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Looking for games like Phosphor? Here are top tactical real-time strategy recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Solbound, BattleGroupVR2 or Shortest Trip to Earth.

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  1. Nowhere left to go.Humanity never made it past its own star. The drive dies at the edge of the system, so this is all there is. What is left of us lives out here, on what a golden age left behind. You fly a barely working ship. You strip dead ships for parts, carry cargo, take jobs, and shoot the people who try to take it from you. When you find a wreck with a log you can still read, you read it.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solbound.

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  2. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, music
    86% User Score Based on 158 reviews

    BattleGroupVR2 is a virtual reality real-time space strategy where you explore the galaxy and lead a fleet of powerful warships from the bridge of your flagship. Explore, mine, trade, hunt. Grow your fleet, upgrade your ships, train your captains, and battle the enemy from the captain's chair. Explore Command ConquerTake command of your fleet in a vast galaxy where strategy, skill, and cunning det… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BattleGroupVR2.

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  3. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    74% User Score Based on 1,792 reviews
    Critic Score 41%Based on 5 reviews

    Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe, while an intergalactic war is raging. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shortest Trip to Earth.

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  4. 60%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability
    61% User Score Based on 294 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    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 decide to achieve it. A desolate asteroid field on the edge of the solar system erupts in war. Your forces rely on you to take the battle to the enemy. Build up defenses and fleets, repair and upgrade your command ship, lead your forces to reclaim an… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Void Destroyer.

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  5. DRAGONS DIE. THEIR NAMES DON'T. You don't command an army. You raise a handful of dragons, learn their names, and fly them out into a world that has gone quiet... hold by hold, hunt by hunt, one small brave wing at a time. Some of them come home. The ones that don't get carved into the long table, and the hold keeps their chair set anyway. Marblewick: Dragons Die is a permadeath roguelike about… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dragons Die.

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  6. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    86% User Score Based on 1,108 reviews

    Continue your journey to Edo in Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms, where you play as the heroine Chizuru Yukimura. Romance the famous warriors of the Shinsengumi as you enter a fantasy drama of battles and self-discovery. Your narrative choices unlock multiple branching storylines and 30 different endings! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms.

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  7. The Federation declares it has achieved true utopia. You have your doubts. Voidflux is a top-down pixel-art roguelike strategy game. You take command of a Class-D supply ship and plot a course through an ever-shifting procedural galaxy. Jump between orbiting worlds, fight other ships from the inside out, and land on planets to extract the fuel, oxygen and scrap you need before the planet itself b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Voidflux.

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  8. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 349 reviews

    An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with management of a private space corporation. Claim sectors for your faction and raise its influence in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Reign.

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  9. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, music
    80% User Score Based on 249 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

    X2: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games where you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to X2: The Threat.

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    68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    68% User Score Based on 302 reviews

    Nomad Fleet is a RTS game where you must lead the last remnants of Mankind to safety after a mysterious alien race has hunted them near extinction. Lead a fully armed fleet of battleships, carriers and fighters through a series of randomized scenarios and encounters where they must fight for their survival while scavenging for resources, researching new technologies and solving disputes using dipl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nomad Fleet.

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    67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability
    67% User Score Based on 220 reviews

    Deadnaut is a Squad-Based tactical RPG from the developers of Zafehouse: Diaries. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deadnaut.

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  12. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    62% User Score Based on 404 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, you take control of the last remaining ships of a near-destroyed A’kari fleet, and must rebuild your forces as you battle through ancient, galactic battlefields towards a final showdown with the Orthani. Build your fleet of up to 5 ships (from a choice of any combination of 8 classes) and upgrade their weapons and attachments which… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

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  13. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    61% User Score Based on 102 reviews

    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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unending Galaxy.

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  14. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    54% User Score Based on 354 reviews

    Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellaria.

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    85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    85% User Score Based on 147 reviews

    XO is a relentless, strategic fleet defense game blending real-time with pause, political intrigue and a punishing drive to survive. Take command of the last battleship, gather a fleet and try to unite five hostile factions in a desperate bid to save humanity from an unbeatable enemy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to XO.

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  16. A galaxy that doesn't wait for youA sprawling simulation that runs behind the scenes - tens of thousands of spaceships, hundreds of stations, many factions. Start with a single spaceship. What you build from it is up to you. You are one captain among thousands. Every ship you come across is flown by a simulated NPC who earns rank, holds grudges, takes their own actions and can be killed. Faction… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wayfallen.

