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A slow-paced 2D space RTS with roguelike elements, where you evolve an abstract life form across a lengthy single-player campaign.

Swarm Queen
A single-player RTS where you spawn self-controlled space-bug swarms, balancing quick-to-learn rules with challenging tactical micro-management.
2017-12-19
- Action
- Strategy

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Games like Aether Way

A slow-paced 2D space RTS with roguelike elements, where you evolve an abstract life form across a lengthy single-player campaign.

Swarm Queen
A single-player RTS where you spawn self-controlled space-bug swarms, balancing quick-to-learn rules with challenging tactical micro-management.
2017-12-19
- Action
- Strategy

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A real-time sci-fi strategy game about exploring star systems, uncovering a phantom signal's secret, and ultimately evacuating survivors in a story-driven campaign.

2018-01-16

Strategy
Simulator

Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

A lengthy sci-fi strategy game about containing a flowing alien threat using repulsors and wormhole rifts across terrain.

2016-11-16

Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Creeper World: Anniversary Edition

A real-time strategy game about fighting a spreading liquid enemy by building defenses and using terrain elevation, with tense escalation and strong replayability per reviewer playtime.

2016-11-16

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

Particle Fleet: Emergence

A physics-driven RTS about building self-repairing fleets for space battles, with a short linear story but extended modes that led to a median reviewer playtime of around 53 hours.

2016-09-29

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

Final Upgrade

A single-player space strategy/sim about factory-building, trade, and AI combat, with a gravity-based side-view and roughly 20 hours of playtime among sampled reviewers.

2022-12-06

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

Star Ruler 2

A sprawling space 4X-RTS with varied factions, heavy emphasis on custom ship design, and a long campaign.

2015-03-27

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Text
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

Annihilate The Spance

A lengthy single-player space RTS base builder with huge autonomous ship battles, a story-rich campaign, and challenging difficulty.

2025-01-14

Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

ERA ONE

A single-player early-access space strategy game focused on base building, fleet management, and tactical battles that rewards strategic planning.

2025-08-06

Action
Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Moduwar

A creative biological RTS where your alien body mutates into an army for single and multiplayer warfare, with a quirky, rough-around-the-edges feel and ~4-hour sessions.

2025-06-03

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

A single-player strategy-sim where you adapt defenses against a creeping fluid across terraformable terrain, shifting from relaxing to time-sensitive play; reviewer playtimes average 58–174 hours.

2014-03-27

Science fiction
Puzzle
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Reassembly

A single-player strategy-action game where players build spaceships, explore the universe, and conquer galaxies, with an addictive loop and ambient soundtrack.

2015-02-19

Action
Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

Swarm Queen