Games like Solar Wave
If Solar Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Near Sol, Ascendance and Anno 2205™ — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Solar Wave: A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
Players who liked Solar Wave also play
Steam players who put hours into Solar Wave 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.
Near Sol
WHY THIS
Top pick for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Ascendance
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Distant Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Outscape
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Solar Wave.
Outscape is everything you love about traditional strategy games, but places your empire within a vast online galaxy alongside other real players. Outscape rewards skillful long-term strategic gameplay with a brilliantly refreshing new take on the 4X genre.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
AI War 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
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.
Dune: Spice Wars
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Solar Wave.
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Solar Wave at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Solar Wave.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Solar Wave.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Solar Wave.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Solar Wave.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Solar Wave on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
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.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Solar Wave.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
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!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Solar Wave.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Solar Wave
- How much does Solar Wave cost?
- Solar Wave is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Solar Wave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Solar Wave are Near Sol, Ascendance, Anno 2205™.
- Who developed Solar Wave?
- Solar Wave was developed by SavGus Studio and published by SavGus Studio, Andgo Games.
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 Solar Wave.
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