Games like Space Empires III
If Space Empires III is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Empires II, Space Empires I and Horizon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its massive replayable galaxy, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Space Empires III: The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
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Space Empires II
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Top pick for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Space Empires I
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares ship design and a nostalgic mood with Space Empires III.
Third-strongest match for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires III.
Ranked #4 for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires III.
Ranked #5 for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
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.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Space Empires III.
Ranked #6 for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Space Empires III.
Ranked #7 for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
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!
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires III.
Ranked #8 for Space Empires III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Master of Orion
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares empire customization, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Space Empires I
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
ENDLESS™ Space 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?
Space Empires IV Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Galactic Civilizations IV
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires III.
Reviewers of Space Empires III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Empires III at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.
Russian Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Achievement Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Empires III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
PlanetSide 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Fallout Shelter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
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More from Malfador Machinations
Other recommendable Steam games by Malfador Machinations, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Space Empires V
WHY THIS
Shares empire customization, ship design and a contemplative mood with Space Empires III.
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires III. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Space Empires IV Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Space Empires III.
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires III. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Space Empires: Starfury
WHY THIS
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires III. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
Space Empires I
WHY THIS
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires III. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Space Empires II
WHY THIS
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires III. Shares Strategy with Space Empires III.
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Frequently asked about Space Empires III
- How much does Space Empires III cost?
- Space Empires III is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Empires III?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Empires III are Space Empires II, Space Empires I, Horizon.
- Who developed Space Empires III?
- Space Empires III was developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First.
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