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Looking for games like Terrahold? Here are top open world city builder recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea, Hexbotica or AI War: Fleet Command.

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  1. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    81% User Score Based on 62 reviews

    HyperNova: Escape from Hadea: a charming open world single-player RTS with quirky characters, beautiful planetary design and a healthy dollop of humor. It combines classic resource management, technology research and civilization building with intuitive tower-defense gameplay. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea.

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  2. Hexbotica is a turn-based strategy game played on a single hex world made of three layers: subterranean caverns, the surface, and the open sky above. Your robots fight, mine, and build across all three layers at once. Build the factory. The factory builds the army. Resources come from gem deposits that eventually run dry. Mined gems are refined and sent through pipe networks of your own desig… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hexbotica.

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  3. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
    84% User Score Based on 1,214 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AI War: Fleet Command.

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  4. Broken Crown is a fantasy real-time strategy game built for players who miss the depth, scale, and tactical control of classic RTS titles. Start with a small group of survivors and build a new settlement from the ruins of a broken world. Gather wood, stone and food, construct your base, manage your economy, recruit workers and soldiers, and expand your forces until your fragile camp becomes a tru… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Broken Crown.

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  5. The peaceful takeover protocol is now active. The official report calls this a low-risk operation. The core device is charging, counterattack forces are closing in from every entrance, and the budget office still wants to know why you need another turret. Loop Defense is a single-player sci-fi tower defense game. Choose operations across a star map, build a defense for each site, and keep the co… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Loop Defense: Acquisition Protocol.

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  6. Frontworks is an Automation-RTS hybrid game about building a war factory and commanding vast armies. Extract raw materials, set up logistics, automate manufacturing and troop recruitment, then send your forces to seize and control ore deposits in a never-ending cycle of expansion. As an expedition sent by a hive-mind civilization, you are tasked with turning an unexplored planet into a war mega-f… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Frontworks.

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  7. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    97% User Score Based on 3,780 reviews

    For billions of years empires rose to greatness. Each fell to the Creeper till none remained. Now all hope appears lost. Who will stand against the Creeper? Experience this extreme and massive expansion of the Creeper World franchise. Nothing will ever be the same... Massive maps, custom units scripting, terraforming, Gravatars? Can you handle the challenge? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal.

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  8. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    74% User Score Based on 204 reviews

    Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens. The game offers a vast array of possible strategies with these simple rules, and will compel y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Harvest: Massive Encounter.

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  9. 49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    55% User Score Based on 40 reviews

    The refugee capsule lands on a uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth.Classic RTS in sci-fi setting: manage your units build bases explore the planet, look for and mine various resources, hunt wild animals fight and interact with other players develop economy and diplomacy At the beginning of the game, you, along with other beg… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Periphery Online.

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  10. Every bubble holds a reward—and a new threat.Bubblecore: Survivors is an endless single-player tower defense roguelite where you decide when the next attack begins. A mysterious world of resource-filled bubbles surrounds the Citadel. Pop one to instantly claim wood, stone, food, ether, or another valuable reward. But beware: every bubble also releases a group of monsters that immediately advances… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bubblecore: Survivors.

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  11. In System Status: SuperCritical, you must defend your base by placing towers strategically, forming interconnected systems that depend on one another. Resources are scarce and the threat level is ever-increasing. The defense is only as strong as its weakest linkAcross distinctive planets, each enemy wave grows stronger and stronger, stressing your structures to their very limits and beyond. Each … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to System Status: SuperCritical.

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  12. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    97% User Score Based on 1,378 reviews

    From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi Survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below. Expand Your ColonyExpand your colony in a hostile alien environment and ensure you can supply enough shelter, water and pow… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to From Glory To Goo.

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  13. 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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  14. Stranded at the Edge of ExistenceAfter a catastrophic first contact shatters humanity’s expedition fleet, you and a small group of survivors crash-land on a hostile, unknown world in the Lost Galaxy—a forgotten corner of the universe, beyond charts and signals. With no help coming, your only hope is to build, defend, and rediscover what remains of our fractured civilization. Can you survive the e… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War.

