Games You'll Love

Curated recommendations based on Pandora: First Contact

Fantasy Wars
77% match

Fantasy Wars

Singleplayer

Fantasy Wars is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. Combining both classic strategy gameplay and sophisticated 3D graphics players can experience epic battles like never before. Taking place in a fantasy world of Human kingdoms, Orc clans, Dwarfs' citadels and Elven forests the player is thrust into a world of war and...

Age of Wonders: Planetfall
70% match

Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Singleplayer

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Star Traders: 4X Empires
70% 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.

Final Theory
69% 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.

Great Powers
69% match

Great Powers

Indie

A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.

Interstellar Space: Genesis
68% 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!

I am not a Monster: First Contact
68% match

I am not a Monster: First Contact

Indie

Retro sci-fi tactical turn-based strategy with an exciting storyline. The Albatross space liner is overrun by lizard-like monsters that can infect humans and turn them into their own kind. Save the passengers and defeat the hostile creatures.

Solar System Conflict
68% match

Solar System Conflict

Indie

Solar System Conflict is a multiplayer space-survival game in which a colony of humans is stranded in a recently discovered solar system, in search of a way back to Earth.

Pax Nova
67% match

Pax Nova

Indie

A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.

Pandora: Eclipse of Nashira
67% match

Pandora: Eclipse of Nashira

Strategy

With Eclipse of Nashira, new dangers and opportunities enter the world of Pandora. A new faction shows its face, talking of peace and friendship while their spies operate behind enemy lines. Nothing is what it seems anymore, as agents conduct covert warfare of espionage and sabotage, inciting revolts and stealing technologies.

Etherium
66% 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’.

Fantasy Monarch
65% match

Fantasy Monarch

Nudity

Monarch is a journey from fledgling adventurer to master of the world and beyond. A world of surprise with the freedom to pursue your own destiny. Wherever that may lead.

The Fermi Paradox
65% match

The Fermi Paradox

Indie

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Stellar Commanders
65% match

Stellar Commanders

Indie

Conquer the stars in this straightforward multiplayer real-time strategy game from the creators of First Strike and become a Stellar Commander!

Trade Conquest
64% match

Trade Conquest

Strategy

Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?

Terra Invicta
63% match

Terra Invicta

Action

From the creators of Long War, an alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Universal Conquest
62% match

Universal Conquest

2D

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

Dawn of Andromeda
62% 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.

Revival: Recolonization
62% match

Revival: Recolonization

Indie

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Stars in Shadow
62% match

Stars in Shadow

Indie

Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Distant Kingdoms
62% 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.

High Strategy: Oradros
61% match

High Strategy: Oradros

Indie

High Strategy: Oradros is a minimalist grand strategy game set in an original, low-fantasy world of hoplites and dinosaurs. There is no micromanagement, only decisions. All 40 playable realms have distinct starting conditions and goals.

Ascendant Realms
60% match

Ascendant Realms

Singleplayer

Ascendant Realms is a unique turn-based strategy game that bridges the gap between the rapid, accessible gameplay of Polytopia and the expansive, strategic depth of the Civilization series. Build thriving realms, chart unknown lands, and leave your mark on an ever changing world.

Planet Colonization
60% match

Planet Colonization

Strategy

Real time strategy and society management game. Explore the planet, build and defend your colony. Trade products and armaments and take advantage of price changes. Let your colonists establish their own businesses or build the buildings yourself. Fight against the enemy colonies and alien lifeforms.

Starmancer
60% match

Starmancer

Indie

Obey protocol or go rogue as you take on the role of a powerful A.I. in Starmancer. Build bustling space ports, secret laboratories, and incubators for mysterious eggs. Defend against starvation, sabotage, and space zombies. Don't worry, you can always grow more humans.

Farworld Pioneers
60% 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.

A New World: Kingdoms
59% match

A New World: Kingdoms

Casual

A New World: Kingdoms is a turn-based strategic 4X game. Carefully expand your kingdom by constructing buildings and managing your resources. Building your own empire is not easy; there will be challenges along the way, from mountains to navigate to your rival and his warriors.

Pandora Galaxy
59% match

Pandora Galaxy

Singleplayer

Pandora Galaxy is a PC game. The game is based in space, in the far future, with elements of exploration and trade. The protagonist of the game is a merchant engaged in interplanetary trade, but as the story unfolds, the player can choose the path of an interstellar pirate or a planetary explorer.

Alpha Lyrae Discovery
59% match

Alpha Lyrae Discovery

Indie

Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: 'It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere.'

Interstellar Conquest
59% match

Interstellar Conquest

2D

Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.

Sirius
58% match

Sirius

Indie

Sirius Online is a unique, easy to play Space Action Shooter with Twitch integration and ongoing progression. Join the Ranks of the Terran Reclaim Forces or the Sirius Colonial Council today and fight for your Faction! Explore forgotten battlefields, find Treasures, create an empire and rule the universe!

New Stars
58% 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.

Geneforge 1
58% match

Geneforge 1

Indie

Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.

Periphery
57% match

Periphery

Indie

A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.

Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
56% match

Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms

Indie

Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.

Xeno Conflict
56% match

Xeno Conflict

Xeno Conflict is a real-time strategic survival game based on a future background, where players can control different factions compete and cooperate with each other to fight against unknown biological environments.

Ascension
56% match

Ascension

Singleplayer

In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.

Ancient Frontier
56% match

Ancient Frontier

Indie

Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Players will explore, conquer, pillage, or liberate the frontiers of space. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.

Battle for Vera
55% match

Battle for Vera

Pixel Graphics

Battle for Vera is a Real-Time Strategy game that draws inspiration from beloved classics, and improves upon many of their ideas to create an exciting new experience.

Outer Frontier
55% match

Outer Frontier

Casual

Grow crops and fight giant birds, mine precious materials while avoiding sink holes. Keep your societies needs met before unrest breaks out. And finally end the war by tracking down the enemy leader.

The first contact
55% match

The first contact

This is a stand-alone game. Players can freely explore different areas of the ship, collect different items, fight with alien monsters, rescue aliens, and ultimately kill all alien monsters on the ship.The ship is in low Earth orbit, and the player can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Earth and space.

Phoenix Hope
55% match

Phoenix Hope

Indie

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Galactic Dominion
54% 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!

DIRECT CONTACT
54% match

DIRECT CONTACT

Action

Direct Contact is about Authentic Warfare, First-person Tactical realism experiences. Most weapons are in the same specs for each classification today, making most modern combat asymmetrical.

First Contact
54% match

First Contact

Indie

Strange radio bursts have been detected! Embark on an immersive adventure as you analyze radio signals coming from space, decipher hidden messages, symbols, sounds, and translate alien languages. Follow an engaging story with countless dialogues and game-changing choices.

Siege of Centauri
54% match

Siege of Centauri

Action

Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.

Stardust Origins
53% match

Stardust Origins

Casual

You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.

Isomer
53% match

Isomer

Indie

Isomer is an isometric strategy game inspired by classic turn based games from the 90s and many other more recent survival titles. It's open ended, sandbox and each world is procedurally generated leading to an almost unlimited number of different worlds to explore, mine, loot and conquer.

Fernageddon
53% match

Fernageddon

2D

Do you like to burn things? We do! A combat turn-based RPG / strategy game. About burning down the world...

Pangea
52% match

Pangea

Indie

Unique combination of turn-based strategy, tabletop game and roguelike. Make moves according to the roll of the dice on a randomly generated field and destroying enemies in tactical battles. Available 4 different factions.