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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.

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  • Open world
  • Turn-based combat
  • Deep systems to master
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Star Ruler

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2010PC82 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Star Traders: Frontiers: a sandbox with your own goals, complex systems to tinker with and an open world.

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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Cogmind

Turn-based combat

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.

Caves of Qud

Sandbox with your own goals

An extremely deep science-fantasy roguelike where you explore a vast, part handcrafted, part procedural world turn by turn. Dozens of mutations and interlocking simulation systems enable unusual builds and emergent stories where you can do almost anything.

Phoenix Point

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics game in the XCOM tradition where you lead a resistance organization against mutating alien horrors. It stands out for its free-aim shooting with targetable body parts, faction diplomacy on the world map, and enemies that evolve in response to your tactics.

Horizon's Gate

Turn-based combat

You sail across an open fantasy world as an explorer, trader or privateer, fighting turn-based tactical battles on land and at sea. You decide whether to chase the mystery of Dominio's betrayal or carve out your own adventure.

Stellar Tactics

Turn-based combat

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.

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.

Geneforge 2: Infestation

Sandbox with your own goals

A old-school, highly open-ended RPG from Spiderweb Software in which you play a Shaper who fights with self-created mutant creatures and sways factions through diplomacy or trickery. It offers 50+ hours, many zones and many ways to solve problems.

Elin

Sandbox with your own goals

Elin is the successor to the cult roguelike Elona: a huge sandbox world of adventuring, survival, crafting and home-building where you can do almost anything. It offers deep character growth, companions and a quirky tone.

Battle Brothers

Sandbox with your own goals

You lead a mercenary company through a gritty, procedurally generated medieval world, juggling contracts, gear and recruits. The turn-based battles are brutal, and losing your men is part of the experience.

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