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  15. BELTFED is a roguelike factory-defense game of rapid, brutal runs and absurd scale. Lay belts, wire up smelters and assemblers, and balance your power grid, turning raw ore into raw firepower. All the while a planet's worth of bugs descends upon your factory. This is automation fused with total war. AUTOMATE DEATH The swarm arrives in the hundreds of thousands. Meet them with guns, flamethrowers… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BELTFED - Roguelike Factory Defense.

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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 301 reviews

    A combination RTS and base builder with a brand new kind of enemy, the Calyx are a group of powerful plant-aliens that, left unchecked, quickly spread to control swathes of the map. As the only remaining occupant of an Avaris Corporation deep-space mining vessel, you’ve arrived in orbit around a barren-looking planet. While you’re trying to get over being frozen for more than a century, you’re … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Calyx.

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  17. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    84% User Score Based on 5,530 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 5 reviews

    In the RTS-game “Diplomacy is Not an Option” you will become a medieval feudal lord in a midlife crisis. Due to your position you must constantly make hundreds of decisions a day related with city management and economic development. You are tired of this monotonous and, so it seems, meaningless existence. But things are about to change: hordes of bloodlusted enemies, swarms of scary monsters and … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Diplomacy is Not an Option.

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  18. Solar Imperium is a real-time grand strategy game where the planets are not menus. Every world you settle is a full globe of hexes, with ore veins, geothermal vents, ice caps, craters and rivers, and every hex is ground you can build on. Lay out mines, refineries and power plants tile by tile, and watch roads form along the routes your cargo actually travels. Then pull the camera back to the star… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Solar Imperium.

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  19. EVERY COLONY HAS A BREAKING POINTStelvyr: Colony Defense is a colony-building and defense strategy game set on a hostile planetary frontier. Every structure, crew member, and unit of power can determine whether your colony survives. Establish production, route a limited power supply, deploy specialist crew, and shape your defenses before alien swarms attack from multiple directions. When the batt… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stelvyr: Colony Defense.

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  20. Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart? In an age when Earth lies broken — torn apart by endless wars over dwindling resources and consumed by an unstoppable climate collapse — humanity face… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Colony Break.

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  21. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    81% User Score Based on 48 reviews

    ONLY STEAM KEY BEING SOLD (no itch.io file download) Demo on Steam Store Page & Steam Deck Verified!General, enemy forces have opened a Paradox rift outside of our base, we need you to fight them off. As a General, you'll have to defend your base against endless waves of enemies with different categories, including heavy, fast, flying, missile launchers, and more. Balance your economy and resourc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability
    94% User Score Based on 3,138 reviews

    Zero-K (ZK; formerly known as Complete Annihilation and CA) is a free multi-platform open source real-time strategy computer game. Initially based on content from Total Annihilation on the open source Spring Engine, it was forked and all proprietary content replaced, and evolved into a completely new game with unique features. Among the games powered by the Spring game engine, Zero-K is particular… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zero-K.

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  24. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    74% User Score Based on 2,198 reviews

    Aven Colony is a city-building and management sim that tells the story of humanity’s first settlement of an extrasolar world. Land on exotic Aven Prime, where you must construct and maintain the infrastructure and ensure the well-being of your citizens, all while dealing with the often harsh realities of an exotic alien world. On top of this, you’ll face the greatest challenge of all — keeping yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aven Colony.

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  25. Defend your tower. Survive the siege. Forge your legend. Shogun's Stand is a fast-paced action tower defense rogue-lite set in an under siege feudal Japan. You are the last defender, a lone Shogun standing at the heart of your castle as the relentless waves of enemies close in from every direction. Take direct control of your tower's firepower, hold the line with loyal soldiers, lay cunning … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shogun's Stand.

