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Games like Star Control

1990

A sci-fi strategy game where the Alliance and Ur-Quan fleets clash in ship-to-ship combat. Each of the fourteen ships has its own handling, weapons and special power, which shines especially in head-to-head duels against another player.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Tactical depth
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Star Control are Hellfront: Honeymoon, Battlezone Combat Commander and Raw Data. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Star Control special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Hellfront: Honeymoon

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  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A twin-stick shooter with strategy elements built for local multiplayer sessions on a single screen, where only one player comes out on top. Made for quick, chaotic matches with friends.

Raw Data

Action-packed real-time combat

A VR-native wave shooter where you fend off hordes of androids with guns, swords and placed defenses, ideally in co-op. Physical whole-body combat and wave defense are the focus.

Squids From Space

Action-packed real-time combat

A team-based top-down PvP shooter where humans and sinister squid aliens fight over the fate of Earth. The focus is on multiplayer battles with a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi tone.

Stellar Impact

Sci-fi setting

A multiplayer space combat game where you pilot a ship from a nimble corvette to a heavy dreadnought. You customize skills, crew and weapons and fight other players in tactical battles.

Games of Glory

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A top-down team shooter set in a sci-fi universe where you battle in intergalactic arenas alongside friends. The focus is on team-based online matches.

Battlezone 98 Redux

Sci-fi setting

A hybrid of first-person vehicle shooter and real-time strategy, where you pilot a unit from the cockpit while commanding your base and forces in an alternate 1960s space race. The Redux edition adds refreshed visuals, online multiplayer and Steam Workshop mods.

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare

Gameplay comes before story

An online hybrid of real-time strategy and third-person shooter set in an alternate, futuristic American Civil War. You command your customizable army in large-scale multiplayer battles.

Cortex Command

Sci-fi setting

A 2D blend of shooter and real-time strategy where you play a disembodied brain remotely controlling many expendable clone and robot bodies. A fully destructible pixel world and physics chaos make every fight unpredictable.

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