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Games like Executive Assault 2

If Executive Assault 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Executive Assault, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS and Iron Harvest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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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Executive Assault 2 is a space-based strategy and action game released in 2023 by Hesketh Studios Ltd. The title blends real-time strategy with first-person shooter mechanics, tasking players with building bases on asteroids, commanding starship fleets, mining and trading resources, and constructing robots for defense or assault operations. Players can issue commands from a tactical view or pilot fighters directly in first-person. The game features faction politics and procedural generation, supporting online cooperative play. According to 1204 Steam reviews, the game holds an 83% positive rating. Players describe it as challenging and competitive, with reviewers noting that tactical positioning matters. The game is priced at $24.99 USD and is not supported on Steam Deck.

About Executive Assault 2: The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDWindows · macOSby Hesketh Studios Ltd
Executive Assault 2 — Steam game cover
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Players who liked Executive Assault 2 also play

Steam players who put hours into Executive Assault 2 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.

  1. Executive Assault

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Top pick for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

    2015ActionStrategy12.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Second-strongest match for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Iron Harvest

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Third-strongest match for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

    2020Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Stronghold Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Shares faction politics and a competitive mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Ranked #4 for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

    2012StrategyMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sins of a Solar Empire II

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Ranked #6 for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    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.

    2024StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stronghold: Warlords

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Ranked #7 for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Battlezone: Combat Commander

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Ranked #8 for Executive Assault 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Battlezone: Combat Commander remasters FPS-RTS classic Battlezone II with slick new visuals, brand new achievements, Steam Workshop support and much more! The solar system is at war. Take command.

    2018ActionStrategy3.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Executive Assault 2

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Rome: Total War™ - Collection

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.

    2007StrategyDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Supreme Commander

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.

    2011Strategy12.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Executive Assault 2.

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.

    2009ActionStrategyFree To PlayDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Total War: SHOGUN 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares faction politics with Executive Assault 2.

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.

    2011Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    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.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Silica

    WHY THIS

    Shares first person shooter and real time strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?

    2023ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stellar Blade™

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Executive Assault 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    Save humanity from extinction in post-apocalyptic action-adventure Stellar Blade™. Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth’s downfall.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Executive Assault 2 at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    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.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Executive Assault 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Executive Assault 2.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Executive Assault 2.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Executive Assault 2.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Executive Assault 2

Does Executive Assault 2 work on Steam Deck?
Executive Assault 2 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Executive Assault 2 cost?
Executive Assault 2 is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Executive Assault 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Executive Assault 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Executive Assault 2?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Executive Assault 2 are Executive Assault, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, Iron Harvest.
Who developed Executive Assault 2?
Executive Assault 2 was developed by Hesketh Studios Ltd.

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