- #1 The Battle of Sol
97% matchMixed57% of 102 reviews2015
Dev: Bit Planet Games, LLC
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 24%
The Battle of Sol is an intense space action game where you participate in epic capital ship battles, thrilling dogfights, space station raids, and much more as you liberate humanity's solar system from enemies determined to bring us to its fiery end.
Why similar: Action 65.8%, Indie 34.2%
- #2 Deep Space Battle Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 411 reviews2021
Dev: yeswecamp
Windows · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle. Customize your ship, control its movement, weapons, and energy distribution or go to one of the hangars to join the battle in a smaller fighter!
Why similar: Multiplayer 47.7%, Strategy 27%, Action 16.2%, Indie 9%
- #3 Worbital
94% matchVery Positive89% of 479 reviews2019
Dev: Team Jolly Roger
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
Why similar: Multiplayer 49.8%, Strategy 25.8%, Action 14.9%, Indie 9.5%
- #4 Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
94% matchVery Positive83% of 867 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: Real-Time 33.8% ★, Multiplayer 23%, Strategy 20.2%, Team-Based 16.8%, Indie 6.2%
- #5 Space Reign
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 453 reviews2026
Dev: Propulsive Games
Windows
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.
Why similar: Strategy 36.2%, Action 24.4%, 3D 24.3%, Indie 15%
- #6 Iron Armada
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Bluedrake42Pub: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 812.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Iron Armada is a multiplayer, space-faring combat game where players must team up to build a fleet of ships in order to survive the perils of space and defeat the opposing player faction. Build ships of all shapes and sizes, mine resources, and scavenge parts with friends to conquer the universe!
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Action 31.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Indie 2.9%
- #7 Natural Selection 2
92% matchVery Positive85% of 13,351 reviews2012
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Why similar: Team-Based 49.3%, Multiplayer 26.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Action 6.4%, Indie 2.7%
- #8 Firmament Wars
93% matchMixed65% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Neverworks Games
Windows
Firmament Wars is a multiplayer strategy game with fast-paced real-time warfare. Build a wall, fire cannons, and launch missiles on your way to victory! Select from 7 government types and compete with up to 8 players on a variety of maps! Go forth and conquer!
Why similar: Real-Time 48.2% ★, Team-Based 20.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #9 Executive Assault 2
88% matchVery Positive83% of 1,751 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Why similar: Real-Time 68.5% ★, Multiplayer 14.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Action 5.2%
- #10 Flotilla
90% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2010
Dev: Blendo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, 3D 31%, Action 18.9%
- #11 Void Destroyer
89% matchMixed59% of 352 reviews2015
Dev: Iteration 11
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Combining the best of space combat and real time strategy. Victory can be tactical, a dogfight or capital ship slugging match - depending on how you decide to achieve it. Space combat on a RTS scale with space sim savagery.
Why similar: Strategy 59.1%, Action 28.5%, Indie 12.5%
- #12 Infinity: Battlescape
87% matchVery Positive80% of 761 reviews2019
Dev: I-Novae Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Infinity: Battlescape is a multiplayer space combat sim supporting hundreds of players on a single server. Join one of the corporate factions and fight for domination of a seamless, true-to-scale procedural star system. Participate in massive space and planetary battles involving hundreds of ships.
Why similar: Action 62.7%, Indie 37.3%
- #13 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
86% matchVery Positive84% of 14,598 reviews2015
Dev: Planetary Annihilation Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Why similar: Multiplayer 52.5%, Strategy 41.2%, Indie 6.3%
- #14 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!
Why similar: Real-Time 68.1% ★, Multiplayer 17.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 5.1%
- #15 Galaxy Control: 3D Strategy
84% matchMixed59% of 541 reviews2016
Dev: FX Games Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build your base and battle with other players to control the galaxy! Galaxy Control is an ultimate space combat strategy game with fast-paced combats! Gather minerals and extract uranium, defend your base with laser towers, missile turrets, cannons, walls and mines.
Why similar: Strategy 85.7%, Action 14.3%
- #16 Disputed Space
84% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2017
Dev: ShilohGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience epic space battles while piloting a small, fast fighter ship as part of a fleet that lashes out against enemy factions across stunning procedurally generated star systems in Disputed Space.
Why similar: Action 62.7%, Indie 37.3%
- #17 Freefall Tournament
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 113 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows · Mac
A space marines team-based TPS (third person shooter).
Why similar: Team-Based 53.1%, Multiplayer 24%, Strategy 12.6%, Action 10.4%
- #18 Outlive 25
77% matchVery Positive95% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Continuum EntertainmentPub: CriticalLeap
Windows
Build your base, prepare your troops, and face your most epic battle yet in this old-school real-time strategy game. Choose between two factions, test your skills in three epic campaigns and engage in online battles with up to 16 players simultaneously.
