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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.

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  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Action-packed real-time combat
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Star Ruler

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2010PC82 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Forbidden planet: a sci-fi setting, a realistic look and gameplay over story.

A large-scale real-time 4X strategy game set in space, where you design your own ships, command thousands of units and build a galaxy-spanning empire. Extensive mod support and multiplayer add plenty of freedom.

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Planetoid

Gameplay comes before story

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.

Control Craft 2

Gameplay comes before story

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.

The Polynomial

Gameplay comes before story

A 3D space shooter whose fractal landscapes animate and pulse to your own music. It also offers a non-shooting mode for simply drifting through the visuals while listening.

MechDefender

Action-packed real-time combat

You pilot a mech in a hybrid of top-down shooter and tower defense, holding off hordes of alien zombies. You build mazes, upgrade weapons and skills, and protect your base.

X-COM: Interceptor

Realistic visuals

A space spin-off of the X-COM series: you outfit your interceptor craft, manage bases and research, and fight fast 3D space dogfights against aliens to protect mining colonies.

Cosmic Dust & Rust

Vast, open spaces

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.

SpaceForce: Rogue Universe

Realistic visuals

A 2007 space action game set in a science-fiction universe, where you pilot a ship through space, fighting and trading. Detailed information is limited.

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