Games like Tactera
If Tactera is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astraeus, Skylight and IRON GUARD — 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 Tactera: Tactera is a Real-Time Strategy game played on a “virtual tabletop”. Comes with VR (Rift/Vive) and non-VR versions! Inside a futuristic war room, a 3D hologram shows two armies on the verge of battle. Build swarms of gunships, tanks, bombers, and other units to strategically outmaneuver the enemy!
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Astraeus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Astraeus is a VR asteroid mining RTS game that's quick to play, easy to learn, and enormous in scope. Build a mining network from dozens of bases, and watch as hundreds of ships swarm around you.
Skylight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Skylight is a turn-based tactics game of colossal space battles, with VR and non-VR versions. Command nimble squadrons of fighters, specialized frigates, and giant capital ships as you orchestrate your forces toward victory.
IRON GUARD
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tactera.
A sci-fi roomscale VR Tower Defense game. Strategize to destroy waves of rogue robots and assist the powerful turrets with a handheld drone. Build and collect resources and help evacuate your crew from the alien planet.
Zombie City Defense 2
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Ranked #4 for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?
Supreme Commander 2
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Ranked #5 for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tactera.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Feel the power of flying the AV8B Harrier II. A middle ground flight and naval combat simulator with mission planner & fully dynamic open ended campaign. Showstopping VR.
DEFCON VR
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Ranked #7 for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tactera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tactera at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tactera.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tactera.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tactera.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tactera.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Tactera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tactera.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tactera.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tactera.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
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.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Tactera.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tactera.
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.
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More from E McNeill
Other recommendable Steam games by E McNeill, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ironlights
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera.
Ironlights is a VR dueling game with skillful, fluid melee combat. Parry, block, and strike down your opponents using a variety of physics-based weapons. Test your skills in multiplayer battles, or fight to the top of the league in the huge single-player campaign!
Auralux: Constellations
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
Darknet
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Darknet is a strategy/puzzle game in which you play as an elite hacker in the Net. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced. Includes both VR and non-VR versions.
Skylight
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Skylight is a turn-based tactics game of colossal space battles, with VR and non-VR versions. Command nimble squadrons of fighters, specialized frigates, and giant capital ships as you orchestrate your forces toward victory.
Astraeus
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactera.
Astraeus is a VR asteroid mining RTS game that's quick to play, easy to learn, and enormous in scope. Build a mining network from dozens of bases, and watch as hundreds of ships swarm around you.
IRONSTRIKE
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Tactera.
IRONSTRIKE is a 4-player co-op roguelike featuring physics-based swordplay, gestural spellcasting, and archery. Wield a sword, bow & arrow, or magic, and customize your build as you fight to rescue the gods of a vibrant fantasy world.
Frequently asked about Tactera
- How much does Tactera cost?
- Tactera is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tactera?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tactera are Astraeus, Skylight, IRON GUARD.
- Who developed Tactera?
- Tactera was developed by E McNeill.
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