Chasing that tense and replayable feeling you got from NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? Start with these games when you are ready.
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.
Also in Co-op · Tense, 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
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.
Tense, Replayable
Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.
Tense
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 · Tense, Replayable
Giant diesel ships duel in the skies of a desert world that has forgotten its own past. HighFleet mixes arcade dogfights with strategy: you track enemies on radar, intercept radio traffic, manage fuel and men, negotiate with factions and build your own fleet. Heavy, tense and atmospheric, with a prophecy waiting under it all.
Tense, Replayable
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
Tense
Infinity: Battlescape is a multiplayer space combat sim supporting hundreds of players on a single server. Join one of the corporate factions and fight for domination of a seamless, true-to-scale procedural star system. Participate in massive space and planetary battles involving hundreds of ships.
Also in Co-op · 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
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
Replayable
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.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable
Design your own fleet and throw it at the Particulate, a space-filling enemy driven by real physics instead of scripts. Ships get chewed apart piece by piece and patch themselves up again. A tense, replayable RTS with a campaign, a random map generator and editors for ships and maps.
Tense, Replayable
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.
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat.
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system.
You fly a ten-thousand-ton flagship that steers like it means it, with escorts at your back and dying stars ahead.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year.
Build ships that get torn apart and patched mid-fight, then throw them at an enemy that spreads and adapts in real time.
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.
Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle.
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…
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.
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…
BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship.
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.
Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.
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.
Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.
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.
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.
Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle.
You fly a ten-thousand-ton flagship that steers like it means it, with escorts at your back and dying stars ahead.
Design your own warship piece by piece, then take it into fast bullet-hell battles across a galaxy of supervillains.
Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.
Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.
Nuclear-powered space combat in the 23rd century! In The Black ® is an intense, realistic space combat simulator with a serious respect for science.
A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
Lead a paramilitary force against a growing space Cult threat.
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…
Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.
Hunt submarines, hold your fire until the moment is right, and settle Cold War standoffs missile by missile.
