Games like Silica
If Silica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ghost Battalion, SpaceCraft Brawl and Natural Selection 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and base building. 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 →Silica is a 2023 indie early access title from developer Martin 'Dram' Melichárek and publisher Bohemia Interactive that merges real-time strategy with first-person shooter mechanics. Players engage in base-building and unit-commanding while fighting as soldiers or issuing orders from above in sci-fi battles. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer and is playable on Steam Deck, priced at $19.99 USD. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric and immersive, and reviewers highlight the unique blend of RTS and FPS gameplay alongside the potential for large-scale multiplayer battles. The title holds a 77% positive rating from 3,488 Steam reviews, with players noting the challenging difficulty and medium-length sessions.
About Silica: Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?
Players who liked Silica also play
Steam players who put hours into Silica 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.
Ghost Battalion
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Top pick for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
A retro Sci-Fi First Person/Third Person shooter game similar to Star Wars: Battlefront and Rogue Squadron series. The player can choose to battle the alien race and their monster creations in Single-Player or in Multiplayer mode.
SpaceCraft Brawl
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
Build spacecrafts and fight with or against your friends! This game offers physics driven gameplay, with a variety of weapons and powerups. Slice your enemies in half with a laser beam, or erase them from existence with a black hole bomb!
Natural Selection 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Iron Offensive: Helmet Cam Extraction Shooter
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
You are not a scavenger on endless walks. You are a Soldier in a Tactical Shooter with a Helmet Cam perspective. Action from second zero, dodging artillery, drones, and the most tactical AI on the market in an intense field that wants you dead. Extract weapons, upgrades, currency, and killstreaks.
The Wall
WHY THIS
Shares first person shooter and real time strategy with Silica.
Ranked #5 for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
[Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.
Eximius: Seize the Frontline
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silica.
Ranked #6 for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
Earthbreakers
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Ranked #7 for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
Satellites rain death as factions fight for control of a Broken Earth. Protect your team's harvesters, build factories and vehicles, and assault the enemy base. It's team FPS action in an RTS world!
Executive Assault 2
WHY THIS
Shares first person shooter and real time strategy with Silica.
Ranked #8 for Silica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Silica
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Silica.
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.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
STAR WARS™ Battlefront
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
The STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Ultimate Edition includes the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Deluxe Edition as well as the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Season Pass.
Praetorians
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Silica.
Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.
Moduwar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Silica.
Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.
Natural Selection 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Silica.
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Silica.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Silica.
Reviewers of Silica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Silica.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Silica at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Silica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silica.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Silica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Silica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Silica.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Silica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Silica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Silica.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silica.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Silica.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Silica.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
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Frequently asked about Silica
- Does Silica run on Steam Deck?
- Silica 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 Silica cost?
- Silica is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Silica have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Silica supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Silica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Silica are Ghost Battalion, SpaceCraft Brawl, Natural Selection 2.
- Who developed Silica?
- Silica was developed by Martin 'Dram' Melichárek and published by Bohemia Interactive.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Silica.
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