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2023PC, Steam Deck playable60 % positive12.99 €

Cantata is a grand tactics strategy game set on the colourful planet Shoal, where after a crash landing you build armies, manage resources and choose between conquest and bringing peace.

  • Economy and management
  • Tactical depth
  • Deep systems to master
  • Open world

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In short: Games like Cantata

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cantata special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

90 %Match

2022PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positive18.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Cantata: tactical depth, complex systems to tinker with and an open world.

You build starships module by module, from floor plan to weapons and engines, then take them into real-time battles and campaigns in space. Your design choices directly determine how well your ship performs in combat.

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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances

Economy and management

In Imperium Galactica II: Alliances you grow an empire across the stars, exploring systems, managing resources and commanding fleets in real-time battles. It blends 4X expansion with a storyline built around shifting alliances.

Per Aspera

Economy and management

You play an AI managing the terraforming of Mars, building infrastructure, handling resources and research while a story with moral questions unfolds. A calm but demanding base-building strategy game with a scientific bent.

Sins of a Solar Empire

Economy and management

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.

The Spatials

Sci-fi setting

You build and run a space station, designing rooms, keeping your crew and visitors happy, and exploring randomly generated star systems. Missions and real-time fights add variety to the management.

Starsector

Open world

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.

Starminer

Open world

A space industry and logistics simulation where you design and build an interstellar mining fleet, then defend it in real time against alien threats using warships and defense platforms.

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