Games like Cantata

Hooked on the competitive and replayable side of Cantata? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

ENDLESS Legend™ 2
A fantasy 4X on an ocean world that keeps changing under you. Lead wildly different factions, from star-descended knights to a hive that only knows how to feed, raise armies, and race to uncover what stirs beneath the planet. Every faction plays differently, and the tidefalls keep the map, and your plans, moving.
Replayable
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Starion Tactics
After assuming command of one of four human or alien factions vying for galactic dominance, immediately define your game’s scope. Play for minutes to hours across tens to hundreds of planets in single-player skirmish or multiplayer modes—it’s entirely up to you.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
25% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Songs of Silence
A turn-based 4X strategy set in a hand-painted Art Nouveau fantasy world. Lead Queen Lorelai's people to a new home, build armies that fight their own battles, and tip the scales mid-fight with hero abilities. A 10+ hour story campaign, skirmishes against AI or friends, and three expansions.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
79% of 2,408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$29.99
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
Competitive, Replayable
90% of 452 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Annihilate The Spance
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own. You handle bases, economy, fleet mix and waypoint chains while autonomous fleets brawl across a 3D storm full of rival factions, bosses and very large capital ships.
Replayable
89% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Terra Invicta
Pick one of seven human factions and fight over how to face an alien invasion: seize control of Earth's nations from the shadows, research your way into space, mine asteroids, and build fleets for Newtonian fleet battles across a moving Solar System.
Replayable
79% of 9,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Songs of Conquest
A turn-based strategy adventure in glowing pixel art: lead Wielders, raise armies from four factions, and take the world of Aerbor one town at a time. Deep tactical battles, empire building, campaigns sung by bards, and maps to play solo, in co-op or against friends.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
85% of 12,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 217$29.99
MENACE
Lead marines, mercenaries and criminals across the cut-off Wayback system to stop an alien threat. You answer distress calls, build infantry squads and tanks, and fight hard turn-based battles where suppression, cover and range decide who walks home.
Replayable
90% of 12,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Command thousands of units across entire worlds in a large-scale RTS about economy, territory and timing. Play the campaigns of the Post-Human Coalition and the Substrate, or take friends into ranked and unranked multiplayer. The fleets largely manage themselves, so the real battle is in where you build, what you research and when you strike.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
76% of 2,714 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$5.99
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Replayable
76% of 198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Pandora: First Contact
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
61% of 540 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Drop Command
A '90s-flavoured mech war on a grand scale. Run a sandbox campaign across a whole star cluster, then drop into any battle and pilot whichever unit you fancy: a mech, a tank, a VTOL or power-armoured infantry. Build an empire, customize your pilots, and shoot through fully destructible battlefields. One more planet always sounds like a good idea.
Replayable
80% of 155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99

Cheaper than Cantata

Starion Tactics

After assuming command of one of four human or alien factions vying for galactic dominance, immediately define your game’s scope.

$9.99

One Military Camp

Turn a shabby base and a squad of hopeless recruits into an army of elite specialists, one budget and one bad joke at a time.

$6.24

Godless Tactics

Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices.

$6.99

Space Tales

Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies.

$5.99

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Build economies, claim territory and time your strikes across whole worlds, alone or with friends.

$5.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

Forged Battalion

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles.

$9.99

AI War: Fleet Command

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders.

$9.99

Element Space

Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.

$0.99

Observe

Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.

$7.99

Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced

Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.

$9.99

Planets Under Attack

Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure!

$11.99

Hidden gems like Cantata

Heroes of Science and Fiction

Lead one of five factions through a cut-off star system, turn by turn, and win battles with plans instead of numbers.

$29.99

Annihilate The Spance

Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.

$29.99

ENDLESS Legend™ 2

Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.

$49.99

Stellar Tactics

A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.

$24.99

Drop Command

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

$22.99

ZEPHON

A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth.

$39.99

MENACE

Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.

$39.99

Winter Falling: Battle Tactics

Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it?

$14.99

Songs of Silence

Guide Queen Lorelai's people across a hand-painted fantasy world, raising armies that fight on their own while your heroes turn the tide.

$29.99

Terra Invicta

Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.

$39.99

Athena Crisis

Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse.

$5.99

Sins of a Solar Empire II

A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.

$49.99

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