Games like Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
by Desert Owl Games LLC
Helm your own ship, battle for supremacy in a multi-faction war, and conquer the cosmos in this science fiction turn-based strategy game. Select from more than 100+ diverse star ships and fight for territory across a 2D hex-based grid.
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-30%$13.99Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic)
Nov 26 · Flashback Games, The Lordz Games Studio
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical · Hex Grid
In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.
StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTacticalTurn-BasedHex GridSingleplayerTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerWarAliens👍 947
-50%$7.49Final Theory
Sep 21 · Monticube
Both: Hex Grid · Turn-Based Tactics · Space
Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.
StrategyTurn-BasedSpaceshipsHex Grid4XSci-fiTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatSpace👍 386
-75%$3.74Sid Meier's Starships
Mar 12 · Firaxis Games
Both: Space · Tactical
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
StrategySpaceTurn-Based StrategySci-fiSingleplayerTacticalCasual4XTurn-Based👍 1,964
$19.99Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
Sep 30 · Tortuga Team
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical · Space
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Turn-Based TacticsTactical RPGTurn-Based StrategyStrategy RPGTacticalStrategySci-fiSingleplayerSpaceIsometric👍 358
$11.99Isaiah 188
Jan 6 · Sector Z Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Hex Grid · Space
Fight on the ground and in space around 17 different bodies in our solar system with unique lite orbital mechanics. Recruit armies, build fleets, and conquer the solar system as one of three unique factions in this turn based strategy game!
Early AccessTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySpace SimHex GridStrategySci-fiPixel GraphicsSpaceWargame
$29.99Interstellar Space: Genesis
Jul 25 · Praxis Games
Both: Space · Turn-Based Tactics
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!
StrategyIndie4XSci-fiSpaceTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategyExplorationSingleplayerTurn-Based Tactics👍 712
$1.99Galaxy Admirals
Jan 17 · Jetdogs Studios
Both: Space · Hex Grid
Galaxy Admirals is a multiplayer turn-based cosmic strategy with pretty innovative and challenging gameplay. Improve your command skills with AI and conquer the whole universe by fighting with real players.
StrategyTurn-Based StrategySpaceTurn-Based2DHex GridMultiplayerSci-fiBoard GameAdventure👍 126
$14.99Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Aug 2 · Team Jolly Roger
Both: Space · Turn-Based Tactics
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.
StrategySimulationIndieSpaceTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayerTurn-Based TacticsSingleplayerSci-fi👍 552
$39.99Xenonauts 2
Apr 2 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-BasedPvECharacter Customization👍 4,857
$19.99XCOM® 2
Feb 4 · Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Tactical · Turn-Based Tactics
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
StrategyTurn-Based CombatTacticalCharacter CustomizationRPGTurn-Based TacticsSingleplayerSci-fiWarMilitary👍 80,018
$29.99Galactic Civilizations III
May 14 · Stardock Entertainment
Both: Hex Grid
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
AliensSci-fi4XTurn-Based StrategySandbox3DGrand StrategyModdableHex GridPvE👍 8,337
Starfall Online
Feb 20 · Snowforged Entertainment
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Space
Starfall Online is a real-time multiplayer strategy mixed with wargame. Three rival factions — Deprived, Vanguard and Eclipse rule the world, and you are to become the part of the confrontation between them. Gather your own fleet and embark on a journey through the Galaxy!
RPGMassively MultiplayerStrategyFree to PlayRTSSpace
$24.99Xenonauts
Jun 16 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Turn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementSingleplayerStrategyTacticalAliens👍 3,815
$19.99Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)
Aug 12 · Full Control Studios
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.
StrategyTurn-Based TacticsRPGTurn-BasedTacticalBoard GameSci-fiTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerAction👍 742
$44.99Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
May 5 · Complex Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
Turn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsStrategy RPGTacticalStrategyChoices MatterCharacter CustomizationPvETurn-Based Combat3D👍 11,435
$39.99BATTLETECH
Apr 24 · Harebrained Schemes
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
MechsStrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedSci-fiTurn-Based StrategyTacticalRobotsActionCharacter Customization👍 23,025
RAM Pressure
Sep 15 · QuadCom Interactive, GDT
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical
Tactical story-driven online multiplayer game combining the turn-based combat of X-COM with a deep, well-grounded sci-fi setting. Experience intense tactical online multiplayer action and explore a deep plot and unique storyline built on both single-player and multiplayer missions.
StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedFree to PlayTacticalMultiplayerSci-fiFuturisticActionAtmospheric
$49.99Sins of a Solar Empire II
Aug 15 · Ironclad Games Corporation, Stardock Entertainment
Both: Space · Tactical
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
$9.99Interstellar Conquest
Feb 27 · GoldenGod Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics
Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.
Strategy4XTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsWargame2DIsometricAtmosphericBuildingManagement
-60%$0.79Space Empires I
Oct 8 · Malfador Machinations
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Space
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.
StrategyExplorationManagementTurn-Based Strategy4XGrand StrategyTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiEconomySpace
$19.99Elite Dangerous
Apr 2 · Frontier Developments
Both: Space · Massively Multiplayer
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Space SimSpaceOpen WorldExplorationSci-fiSimulationMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerVRFirst-Person👍 82,421
$24.99Stars in Shadow
Jan 19 · Ashdar Games
Both: Space · Turn-Based Tactics
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.
Strategy4XIndieTurn-Based StrategySpaceTurn-Based CombatSci-fiTurn-BasedTurn-Based Tactics👍 734
$7.99Star Ruler
Sep 20 · Blind Mind Studios
Both: Space
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
$19.99The Last Federation
Apr 18 · Arcen Games
Both: Space · Tactical
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
StrategySpaceSimulationIndieTurn-Based4XSci-fiGrand StrategyReal-Time with PauseTactical👍 380
Interplanetary
May 12 · Team Jolly Roger
Both: Space
In this turn-based strategy game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive artilleries through the unpredictable gravity fields of the planetary system.
StrategyIndieSpaceTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayerSci-fiPhysicsLocal Multiplayer👍 541
FreeStar Conflict
Feb 27 · Star Gem Inc.
Both: Massively Multiplayer
Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!
Free to PlayOnline Co-OpSpace SimMassively MultiplayerOpen WorldPvEActionShooterFlightTrading👍 199
$24.99Chains of Freedom
Apr 15 · Nordcurrent
Both: Tactical · Turn-Based Tactics
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
StrategyTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiCombatTurn-Based StrategyCinematicRealisticThird Person👍 520
$29.99Horizon
Feb 6 · L3O Interactive
Both: Space
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
StrategyGrand StrategySpace4XSimulationSci-fiExplorationSandboxSingleplayerTurn-Based👍 377
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Aug 31 · Black Lab Games
Both: Space · Turn-Based Tactics
In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?
StrategySpaceSci-fiTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerTurn-Based TacticsWarMultiplayerSimulation👍 2,634
$18.99Spacer: Legacies
Sep 23 · Brazen Legions
Both: Tactical · Space · Turn-Based Tactics
Spacer: Legacies is a game of turn-based tactical combat between small and large capital ships. Recruit skilled captains to command your vessels and choose the abilities that will make them unstoppable. Pursue vengeance in a gripping campaign across the whole of the Tantalus Cluster.
StrategyTacticalSpaceSci-fiTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based TacticsTactical RPGTurn-Based Strategy
$19.99STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
May 25 · Petroglyph
Both: Space · Tactical
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
StrategyRTSSpaceSci-fiMultiplayerSingleplayerModdableModTacticalWar👍 36,159
-80%$0.79Space Empires III
Oct 8 · Malfador Machinations
Both: Turn-Based Tactics
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.
StrategyRetroTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based Tactics4XBase BuildingExplorationManagementGrand StrategySci-fi
-80%$2.99Space Empires V
Oct 16 · Malfador Machinations
Both: Space
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Strategy4XSpaceTurn-BasedSci-fiSingleplayerTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayer👍 423


