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Curated recommendations based on Distant Worlds: Universe

Distant Worlds 2
82% match

Distant Worlds 2

Singleplayer

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

Stellaris: Utopia
79% match

Stellaris: Utopia

Strategy

The stars have called you for millennia and now you walk among them. A universe of possibilities is open to your species as it takes its first fitful steps into the great unknown. Here you can turn your back on the divisive politics of the home planet. Here you can build something new.

Unending Galaxy
78% match

Unending Galaxy

Indie

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.

ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
75% match

ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition

Indie

Endless Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the Endless universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Universal Conquest
73% match

Universal Conquest

2D

4X/Grand Strategy/RTS Hybrid Space Simulation based on principles - and developed in consultancy with - alien contactees.

Interstellar Space: Genesis
69% match

Interstellar Space: Genesis

Indie

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Space Castle
69% match

Space Castle

Indie

Space Strategy. A mix of tower hold games and role-playing action.

Star Dynasties
69% match

Star Dynasties

Singleplayer

Take the reins of a feudal dynasty in a divided galaxy following the destruction of earth. Star Dynasties is a turn based, procedurally generated narrative of human drama and personal politics, mixed with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy.

Orbi Universo
64% match

Orbi Universo

Indie

Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.

We Are the Universe
64% match

We Are the Universe

Indie

Sci-fi tower defense where you create your own maze, manage drones and power levels, and harvest for resources. Upgrade your turrets, buildings and ground units. Upgrade and buy new vehicles and motherships.

Etherium
64% match

Etherium

Action

Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.

StarDrive
64% match

StarDrive

Indie

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.

The Long Journey Home
64% match

The Long Journey Home

Indie

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Approaching Infinity
63% match

Approaching Infinity

Pixel Graphics

Explore an infinite procedural open-world universe as you lead your ship and crew to victory or death in a sci-fi turn-based, tile-based Rogue-Like! 15 alien races strive for dominance, survival, significance, or redemption in this hostile war-torn galaxy. Can you live long enough to choose a side?

Star Traders: 4X Empires
63% match

Star Traders: 4X Empires

Indie

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Industrial Annihilation
62% match

Industrial Annihilation

Singleplayer

The next major game in the Planetary Annihilation universe, Industrial Annihilation combines the iconic real-time strategy of the beloved Annihilation games with deep factory-building to deliver a blend of genres unlike any you’ve experienced before.

Star Ruler
62% match

Star Ruler

Indie

Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Star Ruler 2
62% match

Star Ruler 2

Indie

Massive 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.

Galactic Ruler
62% match

Galactic Ruler

Indie

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!

Expanse
61% match

Expanse

Indie

25th century. The mankind has left the Earth to settle other planets. One of the Ark ships arrived in the star system but eventually no habitable planets were discovered. It led to a conflict between three factions — the scientists, the workers and the military — arisen on a planet with the best living conditions.

Farworld Pioneers
61% match

Farworld Pioneers

Pixel Graphics

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

Dawn of Andromeda
61% match

Dawn of Andromeda

Indie

Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.

Stellar Warfare
60% match

Stellar Warfare

Casual

Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Created by a very small team. More than 100 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!

Interplanetary
59% match

Interplanetary

Indie

In this turn-based strategy game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive artilleries through the unpredictable gravity fields of the planetary system.

Tachyon Wars
59% match

Tachyon Wars

2D

Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.

Advisors at the End of the Universe
59% match

Advisors at the End of the Universe

Indie

AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.

Angry Universe VR
58% match

Angry Universe VR

Action

Welcome to a VR game where you rule the universe! Break stuff, enjoy gravity physics, and survive natural disasters. And the best part? Fight off aliens using several guns or even asteroids. Try everything you can to keep your home solar system safe from the dangers out there!

Dual Universe
58% match

Dual Universe

Massively Multiplayer

Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.

Deity Empires
58% match

Deity Empires

Indie

Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.

Imperium Galactica II
58% match

Imperium Galactica II

Strategy

Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.

Galactic Dominion
58% match

Galactic Dominion

Indie

Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your systems, and conquer the galaxy. Play through an epic story driven campaign or alternatively customize your games for countless re-playability!

Expansion
58% match

Expansion

Indie

A strategy game about space (location) in space (cosmic). Colonise the galaxy with a thousand clicks of a mouse. Winner of DreamHack Austin Jam!

Universe999999
58% match

Universe999999

Indie

Universe sandbox simulation game.

Dominium Mundi
57% match

Dominium Mundi

Indie

Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
57% match

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

Indie

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX

Dungeon World
57% match

Dungeon World

Pixel Graphics

Dungeon World mixes roguelike and sandbox elements while keeping simple gameplay and retro style. Explore procedural worlds, plan your journey, make a family, modify the lands, get old and reincarnate with more world knowledge.

SpaceBourne 2
57% match

SpaceBourne 2

RPG

Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

New Stars
57% match

New Stars

Singleplayer

Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.

Empires of the Void II
56% match

Empires of the Void II

2D

A sci-fi turn-based strategy game. A faithful digital rendition of the beloved board game, Empires of the Void II.

Fantasy Empires
56% match

Fantasy Empires

Pixel Graphics

Create alliances, defeat enemy kingdoms and forge an empire in this Dungeons & Dragons game world! Under the computer Dungeon Master, you’ll interact with fantastic races, command dozens of troop types, send your heroes on quests and construct a variety of buildings and fortifications.

Stellaris Nexus
56% match

Stellaris Nexus

Singleplayer

Stellaris Nexus is a social strategy game offering all the depth of a full spectrum 4X experience played start to finish in about 1 hour. Choose a unique faction and leader and challenge up to 7 other players, plotting, battling and backstabbing your way to galactic dominance.

Mundus - Impossible Universe 2
56% match

Mundus - Impossible Universe 2

Indie

Play the brand new match3 game 'Mundus: Impossible Universe 2' and again join the great shaman on a galactic journey!

Universe Horizon
56% match

Universe Horizon

Indie

An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.

Poly Universe
55% match

Poly Universe

Indie

Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
55% match

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Indie

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.

Final Theory
55% match

Final Theory

Indie

Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.

My Little Universe
55% match

My Little Universe

Action

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy
55% match

Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy

Indie

Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. But instead of overcomplex set of rules and overall epicness, it offers more accessible choices, more elegant mechanics and much faster gameplay.

Distant Kingdoms
54% match

Distant Kingdoms

Indie

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Constellation Distantia
54% match

Constellation Distantia

Indie

Constellation Distantia is an action-adventure game with lightweight strategy and rpg elements. Player will unravel the story of Distantia in a game of missions, mining, crafting and surviving. And of course fast paced flying.