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Games like Empyrean Frontier

If Empyrean Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Supreme Commander, Tempest Rising and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance — 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.

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About Empyrean Frontier: Empyrean Frontier is an epic real time strategy game that mixes classic RTS gameplay with a multi-stage campaign in which the player commands a fleet of ships through a galactic map. Boss battles, base building, planet destroying superweapons, and tactical skirmishes create a unique blend of genres.

2018ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDWindowsby Galdor Studios
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Boss battles are unique and funFleet formations matter for positioningModular ship building adds depthAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Empyrean Frontier 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. Supreme Commander

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Top pick for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    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 ↗
  2. Tempest Rising

    WHY THIS

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

    Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.

    2025ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Third-strongest match for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.

    2011Strategy12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Earth 2160

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Ranked #4 for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.

    2006Strategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Distant Worlds: Universe

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Ranked #5 for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    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.  

    2014StrategySimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Battlevoid: Sector Siege

    WHY THIS

    Shares persistent campaign progression and an immersive mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Ranked #6 for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Diplomacy is Not an Option

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Ranked #7 for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Empyrean Frontier.

    Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Empyrean Frontier.

    Ranked #8 for Empyrean Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    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 ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empyrean Frontier at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    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 ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Empyrean Frontier.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Empyrean Frontier.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Empyrean Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Empyrean Frontier.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 ↗
  3. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empyrean Frontier.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Warframe

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Empyrean Frontier.

    Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

    2013ActionRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. SCP: Secret Laboratory

    WHY THIS

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

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

    2017ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Splitgate

    WHY THIS

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

    2019ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Empyrean Frontier

How much does Empyrean Frontier cost?
Empyrean Frontier is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Empyrean Frontier?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empyrean Frontier are Supreme Commander, Tempest Rising, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.
Who developed Empyrean Frontier?
Empyrean Frontier was developed by Galdor Studios.

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