Games like Light of Altair
Looking for games like Light of Altair? Here are top real-time strategy recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Horizon, AI War 2 or Galactic Civilizations III.
1 58%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, music58% User Score 316 reviewsCritic Score 56%1 reviewsHorizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets. You will also learn more about the galaxy as you come into contact with ten other species, each with their own unique culture, history and schemes. A full…
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability90% User Score 1,786 reviewsAI War II is a grand strategy/RTS hybrid against an overwhelming, inhuman enemy who has conquered the galaxy. The enemy has made only a single error: underestimating you. You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks.
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80%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding78% User Score 12,958 reviewsCritic Score 82%11 reviewsGalactic Civilizations III is the largest strategy sandbox ever made. Start with a single world and expand across the galaxy through diplomacy, trade, cultural hegemony or military conquest in this single-player or multiplayer 4X strategy game.
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81%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, optimization82% User Score 12,281 reviewsCritic Score 80%18 reviewsEndless Space 2 will put you in the fascinating role of a leader guiding a civilization in making its first steps into the cold depths of interstellar space. You will explore mysterious star systems, discover the secrets of ancient races, develop advanced technologies of unthinkable power, and, of course, encounter new life forms to understand, to court or to conquer. Your story unfolds in a gal…
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85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, replayabilitygraphics, grinding87% User Score 1,296 reviewsCritic Score 78%1 reviewsShadow Empire is an immersive and rather complex turn-based wargame with a unique mix of military focus, 4X elements, procedural generation and role-playing features.
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77%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability79% User Score 4,206 reviewsCritic Score 70%2 reviewsEndless Space - Definitive Edition includes all the expansions and updates released for the game (including Endless Space Disharmony).
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82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, story82% User Score 1,092 reviewsMassive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
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84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgraphics, grinding84% User Score 1,214 reviewsCritic Score 85%2 reviews"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their attention outward, away from the galaxy, to alien threats or opportuni…
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73%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, music70% User Score 3,688 reviewsCritic Score 80%4 reviewsDistant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. The Universe is Yours!Huge Galaxies with up to 2,000 star systems and tens of thousands of planets, moons and asteroids are yours to explore and exploit, whether pe…
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45%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding38% User Score 554 reviewsCritic Score 60%4 reviewsEtherium is the new, futuristic real-time strategy game developed by Tindalos Interactive, the studio that created Stellar Impact. This strategy game, exclusively for PC, offers a particularly dynamic and edgy gameplay with innovative game mechanics that revitalize the genre.In Etherium, three empires are engaged in a merciless struggle to control a handful of planets that contain rich deposits of…
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