Games like Ancient Space
If Ancient Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astrosphere, Asteroid Colony and Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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 Ancient Space: Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
Players who liked Ancient Space also play
Steam players who put hours into Ancient Space 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.
Astrosphere
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
In Astrosphere, a sci-fi strategy adventure game, you build a space station, explore galaxies, equip spaceships, and tackle risky missions. Gather resources, research technologies, and write your legend in the cosmos!
Asteroid Colony
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in the asteroid belt. Settling in space comes with enormous challenges and dangers, which you will have to guide your people through
Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity multi-planetary.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ancient Space.
Ranked #4 for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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.
Venusville - Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Ancient Space.
Ranked #6 for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Space.
Ranked #7 for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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.
Interstellaria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Space.
Ranked #8 for Ancient Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ancient Space
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Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Ancient Space.
Reviewers of Ancient Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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.
Homeworld Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ancient Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Space.
Reviewers of Ancient Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
An epic struggle for control!
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Space.
Reviewers of Ancient Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Space at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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 ~80% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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 ~80% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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.
Majesty Gold HD
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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 ~60% under Ancient Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from CreativeForge Games
Other recommendable Steam games by CreativeForge Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
POSTAL: Brain Damaged
WHY THIS
Another title from CreativeForge Games, the studio behind Ancient Space.
POSTAL: Brain Damaged is a new, action-oriented take on the Running With Scissors’ cult game series with throwback graphics, and fast-paced, modern gameplay. Take a wild roller coaster ride through the twisted wonderland encased in the POSTAL DUDE’S messed-up mind.
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Space.
Another title from CreativeForge Games, the studio behind Ancient Space. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Phantom Doctrine
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Space.
Another title from CreativeForge Games, the studio behind Ancient Space. Shares Strategy with Ancient Space.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial
WHY THIS
Shares fleet positioning and a challenging mood with Ancient Space.
Another title from CreativeForge Games, the studio behind Ancient Space.
When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. And it is like none other. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy set in the merciless reality of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.
Frequently asked about Ancient Space
- How much does Ancient Space cost?
- Ancient Space is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Space are Astrosphere, Asteroid Colony, Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot.
- Who developed Ancient Space?
- Ancient Space was developed by CreativeForge Games and published by Paradox Interactive.
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