Games like Dark Prospect

If Dark Prospect scratched a competitive and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

Executive Assault
An RTS where you can also be the robot. Build a base, raise an army of tanks and walkers, then jump into any unit and fight from the ground, even inside your own buildings. Win by storming the enemy HQ and taking out their CEO before they take out yours.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
84% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Nuclear Dawn
A team shooter where one player runs the war from above. Fight on foot as one of four classes while your commander builds bases, researches tech and calls the strikes, in post-apocalyptic city maps built for 32-player warfare.
Competitive, Tense, Dark
78% of 1,624 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Eximius: Seize the Frontline
A shooter and a strategy game in the same match. Eximius puts five players against five in a ruined city: four officers fight on the ground in first person while a commander builds the base, trains armies and calls down artillery. Capture points, tech up, suit up, and win with brains as much as firepower.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Dark
74% of 512 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Silica
Silica is an FPS and RTS in one battlefield. Fight on foot or in vehicles on the dunes of Baltarus, or step back and command whole armies of humans or aliens from above. Switch between the two mid-battle, team up with friends or face them, and watch photorealistic combined-arms warfare unfold at a scale few games attempt.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
76% of 4,640 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 352$24.99
The Scouring
An old school fantasy RTS with a twist: lead humans or orcs in fast, destructive battles, or hand your base to the AI and fight as a single hero. Defend against undead at night, level every unit, and raid dungeons for loot. Play solo, with friends, or against up to eight players.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
87% of 1,179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$24.99
Artificial Extinction 2
A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower. Build turrets, mine resources, and hold the line against relentless AI swarms. Switch instantly between commanding the battlefield in RTS view or fighting on the ground in FPS combat.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
A dark fantasy survival RTS where light is your only weapon against the dark. Build a bastion, push back a living death fog, and hold the walls when tens of thousands of Nightmares come flooding out of the earth. Play the campaign, endless Survival, or co-op with a friend.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Replayable
74% of 9,546 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 115$27.99
Iron Grip: Warlord
Iron Grip: Warlord invigorates tower defense with first-person shooter elements to give a new twist to the genre.It puts you in the heat of the battle, fighting off hordes of AI-controlled invaders. Play alone or with friends, in a diverse and challenging struggle to save all of Atelia.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
87% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1
Forts
Forts is a physics-based strategy game where you build a fortress in real time, arm it with machine guns, snipers and missiles, and blast your opponent's creation into a smoldering heap. Every wall you add and every shot you take has weight, so a clever design can hold the line or collapse spectacularly. Build, defend, demolish, repeat.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
92% of 21,387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 453$8.99
Inheritors2078
Inheritors 2078 is an RTS/TPS/FPS hybrid game with full Multiplayer & Co-op support, taking its events in the near future where the world is being dominated by evil robotic incarnates that were once enslaved by humans.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Dark
63% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Outpost: Infinity Siege
Command a walking fortress that fights beside you. Loot ruined zones for parts, build up your outpost's guns, and hold the line when the machines come. First-person shooting, tower defense and base building in one loop, best with friends.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Replayable
65% of 11,681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$24.99

Cheaper than Dark Prospect

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

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

$5.99

Rusted Warfare - RTS

Build bases, command armies of robots and mechs, and battle friends in real time across huge pixel-art warzones.

$4.99

Natural Selection 2

Pick a side, grab a rifle or grow claws, and battle across a sci-fi map where every round plays out differently.

$4.99

Army Men RTS

Command green armies and build bases across the house, one backyard battle at a time.

$5.99

Nightside

A four races sci-fi base building real time strategy game set on the dark side of an unknown planet where the valuable "green ice" resource can be…

$4.99

WARSHIFT

Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre.

$4.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

DOTFI

Do you have what it takes to defend what is yours? This is not a typical tower defense game where the troops do all the work.

$1.99

Space Tales

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

$5.99

Foresight

Redefining Strategy in RTS with Foresight.Win epic battles with wits, not dexterity.

$4.99

Chromosome Evil 2

Command a strike team and a resource-starved convoy through a Lovecraftian apocalypse, in real time or with active pause.

$1.99

Reignfall

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Dark Prospect

Rogue Command

Command units, call down bases and draft a fresh build after every battle in a fast sci-fi RTS where each run plays out differently.

$19.99

The Scouring

Command an army or fight as one hero, tearing through bases, dungeons and undead nights with friends or rivals.

$24.99

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

ZeroSpace

Lead huge armies and orbital strikes in a fast sci-fi war, or join a friend in a co-op campaign that changes every season.

$39.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

Artificial Extinction 2

A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower.

$19.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

War of Dots

Claim territory and command minimalist armies in quick tactical matches against other players.

Free

Executive Assault 2

Run a space empire from the strategy map, then take direct control of a ship, robot or turret to fight the battle yourself.

$24.99

Tempest Rising

Build bases, command huge armies and outplay rivals in ranked matches on a nuclear-scarred Earth.

$39.99

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

A real-time tactics game in the Terminator: Dark Fate universe.

$39.99

Silica

Battle across the dunes of Baltarus as a soldier, then take command of the whole war from above, alone or with friends.

$24.99

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