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Games like Black Stars - The M87 Conflict

If Black Stars - The M87 Conflict is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planeticus, Tower Survivors and Taking London — 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.

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About Black Stars - The M87 Conflict: Command a rising interstellar empire in the M87 cluster. Explore and colonize distant worlds, build powerful economies, terraform hostile planets, deploy specialized fleets, and wage war against rival factions in a VR-exclusive galactic 4X strategy game where every decision shapes the conflict.

2027StrategyWindowsby Robin Krause
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  1. Planeticus

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    Top pick for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    Planeticus offers to conquer new planets in the company of friends or strangers. The essence of the game is to capture planets, manage resources, create as many of your own super planets as possible and generate space invaders.

    2023StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Tower Survivors

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    Second-strongest match for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    'Tower Survivors' is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must survive, upgrade and defend humanity against massive unending armies from Anubis Tomb, Jurassic Valley and Vampire Monastery. Set in three different empires hell-bent on your destruction, it’s not if you can survive, but how long.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Taking London

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    Third-strongest match for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    A love letter to old-school browser-based RTS MMOs – with charming nostalgic pixel graphics, a dash of political satire, and tonnes of strategic tension. Build your empire, face off against other players, and take what’s yours in true British imperial style: by dominating the map.

    2025StrategyMassively Multiplayer2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. SolPlex: Dominion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    A large scale sci-fi strategy MMO where players build multi colony empires, manage complex industrial economies, forge powerful alliances and wage war for dominance across a persistent galactic battlefield.

    2026StrategyIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  5. Combat Mission Shock Force 2

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    Ranked #5 for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.

    2020StrategySimulation59.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Microsoft Allegiance

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    Allegiance is a team-based multiplayer space combat sim that seamlessly combines first-person space combat with a top-down-view perspective, real time strategy, and real time tactics. Team commanders build bases, research technology, and coordinate players to execute a wide range of strategies.

    2017ActionStrategySimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.

    2024Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DEFCON VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Black Stars - The M87 Conflict fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Stars - The M87 Conflict.

    DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….

    2017StrategyIndieSteam ↗

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
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  8. Counter-Strike 2

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

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Frequently asked about Black Stars - The M87 Conflict

Does Black Stars - The M87 Conflict have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Black Stars - The M87 Conflict supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Black Stars - The M87 Conflict?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Stars - The M87 Conflict are Planeticus, Tower Survivors, Taking London.
Who developed Black Stars - The M87 Conflict?
Black Stars - The M87 Conflict was developed by Robin Krause and published by Rob-Gaming.

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