Games like The Outpost: Outer Frontier
If The Outpost: Outer Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Millennium Conflict, Soul Tides and Ashes of the Singularity II — 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 The Outpost: Outer Frontier: Lead the forces of a human empire in a brutal squad-based RTS. Capture territory, secure vital sectors, deploy fortifications, and unlock new units and upgrades mid-battle to outmaneuver and crush the alien threat.
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Millennium Conflict
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Top pick for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
You are the last survivor. Capture towers, command a squad of unique generals, and battle through 40 missions across 10 distinct worlds as you fight to reclaim a universe that has fallen to the enemy.
Soul Tides
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Second-strongest match for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Command dark armies in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Build your base, summon units, customize abilities, and push the battlefield toward your enemy’s stronghold. Adapt your strategy each match and dominate in PvP, co-op, or Trials mode.
Ashes of the Singularity II
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Third-strongest match for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
In this massive RTS game, command vast armies fighting for control of entire worlds. Control the forces of Earth, the mechanical AI Substrate, or the enigmatic Post-Human Coalition as you battle across the solar system in single player, cooperative multiplayer, or competitive multiplayer.
Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
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Ranked #4 for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
You are the commander of the Black Talons company, currently stationed in the Oberon system. After an eventful campaign, the military Tzanar Union has overrun the planet of Genai and blocked all departure from the system: leaving you and the Black Talons stranded.
AI War 2
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Ranked #5 for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
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.
Aliens: Dark Descent
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Ranked #6 for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Commandos: Origins
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Ranked #7 for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
Broken Arrow
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Ranked #8 for The Outpost: Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
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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 The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
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.
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 The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
World of Warships
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Outpost: Outer Frontier.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
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- What games are most similar to The Outpost: Outer Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outpost: Outer Frontier are Millennium Conflict, Soul Tides, Ashes of the Singularity II.
- Who developed The Outpost: Outer Frontier?
- The Outpost: Outer Frontier was developed by Blacksmith Forge.
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