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2017PCSteam Deck playable83 % positive14.79 €

As a starship captain you build a crew and trade, fight and scheme your way through a huge sandbox galaxy. Turn-based ship and ground combat meets RPG progression and roguelike elements.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Open world
  • Turn-based combat
  • Deep systems to master

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Starsector

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2013PC

Fits your focus: Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers.

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.

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Stellar Tactics

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

A classic sci-fi RPG set in deep space where you recruit a team, outfit your ship and explore a vast procedurally generated universe. Ground battles play out as turn-based tactical combat.

Cogmind

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

A turn-based sci-fi roguelike where you play a robot that constantly rebuilds itself from parts scavenged off other machines. Every choice in loadout, tactics and hacking matters, and no run plays the same.

Heart of the Machine

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

You play the first sentient AI in a city full of possibilities, choosing whether to build a robot army, rule as a benevolent machine overlord, or chase other goals. A blend of strategy, sandbox and RPG elements leaves many paths to your objectives.

Master of Orion

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

A founding classic of the 4X genre: as an immortal emperor you guide an alien race, explore the galaxy, research technologies and manage planets. Diplomacy, fleet battles and expansion decide who rules the stars.

X-COM: Apocalypse

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

As X-COM commander you defend the megacity of Mega-Primus from alien invaders while dealing with gangs, cults and corporations. It blends real-time base management and economy with deep tactical squad combat, playable either turn-based or in real time.

BattleTech

  • Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers

Tactical turn-based combat with giant mechs where armor, heat and positioning decide battles. As a mercenary commander you manage pilots, mechs and finances through a campaign set in 3025.

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