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Games like Auto-Astra

If Auto-Astra is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kron Wars, Riftborne and AI War 2 — 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 Auto-Astra: Auto-Astra blends voxel-based construction with deep 4X automation. Design ships and stations, then write or use pre-made LUA scripts to automate your galactic empire. Strip asteroid belts, manage trade routes, and program tactical responses to enemy threats. Your logic, your empire.

StrategySimulationWindowsby Gerrit Schimpf
Auto-Astra — Steam game cover

Players who liked Auto-Astra also play

Steam players who put hours into Auto-Astra 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. Kron Wars

    WHY THIS

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

    Kron Wars is a persistent browser-based sci-fi MMO where players trade, mine, build corporations, wage wars, hunt bounties, and control entire sectors across massive player-driven universes with dynamic economies and tactical space combat.

    2026StrategyIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  2. Riftborne

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.79 USDSteam ↗
  3. AI War 2

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization VII

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!

    2025StrategySimulation69.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Driftland: The Magic Revival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Starbase

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

    2021ActionSimulationMassively Multiplayer34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Corsair Cove

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Auto-Astra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck 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. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Auto-Astra.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Auto-Astra

Does Auto-Astra have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Auto-Astra supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Auto-Astra?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Auto-Astra are Kron Wars, Riftborne, AI War 2.
Who developed Auto-Astra?
Auto-Astra was developed by Gerrit Schimpf.

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 Auto-Astra.

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