Games like Solar War
If Solar War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polaris Sector, Stellar Sovereigns and Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 War: A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and expand your campaign to push them back to their base.
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Polaris Sector
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar War.
Top pick for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Stellar Sovereigns
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar War.
Second-strongest match for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar War.
Ranked #4 for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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.
Stellar Industrialist
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
You are neither a general nor a soldier — you are a Stellar Industrialist. To you, peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses. Venture to the frontlines, strip battlefields for wreckage and salvage, turn spoils into resources, and expand your interstellar arms empire.
Lord of Rigel
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Solar War.
Ranked #6 for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?
New Stars
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Solar War.
Ranked #8 for Solar War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar War.
Reviewers of Solar War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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.
Master of Orion 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Solar War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Solar War cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource allocation and an atmospheric mood with Solar War.
Reviewers of Solar War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Solar War at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Solar War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Solar War.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 Indie with Solar War.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar War.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar War.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar War.
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.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Solar War.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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 Indie with Solar War.
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!
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Frequently asked about Solar War
- Does Solar War run on Steam Deck?
- Solar War is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Solar War cost?
- Solar War is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Solar War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Solar War are Polaris Sector, Stellar Sovereigns, Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms.
- Who developed Solar War?
- Solar War was developed by Snipefish Entertainment.
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 War.
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