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Games like Stellaris

2016PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable86 % positive49.99 €

Paradox's space grand strategy lets you shape a custom alien empire from its first hyperlane jump to galactic dominance, generating emergent stories through anomalies, diplomacy and late-game crises.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Deep systems to master
  • Economy and management
  • Choices with consequences

The closest matches for Stellaris are Dune: Spice Wars, Endless Space 2 and Eve Online. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Stellaris special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dune: Spice Wars

94 %Match

2023PCXboxSteam Deck playable80 % positive34.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Stellaris: economy and management, complex systems to tinker with as well as a sci-fi setting.

A real-time strategy game with 4X elements on the desert planet Arrakis, where you lead a Dune faction, harvest spice, survive sandworms and storms, and fight for dominance through politics, espionage and war.

Endless Space 2

Sci-fi setting

A deep space 4X strategy game where you lead a distinct star-faring civilization through expansion, research, diplomacy and war. Each faction plays very differently thanks to unique mechanics and quest lines.

Eve Online

Sandbox with your own goals

A vast, persistent space sandbox MMO where players shape trade, mining, warfare and politics in a fully player-driven economy. The steep learning curve and costly losses give every decision weight.

Distant Worlds 2

Sandbox with your own goals

A huge pausable real-time 4X space strategy game where you explore galaxies with thousands of star systems, manage economy and diplomacy, and expand through conquest. Much can be automated, letting you run your interstellar empire your own way.

Endless Space

Deep systems to master

A turn-based space 4X game where you lead one of several factions to explore star systems, grow an empire, research technology and command fleets. The mystery of the ancient Endless and the substance Dust fuels the race for the galaxy.

Star Ruler 2

Deep systems to master

A real-time space 4X strategy game where you manage hundreds of planets, research technologies, play galactic politics and command huge fleets. Its massive scale and empire-management depth define the experience.

Sins of a Solar Empire

Sci-fi setting

A space strategy game blending real-time fleet battles with 4X economy, expansion and diplomacy. You lead an interstellar empire and command huge fleets across entire star systems.

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