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2012PEGI 3PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable63 % positive11.79 €

An accessible indie sci-fi strategy game about attacking and defending planets. Simple controls make it easy to pick up, while the gameplay offers more depth than it first appears.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Fast pace

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Control Craft 3

84 %Match

2016PC73 % positive5.19 €

Brings what grabs you about Planets Under Attack: a sci-fi setting, tactical depth and gameplay over story.

A fast-paced real-time strategy game where you conquer planets through quick thinking and clever tactics. A small indie title for short sessions.

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8-Bit Armies

Vast, open spaces

A fast-paced, accessible real-time strategy game from Petroglyph with a colorful blocky voxel look. It offers a campaign, co-op missions, skirmish and multiplayer modes.

X-Morph: Defense

Focus on a single character

X-Morph: Defense blends a top-down shooter with tower defense: you play the alien invader, placing towers while also fighting directly with your own ship against Earth's defenders.

Defense Grid 2

Focus on a single character

A classic tower defense game where smart tower placement and upgrades hold off waves of alien invaders. A campaign plus co-op and PvP modes add plenty of variety.

Control Craft 2

Sci-fi setting

A small real-time strategy game where you command soldiers, capture enemy bases and repel invading attackers wave after wave. Across 24 levels you upgrade your weapons.

Rover Wars: Battle For Mars

Sci-fi setting

Rover Wars blends RTS resource management and building with MOBA-style lane tug-of-war, so every match feels like a tense push across the Martian battlefield. Its configurable Battle Mode makes it easy to set up custom duels with friends.

EarthX

Bright, upbeat tone

An indie management sim where you start a rocket company from scratch and grow it into an empire, developing technology, your business and even planet Earth.

Imagine Earth

Focus on a single character

A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.

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