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A thrilling, fast, big, very 3D, realistic, Full HD, modern and real-time 3D graphics combat game in which you are a heroic space alien starfighter pilot. You must wipe out the evil robot space alien King Nimrod, his massive military fleet and restore peace to the universe.
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$19.99Nuclear Option
Oct 15 · Shockfront Studios
Both: Flight · Military · War
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.
Early AccessFlightSimulationMilitaryActionWarWargamePhysics3DPvP👍 10,301
$0.99Starship Destroyer
Nov 22 · North Star Studios
Both: Vehicular Combat · Wargame · Flight
A sci-fi space vehicle combat game, where the player must defend their capital ship from being destroyed, while attempting to destroy the alien force's own capital ship!
Third-Person ShooterVehicular CombatSpace SimWargameFlightPvEShooterActionThird Person3D
$1.99Seren Nova
Apr 3 · Galaeth Games
Both: Flight · Vehicular Combat
A top-down 3D retro sci-fi space shooter with free-roaming mission maps, mouse-and-keyboard and twin-stick controls, and live-action FMV cutscenes. Shoot, bomb, or pick up and drop explosives on your enemies.
SpaceFlightVehicular CombatAction1990'sTwin Stick ShooterTop-Down ShooterSci-fiFMVShoot 'Em Up
$19.99Flyout
Nov 17 · Stonext Games
Both: Flight · Military
Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.
SimulationSandboxFlightBuildingPhysicsPsychological Horror3DMilitaryImmersive SimEarly Access👍 2,139
-30%$13.99Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter
Aug 22 · TruePlayers
Both: Flight
Fly a real FPV drone into battle. Dive, flip, and shoot your way through roguelite runs, endless swarms, and the clock, then take those skills into 10-player dogfights or 4-pilot co-op. True quadcopter physics, every crash is yours, and so is every kill.
SimulationFlightRealisticActionRacingFirst-PersonSurvivalImmersive SimPhysicsShooter👍 503
$9.99AirBorne Sea
Sep 12 · WerFEST Software
Both: Military · Arcade · War
You find yourself stationed behind the awesome firepower of a 40mm anti-aircraft fixed deck gun on the bow of a battleship. Your mission is to blast away at the endless onslaught of enemy attackers bent on sinking your battleship.
MilitaryArcadeGun CustomizationWarSingleplayerFirst-PersonScore AttackWargameOld SchoolRealistic
$39.99WARNO
May 23 · Eugen Systems
Both: Wargame · Military · War
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
WargameMilitaryReal Time TacticsRTSStrategyCold WarWarTurn-Based StrategyTanksPvP👍 14,507
-50%$9.49Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
Apr 28 · Runner Duck
Both: Vehicular Combat · Wargame
Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?
Vehicular CombatStrategyBuildingPost-apocalypticIndieActionWargameOpen WorldSimulationShoot 'Em Up👍 1,128
$14.99Mechabellum
Sep 26 · Game River
Both: Wargame
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.
StrategyAuto BattlerMechsRobotsWargameTacticalPvPMultiplayerRTSTurn-Based Strategy👍 17,866
$69.99Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Nov 19 · Asobo Studio
Both: Flight
Explore the world with our largest fleet of aircraft and take simulation to new heights while pursuing your aviation career within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
SimulationFlightRealisticVRMultiplayerHobby SimSingleplayerAtmosphericSandboxExploration👍 21,672
-30%$17.49Lost Skies
Sep 17 · Bossa Studios
Both: Vehicular Combat
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
AdventureOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpBase BuildingActionVehicular CombatSandboxExplorationShooterCharacter Customization👍 2,471
-25%$26.24Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
Nov 7 · Lyra Creative
Both: Flight
Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator inspired by the early NASA space programs, from orbiting Earth in Mercury and Gemini, to the moon landing in project Apollo. Learn the procedures. Operate the spacecraft. Complete the mission.