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  17. 1950. You run the smallest airline in the world.Dead last of 19 — one tiny route, no jets, no name. Across the golden age of flight, you claw your way to an empire.You're not up against a script. You're up against a living industry.Every rival airline is run through the same economic engine you are — real routes, real fleets, real profit and loss. Each has its own CEO: some price aggressive and ex… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AIR EMPIRE: 1950 Airline Tycoon.

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  18. Build something broken enough to break every enemy - and the game itself. You don't control the hero. Your hero runs the dungeon in a small window on the right, picks targets, and dies if you got it wrong. The rest of the screen is the real game: an endless skill tree you grow in real time while the fight plays out below. The tree is the game Kills give experience, experience gives levels, leve… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Path of Broken Builds.

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  19. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    78% User Score Based on 724 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

    In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes.

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  20. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    92% User Score Based on 843 reviews

    All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy game set in the Great War. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to All Quiet in the Trenches.

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  21. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    86% User Score Based on 511 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 3 reviews

    At the dawn of the 22nd century, the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system is being monopolized by several huge and ambitious mega-corporations. Although extremely delicate and vulnerable, a balance is maintained by these companies. At the very edge of the solar system the companies make a discovery which will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a n… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.

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    87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 7,310 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HighFleet.

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  23. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    78% User Score Based on 108 reviews

    Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

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  24. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    79% User Score Based on 784 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Destroyer: the U-Boat Hunter is an interactive war thriller which seamlessly blends tactical WW2 anti-submarine warfare simulation with a gripping storyline. Take command of a meticulously reconstructed Fletcher-class destroyer and lead your crew against nazi U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter.

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  26. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    81% User Score Based on 308 reviews

    Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star is a sequel to Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943. It’s an Eastern Front war game with solid graphics and sprawling battlefields that really emphasizes the scope of WWII tank combat. Want to step into the role of a commander in the very heart of Kharkov’s defense? You'll have everything the officers had back then: tanks, guns, and fearless soldiers. The success of each… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star.

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  27. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    78% User Score Based on 4,016 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    In SPAZ 2 you must survive in an evolving post apocalyptic Galaxy. The zombie threat is defeated, infrastructure has collapsed, fuel is scarce, and scavenging means survival. Initially the Galaxy contains hundreds of fleets, each trying to survive. AI captains do everything the player can. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Pirates And Zombies 2.

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  28. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    77% User Score Based on 19,846 reviews

    X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the successful X series, brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. Fly every ship, EXPLORE space or manage an empire; TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK carefully, while you embark on an epic journey. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to X4: Foundations.

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  29. ONE TRAIN. ONE STOLEN TIMETABLE. AN ARMY AT YOUR BACK. Steel. Steam. Sorcery. Boiler & Blood is a tactical real-time-with-pause roguelite about building a dieselpunk armored train, commanding its crew, and fighting through hostile territory before a relentless army catches you. You have thirteen days to reach the enemy command train. Every mile burns coal. Every detour gives the army time to… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Boiler & Blood.

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  30. YOUR DECK IS YOUR DEFENSEA midnight mob is marching on the Grand Flicker Theatre. Build a deck of cartoon contraptions, spend Ink to play your hand, and drag tower cards onto the street. The card does not merely trigger an effect. It jumps off the table and takes its place on the battlefield. CARDS BECOME TOWERSEvery tower starts in your deck. Draw it, pay its Ink cost, choose a position, and b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FRAMEOUT.

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  31. Your station is dead in the water, drifting through hostile space. The only way to survive is to go out and take what you need, together. One ship, one crew, no leaving anyone behind. Every run, your team boards a single ship: someone pilots, someone mans the turrets, someone nets the loot. Fight through asteroid fields and alien swarms to scavenge resources, then make the call: push deeper for… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Stranded Scrappers.

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  32. Short DescriptionCommand a mercenary mech company in a turn-based tactical RPG. Plan every move on a hex battlefield, manage heat and localized damage, develop veteran pilots, repair battered machines, and carry the consequences of each mission into the next. About This GameMeridian Strike is a turn-based tactical mech RPG about winning battles — and living with what they cost. Command a small m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Meridian Strike.

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  33. A 2D roguelite turn based space adventure. You play as the last admiral commanding your fleet as you make your journey into the unknown! fleet and weapon customization will give you near limitless combinations of skills and abilities as you fight vast fleets of enemies from planet to planet. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Admiral.

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    72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, replayability
    72% User Score Based on 683 reviews

    In this game you will try on the role of the chief mech engineer. You can design mechs, assembly and launch reactors, regulate weapons and, of course, send mechs into battle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mech Engineer.

