Games like Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
If Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Horizon and Xenonauts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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 Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy: Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.
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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
WHY THIS
Shares fleet management and an immersive mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Top pick for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?
Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Second-strongest match for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Third-strongest match for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Ranked #4 for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.
Concealed Intent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Ranked #5 for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Concealed Intent is a simultaneous turn-based game of tactical space combat. Players control their ships in a fully 3D world - hunting down their enemies, just as they are being hunted themselves. In Concealed Intent you know your enemies are out there, but not exactly where, or even what they are.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Ranked #6 for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Pandora: First Contact
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Ranked #7 for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Ranked #8 for Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Master of Orion
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
StarDrive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Space Ranger VR
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Space Combat in virtual reality in single player mission campaign and multiplayer dogfight up to 6 players with AI spaceships under the command of each player. Play in TDM, Conquest or Capital Domination Modes.
Star Wolves
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.
Homeworld Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Reviewers of Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival family who will stop at nothing to destroy your trading company.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
- How much does Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy cost?
- Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy are Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Horizon, Xenonauts.
- Who developed Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy?
- Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy was developed by Black Lab Games and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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