Games like Close the Sky
If Close the Sky is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last General, Mandate Order and First Strike — 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 Close the Sky: A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.
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Steam players who put hours into Close the Sky also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Last General
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Top pick for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close the Sky.
Lead thousands of units in this large scale modern war RTS as you manage economy and logistics, build your war machine, and fight across millions of procedurally generated scenarios, or jump into the battlefield controlling any unit in first or third person at any time.
Mandate Order
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Second-strongest match for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close the Sky.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
First Strike
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Third-strongest match for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close the Sky.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Ranked #4 for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close the Sky.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Steel Division: Normandy 44
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Ranked #5 for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close the Sky.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
SkyInFlames
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Ranked #6 for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Close the Sky.
Command drones, deploy mobile air defense systems and conduct tactical aerial operations. Choose your side - Ukrainian or Russian forces - and protect critical infrastructure in a realistic military simulation on a detailed map.
Attack on Toys
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Ranked #7 for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close the Sky.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Broken Arrow
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Ranked #8 for Close the Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close the Sky.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Close the Sky.
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.
The Lab
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close the Sky.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Close the Sky.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Close the Sky.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close the Sky.
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.
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Frequently asked about Close the Sky
- Does Close the Sky have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Close the Sky supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Close the Sky?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Close the Sky are The Last General, Mandate Order, First Strike.
- Who developed Close the Sky?
- Close the Sky was developed by Iron Trident Games.
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 Close the Sky.
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