60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sci-fi, Space, Strategy, Singleplayer.
Trade, fight, and explore a procedurally generated galaxy in this deep space trading game inspired by 80's sci-fi computer screens and early text based space games. Command fleets, negotiate with alien factions, colonize planets, and forge your legacy across five unique career paths.
Capital Command
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Starscrip
The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.4%, 4X 19.3% ★, Trading 14.9%, Economy 9.8%, Space 9.4%
The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.
Why similar: Space Sim 33%, Trading 15.4%, Space 12.5%, Open World 10%, Sci-fi 7.2%
Turn-based spaceship battles in a tense fight for survival
Why similar: Space Sim 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Roguelike 9.2%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Space Sim 22.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.8%
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
Why similar: 4X 36.6% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Space 9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Why similar: Space Sim 23%, Space 17.5%, Trading 17%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 9.7%
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Space 19.6%, Trading 14.8%, Economy 11%, Open World 8%
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 23.3% ★, Space Sim 19.5%, Trading 13.9%, Space 9.3%, Economy 9.3%
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Why similar: Space 22.2%, Space Sim 22.1%, Trading 14.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Economy 7.6%
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 46.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Space 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%
A galaxy with its own economy, its own wars, and no reason to wait for you. Trade, mine, fight, and salvage a living - alone on the rim, or at the head of an empire the great powers can't ignore. A single-player space sandbox that never stops moving.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Space Sim 23.3%, Space 11.3%, Open World 8.8%, Economy 8.8%
Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.7%, Space 16.9%, Trading 11.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 7.1%
As Captain, you must lead your spaceship to defeat the rebel forces scattered across the galaxy. Scour the sectors for enemies and remain alert! Determine the right coordinates and torpedo your foe down.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%, Simulation 8.8%
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 26.3% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, Space 12.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 11%
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 42.4% ★, Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Space 9.4%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Space 9.2%, Economy 8%
See the galaxy through the eyes of a trader. Hundreds of years after humanity took to the stars, you're free to buy, fight, explore, and build your way to power. Shape economies, form alliances, and influence the systems that control trade, tech, and politics.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.1%, Trading 19.7%, Space 12%, Economy 11.9%, 4X 10% ★
Found colonies, create spaceships from modules, colonize planets, form alliances and destroy your opponents in a turn-based game.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Trading 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Turn-Based Combat 8.6%
A lo fi space salvage game. Strip dead warships for parts, fuel and gear. Fit your ship, manage your heat, and fight the machines that still hunt out here. Two hundred star systems, thousands of rolled drops, stations to build up. Made by one person. Trust nothing. Stay adrift.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.9%, 4X 24.4% ★, Space 10%, Open World 6.8%, Economy 6%
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign. Balance tactics, crew, and limited resources in a dynamic forever-war. Retro pixel art meets deep strategy fifteen minutes into the future of 1989.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Space 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.1%
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Trading 10.8%, Space 9.4%, Economy 8.4%
X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.4%, Space 20.2%, Economy 11.9%, Trading 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Space Sim 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 6.6%
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Space Sim 23.8%, Space 11.6%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 6.7%
Fly a rented corporate vessel in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Why similar: Space Sim 39%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 11.9%, Space 7.5%, Trading 6.1%
Play a 4x game in 40 minutes... or less! We streamlined 4x strategy down to a game that captures the fun in a manageable play time. Lead your faction against escalating enemies and expand the reach of your empire. Multiple paths to victory allows for a variety of strategies. Build your empire.
Why similar: 4X 42.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Economy 13.7%, Roguelike 11.7%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Trading 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Economy 11.4%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
Lead your civilization to galactic glory in this bite-sized 4X strategy game. Build, colonize, trade, and, by tact or might, overcome all who oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, Space 13.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%
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 31.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Space 10.4%, Turn-Based Combat 8.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
What happens when a Viking meets a Cowboy? He fights him, of course! The World is not big enough for both of them. World of Asgabas is a turn-based strategy game opposing multiple factions fighting to dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Trading 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.4%, Trading 20.5%, Space 14.9%, Open World 10.7%, Sci-fi 7%
Empis is a turn-based strategy game that focuses on short and sweet multiplayer matches. Choose from individual factions each with their own unique units and upgrades, unlock technology, and build sprawling cities with buildings and fortifications.