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  26. NABERON is a real-time space strategy game where you build your own empire in an unknown galaxy. Explore star systems, colonize the most valuable planets, and expand in space and on planet surfaces at once. Found colonies, grow your population, produce resources, shape your economy. You decide what to spend on, what to produce, and which of your worlds deserves the bigger investment. No tech tre… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NABERON.

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  27. YOU CAN'T INTERCEPT EVERYTHINGFailover is a civil defense strategy game where warning time means life and every interceptor you spend is one another city doesn't have. You command the radar networks, the power grid, and the missile batteries protecting a country under sustained attack. Your task is not to win the sky. It is to keep as much of it covered as you can, for as long as you can. Efficie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Failover.

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  28. Galactic Garrison is a turn-based, tower defense game that combines strategy, action, and tactical decision-making. Set on the unforgiving Mars, your mission is to defend humanity's last outpost from relentless waves of alien invaders. Deploy soldiers and turrets, build barricades to hold the line and protect your base from destruction. As commander of the Galactic Garrison, you will face incr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Galactic Garrison.

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  29. Gold Admiral is a turn-based naval strategy game in which every campaign plays differently. Explore procedurally generated seas and islands, found coastal cities, build up settlements, research permanent upgrades, and lead admirals, generals, fleets, and armies across a changing world. Trade goods between ports, fulfill contracts, collect bounties, plunder enemies, negotiate with rival powers, an… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gold Admiral.

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  30. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    86% User Score Based on 865 reviews

    Welcome to Drill Core, where corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining! By day, lead an elite crew of miners, carriers, and guards as they carve a path through hostile alien worlds. Build advanced facilities, upgrade deadly turrets, and prepare for relentless nightly assaults from alien lifeforms. Will you chase maximum efficiency at any cost, or play it safe and fight to survive? Drill Core i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Drill Core.

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    80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    80% User Score Based on 293 reviews

    Explosive singleplayer action RTS with a story campaign. Hold the line against massive swarms on a fully simulated battlefield. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to IDUN.

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  32. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, replayability
    86% User Score Based on 43 reviews

    Design Any Number of Units & Buildings with PrecisionBlazing Performance with No Unit Caps or World BordersWant to play in Virtual Reality? Go for it! Adapt or Perish provides a freshly unique single-player experience. Read the FAQ for more information in the discussion boards! Yes, there is building bases, ordering units & explosions -- but you get to do so much more, like change units &… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Adapt or Perish.

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  33. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    95% User Score Based on 3,795 reviews

    The fourth installment of the real-time strategy series again tasks the player with containing the creeper, a destructive fluidlike substance, slowly overtaking the map's surface. Creeper World 4 continues the series' gameplay and favors 3D environments with a focus on fluid dynamics over traditional 2D graphics. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Creeper World 4.

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  34. Your Towers Are the Maze.Every tower you place is a wall. Every wall you build is a longer walk to death. In Maze Builder you don't defend a path — you draw it, one tower at a time, forcing waves of enemies through a spiral of your own design while they burn, freeze, and shatter along the way. One misplaced tower and the whole corridor collapses. One perfect corridor and you'll watch a wave of 60… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Maze Builder TD.

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  35. A traditional RTS with 3D pixel art. Gather resources, build a base, and command squads in a medieval fantasy world. Choose from four factions with different units and wildly different mechanics. Play against AI or in PvP matches with up to 8 players, on handcrafted or procedurally generated maps. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Warharvest RTS.

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  36. A Space RTS About Decisions, Not MenusFleetLord takes the best parts of space empire games — conquest, expansion, production, upgrades, and massive wars — and compresses them into fast RTS battles. Capture planets, link them together, and turn a scattered empire into a fleet-producing war machine. Every planet has a purpose. Some produce ships. Some provide resources. Some unlock upgrades. Some … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FleetLord.

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  37. Explore across a living world map by land, sea and air - inspired by strategy and 4X games. Traditional job-based class system - level up and customize your recruits by mixing abilities, passives, and reactives from over 20 different varied classes. Manage an army of recruits. Pay their wages, feed them, keep them happy, work with or against their union, and deal with their crippling injurie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scathefire.