SpaceSimulationFlightSpace SimRealisticOpen WorldImmersive SimScienceExplorationPhysics👍 1,322
$19.99Ratten Reich
Jul 15 · METALLADLERSTUDIO
Both: Wargame
Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
StrategyRTSWargameReal Time TacticsSpectacle fighter3DTop-DownThird PersonAlternate HistoryAtmospheric👍 616
$11.99Red Planet Rampart
Jun 9 · Beijing 1023 Technology CO., Ltd
Both: Mars · Flight
You are deployed to the desolate red planet to reforge humanity's hope. With no hospitable atmosphere, no nurturing water sources, only relentless storms, unknown alien creatures, you must use wit and determination to survive on this alien land and build a Mars base of your own.
RPGSpaceBuildingCasualMarsAdventureFlightTower DefenseSpace SimSandbox
$4.99Shrink Assault
Sep 22 · Adam Earlston
Both: Arcade · Flight
Shrink Assault is a Sci-Fi game featuring a mix of Infinite Runners and Rail Shooter games! Skilfully control your spaceship to dodge obstacles and eliminate the threat! Can you survive?
ArcadeActionShooterSci-fi3D PlatformerBullet HellRunnerFlightPhysicsPvE
$9.99Wrath and Retribution
Apr 2 · Mad Vulture Games
Both: Flight
Become an unstoppable force in this intense high-speed space combat roguelike. Master the Specter Drive’s displacement dash, build a devastating arsenal with your companion Merlin, and grow more lethal with every mission as you spearhead the counter attack across a solar system under siege.
SpaceAction RoguelikeLootFlightSpace Sim6DOFLooter ShooterRoguelikeSingleplayerThird Person
$5.99FPV Kamikaze Drone
Dec 15 · HFM Games
Both: War · Flight
FPV Kamikaze Drone is a tactical game focused on FPV drones in modern warfare. Control drones in first-person in single-player and co-op, and in multiplayer play as a third-person soldier who finds and uses FPV drones during combat.
SimulationActionWarShooterFirst-PersonCombatSingleplayerFlightEarly AccessMultiplayer👍 12,209
$1.99Mars 2099
3 days ago · Oldschool Tobias
Both: Arcade · Mars
Defend humanity's first Mars colony in this fast-paced modern arcade space shooter. Battle asteroid storms, hostile UFOs, complete challenging missions, and master skill-based gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade classics.
ActionArcadeShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsSpaceRetroDifficultControllerSingleplayerMars
$59.99Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
Aug 25 · Asobo Studio
Both: Flight
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
SimulationFlightRealisticMultiplayerOpen WorldVRSingleplayerReal-TimePhysicsAtmospheric👍 70,086
$2.99Missile Pilot
Dec 15 · J. A. Davies
Both: Flight · Arcade
Pilot missiles around obstacles to detonate them in the core of enemy spaceships in this arcade-style flying game. Feel like ace pilot -- if your reflexes are good enough!
ActionFlightArcadeRunnerSci-fiDark HumorSatireSingleplayerPhysicsDystopian
FreeWar Robots: Frontiers
Mar 4 · MY.GAMES
Gear up for tactical mech action in War Robots: Frontiers, a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter. Construct and customize, squad up with Pilots online, and fire up your engines in massive intergalactic battles.
Free to PlayThird-Person ShooterMechsPvPMultiplayerActionArena ShooterRobotsSci-fiFuturistic👍 739
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$29.99Starship Troopers: Extermination
Oct 10 · Offworld
Starship Troopers: Extermination is an up to 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!
Online Co-OpActionFPSSci-fiFirst-PersonCo-opMultiplayerCombatAliensPvE👍 29,725
$19.99Instruments of Destruction
May 10 · Radiangames
Both: Vehicular Combat · Arcade
Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.
DestructionPhysicsActionSimulation3DVehicular CombatDrivingShooterAction-AdventureArcade👍 1,429
$19.99Underspace
Apr 10 · Pastaspace Interactive
Both: Flight
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.
