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 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$7.79
Games like Deep Dark Forest
Still thinking about Deep Dark Forest and its replayable and mysterious tone? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
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, Tense, Dark
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Replayable
77% of 959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$18.99Planet S
Planet S is a real-time strategy game about colonizing a whole solar system. Claim procedurally generated planets with a spaceport, build cities, feed production chains and grow your faction into a scientific or military power. Play solo or with up to seven friends, in peace or open war.
Replayable
91% of 2,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5FreeENDLESS Space™ 2
A turn-based space opera where you lead one of eight wildly different civilizations across a galaxy littered with the ruins of the ENDLESS. Colonize systems, steer senates, design ships and chase the truth about Dust. Gorgeous to look at, backed by a superb soundtrack, and built so each new empire plays like a different game.
Replayable
83% of 17,339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$39.99Galactic Civilizations III
A turn-based 4X strategy game about building a civilization among the stars. Pick from dozens of alien races, colonize worlds, design starships, spy, trade and wage war, then win your way: conquest, culture, technology or alliances. Every sandbox galaxy is set up differently, so no two runs play out the same.
Replayable
77% of 8,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 140Keng's Little Universe
One civilization, three skies: a planet torn by multiple suns, a cluster ruled by the dark forest law, and a galaxy of ten thousand stars. Anomalies rewrite each run; Story Mode links all three parts; play online with up to 10 players or in co-op; Auto Play runs your civilization while you idle.
Replayable, Mysterious, Tense
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Epoch Cycle
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Humanity's last shot: lead an expedition to an alien planet and build a new civilization from scratch. Pick a sponsor, seed your colony, chart a branching tech web and decide what your people become. A sci-fi spin on Civilization that plays differently every time, solo or against up to seven rivals.
Replayable
61% of 14,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 432$9.99From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi survival RTS where you build a colony on a hostile planet while waves of alien Goo close in. Expand, fortify and call down orbital fire from your ship overhead, then hold the line. Captains level up, factions play differently, maps are procedurally generated, and every run dares you to last a little longer.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
96% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$7.79Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X. Grow an economy, design fleets for the job, spy before you strike, and fight alliances for a galaxy that keeps moving while you sleep. Slow-burn strategy with real rivals: every mistake becomes someone else's opening.
Replayable
66% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85FreeENDLESS 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 3,796 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99Pandora: 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.
Replayable
61% of 540 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Cheaper than Deep Dark Forest
Oasis: Dark Forest
Darkness rules the land. Defend your holy tree. Plant trees to defeat the ghost army.
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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…
62% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tiny Civilization
A whole civilization on one small board. Drag matching tiles together to gather food, industry and culture, guide humanity from the stone age to…
92% of 2,149 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$1.99
My Colony
Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.
88% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.
47% of 141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Periphery Online
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth.
70% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Space industrial empire
Click mines and smelters into place, research new tech and grow a single production line into a fleet that conquers planets.
85% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era
Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space.
48% of 56 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$1.99
Star Wolves 3: Civil War
Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties.
84% of 556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Lost Technology
Lost Technology is a simulation game in which more than 100 characters belonging to 12 different factions battle to conquer each other’s territories.
86% of 587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.
90% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$4.99
Hidden gems like Deep Dark Forest
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
Lightracer: For Judge
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.
91% of 468 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$7.79
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.
82% of 3,796 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Solar Nations 2
Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
DarkSwitch
Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.
78% of 766 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99
Planet S
Claim procedurally generated planets, raise cities from a single spaceport, and grow your faction into a scientific or military power, alone or…
91% of 2,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Tiny Civilization
A whole civilization on one small board. Drag matching tiles together to gather food, industry and culture, guide humanity from the stone age to…
92% of 2,149 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$1.99
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 1,466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
Lightracer Spark
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds.
83% of 979 Steam reviews are positive$9.09
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Chaos Galaxy 2
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up…
82% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Newest games like Deep Dark Forest
Keng's Little Universe
One civilization, three skies: a planet torn by multiple suns, a cluster ruled by the dark forest law, and a galaxy of ten thousand stars.
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
82% of 3,796 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
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
Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X.
66% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85Free
Periphery Online
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth.
70% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DarkSwitch
Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.
78% of 766 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99
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
Epoch Cycle
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Stellar Reach
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier.
79% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Rogue Hex
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.
88% of 268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99