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  38. [Welcome to the Post-Apocalyptic Playground] Disrupts traditional gameplay while preserving its essence. The building will be automatically rebuilt after it is destroyed. "Map resources will run out; without expansion, the system will collapse." "Transportation Strategy: Changing Building Locations" Gravity cannon sweeping the ground When an enemy is killed, its wreck… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Remnant Afterglow Tower Defense.

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    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    88% User Score Based on 586 reviews

    Tower Factory is a game where you have to build a factory that allows you to create enough towers to defend yourself from enemies. You'll need to find and destroy the enemy castle before it becomes too powerful and its monsters overwhelm you! Features: Constantly build, expand, and upgrade your factory. Acquire resources to build more and better towers. Explore the map to locate the enemy castle, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tower Factory.

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    84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    84% User Score Based on 653 reviews

    Era One is a space-themed game developed by Team Complex LTD. Combining innovation, customization, and epic space battles, Era One offers a unique gaming experience. Players can customize their own ships using assembly modules, construct stations, warships, bases, and even cities in space. The game seamlessly blends real-time strategy (RTS) and base building elements, providing players with the op… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ERA ONE.

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  42. 41%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    70% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Starlight: Defence Command is a Tower Defence game designed for the PC that is tough and more in-depth than those gone before. With the ability to configure towers in billions of possible combinations, unlockable perks and fine tuning through target priorities, players are given powerful tools to complete the galaxy-spanning, story-driven campaign. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starlight: Defence Command.

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  43. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    61% User Score Based on 190 reviews

    ‘Alien Marauder’ is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme.In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, get all kinds of supplies to build your outpost, and deploy troops to resist the incoming vexans strategically! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alien Marauder.

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  44. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    64% User Score Based on 1,473 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 20 reviews

    Explore a vast universe in this roguelike, ship building, FPS Genesis Alpha One mixes thrilling roguelike mechanics with a deep ship builder and fast first-person action, putting you in the role of an interstellar pioneer. As the Captain of a Genesis starship, you journey into uncharted space on the ultimate mission. Build and manage a space vessel, farm resources, deal with terrifying alien infes… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Genesis Alpha One.

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    92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    92% User Score Based on 1,687 reviews

    Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planet S.

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  46. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    87% User Score Based on 7,028 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 18 reviews

    Starship Troopers: Terran Command is a thrilling real-time strategy game set in the Starship Troopers movies universe. Take command of the Mobile Infantry and do your part in the war against the Arachnid threat. Ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates the galaxy now and always! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starship Troopers: Terran Command.

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    79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    90% User Score Based on 1,786 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 3 reviews

    AI 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AI War 2.

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  48. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    57% User Score Based on 4,263 reviews

    Europe 5 Gift Pack includes: 5x Random Packs 1x Super Random Pack 1x Ultimate Random Pack 5x Army Packs 200x Card Points 2x 7-Day Premium Tokens Live the life of a medieval lord in Stronghold Kingdoms, the world's first persistent castle MMO. A unique PC Strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms brings together online interactivity and community, with a richly-depicted medieval world and thousands of rea… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stronghold Kingdoms.

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  49. HARVEST EVERTHING ! Build your way off the planet or into it — or build something worth profiting and staying. FerroFrame is a real-time strategy game on procedurally generated worlds, where the terrain and the fluids are both resources — and both are working against you. EVERYTHING IS A RESOURCERare Eart metals and organics aside; carve the planet. Strip the terrain itself. Drain a sea an… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FerroFrame.

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  50. A devastated planet. An endless tide of the infected. And a single survivor. THE AEON FALL is a roguelike defense game of uncompromising difficulty. If you want to survive, you must first learn not how to grow stronger — but how to pay the price of growing stronger. ◆ The Paradox of Progress — Every Bit of Growth Invites DangerIn this world, becoming stronger means becoming a target. Exploring, m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to THE AEON FALL.

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