Games like Nightside

Looking for that same competitive and replayable spark as Nightside? These games make natural next picks for you.

Five Nations
Five Nations is a real-time sci-fi strategy game for PC platform. Encompassing tactical combat in space in real-time mixed with micromanagement of economy, construction, and production featuring different kind of single player modes.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
81% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Grey Goo
An old-school real-time strategy on a frontier world, where three very different factions fight over the same pools of resource. Build a base, grow an army, and if you survive long enough, walk a game-ending Epic unit onto the field. Easy to pick up, hard to master.
Competitive, Replayable
69% of 2,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Command thousands of units across entire worlds in a large-scale RTS about economy, territory and timing. Play the campaigns of the Post-Human Coalition and the Substrate, or take friends into ranked and unranked multiplayer. The fleets largely manage themselves, so the real battle is in where you build, what you research and when you strike.
Competitive, Replayable
76% of 2,714 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$29.99
ZeroSpace
A sci-fi RTS where humanity's faster than light network is failing, and everyone wants the last of the flux. Build bases, command huge armies, call down orbital weapons, and make story choices as Commander Aster. Or team up with a friend in the co-op Galactic War, where every season brings new missions, events and rewards.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
78% of 1,351 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 96$39.99
Space Tales
Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies. Adapt to deadly alien factions, capture huge monsters and turn them into powerful allies as humanity fights to survive among the stars.
Tense
78% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
BlackChain
A classic single-player RTS set in a Solar System ruled by megacorporations. Journey from Mars all the way to Planet 9 and uncover the secrets of the BlackChain.
84% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Tempest Rising
A classic base-building RTS set on a nuclear-scarred Earth, where two armies fight over the mysterious Tempest vines. Build bases, harvest resources and command huge armies in two full campaigns, or take your skills into ranked 1v1 and 2v2 matches. Fast, hard-hitting and made for anyone who misses the great strategy games of the 2000s.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
86% of 10,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 154$39.99
From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi survival RTS where you build a colony on a hostile planet while waves of alien Goo close in. Expand, fortify and call down orbital fire from your ship overhead, then hold the line. Captains level up, factions play differently, maps are procedurally generated, and every run dares you to last a little longer.
Replayable, Tense
96% of 1,858 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$7.79
Executive Assault
An RTS where you can also be the robot. Build a base, raise an army of tanks and walkers, then jump into any unit and fight from the ground, even inside your own buildings. Win by storming the enemy HQ and taking out their CEO before they take out yours.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
84% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Meridian: New World
Slip into the role of Daniel Hanson, commander of the first mission to a remote planet called Meridian. Assured of the fact that the planet is uninhabited, the unexpected reception of a distress call from the surface could mean many things, none of which you are prepared for.
Competitive
49% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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. 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, Replayable, Tense
80% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Nightside

O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base

An epic struggle for control!

$0.79

Byte Lynx

Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building…

$9.99

The Dark Legions

The Dark Legions is a 3d real-time strategy game in the medieval ages. You can command your army and build your empire through story driven missions.

$1.99

Aeon Command

Aeon Command is a tug of war strategy game, where you play as one of three unique factions to help gain dominance over the Aeon Nebula!

$2.99

Grim Nights

Dig, build and train by day, then hold your village against the undead every night.

$2.99

MegaGlest

MegaGlest is a 3d real time strategy game with a very strong AI. Single player games and especially multiplayer co-op games are much fun.

$0.99

BC Kings

BC Kings features several new elements not commonly found in strategy games.

$0.79

King Pins

King Pins is a small scale real-time strategy game. Collect resources and expand your territory while defending your main unit: the king!

$2.99

Risen Kingdom

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

$2.99

SPACECOM

SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.

$1.39

Perimeter

Perimeter is an innovative Real-Time-Strategy game that pits players against each other or AI opponents in a life and death struggle to seize…

$3.99

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

Claim a hostile planet for one of four factions, raising cities and armies in a 4X strategy game that trades diplomacy for pure conquest.

$3.99

Hidden gems like Nightside

Heroes of Science and Fiction

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

$29.99

Calyx

Build a fortified base on a hostile planet and fight back a spreading alien plant with tanks, flamethrowers and an orbital laser.

$18.74

The Scouring

Command an army or fight as one hero, tearing through bases, dungeons and undead nights with friends or rivals.

$24.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

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

ZeroSpace

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.

$39.99

Planet S

Claim procedurally generated planets, raise cities from a single spaceport, and grow your faction into a scientific or military power, alone or…

Free

Executive Assault 2

Run a space empire from the strategy map, then take direct control of a ship, robot or turret to fight the battle yourself.

$24.99

Tempest Rising

Build bases, command huge armies and outplay rivals in ranked matches on a nuclear-scarred Earth.

$39.99

Silica

Battle across the dunes of Baltarus as a soldier, then take command of the whole war from above, alone or with friends.

$24.99

Sins of a Solar Empire II

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

$49.99

Retro Commander

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Free

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