Games like Planets Under Attack
If Planets Under Attack is your kind of game, the closest matches are Earth 2150 Trilogy, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 and Battlezone: Combat Commander — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and stressful. 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 Planets Under Attack: Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
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Steam players who put hours into Planets Under Attack 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.
Earth 2150 Trilogy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Second-strongest match for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Battlezone: Combat Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Third-strongest match for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Battlezone: Combat Commander remasters FPS-RTS classic Battlezone II with slick new visuals, brand new achievements, Steam Workshop support and much more! The solar system is at war. Take command.
Earth 2160
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Ranked #4 for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Planets Under Attack.
Ranked #5 for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Executive Assault 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Ranked #6 for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
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.
DG2: Defense Grid 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Ranked #7 for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Ranked #8 for Planets Under Attack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planets Under Attack at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Planets Under Attack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
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.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Minion Masters
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planets Under Attack.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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More from Targem Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Targem Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
WHY THIS
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack. Shares Indie with Planets Under Attack.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
Crossout
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack.
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise Of Clans / Ex Machina: Meridian 113
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans - is an addon to a vehicular Action/RPG set in an alternate future. New heroes and mysteries await you in the vistas of a post-apocalyptic North America.
Battle vs Chess
WHY THIS
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
Commanders, assemble your armies! BATTLE vs. CHESS calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multimedia world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command!
Insane 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack.
Features traditional time trial mode and 9 other game modes, including the popular “Capture the flag”, “Gate hunt” and “Pathfinder”.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse.
Battle Mages
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Planets Under Attack.
Another title from Targem Games, the studio behind Planets Under Attack. Shares Strategy with Planets Under Attack.
There is a world which needs your defense. You are the young mage that has just graduated the mages school and you must pass through several hard tests to become a decent defender.
Frequently asked about Planets Under Attack
- Does Planets Under Attack run on Steam Deck?
- Planets Under Attack 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 Planets Under Attack cost?
- Planets Under Attack is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Planets Under Attack have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Planets Under Attack supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Planets Under Attack?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planets Under Attack are Earth 2150 Trilogy, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, Battlezone: Combat Commander.
- Who developed Planets Under Attack?
- Planets Under Attack was developed by Targem Games and published by Topware Interactive.
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