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Games like Star Traders: Frontiers

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.

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Turn-based combat
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Cogmind

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2017PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive24.50 €

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.

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Starsector

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems 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.

BattleTech

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems 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.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems like Star Traders: Frontiers

Turn-based tactical battles against alien invaders where cover, positioning and class abilities decide the outcome. Between missions you manage your base, research and funding, and fallen soldiers are gone for good.

X-COM: Apocalypse

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems 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.

Stellar Tactics

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems 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.

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems like Star Traders: Frontiers

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.

XCOM 2

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems like Star Traders: Frontiers

Turn-based tactics against an alien occupation, with permanent death for your soldiers.

Master of Orion

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems 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.

Menace

Mood like Star Traders: Frontiers
Systems like Star Traders: Frontiers

A turn-based tactical RPG from the Battle Brothers developers: you lead an elite strike force against an alien menace, equipping infantry and fielding tanks and mechs in demanding, carefully planned battles.