Why similar: Multiplayer 65.2%, Strategy 34.8%
- #19 Nuclear Dawn
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,489 reviews2011
Dev: GameConnectPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Why similar: Real-Time 41.3% ★, Team-Based 23.1%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Action 5%
- #20 Starblast
81% matchVery Positive81% of 1,103 reviews2017
Dev: Neuronality
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.
Why similar: Action 62.9%, Indie 37.1%
- #21 BattleGroupVR
78% matchVery Positive92% of 946 reviews2023
Dev: SpaceOwl Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.
Why similar: Real-Time 59.5% ★, Multiplayer 22.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Action 6%
- #22 Allspace
82% matchMixed63% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: ShilohGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
100 pilots battle with lasers, plasma, and missiles in Allspace.
Why similar: Action 46.4%, Multiplayer 44.3%, Indie 9.2%
- #23 [MARS] Total Warfare
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 117 reviews2018
Dev: TCR
Windows
[MARS] Total Warfare uses authentic Martian landscapes to create an intense RTS experience best described as a hybrid between team multiplayer and massively multiplayer online. Fight over natural resources vs human or AI opponents and conquer a crater ridden world, with pink sky and blue seas!
Why similar: Strategy 65.2%, Action 34.8%
- #24 Codename: Rogue Fleet
81% matchMixed59% of 318 reviews2016
Dev: SionoiS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Codename: Rogue Fleet is a multiplayer team-based game about spaceships combat.
Why similar: Multiplayer 60.9%, Action 25%, Indie 14%
- #25 Beyond the Void
79% matchMixed57% of 136 reviews2018
Dev: B2Expand
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Beyond the Void is a new hybrid strategy game in space, with RTS and MOBA mechanics. It's F2P. Experience the thrill of being a Captain and lead epic space wars in 1 vs1. Design your own strategy and fleet to become the one who'll dominate the galaxy!
Why similar: Strategy 49%, Multiplayer 37.7%, Indie 13.3%
- #26 GoD Factory: Wingmen
79% matchMixed68% of 298 reviews2014
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Nine Dots Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
GoD Factory: Wingmen is a multiplayer space combat game played through fast-paced and intensely tactical 4 vs 4 player matches. Customize gunships and start frantic battles with your friends to survive the relentless fire of enemy players.
Why similar: Multiplayer 47%, Strategy 26.7%, Action 18.1%, Indie 8.2%
- #27 Battlevoid: Sector Siege
78% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2017
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
Why similar: Real-Time 58.8% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Action 11.2%, Indie 7.7%
- #28 Space Aces
71% matchMixed64% of 474 reviews2026
Dev: Ace Game Industries
Windows · Mac
Space Aces is an indie space shooter that plunges you into an online universe full of action, strategy, and fierce competition. Step into the cockpit and evolve from a rookie pilot into the most feared Ace in the galaxy!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #29 Planets Under Attack
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,248 reviews2012
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.9 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 91.9%, Multiplayer 4.6%, Indie 3.5%
- #30 LOCKDOWN Protocol
68% matchVery Positive86% of 19,555 reviews2025
Dev: Mirage Creative Lab
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A first person social deduction game, combining real time action and communication, playable up to 16 players. While most players will cooperate to complete objectives to ensure victory, a small portion of dissidents will try their best to stop them at all cost, without being caught.
Why similar: Team-Based 41.4%, Multiplayer 34.3%, Strategy 9.5%, 3D 7.8%, Action 6.9%
- #31 Space Battlecruiser
76% matchVery Positive81% of 75 reviews2018
Dev: Less Describable Games
Windows
Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship. Battle against squadrons of fighters, fleets of warships, heavily defended space stations, and powerful command ships. Learn to master weaponry and special abilities like the Energy Shield.
Why similar: Action 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #32 Hyper Space
72% matchVery Positive100% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Fennec Game Studio
Windows
Hyper Space is a “Dodge ’Em Up” Arcade game. Collect stars while avoiding space hazards to reach the highest score, unlock new skins, compete with your friends and travel through space to the most distant galaxies.
Why similar: Action 61.5%, Indie 38.5%
- #33 Etherium
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 953 reviews2015
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.
Why similar: Strategy 57.5%, Multiplayer 38.3%, Action 4.2%
- #34 Aetherspace
75% matchMixed63% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: Munchkin's Lair
Windows
Aetherspace is a game about turn-based battles between outlaw gangs. In space. With starships.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #35 SQUIDS FROM SPACE
74% matchVery Positive86% of 238 reviews2017
Dev: Fun Bits
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
SQUIDS FROM SPACE is an 8v8, team-based PvP top-down shooter where humans and the sinister Squid aliens wage war for the future of the Earth!
