Strategy Core
Lead your clan from a small settlement all the way to the launch of a colony ship.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Games like Dark Empire
If Dark Empire left you wanting something replayable and tense, you have options. These games are a good place to start.
Dynasty Protocol
Command your space fleet, mine asteroids, and conquer colonies in this immersive real-time strategy game. Build powerful space stations, upgrade your ships through combat experience, and manage vital resources as you expand your dynasty across a star system.
Replayable
62% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Stellar Sovereigns
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Replayable
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Rogue Station
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Replayable, Tense
76% of 226 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Imperium Galactica
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire. Now, it is crumbling. The aliens are restless. The oppressed are building armies. And a strange invader is headed for the heart of the Empire.
Replayable, Tense
91% of 147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99The Spatials: Galactology
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Replayable
68% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Replayable
53% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Spaceship Commander
Fight in space or on the planets, or just travel the universe. Visit cities and buildings, mine resources, trade with or speak to individuals on the planets. Explore and discover. Buy a new ship, fit upgrades, and hire a whole army of crew!
Replayable, Tense
60% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Light Empire
Enter this universe "Roguelike / RPG" randomly generated, or you'll be in control of a spaceship and take your crew in the depths of the universe to save your people.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
17% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Corpoct
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
Replayable, Tense
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Galactic Empire
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Replayable
33% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$9.79Nonentity Galaxy
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
94% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Stardeus
A deep colony sim on a broken starship. You are the ship's immortal AI: send drones to patch the hull, balance oxygen, heat and power, wake your human crew, and decide whether to protect them or exploit them. Then fly your rebuilt ship into a procedurally generated universe full of pirates, traders and worse.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
87% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99
Cheaper than Dark Empire
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
An epic struggle for control!
79% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Stellar Empires
Indie strategy game where you take control of an Empire, lead it to complete domination by colonizing new planets!
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Priceless Return
Relaxing Idle · Casual Mining · Bring Everyone Home! "Insufficient energy to return... but there's ore ahead!"
80% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Sunset Routes
Sunset Routes is an easy and intriguing roguelite game. You can choose your crew, put them in the cabins, select your destination, and set sail.
95% of 545 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Iron Stars
Iron Stars is a realistic space 4X strategy game where you explore believable star systems, colonize planets and moons, grow your population, and…
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
DarkFighter
A round based light RogueLike game with three gameplay modes: find the goddess statue, purify the earth, or equip and defeat the minions of the…
78% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Bronze Age - HD Edition
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?
77% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.80
Hell Madness
The leaders of the hellish hordes descended to earth and now plunge the world into an abyss of pain and suffering, but the servants of light took…
30% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Terrain Defender
Pass the spherical pointer over the different bags to increase points at the cost of increasing the time in departure.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Dinosaur Island 1979
It's 2120 and humans discovered thousands of earth-like planets. Space exploration programme aka "Islands" is aimed to colonize each of them.
27% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Cursed Treasure 2
Defend your treasure from waves of heroes by raising towers on matching terrain and unleashing spells at just the right moment.
81% of 556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$0.74
Hidden gems like Dark Empire
Nonentity Galaxy
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your…
94% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
Riftborne
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare.
92% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Starlathe
Run one small ship through a simulated economy of mining, trade and war, then build stations and grow a fleet with friends in co-op.
88% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$11.99
Void War
Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.
94% of 3,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$19.99
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.
96% of 1,872 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 115$11.99
The Last Starship
Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.
75% of 1,645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
Stardeus
As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.
87% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 193$29.99
Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?
79% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Breachway
Bolt weapons onto a ship, hire a crew with opinions, and survive turn-based card battles across a hostile galaxy.
74% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Stellar Monarch 2
Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer.
88% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Newest games like Dark Empire
Starlathe
Run one small ship through a simulated economy of mining, trade and war, then build stations and grow a fleet with friends in co-op.
88% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$11.99
Solar Wave
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire.
73% of 83 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$17.99
Pax Autocratica
Run a totalitarian colony, bend citizens to your will and charge into the war yourself in first person.
90% of 4,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$29.99
StarShip-DF
Build a massive multi-deck starship and lead colonists across the galaxy. Gather resources in space or land on alien worlds for supplies.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Infinite Empire
Become the Lord Captain of an ancient space fortress in a galaxy where railguns sit next to necromantic hull plating, steam-powered tesla cannons…
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.
85% of 10,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 591$24.99
SpaceSlog
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning.
70% of 47 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Riftborne
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare.
92% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Nonentity Galaxy
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your…
94% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Last Starship
Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.
75% of 1,645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$19.99