
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Lead a carrier expedition across a hostile desert world, commanding ground vehicles in tactical battles while a cinematic story of survival and…
If Homeworld 3 scratched a competitive and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next.
Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Tense, Replayable
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!
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
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.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable
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.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
Real-time space battles in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, with all 12 factions from the tabletop game, three story campaigns and fleets you can customize. Big ships, bigger guns, and battles where a whole sector can hang on your next order.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
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.
Tense, Replayable
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.
Tense, Replayable
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.
Story-driven
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,...
Tense, Replayable
Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind. Probes detected a habitable planet in the Orion sector. You must fight your way to it, but nothing is as it seems. A more devious plan is underway that threatens the entire galaxy.
Competitive, Tense, Replayable
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.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable

Lead a carrier expedition across a hostile desert world, commanding ground vehicles in tactical battles while a cinematic story of survival and…

Lead a space fleet through two rebuilt classic campaigns, then take on up to seven rivals in huge multiplayer battles.

Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties.

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.

Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project.

A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles.

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

Take the helm of massive warships in real-time tactical battles, where one order at the right moment can decide an entire sector.

Take the helm of a growing armada and carve your own path to power across an open star system, one campaign at a time.

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

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…

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 one of five factions through a cut-off star system, turn by turn, and win battles with plans instead of numbers.

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

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.

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

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

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

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.

Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project.

A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles.

Command an air fleet through radar hunts, dogfights and hard choices in a grim world where a prophecy stirs.

Build fleets in secret, hack the enemy's systems and hit its core before it wakes up to what you are doing.

Lead vast armies of humans, machines or post-humans across entire worlds, in solo campaigns or online battles.

Lead vast armies of humans, machines or post-humans across entire worlds, in solo campaigns or online battles.

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

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

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.

Lead one of five factions through a cut-off star system, turn by turn, and win battles with plans instead of numbers.

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

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

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

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.

A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…

A simulation-heavy tactical space game where radar shadows, electronic warfare and 3D maneuvering decide battles.

Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project.