SkyInFlames
Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.
90% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$6.99
Games like Close the Sky
Miss the tense and replayable pull of Close the Sky? These games could fill that gap nicely.
SkyInFlames
A real-time strategy about modern aerial war: command drone swarms, mobile SAM units and S-300 batteries to defend cities and critical infrastructure. Limited fuel and missiles, fog of war, real logistics. Play against the AI, build your own scenarios in the sandbox, or face other players in tense PvP duels.
Tense
90% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$6.99Intercept Line
You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets. By day it's your turn: deep strikes past enemy radars. And when orders aren't enough — take the stick yourself.
Tense
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Air Defender
You are the commander of a Cold War air defense network, watching a green radar screen full of blips. Most are airliners. One might not be. Scramble fighters, interrogate contacts and make split-second calls where a mistake could start a war. A tense, slow-burn simulation with a big learning curve and real rewards for mastering it.
Tense, Replayable
81% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$20.19Shield Operator
Defend the skies against enemy missiles, drones, and aircraft! Deploy modern air defense systems, calculate trajectories, and destroy aerial targets in real time. Become an impenetrable shield for your territory. Repel any aerial threat with a decisive response!
Tense
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$4.99City Defence Artillery
City defence artillery, the war has begun. Defend cities, upgrade artillery and call in air defense systems.
Tense
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Sandbox War Dispatch
An rts 1v1 battle game, the background is the sandbox simulation of modern military warfare. You can command the coordinated operations of sea, land, air and space, play tactics freely, and experience military art, to fight until the enemy's capital is destroyed to win;
Replayable
$3.99SALVO
A tactical immersive sim. You are underground with nothing but missiles. Design ballistic weapons, hunt billion-dollar radars with 20,000-dollar drones, flood the enemy with cruise missiles, or reach hypersonic technology. Welcome to asymmetric war.
Tense, Replayable
78% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$11.99War Footing
You are the Minister of Defense, and intelligence says a rival is coming. War Footing is a turn-based strategy game about the part other war games skip: the years before the war. Spend a tight budget, buy from foreign suppliers or your own industry, raise units and keep politics stable. When the invasion starts, the army you built is the army you fight with.
Replayable
84% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99ICBM
A real-time strategy game of global nuclear war. Pick a continent, research your arsenal, hide your silos and decide when to strike. Build ICBMs, bombers and submarines, plan synchronized launches, and trust allies exactly as long as it suits you. Tense, quick to learn, and every match plays out differently.
Tense, Replayable
91% of 1,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Bunker Buster
Dig deep and build a self-sufficient bunker. Manage power and life support, then arm it with billions of possible weapon, defence, and cyber-warfare combinations, and strike first, or defend.
Tense, Replayable
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Air defenders
A small and interesting air defense simulator. Don't let enemy missiles reach their target!
Tense
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
Replayable
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Cheaper than Close the Sky
Intercept Line
You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets.
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Shield Operator
Defend the skies against enemy missiles, drones, and aircraft!
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
City Defence Artillery
City defence artillery, the war has begun. Defend cities, upgrade artillery and call in air defense systems.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Sandbox War Dispatch
An rts 1v1 battle game, the background is the sandbox simulation of modern military warfare.
$3.99
SALVO
A tactical immersive sim. You are underground with nothing but missiles.
78% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
War Footing
Run a nation's defenses in the tense years before an invasion, then fight with the army you built.
84% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99
Air defenders
A small and interesting air defense simulator. Don't let enemy missiles reach their target!
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
1000 Missiles: Defense of Tornwa
Missile Defense Game: Protect Your Country The enemy will employ various strategies to breach your defenses. Stay adaptable to survive.
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Forts
Stack walls and weapons onto a wobbling physics fortress, then trade fire in fast, chaotic matches where one good shot can bring the whole thing down.
92% of 21,390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 489$8.99
Mindustry
Build supply lines, keep your turrets fed and push out to take the enemy's base.
95% of 25,127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 711$9.99
Hidden gems like Close the Sky
SkyInFlames
Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.
90% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$6.99
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
Grow a medieval settlement from a handful of huts into a walled town, then defend it when thousands come knocking.
92% of 873 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Airborne Empire
Lay out streets, balance lift against weight, and steer your floating town across a bright open sky.
85% of 891 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$29.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
D.O.T. Defence
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map.
85% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$9.74
War Footing
Run a nation's defenses in the tense years before an invasion, then fight with the army you built.
84% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99
DSS 2: War Industry
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy.
83% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$17.99
ICBM: Escalation
A grand strategy RTS about the worst day imaginable: you run a faction, race through tech eras, and decide whether conventional armies or a nuclear…
85% of 1,291 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 178$29.99
Air Defender
Command a Cold War radar network, scramble fighters and decide in seconds which contacts are friend or foe.
81% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$20.19
Cataclismo
Build fortresses brick by brick, then hold them against the Horrors of the Mist.
88% of 3,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$29.99
Warlords Under Siege
Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies.
76% of 441 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Nuclear Option
Take off in minutes, fly low to stay off the radar, and settle it with a nuclear shockwave if you have to.
95% of 10,975 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 448$19.99
Newest games like Close the Sky
War Footing
Run a nation's defenses in the tense years before an invasion, then fight with the army you built.
84% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99
Intercept Line
You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets.
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Drop Command
Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.
80% of 155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$22.99
The Legend of Mala Tokmachka
Build, expand, and arm a towering 2D fortress to withstand endless waves of ground and air attacks.
73% of 271 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Flow Of War
A unique blend of base building and wave defense. Workers automatically gather resources and manage your economy while you focus on strategy.
85% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Drone Sector
Drone Sector puts you in command of a futuristic gunship supporting troops on the ground.
89% of 410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$16.99
D.O.T. Defence
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map.
85% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$9.74
SALVO
A tactical immersive sim. You are underground with nothing but missiles.
78% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
SkyInFlames
Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.
90% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$6.99
Airborne Empire
Lay out streets, balance lift against weight, and steer your floating town across a bright open sky.
85% of 891 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$29.99
Air Defender
Command a Cold War radar network, scramble fighters and decide in seconds which contacts are friend or foe.
81% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$20.19
Military Incremental Complex
Press bullets by hand, automate your way up to tanks and nukes, and run a military factory empire at your own calm pace.
82% of 704 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$9.99