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2012PC82 % positive18.99 €

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.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Pixel art
  • Deep systems to master
  • Sci-fi setting

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Barotrauma

83 %Match

2023USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positive34.99 €

Delivers what excites you about Cortex Command: complex systems to tinker with, a sci-fi setting and co-op or multiplayer.

You crew a submarine with friends through the icy ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa. Every task, from reactor to weapons to hull leaks, matters, and small mistakes quickly spiral into chaotic survival.

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PlanetSide 2

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Empyrion: Galactic Survival

Sandbox with your own goals

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Shooting and gunplay

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Shooting and gunplay

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Arma 2

Shooting and gunplay

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Starmade

Sandbox with your own goals

A sandbox space game where you build your own ships and stations from blocks, explore the void, and fight in combat, whether solo or on multiplayer servers.

Space Engineers

Sandbox with your own goals

A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.

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