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Roguelike 10.4%
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.5%, Trading 17%, Economy 14.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Economy 7.5%
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Space Sim 18.9%, Trading 12%, Space 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Why similar: Space 26.9%, Space Sim 18.4%, Trading 15.7%, Open World 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, Economy 13.7%, Space 12.8%, Exploration 8.1%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 51.1% ★, Space 14.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%
Roam the galaxy, destroy enemy ships, and encounter special events as you explore! Make smart decisions with your dice rolls in order to survive. Buy upgrades at Galactic Bazaars, unlock new ships, and manage your fate in the cold expanse of space. Your choices decide your destiny!
Why similar: Space Sim 22.6%, Space 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Roguelike 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%
Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.2%, Trading 20.1%, Economy 11.7%, Space 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.1%, Trading 17.9%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Space 10.1%, Economy 9.3%
Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Space 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%
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: Space Sim 20.8%, Trading 17.4%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.7%, Economy 9%
Trade, fight and explore. Build a fleet, level your captain and dive through wormholes for rare loot — a single-player 2D space RPG of free corsairs.
Why similar: Space Sim 33.3%, Trading 19.9%, Space 12.2%, Economy 9.2%, Open World 8.8%
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Space Sim 25.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Space 6.6%
Take command of a deep space trading outpost in this infinitely scaling, terminal-based economy simulator. Buy low, sell high, construct powerful station modules, manage trade fleets, and defend against deadly pirate raids. Can you build the wealthiest station in the galaxy?
Why similar: Space Sim 28.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Economy 10%
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: Space Sim 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Turn-Based Combat 9%, Roguelike 8.9%
The Mystic is a dark fantasy, turn-based strategy game. Become a follower of the first gods, gain their favour, overthrow the High King by innovative combat and magic systems and establish harmony. The game offers an exciting campaign full of twists, battles and difficult decisions and multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Space Sim 31.8%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Strategy 6.2%
A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and expand your campaign to push them back to their base.
Why similar: 4X 26.1% ★, Space Sim 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Space 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%
Starport Tycoon is a trade and management simulation set it space. Obtain landing rights, transport goods, plan profitable routes, develop spaceports and your fleet. Hold your ground against competitors and pirates.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.3%, Economy 19.9%, Trading 10.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.3%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 40.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 2 universes and 12,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Trading 18.4%, Economy 11%, Space 10%
A first-person space sim and persistent career roguelite where you build your own ship and live in it. Take contracts from human and alien factions in a procedural galaxy at war, grow from a micro-vessel to a capital ship, and make one life count.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.1%, Roguelike 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%
A real-time space strategy MMO where your colony keeps working, your fleets keep moving, and the galaxy remembers every choice. Travel in real time, watch every battle resolve, raid and ally across one living galaxy that resets every 6 months. Free to play. No pay-to-win, ever.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Space Sim 23.3%, Trading 16.8%, Economy 8%, Space 6.2%
A futuristic sci-fi persistent universe exploration game with one million stars and 18 million planets and moons. Fly your ship to any star and explore its solar system. Claiming stars, planets and moons will make them yours forever - other players will see your discoveries and you will see theirs.
Why similar: Space Sim 42.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Space 9.7%, Exploration 8.7%
Hollow Orbits 4X combines 4X strategy with the mechanics of a board game. Collect and use tactic cards, and roll dice for your fleet’s weapons. Play solo, against AI, or with friends for dominance in a galaxy filled with ancient dangers and hidden treasures.
Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Space 10.3%
A fast, casual (And also haunted.) 4X game with asymmetric factions and roguelike elements. Enjoy short, 30-turn skirmishes in a unique setting, or delve into a small story-rich campaign with 5 different endings, all without slow and tedious 'long wars'.
Why similar: 4X 34.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Turn-Based Combat 8%
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.7%, Trading 21%, Economy 12.9%, Open World 10.7%, Space 7%