Early Access3DFlightFuturisticActionSpaceAdventureIndieThird PersonRPG👍 435
$19.99Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks
May 22 · Caged Element
Both: Vehicular Combat · Arcade
High-orktane combat racing in the Warhammer 40,000 universe! Drive buggies, tanks and helicopters, mastering advanced movement and explosive weaponry online or against bots. Unlock gear, customize your rides and use the NEW Creation Workshop to create, share, and play custom maps from the community!
Vehicular CombatCombat RacingDrivingPvPRacingMultiplayerShooterThird-Person ShooterArcadeClass-Based👍 493
$8.99Multi Turret Academy
Jan 18 · Yulia Games
Both: Vehicular Combat · Wargame
Multi Turret Academy is a top-down tank action game with roguelike elements. Select your vehicle from a growing list of historical models, then equip dozens of weapons and upgrades to lead your local tank club to victory!
Early AccessTanksAnimeTop-Down ShooterAction RoguelikeVehicular CombatWargameCuteRogueliteRoguelike👍 1,786
$9.99Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory
Feb 22 · Rockodile
Both: Flight · Military
You are a lone Ukrainian military drone operator battling Russian occupation forces. Hidden deep behind enemy lines, you operate your drone to seek and destroy tanks and armored vehicles, shatter communication lines, and recover stolen goods. Slava Ukraini!
Score AttackActionSandboxOpen WorldExplorationPhysicsFlightMilitaryCombatTactical👍 618
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Flight
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
$14.99IDUN - Frontline Survival
Jan 20 · IDUN Interactive
Both: Wargame
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
3DBuildingWargameTower DefenseStrategyRTSSurvivalBase BuildingMiningSci-fi👍 685
$4.99Aim in Space
Jan 22 · Serhii Khramov, Davyd Moskalenko, Maksym Kanshin
Both: Flight · Arcade
Help defend Earth's space base from invading enemy aliens in this incredible game to train reaction and aiming skills. Use your entire arsenal of weapons to destroy enemies of various types. Stand up to protect the planet. Best of luck!
Shoot 'Em UpFlightIncrementalPvEPoint & ClickSpace SimShooterArcadeRoguelike2D
$5.99Rescue Heli RH407
Feb 12 · G-REX games
Both: Flight · Arcade
2.5D helicopter sim and arcade with no shooting—pure navigation skill. Manage fuel, land softly, and rescue survivors. Rebuild the Supercomputer to unlock new maps. Retro PS1 style meets brutal physics in a 407-min countdown. Easy to learn, hard to master. Reclaim the base, if the system lets you.
SimulationFlightPhysicsPrecision PlatformerRetroArcade2.5D3D PlatformerDifficultMinimalist
$19.99STAR WARS™: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles™
Jan 23 · Aspyr
Both: Arcade
Take back the Theed Royal Palace in this fast and furious lightsaber action game. You will have the power of the Force and your trusty lightsaber to help you ward off legions of battle droids, destroyer droids, assassins, and other creatures from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Hack and SlashRetroArcadeSci-fiBeat 'em upActionSpaceAdventureOld SchoolCasual👍 355
$24.99Starcom: Unknown Space
Sep 2 · Wx3 Labs, LLC
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
SpaceExplorationOpen WorldSpace SimAction RPGTop-Down ShooterSci-fiStory RichIndieRPG👍 4,465
$19.99Ziggy's Cosmic Adventures
Nov 9 · Stardust Collective
Both: Flight · Arcade
Ziggy's Cosmic Adventures is a VR cockpit game combining ship management with action-arcade combat. You play as a bounty hunter with possibly questionable morals, currently in possession of a little alien that you may or may not have stolen from the evil Empire. Do you have what it takes to survive?
VRActionAdventureAction-AdventureFlightCombatAliensFunnyArcadePhysics
$19.99SpaceBourne 2
Nov 18 · Burak Dabak
Both: Flight
Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.
