Games like SALVO

Hooked on the tense and chaotic side of SALVO? These games could fill that gap nicely.

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.
Tense, Replayable
81% of 4,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 116$29.99
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Chaotic, Replayable
54% of 383 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Air Defender
You are the commander of a Cold War air defense network, watching a green radar screen full of blips. Most are airliners. One might not be. Scramble fighters, interrogate contacts and make split-second calls where a mistake could start a war. A tense, slow-burn simulation with a big learning curve and real rewards for mastering it.
Tense, Replayable, Retro
81% of 407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$20.19
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
You are the crew of a 5,000-ton dieselpunk turret in an alternate 1920s Spain. Read the teleprinters, plot coordinates on the map, crank the ballistic calculator, load the shells by hand and fire. Slow, heavy, oddly meditative, with a dark streak and a cat.
Replayable, Dark, Atmospheric
97% of 15,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 920$14.99
Combat Mission Shock Force 2
A 1:1 tactical simulation of a hypothetical war in Syria, where every soldier has his own eyes, his own nerves and his own breaking point. Plan sixty seconds of combat, then watch it unfold.
Replayable, Dark
80% of 627 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$59.99
Command: Modern Operations
Command: Modern Operations puts you in the commander's chair over air, naval, subsurface, ground, space and cyber forces, from post-WWII clashes to near-future conflicts. It runs on real-world data and physics, with tens of thousands of units and hundreds of scenarios. It is demanding, detailed and, once it clicks, unlike anything else.
Replayable
85% of 1,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$79.99
Xenonauts 2
Command a secret multinational force in an alternate 2009 where the Cold War never ended and aliens are picking sides. Run covert bases across the globe, scramble jets at UFOs, and lead turn-based ground battles where soldiers die and the survivors become veterans. A grim, old-school war of resistance against a smarter enemy.
Tense, Replayable, Retro
81% of 4,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99
Combat Mission Black Sea
A military-grade simulation of a fictional 2017 war between Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Command real battalions down to single squads in true 3D, where drones spot, precision artillery strikes and electronic warfare jams.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
81% of 425 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$59.99
Warpips
Warpips is a tug-of-war strategy game where you pick the units and the little soldiers do the fighting. Spawn infantry, tanks and helicopters, call in airstrikes, and push the line to the enemy base. Rounds take 10 to 20 minutes, there is no micromanagement, and every battle plays out differently.
Replayable, Retro
87% of 4,373 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$16.99
Children of a Dead Earth
A space war game where the physics is the star. Design ships from real rocket equations, plan orbits with NASA-grade math, then watch railguns and lasers settle it at thousands of kilometres per second. Hard, honest, and unlike anything else: if you ever wondered what space combat would actually be like, this is your answer.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
89% of 917 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
ICBM
A real-time strategy game of global nuclear war. Pick a continent, research your arsenal, hide your silos and decide when to strike. Build ICBMs, bombers and submarines, plan synchronized launches, and trust allies exactly as long as it suits you. Tense, quick to learn, and every match plays out differently.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
91% of 1,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Möbius Front '83
Defend America from an alternate-universe America using state-of-the-art 1980s military hardware in this intricate and tactical turn-based strategy game.
Tense, Replayable, Retro
74% of 330 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than SALVO

Forts

Stack walls and weapons onto a wobbling physics fortress, then trade fire in fast, chaotic matches where one good shot can bring the whole thing down.

$8.99

Metal Thunder

Fly an AC-130 gunship, shred waves of enemies with upgrades each run, and bring a friend along in online co-op.

$8.79

SkyInFlames

Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.

$6.99

Nuclear Design Bureau

Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.

$9.99

Mech Havoc

Rogue AI HIVE has taken the planet, and you answer with steel.

$9.99

Intercept Line

You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets.

$4.99

Formata

Lead. Fight. Win.

$9.99

Kiloton

A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.

$6.99

ShipCrafter

Stack blocks into a WWII warship, then let physics decide whether it floats or goes down fighting.

$7.99

Warbox

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone.

$9.99

Phantom Signal — Sci-Fi Strategy Game

Phantom Signal is a real-time sci-fi strategy game with unusual mechanics.

$5.99

Observe

Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.

$7.99

Hidden gems like SALVO

Mech Havoc

Rogue AI HIVE has taken the planet, and you answer with steel.

$9.99

Drone Sector

Drone Sector puts you in command of a futuristic gunship supporting troops on the ground.

$16.99

SkyInFlames

Command drone swarms and SAM batteries to defend cities, managing every litre of fuel and missile in real time.

$6.99

IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator

Read the teleprinters, plot your coordinates, crank the ballistic calculator and load every shell by hand before firing.

$14.99

Nuclear Design Bureau

Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.

$9.99

Air Defender

Command a Cold War radar network, scramble fighters and decide in seconds which contacts are friend or foe.

$20.19

ICBM: Escalation

A grand strategy RTS about the worst day imaginable: you run a faction, race through tech eras, and decide whether conventional armies or a nuclear…

$29.99

Drop Command

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

$22.99

MENACE

Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.

$39.99

Xenonauts 2

Scramble jets at UFOs, command ground battles turn by turn, and hold a divided world together one hard decision at a time.

$39.99

Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Hunt submarines, hold your fire until the moment is right, and settle Cold War standoffs missile by missile.

$39.99

Metal Thunder

Fly an AC-130 gunship, shred waves of enemies with upgrades each run, and bring a friend along in online co-op.

$8.79

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