Games like Slipways
If Slipways is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 2205™, Time Distortionists and Age of Wonders: Planetfall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 →Slipways, developed and published by Beetlewing in 2021, is a space strategy puzzle about connecting planets into trade networks and balancing supply and demand across a growing galaxy. Players optimize resources, chase council goals and explore a tech tree, with procedurally generated planets ensuring no two maps play the same. Reviewers describe the trade networks as emergent and alive, note there is rarely a single right solution to a puzzle, and praise how quirks and modifiers extend replayability. The pacing suits short bursts. Spanning the strategy genre, it holds a 94% positive rating across 1,779 Steam reviews and sells for 16.99 USD. It is rated Playable on Steam Deck. A relaxing, contemplative single-player optimization game.
About Slipways: Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
Players who liked Slipways also play
Steam players who put hours into Slipways also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Slipways.
Top pick for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Time Distortionists
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Manage time itself from a base outside causality in this turn-based strategy game. Scan and deploy agents across 13 billion years to stabilize collapsing eras. Build infrastructure to extract resources and defend the timeline. Every mission ripples through time. You can't save everything.
StrategySteam ↗Age of Wonders: Planetfall
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Slipways.
Third-strongest match for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Slipways.
Ranked #4 for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.
Alliance of the Sacred Suns
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Alliance of the Sacred Suns is a sci-fi grand-strategy RPG that begins with your coronation as the head of an interstellar Empire, and ends with your demise. Manage feuding noble houses and the schemes of would-be usurpers as you try to revive the glory of an Empire on the brink of collapse.
Galactic Civilizations III
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Slipways.
Ranked #7 for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Slipways.
Ranked #8 for Slipways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Slipways at current Steam store prices.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~56% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Slipways on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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Travellin Cats in Paris
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Virtual Cottage
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Magic Archery
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Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Slipways.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Frequently asked about Slipways
- Does Slipways run on Steam Deck?
- Slipways 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 Slipways cost?
- Slipways is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Slipways?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Slipways are Anno 2205™, Time Distortionists, Age of Wonders: Planetfall.
- Who developed Slipways?
- Slipways was developed by Beetlewing.
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