RPGSpace SimFlightBase Building3DOpen WorldFirst-PersonThird PersonLore-RichSpace👍 4,952
-75%$17.49Star Wars Outlaws
Nov 21 · Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio
Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars™ game and explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as scoundrel Kay Vess, seeking freedom and the means to start a new life.
SingleplayerOpen WorldActionThird PersonAdventureAction-AdventureFemale ProtagonistSci-fiShooterSpace👍 12,291
$24.99StarVaders
Apr 30 · Pengonauts
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Roguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuildingTurn-Based TacticsRogueliteDifficultVisual NovelCard GameTurn-Based StrategyRoguelikeBoard Game👍 3,763
$59.99Homeworld 3
May 13 · Blackbird Interactive
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
SpaceRTSStrategySci-fiStory RichSingleplayerMultiplayerTacticalCo-opRoguelike👍 5,438
$10.99Invasion: Phoenix
May 17 · Millzen Studios
Both: Wargame · Arcade
Invasion: Phoenix is a passion project by a solo developer and lifelong gamer. An alien empire hellbent on conquering Earth has arrived at our doorstep, and humanity is in total anarchy. Delve into this meticulously crafted 2D top-down pixel art RTS and sign up to reclaim Earth... or crush it!
Early AccessAction RTSWargamePvEStrategyRTSArcade2DTop-DownAction
-75%$4.99KitHack Model Club
Aug 1 · Floating Origin Interactive
Both: Vehicular Combat
Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!
ModdableOpen WorldVehicular CombatIndiePhysicsSandboxExplorationSimulationEducationBuilding👍 599
-50%$29.99SAND LAND
Apr 25 · ILCA, Inc.
Both: Vehicular Combat
SAND LAND is an action RPG where you become the main character as Beelzebub, a Fiend Prince. Lead your company of heroic misfits and explore the legendary world of SAND LAND created by Akira Toriyama.
AnimeAction RPGOpen WorldSingleplayerActionTanksVehicular CombatCartoonyMechsComedy👍 1,018
$19.99POLARIS™
Jan 29 · POLARIS™ Team, Variable State
Both: Vehicular Combat · Flight
Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay waste to the armies of a hostile colonizing threat - defend your home worlds!
Online Co-OpMultiplayerExtraction ShooterThird-Person ShooterVehicular CombatPhysicsFlightPvESingleplayerShooter
$29.99Between the Stars
Mar 7 · Isolated Games
Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.
SpaceRPGActionSimulationIndieStrategyAdventureSpace SimSingleplayerSci-fi👍 1,965
-80%$11.99Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Nov 17 · Frontier Developments
Both: Wargame
Wage a campaign of brutal conquest in this realm-shattering real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Become a warlord and lead four unique factions to conquer the wild and savage Realm of Ghur in tense and tactical battles.
StrategyActionRTSAction RTSReal Time TacticsFantasyWargame3DCinematicStylized👍 1,867
-66%$6.11Nova Drift
Aug 12 · Chimeric
Both: Arcade
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
Action RoguelikeArena ShooterBullet HellShoot 'Em UpRogueliteArcadeShooterRoguelike2DAction RPG👍 12,987
-60%$4.79Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: Mars
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
City BuilderBase BuildingColony SimResource ManagementStrategySimulationBuildingSurvivalMarsSpace👍 744
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
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.
RTSBuildingSpace SimStrategyBase BuildingSpaceReal-TimeFPSActionSingleplayer👍 1,604
$9.99Space Defender: Frontier Squadron
May 5 · Petit Vaisseau
Both: Arcade
Lead a squadron against the Drone invasion in a top-down space shooter with RPG depth. Take contracts across three galaxies, outfit and upgrade your ship, recruit wingmen, and push the story through to the Nexus.
Early AccessSpaceTwin Stick ShooterShoot 'Em UpTop-Down ShooterRPGSpaceshipsActionArcadeSci-fi





