Games like Don't PANIC!

Remember how replayable and retro Don't PANIC! felt at its best? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Space Wars: Interstellar Empires
Helm your own ship, battle for supremacy in a multi-faction war, and conquer the cosmos in this science fiction turn-based strategy game. Select from more than 100+ diverse star ships and fight for territory across a 2D hex-based grid.
Replayable
65% of 248 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
73% of 453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Fly a gunship, end up ruling a star system. Starpoint Gemini Warlords puts you in the captain's chair of your own warship while you build fleets, conquer territory and grow an empire across Gemini. Lead the charge yourself or let your armada do the work, then do it all differently next time.
Replayable, Tense
72% of 3,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$34.99
Event Horizon
Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
81% of 183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$5.99
Galaxy Reavers
This is a fun yet challenging RTS game. To survive in the vast galaxy, you need to build up your own fleet and customize your warships. You will also learn to control them efficiently in battle to defeat your enemies, conquer planets, and expand your galactic empire!
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
67% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Escape Space
Escape Space is a classic arcade space shooter with RPG mechanics. Fight for various factions against swarms of enemies or bosses and improve your standings, level up your rank, unlock new gear and weapons, and upgrade your spaceship.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
89% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
You fly a ten-thousand-ton flagship that steers like it means it, with escorts at your back and dying stars ahead. Give orders, chain the fleet's guns into one Resonance strike, refit with loot from eight factions, and pick your route through random systems. Best with momentum, heat, and poor decisions managed carefully.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
96% of 47 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
Void War
Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire. You juggle weapons, modules, and reactor power, stack artifacts into sharp combos, and send a crew of cultists, deserters, and worse into bloody boarding fights. Every run tells a new story, and none of them forgive mistakes.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
94% of 3,790 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$19.99
Galactic Outlaws
"Galactic Outlaws" is a side-scrolling space shooter where you lead an elite squad on high-risk missions. Customize and upgrade unique ships, master devastating weapons, and battle waves of enemies in a galaxy plunged into chaos. Victory depends on your strategy and skill!
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
HEXTERMINATE
HEXTERMINATE is a top-down shooter which puts you in the role of an Imperial Captain. Your mission is to reclaim a galaxy shattered by centuries of in-fighting. Customise your ship with dozens of different modules, fight side by side with allied fleets and reunite the galaxy under Imperial rule.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
69% of 39 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Star Valor
A top-down space action RPG where you start as a nobody with a small ship and work your way up in a procedurally generated galaxy. Mine asteroids, run cargo, hunt bounties or turn pirate, join one of six factions or stay independent, and build a fleet worth fearing. Made by a single developer, and it shows in the best way.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
88% of 3,322 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$24.99
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 various buildings, study technology, and lead fleets to carry out grand strategic actions on the map of the galaxy.
Replayable, Retro
82% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99

Cheaper than Don't PANIC!

COSMIC WARFRONT

Top-down space combat shooter. 6 chassis, 8 weapons, 3 enemy factions, 3 bosses.

$1.99

Space War Machine

In Space War Machine you warp to a new star for each battle, in a never-ending fight for dominance.

$0.99

Galandrix

Galandrix is a rogue like arcade game played from a top-down view and features both fast-paced action and real time strategic choices.

$0.99

Into the Void

Into the Void is a strategy RPG and exploration sci-fi game with an epic story and intense battles.

$1.99

平面星舰：银河前线 Plane Starship:Galactic Frontline

This is a roguelike game which is minimalist (crossed it out) which has no money for art.

$1.99

Galaxy Kingdoms

Galaxy Kingdoms is an action/adventure shooter. Feel the journey of a bounty hunter as he explores the galaxy in search of quests and treasure.

$1.39

Cosmic Swarm

A modern space shooter where you guard the galaxy from collapsing into astropolitical war.

$1.99

Deep Space Battle Simulator

Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle.

$1.99

Darkstar One

Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice.

$1.79

Interstellar Pilot 2

The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.

$0.99

Galactic Arms Race

Top-down 2.5D action that combines old-school shooters like Star Control, action-RPGs like Diablo, with a system that evolves unique weapons to…

$2.99

Starship Wars

Destroy enemies, bosses and everything you see ahead!! Get crystals to buy better starships and get stronger. Have fun in three different game modes.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Don't PANIC!

eXoSpace Combat Engineer

Design your own warship piece by piece, then take it into fast bullet-hell battles across a galaxy of supervillains.

$14.99

Void War

Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.

$19.99

Star Vortex

Star Vortex is a fast-paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre.

$24.99

Space Reign

An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.

$19.99

Star Valor

Mine, trade, hunt bounties or go pirate in a procedurally generated galaxy that plays out differently every time.

$24.99

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…

$19.99

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.

$19.99