Deck & Conn
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.
76% of 130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Games like Blockade Runner
Want something that feels minimalist and retro the way Blockade Runner does? Give these games a try when the craving hits.
Space Run
A real-time spaceship construction strategy game with a twist on tower defense: you are a space courier hauling valuable cargo through asteroid fields and pirate ambushes, building your ship as you fly. Fast, tense and endlessly replayable, with a dry sense of humour to match the danger.
Minimalist, Retro, Fast-paced
85% of 1,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99Space Battlecruiser
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.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
81% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Design your own fleet and throw it at the Particulate, a space-filling enemy driven by real physics instead of scripts. Ships get chewed apart piece by piece and patch themselves up again. A tense, replayable RTS with a campaign, a random map generator and editors for ships and maps.
Minimalist, Retro, Tense
92% of 1,203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$14.99Flotilla
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!
Retro
83% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Space Pirates and Zombies
Fly a growing pirate fleet through a procedurally generated galaxy of hundreds of star systems, blowing up ships, looting parts and building better ones. Physics-driven top-down combat, RPG upgrades and a zombie plague that spreads while you play. Every run is a new galaxy, and every battle can turn on one order.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
91% of 2,239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99Star Tactics Redux
Turn-based strategy game full of spacefleet battles. 30+ hours of gameplay, randomized battles, huge campaign with different ways of completion. Experience infinite tactical situations and outsmart the tricky AI using dozens of ships and special abilities.
Retro, Tense
87% of 62 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSpace Menace
Space Menace is a sci-fi space RTS and battle game. You play as a space captain, seeking fortune and glory as you see fit. Leave your mark on the world and determine the fate of the galaxy with your decisions.
Fast-paced, Tense
59% of 39 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99Space Run Galaxy
Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
68% of 666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99Escort Commander
Escort Commander is an arcade space shooter blended with strategic and tactical gameplay elements. This is not another mindless shooter. Build your fleet. Outfit your colony. Upgrade your ship. Defend the last colony. Survive.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
64% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Gratuitous Space Battles
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
72% of 569 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99Deck & Conn
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.
Retro, Tense
76% of 130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99Battlevoid: Harbinger
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
Retro, Tense
79% of 934 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Hidden gems like Blockade Runner
Between the Stars
Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.
75% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Space Cats Tactics
Fight nerve-wracking spaceship battles in this turn-based tactical space opera RPG!
74% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles.
81% of 4,112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$29.99
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Build ships that get torn apart and patched mid-fight, then throw them at an enemy that spreads and adapts in real time.
92% of 1,203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$14.99
Shortest Trip to Earth
Command a ship and crew through a hostile galaxy, where every decision counts and no two journeys survive the same way.
75% of 1,262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$25.99
Space Pirates And Zombies 2
Build a mothership out of salvaged parts, then fight 200 AI captains for a galaxy where fuel is scarce and zombies are spreading.
78% of 2,737 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
Battlevoid: Harbinger
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles.
79% of 934 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Space Run
You play a daring space transporter, building and defending a cargo ship in real time as you race it through hostile space.
85% of 1,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Voidship: The Long Journey
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission.
68% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Rebel Galaxy
Captain a massive warship through an open space western of trading, mining and pirate hunting, set to a blues-rock soundtrack.
85% of 7,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour…
84% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Newest games like Blockade Runner
Space Defender: Frontier Squadron
Fly a four-act space war, build your ship around its power grid, and steer the frontier toward one of several endings, alone or with a friend.
95% of 160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$6.99
Deck & Conn
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.
76% of 130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
73% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Galactic Outlaws
"Galactic Outlaws" is a side-scrolling space shooter where you lead an elite squad on high-risk missions.
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Sidereal Wanderer
As Captain, you must lead your spaceship to defeat the rebel forces scattered across the galaxy. Scour the sectors for enemies and remain alert!
92% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$2.39
Between the Stars
Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.
75% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Space Cats Tactics
Fight nerve-wracking spaceship battles in this turn-based tactical space opera RPG!
74% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Scramble All Fighters
Amazing graphics. Countless different units. An addictive Battle Pass. We have none of those things.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Space Route
Space route is a game in which you have to control a space ship and dodge meteorites to get to your home planet, and you will only find out how long…
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Trigon: Space Story
Command a spaceship, fight tactical battles, and make the calls that decide whether your crew survives.
67% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$3.99
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles.
81% of 4,112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$29.99
Solaris
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge.
81% of 90 Steam reviews are positiveFree