Games like Galactic Empire
If Galactic Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are ExoColony: Planet Survival, Terraformers: First Steps on Mars and Age of Wonders: Planetfall — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Galactic Empire: Galactic Empire is a 2D turn-based strategy game where you, as the Commander, decide the fate of the entire universe. Expand your planet, explore solar systems, play cards in cantinas, modify your ships and conquer more planets.
Players who liked Galactic Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Galactic Empire 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.
ExoColony: Planet Survival
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Top pick for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactic Empire.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
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Second-strongest match for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
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Third-strongest match for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Galactic Empire.
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.
Anno 2205™
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Ranked #4 for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
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.
Industries of Titan
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Ranked #5 for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactic Empire.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Space Haven
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Ranked #6 for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactic Empire.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Surviving Mars
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Ranked #7 for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Solargene
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Ranked #8 for Galactic Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactic Empire.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Galactic Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
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 ~60% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Galactic Empire.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under Galactic Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Indie with Galactic Empire.
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 and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
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?
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactic Empire.
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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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Galactic Empire.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Kielan xD, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Logic Colors
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Another title from Kielan xD, the studio behind Galactic Empire. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
Logic Colors is Indie Logic Game in which You move color tiles to solve riddles. Discover rules and relax in 225 unique levels and unlock all items in game! Will You finish them perfectly?
Broken Lands - Tower Defense
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Another title from Kielan xD, the studio behind Galactic Empire. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactic Empire.
Get ready for an epic journey to defend Broken Lands against hordes of goblins, dwarves, elves and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells! Fight on deserts, seas, forests and mountains, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!
Broken Lands Village
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Another title from Kielan xD, the studio behind Galactic Empire. Shares Indie with Galactic Empire.
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Frequently asked about Galactic Empire
- Is Galactic Empire verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Galactic Empire is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Galactic Empire cost?
- Galactic Empire is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Galactic Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Galactic Empire are ExoColony: Planet Survival, Terraformers: First Steps on Mars, Age of Wonders: Planetfall.
- Who developed Galactic Empire?
- Galactic Empire was developed by Kielan xD and published by NeuroCore Studios.
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 Galactic Empire.
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