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    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 3,658 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 3 reviews

    Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Duskers.

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  36. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    80% User Score Based on 2,258 reviews

    Ostranauts is a detailed simulation of owning and living aboard a spaceship, in a solar system where honest living is a slow death sentence. Set in the NEO Scavenger universe, where Earth has suffered cataclysmic collapse, the rest of the System lives on in a state of capitalistic dystopia. Players will create their captain, build or customize their starting ship from the spoils of their career h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ostranauts.

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  37. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 3,260 reviews

    After tracking a Soviet landing force bound for Iceland it is time to plan your attack. Do you silently close in to torpedo the landing ships and escape during the resulting chaos? Or strike with long-range missiles but risk counterattack from the enemy escorts? Have you detected them all, could another submarine be out there listening for you? Has the hunter become the hunted? Will you survive th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cold Waters.

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  38. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    81% User Score Based on 1,950 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Captain's Log, Star Date 2152. This is Space Crew. Its continuing mission: To defend Earth and humankind, to eliminate the extraterrestrial threat and to boldly go where no Crew has gone before in this unique, strategic, space simulation! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Space Crew.

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  39. 45%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    38% User Score Based on 485 reviews
    Critic Score 56%Based on 6 reviews

    Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Into the Stars.

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  40. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    80% User Score Based on 2,099 reviews

    Ultimate General: Gettysburg is a critically acclaimed tactical battle simulator that allows you to lead thousands of soldiers in the battle of Gettysburg as commander of either the Union or Confederate army. The game features the most accurately created map, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI. You have the freedom to use different strategies while the battle progresses. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ultimate General: Gettysburg.

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  41. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, music
    81% User Score Based on 1,082 reviews

    All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A space sandbox, inspired by the classics and standing on their shoulders. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Void Destroyer 2.

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  43. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    67% User Score Based on 4,121 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop's classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles. Additionally an extensive multiplayer mode with persistent fleets where up to 4 players can battle simultaneously, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada also features a big story campaign, taking place during the 12th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada.

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  44. Time is coming apart. You wake in a clock tower with no memory of who you are or how you got here — only a pocket watch, still warm in your hand, an empty room, and a letter in your master's careful script: time is fracturing, and you are the one who must gather the broken moments back, one piece at a time. So you step out into a world that has stopped making sense. Freeze Line is a hand-crafted … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Freeze Line.

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  45. Engagement is a tactical space-duel game built around the moment before the exchange. Time stops while both captains queue their next orders. Burn for speed, turn onto a bearing, bring a weapon online, brace an arc, or vent heat. Then commit. The clock runs until one plan ends first, and that captain gets the next decision. Every command takes ticks. A long weapon spin-up buys time for an opponen… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Engagement.

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  46. Command the battle. Survive the run. Build your legacyRank & Ruin is a tactical roguelite where how you command your armies in the moment decides whether you survive the next wave. This is not a game you watch. You move squads, issue charges, hold positions, and deploy your hero's once-per-battle ability at exactly the right moment. Preparation matters. Decisions under pressure matter more … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rank & Ruin.

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  47. The factories never stop. They build for whoever holds them. Helion Conflict is a real-time strategy game that removes everything that is not a decision. No base building, no resource management, no tech trees. Across the system stand factories, and every one of them builds without pause for whoever currently holds it. You do not gather resources - you take the enemy's production and point it bac… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Helion Conflict.

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  48. THE CALL Civil war shattered the Empire. The Throne’s power diminished, and an empire that once spanned the galaxy became a shadow of its former self. Yesterday’s rebels are becoming rulers in their own right, while whole sectors bow to usurpers who have had years to turn rebellion into rule. In its darkest hour, the Throne recalls you: a commander forged in an older, harsher age, who still re… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Our Fleet Is In Orbit.

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  49. Seven worlds have gone dark. Command stopped giving orders and started posting prices. All that’s left is your ship, a hangar full of hulls, and a long trail of exploding rocks between you and a dying star. Smashteroids is a neon arcade roguelite shooter where every run is a fight to turn a fragile little ship into a screen-filling storm of firepower. Blast through swarms of glowing enemies, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Smashteroids.

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  50. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability
    100% User Score Based on 13 reviews

    Sand in your lungs. Scrap in your pack. Storm at your back. The wreck is half buried. Wind's picking up. Your pack's almost full... but there's a sealed compartment you haven't cracked yet. Open it and you might find xenotech worth a week of runs. Or you might find nothing, and the storm catches you carrying a full pack you'll never get home. This is the scavenger's life. A desert planet tha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shifting Sands.

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