Games like Solar Wave
If Solar Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 2205™, Distant Worlds 2 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.
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.
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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.
Anno 2205™
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Top pick 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
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Second-strongest match 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.
AI War 2
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Third-strongest match 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.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
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Ranked #4 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.
Dune: Spice Wars
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Ranked #5 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.
Driftland: The Magic Revival
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Ranked #6 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
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!
Terra Invicta
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Ranked #7 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Solar Wave.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Outscape
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Ranked #8 for Solar Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy 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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Outpath: First Journey
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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!
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Frequently asked about Solar Wave
- 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 Anno 2205™, Distant Worlds 2, AI War 2.
- 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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