Games like Dust Fleet

Loved how replayable and tense Dust Fleet can get? These games line up well for what comes next.

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, Tense
72% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
NEBULOUS: 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.
Replayable, Tense
81% of 4,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$29.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns. You zoom from missile-by-missile fleet fights to managing orbiting planets across a living galaxy, leading one of six factions from the TEC, Vasari, and Advent to victory by war, trade, culture, or diplomacy.
Replayable
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 719$49.99
Stellar Warfare
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
Replayable, Tense
80% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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: 8$34.99
Ancient Space
Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
42% of 273 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Nomad Fleet
Nomad Fleet is a RTS game where you must lead the last remnants of Mankind to safety after a mysterious alien race has hunted them near extinction. Lead a fully armed fleet of battleships, carriers and fighters through a series of randomized scenarios and encounters where they must fight for their survival while scavenging for resources,...
Replayable, Tense
65% of 199 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Void Destroyer 2
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Replayable, Tense
79% of 655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Design starships piece by piece, staff them with crews of individually simulated people, and send them into physics-driven battles where every module can be blown off the hull. Explore a procedurally generated galaxy alone or with friends, test your designs in online PvP, or build without limits in Creative Mode.
Replayable, Tense
94% of 12,144 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
Annihilate The Spance
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own. You handle bases, economy, fleet mix and waypoint chains while autonomous fleets brawl across a 3D storm full of rival factions, bosses and very large capital ships.
Replayable, Tense
89% of 355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$29.99
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX
Replayable, Tense
63% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ENDLESS 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$39.99

Cheaper than Dust Fleet

Nomad Fleet

Nomad Fleet is a RTS game where you must lead the last remnants of Mankind to safety after a mysterious alien race has hunted them near extinction.

$4.99

Void Destroyer 2

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire.

$9.99

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes…

$9.99

Sid Meier's Starships

Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.

$14.99

Particle Fleet: Emergence

Build ships that get torn apart and patched mid-fight, then throw them at an enemy that spreads and adapts in real time.

$14.99

Interstellaria

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers.

$9.99

Gemini Wars

Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the…

$9.99

Event Horizon

Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.

$5.99

Gratuitous Space Battles

The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year.

$14.99

Battle for Orion 2

Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind.

$14.99

Star Ruler

Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option…

$7.99

X4: Foundations

Trade, fight and build your way from a single cockpit to a space empire in a simulated economy that runs whether you join in or not.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Dust Fleet

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.

$11.99

ERA ONE

Design warships module by module, raise a fortress from one Command Center, and fight real-time battles across the Solar System.

$29.99

Annihilate The Spance

Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.

$29.99

BattleGroupVR2

BattleGroupVR2 is a virtual reality real-time space strategy where you explore the galaxy and lead a fleet of powerful warships from the bridge of…

$24.99

Starminer

Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.

$29.99

Space Reign

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

$19.99

Sins of a Solar Empire II

A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.

$49.99

Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition

Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.

Free

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