Games like Ancient Space
by CreativeForge Games
Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
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$29.99StarDrive
Apr 26 · Zero Sum Games
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Strategy4XSpaceIndieSci-fiRTSSingleplayerReal-TimeExploration👍 1,253
$59.99Homeworld 3
May 13 · Blackbird Interactive
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
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
Outscape
Oct 22 · IDA Games
Both: Sci-fi · RTS · Space
Outscape is everything you love about traditional strategy games, but places your empire within a vast online galaxy alongside other real players. Outscape rewards skillful long-term strategic gameplay with a brilliantly refreshing new take on the 4X genre.
StrategySci-fiOnline Co-OpRTSPvPSpaceExploration4XManagementEconomy👍 394
$49.99Sins of a Solar Empire II
Aug 15 · Ironclad Games Corporation, Stardock Entertainment
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
SpaceStrategyRTS4XSingleplayerSci-fiMultiplayerTacticalCo-opPvE👍 7,158
$5.99StarFringe: Adversus
Jul 26 · Casualogic, Droid Riot
Both: RTS · Space · Exploration
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
StrategyRTSBase BuildingSpaceIndieAdventureActionExploration4XTop-Down Shooter👍 139
$4.99Galaxy Reavers
Sep 18 · Good Games
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
This is a fun yet challenging RTS game. To survive in the vast galaxy, you need to build up your own fleet and customize your warships. You will also learn to control them efficiently in battle to defeat your enemies, conquer planets, and expand your galactic empire!
StrategySpaceRTSIndieSci-fi👍 170
$14.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Sep 29 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
StrategyIndieSimulationSpaceRTSReal-Time with PauseSci-fi2DSingleplayerPixel Graphics👍 1,198
-80%$1.99Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Jul 3 · Mithis Games
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
StrategySpaceSci-fiSimulationRTSSingleplayerTacticalIndieAtmosphericClassic👍 987
$7.99Star Ruler
Sep 20 · Blind Mind Studios
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
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)...
StrategyIndieSpace4XRTSSci-fiGrand StrategyGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerMultiplayer👍 261
$9.99Battlevoid: Sector Siege
Oct 25 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Space · RTS · Exploration
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.
StrategyIndieActionSimulationSpaceRTSExploration2DSci-fiTactical👍 195
$9.99Interstellaria
Jul 17 · Coldrice Games LLC
Both: Space · Exploration · Sci-fi
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
SpacePixel GraphicsExplorationDiplomacySci-fiSoundtrackRTSManagementTradingSpace Sim👍 353
$49.99Stellaris
May 9 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Space · Sci-fi · Exploration
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.
SpaceStrategyGrand StrategySci-fi4XExplorationSandboxSimulationMultiplayerReal-Time with Pause👍 142,911
$9.99Imperium Galactica II
Jan 19 · Digital Reality, Gyroscope Games
Both: Space · RTS
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
StrategySpaceRTS4XClassicSingleplayer👍 591
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
Both: RTS · Space
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
FreeImperius
Jun 13 · Incognito Interactive
Both: RTS · Space · Sci-fi
Imperius is an easy-to-learn, hard-to-master space RTS. Command devastating ships of the Imperius Navy and prove your loyalty by destroying everything in your path, no matter the cost.
StrategyRTSSpaceSingleplayerSci-fiFuturisticReal Time TacticsWarLore-RichBase Building
-80%$1.99Space Empires: Starfury
Aug 3 · Malfador Machinations
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
StrategySpaceReal Time TacticsRTSTradingSpace SimManagement3DActionSci-fi

