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Games like Light of Altair

2009PC

A sci-fi colony builder where you grow settlements from a landing pod into metropolises and send ships to claim new worlds. Diplomacy and orbital combat against eight factions, plus a substantial plot, define the experience.

  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Deep systems to master

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In short: Games like Light of Altair

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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances

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1999PC88 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Light of Altair: economy and management, building and crafting as well as complex systems to tinker with.

In Imperium Galactica II: Alliances you grow an empire across the stars, exploring systems, managing resources and commanding fleets in real-time battles. It blends 4X expansion with a storyline built around shifting alliances.

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Per Aspera

Economy and management

You play an AI managing the terraforming of Mars, building infrastructure, handling resources and research while a story with moral questions unfolds. A calm but demanding base-building strategy game with a scientific bent.

Stardeus

Economy and management

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

Sword of the Stars

Economy and management

A space 4X strategy game where you expand across the stars with node drive travel, manage your empire on a turn-based strategic map, and fight fleet battles in real time. Distinct races with their own tech paths add variety.

Final Upgrade

Economy and management

A space strategy and management game where you play as an AI, exploring new worlds, building factories, setting up trade routes and researching technology while competing against rival AIs.

The Crust

Economy and management

You build and automate a lunar colony that Earth relies on, mining regolith, running conveyor and drone factories, looking after colonists and trading with rival factions. A story campaign with multiple endings adds direction to the sandbox.

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