Games like Perimeter: Emperor's Testament

Still thinking about Perimeter: Emperor's Testament and its retro and competitive tone? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is a large-scale sci-fi RTS about commanding armies, navies, and air forces across maps up to 81km wide. You build a base from one Commander, grow the economy, and field hundreds of units including experimentals. It rewards long-term planning and remains the benchmark for enormous real-time war.
Competitive, Dark, Tense
96% of 9,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,109$12.99
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
It’s 2741 and the universe is at war. The Terran Empire is laying siege to the NSA, a treaty of colonies that upholds freedom and democracy. After losing the battle in space, the NSA is forced to retreat to its last stronghold. Can you snatch victory from impending doom?
Retro, Competitive, Story-driven
89% of 306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$4.99
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
A space empire in real time: explore star systems, grow your economy, research tech and send fleets of capital ships and titans into enormous battles. Six factions split into loyalists and rebels, several ways to win, and a mod scene that keeps it fresh. Slow, deliberate strategy at a scale few games match.
Competitive, Tense
93% of 10,259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 329$19.99
Earth 2150 Trilogy
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
Retro, Competitive, Dark
77% of 456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.99
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Lead the Adeptus Mechanicus into a Necron tomb world in this turn-based tactics game. Upgrade cyborg Tech-Priests, spend Cognition points in combat, and decide how deep to dig before the tombs wake. A story by Ben Counter and a soundtrack that carries the whole grim mood.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
89% of 11,899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$29.99
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.
Retro, Competitive, Tense
80% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Heroes of Science and Fiction
A turn-based sci-fi strategy in the spirit of the old Heroes games: explore a cut-off star system, raise armies for your commanders, and outsmart your rivals on the battlefield. Five strange factions, four campaigns, and battles where a clever plan beats a bigger force.
Retro, Competitive
89% of 867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$29.99
Terra Invicta
Pick one of seven human factions and fight over how to face an alien invasion: seize control of Earth's nations from the shadows, research your way into space, mine asteroids, and build fleets for Newtonian fleet battles across a moving Solar System.
Dark, Tense
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
ZEPHON
A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth. Lead survivors down human, eldritch or machine paths, build cities on a scarred world, and fight turn-based battles where every unit matters. When the final war comes, you pick a side and pray you picked right.
Competitive, Dark, Story-driven
83% of 1,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
A galaxy that keeps going while you fly, trade, fight and meddle. Space Rangers HD mixes turn-based RPG, arcade dogfights, planetary RTS and text adventures into one living sandbox, now with a whole pirate war of its own.
Retro, Story-driven, Tense
94% of 5,887 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 187$14.99
After the Empire
Build a galaxy-spanning machine empire! Bend galactic geography to your will to seize hundreds of territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory. Master your economy with Guilds, Trade Routes and Pilgrimages. Prove your faith, honor your culture, and conquer the Milky Way!
Competitive
76% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
A real-time tactics game in the Terminator: Dark Fate universe. You command the last organized remnants of the US military against Legion's machines, keeping the same soldiers, tanks and supplies alive from mission to mission. Every loss is permanent, every building can come down, and the story carries you through a grim, cinematic war.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
82% of 3,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 199$39.99

Cheaper than Perimeter: Emperor's Testament

O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base

An epic struggle for control!

$0.79

The Tomorrow War

The Tomorrow War is a space sim based on the trilogy of novels written by a famous Russian author, Alexander Zorich.

$2.99

Empires Shall Fall

Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world.

$3.24

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

In 2032 an Earth that knows only peace is forced to relearn the art of war.

$2.99

Element Space

Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.

$0.99

A.I.M.2 Clan Wars

A.I.M. 2 is the sequel to the epic science fiction first-person action RPG developed by SkyRiver Studios.

$2.99

X3: Terran Conflict

Trade, fight and manage your way from one small ship to a sprawling space economy in an open galaxy.

$3.19

UFO: Afterlight

The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock.

$1.39

Perraw - FPS Clone War Alpha

Perraw is a FPS multiplayer/Tower Defense placed in an futuristic environment Developed in free time as a hobby.

$0.99

X: Beyond the Frontier

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other…

$0.99

Exodus from the Earth

The Intelligence Agency has commissioned you, Francis Rixon, to find out what is happening inside the Corporation's confines and to retrieve…

$1.49

Original War

Lead a small crew through two time-travel campaigns where each soldier has a name, a job and one life.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Perimeter: Emperor's Testament

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

Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced

Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.

$9.99

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

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

ENDLESS Legend™ 2

Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.

$49.99

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.

$4.99

PERIMETER: Legate Edition

Perimeter is a real-time strategy game with a destructible world. Utilize the environment for resource gathering and defense against enemies.

$9.99

ZEPHON

A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth.

$39.99

Tempest Rising

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

$39.99

Terra Invicta

Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.

$39.99

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

A real-time tactics game in the Terminator: Dark Fate universe.

$39.99

Sins of a Solar Empire II

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

$49.99

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