Why similar: Team-Based 48.9%, Multiplayer 26.1%, Action 17.5%, Indie 7.5%
- #36 The Infinite Black
75% matchMixed66% of 213 reviews2016
Dev: SpellbookPub: www.Spellbook.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 82.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fleet up with thousands of players in The Infinite Black -- The wildly popular online space combat and adventure game! Command massive spaceships, form powerful corporations, and battle it out in never-ending intergalactic warfare!
Why similar: Strategy 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #37 Interstellar Rift
72% matchMixed68% of 1,663 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: 3D 58.6%, Action 41.4%
- #38 Cannon Brawl
73% matchVery Positive91% of 798 reviews2014
Dev: Theresa DuringerPub: Temple Gates Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!
Why similar: Multiplayer 51.6%, Strategy 24.9%, Action 11.8%, Indie 11.7%
- #39 Antisphere
74% matchMixed64% of 106 reviews2017
Dev: Soap InteractivePub: Starbreeze Publishing AB
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Antisphere is a PvP competitive twin-stick shooter where you compete against other players.
Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Action 30.2%, Indie 18.4%
- #40 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
67% matchVery Positive94% of 12,715 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Multiplayer 53.3%, Strategy 33.9%, Indie 12.8%
- #41 Mr Blaster
73% matchMixed65% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: ENTERiPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Mr Blaster is a higher-level space adventure with an aim to conquest the universe. It’s a way to test strategic playing skills and the precision of shooting. A galactic war over the conquest of a planet and seizing the opponent’s flag
Why similar: Action 65.3%, Indie 34.7%
- #42 Annihilate The Spance
66% matchVery Positive91% of 354 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships. The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses.
Why similar: Strategy 56.6%, 3D 22%, Indie 21.4%
- #43 Mechabellum
64% matchVery Positive84% of 19,004 reviews2024
Dev: Game RiverPub: Dreamhaven
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 54.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Why similar: Multiplayer 44.2%, Strategy 30.5%, 3D 13.6%, Action 11.7%
- #44 Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
70% matchVery Positive85% of 932 reviews2017
Dev: Team Jolly RogerPub: Black Smoke Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Strategy 52.5%, Multiplayer 34.1%, Indie 13.4%
- #45 Aerial Guardian
73% matchMostly Negative28% of 87 reviews2018
Dev: Maddnuss GamesPub: Matthew Nuss
Windows
Aerial Guardian is a large scale multiplayer battle first person shooter. Choose from several classes and play as a soldier to embroil yourself in a space fleet battle. Choose from a variety of over 20 weapons and several vehicles including mechs.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Action 28.5%, Indie 18.8%
- #46 XOL: Space Mech Wars
65% matchVery Positive93% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Michigames
Windows
Mech FPS game in all directions of space; follow the story and contribute to the fight for your homeland! Survive the space wars as an up-and-coming soldier with the toughest warriors around!
Why similar: Action 51.5%, 3D 35.1%, Indie 13.4%
- #47 Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 814 reviews2011
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Why similar: Real-Time 80.4% ★, Strategy 11.2%, 3D 8.4%
- #48 Arena
70% matchMixed70% of 56 reviews2019
Dev: FX GAMES
Windows · Mac
Enter the Arena! From the creators of Galaxy Control comes a real-time multiplayer game starring the space stations assault and defence, your favorite Galay Control characters and much, much more.
Why similar: Strategy 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #49 Aeon Command
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 418 reviews2014
Dev: Bat Country Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Aeon Command is a tug of war strategy game, where you play as one of three unique factions to help gain dominance over the Aeon Nebula! Take control of your mother ship to gather resources, produce ships and fight off the enemy mother ship. Grow stronger as you progress through the 24 mission campaign and unlock new upgrades.
Why similar: Strategy 79.3%, Indie 20.7%
- #50 Procelio
62% matchVery Positive92% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Ironshell Studios
Windows
Procelio is a multiplayer vehicle builder/shooter set amidst a proxy war on the red planet. Build and refine your custom machines from orbit, then pilot them in a distant war against CPU and enemy players.
Why similar: Multiplayer 61%, Action 20.7%, 3D 18.4%
- #51 Dominari Empires
67% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny RTS
Windows
Got 5-10 minutes? Annihilate your enemy in a lightning fast micro 4X/RTS game set in deep space. Gameplay relies heavily on strategy, forward-thinking, and twitch-like reflexes.
Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #52 Ceres
69% matchMixed52% of 157 reviews2015
Dev: Jötunn GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Action 31.2%, Indie 15.7%