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Games like Controware

If Controware is your kind of game, the closest matches are Xeno Command, ReEarth and Radiant Defense — 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.

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About Controware: Controware is a game that will take you into the fascinating world of space warfare and allow you to become a real warlord.

2024Strategy29.99 USDWindowsby Neki4 Electronics
Controware — Steam game cover

Players who liked Controware also play

Steam players who put hours into Controware 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. Xeno Command

    WHY THIS

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

    Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun

    2022Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. ReEarth

    WHY THIS

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

    ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!

    2024StrategyIndieRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Radiant Defense

    WHY THIS

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

    MILLIONS OF ALIENS WILL DIE!Radiant Defense is a tower defense game set in a vibrant universe invaded by countless alien hordes.Build your space fortress any way you wish, set up wide variety of weapons and traps and let the invasions begin!

    2014StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Attack on Toys

    WHY THIS

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

    Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. D.O.T. Defence

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Controware fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Controware.

    Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!

    2025StrategyEarly Access7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Operation: Polygon Storm

    WHY THIS

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

    A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!

    2024Strategy14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Calyx

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. Company of Heroes 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?

    2023ActionStrategy59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Balatro

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Controware on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Controware.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. FTL: Faster Than Light

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Controware on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Controware.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

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

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Samsara Room

    WHY THIS

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

    You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. South Scrimshaw, Part One

    WHY THIS

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

    South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

    2023IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Mizi NO!

    WHY THIS

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

    In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Fallout Shelter

    WHY THIS

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

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Minion Masters

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2019ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

More from Neki4 Electronics

Other recommendable Steam games by Neki4 Electronics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Space Adventures

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    An endless adventure in the middle of empty space. You will have to fight off endless waves of enemy ships, pumping your own and moving forward through space. Be careful, your opponents are getting stronger and stronger every time!

    2021Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Funny puzzle

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    Funny puzzle game is an electronic form of classic puzzles, now you can collect puzzles on your computer! puzzles is not only a game of the mind, where you need logic, intelligence and ingenuity, but also a great way to calm your nerves.

    2021IndieCasual10.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mystery Swords

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    Mystery Swords is a survival game with RPG elements. Your village was attacked by evil orcs. To protect the inhabitants, you, as the best soldier, are sent to explore the forest, but the enemies were much closer than it seemed. Can you stop a whole horde of hostile orcs?

    2021Action10.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Skull Bullets

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    Skull Bullets is a roguelike game with RPG elements. You are a risen from the dead shooter who is trying to get out of the endless forest with the undead. Upgrade your skills, get new weapons and deal with a whole crowd of enemies. Will you be able to get out? It all depends on you.

    2021Action0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Alien worm

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    Welcome to an incredibly atmospheric game in which you have to control an alien underground worm and kill everything that moves!

    2021Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Endless Zombie Weekend

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    Endless Zombie Weekend is an endless arcade game with RPG elements. It's hard to be the only survivor after the apocalypse. How often do you think about it? As the main character of the game, you can feel it! Upgrade your weapons and try to survive as many days as possible.

    2021Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Golden Mine Pickaxe

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware.

    You are a brave digger who went in search of minerals! Alone, you have to find as many of them as possible and improve your outfit in order to move further and further each time.

    2022Casual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Cat and fish

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Neki4 Electronics, the studio behind Controware. Shares Strategy with Controware.

    You are a brave cat who got lost in the forest in search of food. You have to collect all the food, while getting out of the forest alive. Be careful, because the forest is full of various traps and obstacles!

    2022StrategyCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Controware

How much does Controware cost?
Controware is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Controware?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Controware are Xeno Command, ReEarth, Radiant Defense.
Who developed Controware?
Controware was developed by Neki4 Electronics.

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 Controware.

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