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Games Like Solar Flux

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Space, Strategy, Singleplayer.

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Travel across the universe and save dying suns from extinction in this unique and challenging puzzle strategy game. You are the last hope to bring salvation to a perishing universe as you collect and deliver fragments of plasma using your omni-directional ship.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 74% — of 309 reviews
Released: 2013-10-24
Developer: Firebrand Games
Publisher: Pixel Games UK
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 38.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 94%

Overview

Solar Flux is a unique blend of physics-based navigation and puzzle-solving set against the backdrop of a dying universe. These recommendations prioritize games that emphasize precision movement, gravity-based mechanics, and strategic space navigation over traditional 4X or RTS gameplay.

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    Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of rhythmic, physics-based navigation through space as you manipulate light waves.

  2. #2 Gravity Ghost
    96% matchVery Positive97% of 304 reviews2015
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    Why similar: Indie 70.4%, Puzzle 29.6%

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  3. #3 Nova-111
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 179 reviews2015
    Dev: Funktronic Labs
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    Why similar: Space 39.6%, Strategy 31.8%, Puzzle 28.5%

    Why You'll Like It: This game blends turn-based strategy with real-time action and puzzle elements in a sci-fi setting.

  4. #4 Osmos
    95% matchVery Positive86% of 1,426 reviews2009
    Dev: Hemisphere Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%

    Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

    Why similar: Puzzle 43.3%, Indie 31.1%, Space 17.4%, Strategy 8.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It shares the meditative, physics-driven space movement and environmental puzzle-solving found in Solar Flux.

  5. #5 Space Run
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,123 reviews2014
    Dev: Passtech GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

    Why similar: Space 50.2%, Strategy 39.1%, Indie 10.7%

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  6. #6 Solar Settlers
    94% matchVery Positive96% of 306 reviews2017
    Dev: BrainGoodGames
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.

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  7. #7 Lunar Flight
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 675 reviews2012
    Dev: Shovsoft
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    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    Why similar: Space 77.5%, Indie 22.5%

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  8. #8 Planets Under Attack
    92% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,241 reviews2012
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  9. #9 Starlaxis Supernova Edition
    91% matchMixed60% of 62 reviews2015
    Dev: Spiderwork Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    91% matchMostly Positive79% of 414 reviews2014
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    90% matchMixed67% of 212 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    89% matchMixed70% of 204 reviews2016
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 45.5%, Space 44.1%, Indie 10.4%

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  13. #13 Kerbal Space Program
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 133,317 reviews2015
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    89% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 reviews2015
    Dev: 4Bit Games
    Windows

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    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,401 reviews2010
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
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    77% matchMixed59% of 71 reviews2015
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    68% matchMostly Positive76% of 209 reviews2023
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    71% matchMostly Positive70% of 111 reviews2021
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    76% matchMixed47% of 114 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

    Why similar: Puzzle 75.8%, Indie 24.2%

  56. #56 Lords of the Black Sun
    74% matchMostly Negative20% of 395 reviews2014
    Dev: Arkavi StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.

    Why similar: Strategy 47.4%, Space 39.9%, Indie 12.7%

  57. #57 Gravity Badgers
    72% matchMixed61% of 450 reviews2013
    Dev: Wales Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.

    Why similar: Space 52.2%, Puzzle 30.2%, Indie 17.6%

  58. #58 Prominence
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 155 reviews2015
    Dev: Digital Media Workshop
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?

    Why similar: Space 44.4%, Indie 28.3%, Puzzle 27.3%

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