Warmada
Build your own capital ship and fight other player's creations in a procedural galaxy!
51% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like Star Ruler
Did Star Ruler leave you in a replayable and competitive frame of mind? Browse these games for your next favorite.
Galactic Ruler
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Replayable
46% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Space Empires V
A turn-based space 4X on a huge scale: explore a galaxy of 100 solar systems, research thousands of tech levels, design every ship from the hull up and test it in a combat simulator before it ever fires a shot. Deep, demanding, endlessly moddable, and the kind of empire builder that keeps pulling you back for one more turn.
Replayable, Competitive
73% of 424 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99Galactic Civilizations IV
Lead a young starfaring civilization from its first faster-than-light flight to galactic power. Explore procedurally generated galaxies, colonize worlds, design fleets, out-talk or out-fight rival empires, and win your way: by conquest, culture, diplomacy or prestige. Every run plays out differently, and no two empires feel the same.
Replayable
72% of 2,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
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.
Replayable
94% of 12,143 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99Polaris Sector
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Replayable
70% of 420 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99Galactic Ruler Enlightenment
Play campaign stories within the Galactic Ruler universe. Invade the galaxy to eliminate those who stand in your way or rally alien races to defend against the invaders. Fight battles at both planet and space across a procedurally generated galaxy. Use new unit control systems to manage your forces.
Replayable
57% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Lead a civilization through a galactic war in this blend of 4X empire building and real-time strategy. Explore a 3D galaxy, forge alliances, bribe pirates, and send hundreds of ships into battle. A slow, sweeping war where every playthrough unfolds differently.
Replayable, Competitive
78% of 691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99StarDrive
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Replayable
43% of 1,255 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99Distant Worlds 2
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 simulated, and decide how much of it you want to control yourself. No two galaxies play out the same.
Replayable
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$49.99Stellaris
Lead a young starfaring civilization and shape it into something that spans the galaxy. You choose its species, ethics and ambitions, explore new systems, meet alien empires and decide if history remembers you as a pioneer or a conqueror.
Replayable
82% of 146,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,817$49.99Starpoint Gemini Warlords
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.
Replayable
72% of 3,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$34.99Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
A 4X space strategy from 2405, when humanity's first faster-than-light drive meets an alien attack on Earth. Six races with genuinely different ways to travel the stars, a randomized tech tree, hands-on ship design and real-time fleet battles. Turn-based empire building that plays differently every time, alone or with up to eight players.
Replayable, Competitive
87% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$9.99
Cheaper than Star Ruler
Event Horizon
Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.
81% of 183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$5.99
StarShip Constructor
Galaxy is on fire! Only you can save it! More than 20 modules and even more weapons and equipment,you can design your own spaceship and defeat the…
65% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Unending Galaxy
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
60% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Interstellar Pilot 2
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$0.99
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
Star Wolves 3: Civil War
Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties.
84% of 556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Galimulator
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game.
91% of 476 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Icarus Starship Command Simulator
In this "starship command simulator" you will fight your way to the center of a randomly generated galaxy where a massive star is about to go…
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Space Empires III
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration.
83% of 46 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$3.99
Void Destroyer
Combining the best of space combat and real time strategy. Victory can be tactical, a dogfight or capital ship slugging match - depending on how you…
64% of 268 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
An epic struggle for control!
79% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Hidden gems like Star Ruler
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 87$19.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99
Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
83% of 251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
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.
94% of 12,143 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Galactic Civilizations IV
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
72% of 2,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99
Stellar Warfare
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project.
80% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Starcom: Nexus
Explore hand-crafted star systems, upgrade your stranded shuttle into a warship and unravel the mystery of how to get home.
90% of 2,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Lord of Rigel
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics.
68% of 119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Build a turn-based galactic empire your way, from first colony ship to tactical battles between the stars.
83% of 720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$29.99
Distant Worlds 2
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…
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$49.99
Newest games like Star Ruler
Space Imperia 4X
A board-game 4X that finishes in one to two hours. Explore a new hex galaxy, research techs, build fleets from scouts to Dreadnaughts, and hunt down…
92% of 88 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Starminer
Build a mining ship piece by piece, haul in asteroids and manage the heat your greed creates before something out there notices.
72% of 1,866 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$29.99
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 87$19.99
Stellar Reach
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier.
79% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Stardust Exile
Stardust Exile is an RTS set in the Milky Way galaxy, containing currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics.
70% of 44 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Starcom: Unknown Space
An action RPG about drifting through a hundred star systems in a ship you built yourself.
92% of 4,515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$24.99
Lord of Rigel
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics.
68% of 119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99
Between the Stars
Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.
75% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Planet S
Claim procedurally generated planets, raise cities from a single spaceport, and grow your faction into a scientific or military power, alone or…
91% of 2,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Galactic Civilizations IV
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
72% of 2,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99