%, Economy 12.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Building 10.4%

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 19.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Space 10.6%

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 46.6% ★, Strategy 21.2%, Space 19%, Sci-fi 10%, Indie 2.8%

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 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Management 9.4%, Space 9.2%

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 23.6% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 11.6%, Building 11%

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 19.1% ★, Turn-Based 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

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 16.7%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 13.8%, Futuristic 11.2%

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% ★, Turn-Based 23.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Space 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%

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 16.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Futuristic 12.7%

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 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based 15.7%, Economy 10.9%, 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 21.5%, Sandbox 19.6%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Management 13.5%, Building 11.6%

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 44.3% ★, Turn-Based 21.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%, Space 6.8%

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 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Building 9.2%

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 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Sandbox 11%, Procedural Generation 9.4%

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 26.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Economy 12.4%, Space 12.1%, Management 10.5%

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: Space 18.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 12.5%

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 19.9%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Relaxing 11.1%

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 31%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Strategy 19.6%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 5.8%