Games like Polaris Sector
If Polaris Sector is your kind of game, the closest matches are Distant Worlds: Universe, Tachyon Wars and Dust Fleet — 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 Polaris Sector: 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.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Polaris Sector.
Top pick for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Tachyon Wars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.
Dust Fleet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Polaris Sector.
Third-strongest match for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Polaris Sector.
Ranked #4 for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
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.
Distant Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Polaris Sector.
Ranked #5 for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Galactic Ruler
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Polaris Sector.
Ranked #6 for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
AI War 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Polaris Sector.
Ranked #7 for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
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.
Shadow Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Polaris Sector.
Ranked #8 for Polaris Sector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
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Master of Orion 2
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
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.
Space Empires V
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
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.
Space Empires IV Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
StarDrive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
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 a challenging mood with Polaris Sector.
Reviewers of Polaris Sector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Polaris Sector at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Polaris Sector.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Polaris Sector.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Polaris Sector.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Polaris Sector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Polaris Sector.
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!
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 with Polaris Sector.
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.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Polaris Sector.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Frequently asked about Polaris Sector
- How much does Polaris Sector cost?
- Polaris Sector is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Polaris Sector?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Polaris Sector are Distant Worlds: Universe, Tachyon Wars, Dust Fleet.
- Who developed Polaris Sector?
- Polaris Sector was developed by SoftWarWare and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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