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Games like Stars And Empires: Colony Defense

If Stars And Empires: Colony Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unionatic, Bear Brigade: Ocean Attack! and Cube Kingdoms — 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 Stars And Empires: Colony Defense: An RTS/Action 3rd person shooter that lets players take on hordes of enemies while defending their base. Use strategy, unique abilities, tech research and combat skills to be victorious. (Currently in Pre-Alpha stage, 1 developer team)

2024ActionStrategyAdventure14.99 USDWindowsby Elemental Legion
Stars And Empires: Colony Defense — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Stars And Empires: Colony Defense 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. Unionatic

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Unionatic is an impressive game that combines strategy and village building. Construct your village, manage resources, and plan strategies while also experiencing thrilling TPS gameplay, controlling your character and engaging in intense battles against enemies!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bear Brigade: Ocean Attack!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    A twist on the tower-defense genre, play as a bear tribe chief defending their home against the forces of the ocean as they attack you in anger and retaliation due to overfishing. Place towers, command minions, and defend the camp from the enemy.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie5.00 USDSteam ↗
  3. Cube Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Build a medieval settlement in a fantasy world, manage economy and defense, and fight battles against goblins, undead, demons, and epic boss monsters in auto‑battle style.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual7.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. Ground Wars KDR Alpha

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Dive headfirst into the classic era of first-person and third person shooters with "Ground Wars KDR Alpha". Immerse yourself in the heart-pounding action and diverse arsenal that defined the early days of FPS gaming. Engage in awesome multiplayer mayhem across multiple maps.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Defender's Dynasty

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    A 2D Strategic Base Defender game set in Medieval times. As relentless Waves of enemy forces threaten your Stronghold, you must gather Resources, Fortify your Defenses and lead your Rebellion. Prepare to strengthen your Base and manage your Resources. But beaware of the Storms!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Project Martians

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    The conquest of new planets has reached a new level! A well-developed system for creating a colony. Choose your own path for the development of a new society. Develop your plantations on the red planet, build your civilization!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Nexus Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Tower Defense meets a Visual Novel narrative. Place an arsenal of towers to halt the invading enemy. Use special abilities such as napalm strikes, EMP blasts, and orbital lasers. A sci-fi space drama, filled with dialogue choices.

    2024StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. ByteCrawler

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Stars And Empires: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Pick a hero, build your swarm, and hold off enemy waves. Place units, watch your energy, and level up to survive in this lane-defense strategy game!

    2026StrategyCasualSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stars And Empires: Colony Defense at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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 ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Stars And Empires: Colony Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 ↗
  3. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Waves

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!

    2011ActionIndieFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    《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. Wires And Whiskers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.

    2025ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stars And Empires: Colony Defense.

    For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Stars And Empires: Colony Defense

How much does Stars And Empires: Colony Defense cost?
Stars And Empires: Colony Defense is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Stars And Empires: Colony Defense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stars And Empires: Colony Defense are Unionatic, Bear Brigade: Ocean Attack!, Cube Kingdoms.
Who developed Stars And Empires: Colony Defense?
Stars And Empires: Colony Defense was developed by Elemental Legion.

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