Games like Empires of a Tiny Universe
If Empires of a Tiny Universe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Sol, Frontier Control : Invasion and Kingdom Ascension — 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 Empires of a Tiny Universe: Empires of a Tiny Universe is a relaxed single-player RTS where you build and expand your empire across space. Manage planetary infrastructure, develop new technologies for your fleet, and conquer the galaxy - all from a clear, minimalist perspective.

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Steam players who put hours into Empires of a Tiny Universe 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.
Project Sol
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Top pick for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Frontier Control : Invasion
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Second-strongest match for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Frontier Control: Invasion is a Real-Time Strategy survival game in which you play the commander of a human space colony under the attack of outer space robots. Build your base, train your colony, and fight herds of enemies and bosses.
Kingdom Ascension
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Third-strongest match for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.
Anno 2205™
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Ranked #4 for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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.
StarFringe: Adversus
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Ranked #5 for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
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Ranked #6 for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
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Ranked #7 for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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.
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
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Ranked #8 for Empires of a Tiny Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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 Indie with Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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!
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Frequently asked about Empires of a Tiny Universe
- What games are most similar to Empires of a Tiny Universe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empires of a Tiny Universe are Project Sol, Frontier Control : Invasion, Kingdom Ascension.
- Who developed Empires of a Tiny Universe?
- Empires of a Tiny Universe was developed by Cactus 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 Empires of a Tiny Universe.
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