Shield Operator
Defend the skies against enemy missiles, drones, and aircraft!
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like Distributed Shield
Chasing that tense and retro feeling you got from Distributed Shield? These games are worth a look next.
Command: Modern Operations
Command: Modern Operations puts you in the commander's chair over air, naval, subsurface, ground, space and cyber forces, from post-WWII clashes to near-future conflicts. It runs on real-world data and physics, with tens of thousands of units and hundreds of scenarios. It is demanding, detailed and, once it clicks, unlike anything else.
85% of 1,453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$31.99Air 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, Retro
80% of 405 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$20.19Combat Mission Black Sea
A military-grade simulation of a fictional 2017 war between Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Command real battalions down to single squads in true 3D, where drones spot, precision artillery strikes and electronic warfare jams.
Tense
81% of 425 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$23.99Shield 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$4.99SALVO
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, Retro
78% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Intercept 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, Retro
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99DRONE PERSPECTIVE
Real-time dynamic tactics with the strong focus on squad positioning and collaboration. Connect to the warzone from your home PC and orchestrate modern military operations from the Drone Perspective.
Tense
88% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Combat Mission Shock Force 2
A 1:1 tactical simulation of a hypothetical war in Syria, where every soldier has his own eyes, his own nerves and his own breaking point. Plan sixty seconds of combat, then watch it unfold.
80% of 628 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$29.99Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War
Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation. Plan and issue orders in asynchronous WEGO turns, leveraging real-world maps and complex features like Electronic Warfare and Air Assaults to outthink your enemy.
Tense, Retro
97% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$49.99NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles. Design a fleet down to individual hardpoints, then command it in real time with pause, alone or with friends. Every fight is a slow-burning duel of sensors and salvoes, and every mistake stings for hours.
Tense
81% of 4,112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$29.99SkyInFlames
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 338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$6.99OKTOFYBER
A war simulator. Destroy the enemy with thirteen branches of troops. OKTAVA will assist you — the Offline Kill-chain for Tactical Attacks of Vehicles Autonomous.
Tense
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than Distributed Shield
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
SkyInFlames
Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.
90% of 338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$6.99
Sandbox War Dispatch
An rts 1v1 battle game, the background is the sandbox simulation of modern military warfare.
$3.99
Joint Task Force
Joint Task Force is the real-time strategy (RTS) game where you command the frontline forces in tomorrow's most hazardous conflicts.
90% of 280 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99
Little Battle Simulator
Create the battlefield of your dreams and fight! Monsters, vast armies, rivers and forests, multiple teams… Anything goes!
$4.79
Tank: M1A1 Abrams Battle Simulation
The beauty of this armored warfare simulation is that it can be played from the simplest action mode to the most complex operational level of…
69% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Battle Simulator: Counter Terrorist
Tactical battle simulator between counter terror and terrorist teams.
89% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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.
92% of 122 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$6.39
Iron Warriors: T-72 Tank Command
The most devastating mechanized armor to ever roll onto a battlefield is brought to life in Iron Warriors: T72-Tank Command.
65% of 270 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
Hijong Park's Defender Patrol
Hijong Park's Defender Patrol is a small, low-poly helicopter combat flight simulator featuring simple but fully interactable cockpit system…
97% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Distributed Shield
Drone Sector
Drone Sector puts you in command of a futuristic gunship supporting troops on the ground.
89% of 406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$16.99
Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War
Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation.
97% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$49.99
SkyInFlames
Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.
90% of 338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$6.99
Remote Reaper: FPV Combat Drone Simulator
Pilot FPV combat drones through jammed signals and thin batteries, hunting a tank's weak spot before the signal dies.
91% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$19.99
D.O.T. Defence
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map.
85% of 210 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.
86% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99
Armored Brigade II
Command tanks, infantry and air support across real-world European terrain, where orders take time to arrive and plans matter more than reflexes.
87% of 151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$29.99
Air Defender
Command a Cold War radar network, scramble fighters and decide in seconds which contacts are friend or foe.
80% of 405 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$20.19
No Plan B
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.
86% of 767 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
Hunt submarines, hold your fire until the moment is right, and settle Cold War standoffs missile by missile.
91% of 6,452 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,650$49.99
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 10,886 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 448$19.99
Helicopter Gunship DEX
Fly helicopter gunships in a tactical combat sim inspired by 90s classics.
86% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Newest games like Distributed Shield
War Footing
Run a nation's defenses in the tense years before an invasion, then fight with the army you built.
86% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$11.99
Remote Reaper: FPV Combat Drone Simulator
Pilot FPV combat drones through jammed signals and thin batteries, hunting a tank's weak spot before the signal dies.
91% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$19.99
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
Close the Sky
A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hell Of War: Combined Arms
Hell Of War is a Real-Time Command Action (RTCA) game where you command the operation from a command drone, coordinate infantry, armored vehicles…
87% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
OKTOFYBER
A war simulator. Destroy the enemy with thirteen branches of troops.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Dagger Directive
Plan the op, gear up, pick dusk or midnight, and take on a global special forces campaign solo or with friends.
82% of 849 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Drone Sector
Drone Sector puts you in command of a futuristic gunship supporting troops on the ground.
89% of 406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$16.99
D.O.T. Defence
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map.
85% of 210 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 338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$6.99
ModernFire
Assemble a combat group with infantry, vehicles, and commander abilities, attack and hold sectors using artillery and aerial reconnaissance.
90% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$9.99