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2016PC53 % positive

You pilot a small spaceship, gather resources in space, colonize planets and defend your home world from incoming asteroids. It blends space strategy, tower defense and shooter action.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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Planetoid

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2017PC49 % positive5.19 €

Fits your focus: Mood like Forbidden planet.

You construct physics-based facilities on a small planetoid to fend off enemies and protect the humanoids living there. It blends building, strategy and action in an indie sci-fi setting.

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Sanctum

  • Mood like Forbidden planet

Sanctum fuses tower defense with first-person shooting: you build mazes of turrets, then join the fight yourself against waves of aliens. Especially fun in co-op.

Control Craft 2

  • Mood like Forbidden planet

A small real-time strategy game where you command soldiers, capture enemy bases and repel invading attackers wave after wave. Across 24 levels you upgrade your weapons.

Cosmic Dust & Rust

  • Mood like Forbidden planet

A space tower defense game where you build turrets and defenses and upgrade your ship. You can also take direct control of the ship and blast enemies with its cannons and super weapons.

Starscape

  • Mood like Forbidden planet

An arcade-style space shooter where you play the last pilot of a research station, mining asteroids, salvaging alien tech and customizing your fighters. A modest story and resource management add depth to the dogfighting.

Creeper World 4

  • Mood like Forbidden planet

A real-time strategy game where you build towers, weapons and energy networks to contain and push back a spreading fluid-like menace. The fluid dynamics turn each map into a tactical puzzle.

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