Games like Starship Troopers: Terran Command
If Starship Troopers: Terran Command is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deterrence, Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem and Wargame: Red Dragon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its propaganda videos enhance immersion, atmospheric and cinematic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Starship Troopers: Terran Command is a 2022 strategy game set in the universe of the Starship Troopers films. Players lead Mobile Infantry forces against alien arachnids across missions that scale in difficulty, with each scenario rewarding thoughtful army composition and tactical positioning. Combat incorporates terrain elevation, line-of-fire mechanics, and unit synergy systems where different troop types counter specific enemy variants. The title integrates propaganda video sequences drawn from the films, a feature reviewers highlight enhances immersion. Players appreciate that unit roles and counters create meaningful strategic choices, while the mission-by-mission difficulty scaling contributes to replayability. The game carries an 88% positive rating from over 5,600 Steam reviews, runs on Steam Deck, and is priced at $29.99.
About Starship Troopers: Terran Command: Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
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Deterrence
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Top pick for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Artificial intelligence has plotted a path to a sustainable future, but humans aren't included. Defend humanity against the A.I. in this instant action real-time strategy, tower defense hybrid.
Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Second-strongest match for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem is part of Close Combat series. Its design is based on the critically acclaimed Close Combat – A Bridge Too Far, originally developed by Atomic Games, as well as the more recent Close Combat: The Longest Day.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Third-strongest match for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Wargame: European Escalation
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Ranked #4 for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Polaris Sector
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Ranked #5 for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Broken Arrow
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Ranked #6 for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Supreme Commander 2
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Ranked #7 for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
AI War 2
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Ranked #8 for Starship Troopers: Terran Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
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Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.
Dawn of Warriors
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Reviewers of Starship Troopers: Terran Command cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Features: 1. The main world is Super Big, which gives you a huge space to explore. 2. Challenge Tower is provided. Dungeons in Challenge Tower are 100% created by program, so never "Just the same". 3. Four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, Crazy. "Crazy" means really crazy… 4.
Deep Rock Galactic
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
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Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
World War Z
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
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World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
Lost Planet® 2
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Reviewers of Starship Troopers: Terran Command cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Lost Planet 2, the sequel to Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition, the landmark third-person shooter that sold over 2.3 million units worldwide, is now available on Steam!
HELLDIVERS™ 2
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
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The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
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Shares an intense mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Reviewers of Starship Troopers: Terran Command cross-mention this title as a similar play.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Infested Planet
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Shares an immersive mood with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Reviewers of Starship Troopers: Terran Command cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Balatro
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Priced ~60% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~50% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~75% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~79% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~73% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~83% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~67% under Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Starship Troopers: Terran Command.
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Frequently asked about Starship Troopers: Terran Command
- Does Starship Troopers: Terran Command run on Steam Deck?
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Starship Troopers: Terran Command cost?
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starship Troopers: Terran Command?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starship Troopers: Terran Command are Deterrence, Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem, Wargame: Red Dragon.
- Who developed Starship Troopers: Terran Command?
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command was developed by The Artistocrats and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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