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2023 PC 12.99 €

Cantata is a grand tactics strategy game set on the colourful planet Shoal, where after a crash landing you build armies, manage resources and choose between conquest and bringing peace.

What defines Cantata:

  • Tactical depth
  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover

The closest matches for Cantata are Starsector, Star Wolves and The Last Starship. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cantata special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Starsector

89 %

2013 PC

  • Open world
  • Tactical depth
  • Sci-fi setting

A space sandbox where you pilot a ship and build a fleet, trading, exploring and fighting in tactical real-time battles. You choose freely whether to become a trader, mercenary, pirate or warlord.

Star Wolves

Tactical depth

A space tactical RPG where you lead a mercenary squadron of pilots and ships, upgrading them and directing real-time battles with pause against pirates and rogue AIs.

The Last Starship

Open world

A starship simulation from Introversion Software where you build your own ship from hull, engines, life support, sensors and weapons, then set out across the galaxy. It is an early alpha, so this rating is provisional.

Shortest Trip to Earth

Lots to discover

A space roguelike where you pilot your ship through sectors, manage crew and resources, and survive tactical real-time battles. Every run brings new decisions, events and ship upgrades.

Space Haven

Open world

A spaceship colony sim where you build ships tile by tile, manage air and power, and look after the needs and moods of a ragtag crew as you travel the galaxy in search of a new home.

Distant Worlds 2

Open world

A huge pausable real-time 4X space strategy game where you explore galaxies with thousands of star systems, manage economy and diplomacy, and expand through conquest. Much can be automated, letting you run your interstellar empire your own way.

Satellite Reign

Tactical depth

You lead a squad of four agents in real time through a living cyberpunk city, taking it over through stealth, hacking or open force. Each class has its own abilities, and careful planning pays off.

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Tactical depth

A space tactics RPG with real-time-with-pause combat where you build a mercenary fleet in an anarchic galaxy, take contracts, and upgrade your ships and pilots.

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