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Games like Perimeter

2004PC86 % positive3.99 €

An unusual real-time strategy game where you terraform the ground to build bases and defend them with protective perimeter shields. You command huge nanobot armies on deformable maps against the AI or other players.

  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Deep systems to master

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In short: Games like Perimeter

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

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Dark Reign: The Future of War

95 %Match

1997PC

Brings what grabs you about Perimeter: a sci-fi setting, complex systems to tinker with and tactical depth.

Dark Reign was one of the first real-time strategy games with true 3D movement, so you must use hills and mountains tactically. As the Imperium or the Freedom fighters, you work through missions aimed at slowly undermining and destroying the opposing side.

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Supreme Commander 2

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi real-time strategy game where you build an economy around your powerful commander unit, field huge armies and destroy the enemy commander. Research trees and large-scale battles are the focus.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Building and crafting

A classic real-time strategy game built on the Age of Empires formula, bringing base building and army command to the Star Wars universe. You lead factions like the Empire, Rebels, Gungans or Trade Federation through campaigns and skirmishes.

Supreme Commander

Building and crafting

A colossal real-time strategy game with huge maps, seamless strategic zoom, and hundreds of land, sea and air units, capped by game-changing experimental superweapons. Three warring human factions battle for the galaxy in the Infinite War.

Total Annihilation

Building and crafting

A landmark real-time strategy game where the Arm and Core factions clash in massive robot wars. Flowing resource management and true 3D units and terrain set a high bar for the genre.

Command & Conquer: Generals

Building and crafting

A classic near-future real-time strategy game pitting the USA, China and the GLA against each other with sharply asymmetric playstyles. General powers, destructible environments and a lasting multiplayer scene keep it a fan favorite.

Grey Goo

Building and crafting

A classic real-time strategy game with three very different factions, including the spreading Goo swarm. Base building, tech trees and towering epic units define both the campaign and the competitive multiplayer.

Ashes of the Singularity

Sci-fi setting

A large-scale real-time strategy game set in a post-human future, where huge armies fight over the resource Turinium across vast maps. It emphasizes macro management, expansion and massive battles.

Moduwar

Vast, open spaces

An unusual real-time strategy game where you control an alien creature that can grow organs, split apart and reattach its pieces. You can play as a swarm of tiny units or one giant mobile base, in single-player or multiplayer.

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