Games like Space Tales
If Space Tales is your kind of game, the closest matches are TON Wars, Calyx and Orbital Strike — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and intense. 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 Tales: Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies. Adapt to deadly alien factions, capture giant bosses, and turn them into powerful allies as humanity fights to survive among the stars.
Players who liked Space Tales also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Tales 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.
TON Wars
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Top pick for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Tales.
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Calyx
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Shares tech tree progression, real time strategy, sci fi and an atmospheric mood with Space Tales.
Second-strongest match for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Tales.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Orbital Strike
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Third-strongest match for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Tales.
A real-time strategy game of orbital warfare. Build satellites, launch them into chosen orbits, and fight for control of the sky. Your assets stay invisible until an enemy sensor finds them. Every strike depends on being overhead at the right moment.
Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
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Ranked #4 for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Empires of Black Powder
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Ranked #5 for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
It’s the Napoleonic era, and you must build the battlefield you fight on. Send Pioneers to gather supplies, expand the local town, and prepare your defenses. Command companies in formation, keep your veterans alive, and carry their experience and upgrades into the next battle.
Prime Domination
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Ranked #6 for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
Broken Crown
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Ranked #7 for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Broken Crown is a fantasy RTS where you build a settlement, gather resources, research powerful upgrades, and command hundreds of units in formation-based battles. Advance troops through five visual tiers, preserve Bronze-to-Gold veterans, and conquer tactical maps shaped by Fog of War.
Close the Sky
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Ranked #8 for Space Tales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Tales.
A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Tales at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Tales.
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
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Priced ~67% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Tales.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Space Tales.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Tales.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Tales.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
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
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Priced ~47% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~67% under Space Tales on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Tales.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Tales.
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.
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 and Adventure with Space Tales.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Tales.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Samorost 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Tales.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Tales.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Tales.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Space Tales
- Does Space Tales work on Steam Deck?
- Space Tales is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Space Tales cost?
- Space Tales is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Tales?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Tales are TON Wars, Calyx, Orbital Strike.
- Who developed Space Tales?
- Space Tales was developed by Saigon Dragon 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 Space Tales.
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