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Games like ERA ONE

If ERA ONE is your kind of game, the closest matches are ZeroSpace, Admirals of Ophiuchus and Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. 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.

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About ERA ONE: Era One is an innovative space game that combines elements of real-time strategy, base building, space survival, and tactical battles. Players can create and customize their bases from scratch, construct various types of structures and warships, manage fleets, and engage in tactical space battles.

2025StrategyEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Team Complex LTD
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3d tactical space combat with sensors logistics and weapon varietyEarly access updates are frequent and responsiveHomeworld meets avorion gameplay at a lower barrier to entryAtmosphericContemplativeEpic

Players who liked ERA ONE also play

Steam players who put hours into ERA ONE 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.

  1. ZeroSpace

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    ZeroSpace is a sci-fi hybrid RTS game with a story-rich, party-based RPG campaign. As commander of the Protectorate forces, you must upgrade your mothership, build strong relationships with your crew and recruit a formidable army. Navigate the hard choices that will shape humanity's future.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Admirals of Ophiuchus

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Design massive ships, bristling with weapons, on a macro scale. Engage in fleet-vs-fleet battles, featuring many different tactics. Play alone or in Coop combat missions, or form two teams of players (each with own fleet) to fight in an arena.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Clankerfront

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Clankerfront is a classic isometric RTS where AI research went too far and awakened the world’s home appliances against humanity. Build bases, command armies, fight solo or co-op, and defend the front from the clankers.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Calyx

    WHY THIS

    Shares real time strategy, base building, strategy and an atmospheric mood with ERA ONE.

    Ranked #5 for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.

    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?

    2026StrategyEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SpaceCraft Brawl

    WHY THIS

    Shares ship customization with ERA ONE.

    Ranked #6 for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    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!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. FleetLord

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    A space RTS about decisions, not menus. Conquer planets, link them to fuel your war machine, and level up your empire with randomized perk cards. Crush all opposition.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Lichworks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for ERA ONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to ERA ONE

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Stellar Warfare

    WHY THIS

    Shares ship customization, resource management and an epic mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Homeworld Remastered Collection

    WHY THIS

    Shares real time strategy, ship customization and an immersive mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    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.

    2015StrategySimulation34.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Space Engineers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Avorion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

    2021ActionSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NavalArt

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with ERA ONE.

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.

    Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Starminer

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of ERA ONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie26.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ERA ONE at current Steam store prices.

  1. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with ERA ONE.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    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.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with ERA ONE.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~79% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under ERA ONE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about ERA ONE

Does ERA ONE run on Steam Deck?
ERA ONE 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 ERA ONE cost?
ERA ONE is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to ERA ONE?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ERA ONE are ZeroSpace, Admirals of Ophiuchus, Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival.
Who developed ERA ONE?
ERA ONE was developed by Team Complex LTD.

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 ERA ONE.

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