Games like Command: The Silent Service
If Command: The Silent Service is your kind of game, the closest matches are Distant Worlds: Universe, Order of Battle: World War II and Pandora: First Contact — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its requires deep technical mastery, atmospheric 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.
Get personalized picks →About Command: The Silent Service: Submarine warfare from post-WW2 to the present day! Lay mines, strike land targets with cruise and ballistic missiles, creep up to surface ships to take hull shots undetected, sniff sensitive electronic emissions, tap undersea communications cables, covertly deliver special-forces teams ashore, and of course hunt down anything on the sea...
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Distant Worlds: Universe
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Shares a contemplative mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Top pick for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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.
Order of Battle: World War II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Second-strongest match for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
Pandora: First Contact
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Third-strongest match for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Qvadriga
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Ranked #4 for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Qvadriga is a tactical game of chariot racing in ancient Roman circuses, where you take control of a four horse chariot team. Choose your preferred upgrade combinations and prove your skills at the arena.
To End All Wars
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Ranked #5 for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Ageod’s To End All Wars is a grand strategy game set during World War One. Players will take control over one of the major powers that so desperately fought for control over Europe and to end all wars.
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Ranked #6 for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Ranked #7 for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.
Pride of Nations
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Ranked #8 for Command: The Silent Service fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.
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Dangerous Waters
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Reviewers of Command: The Silent Service cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Command: The Silent Service.
S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down 'Commanders Eye' perspective.
Silent Hunter® III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Reviewers of Command: The Silent Service cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
The king of submarine simulations returns with an all-new 3D engine, new crew command features, and more realistic WWII naval action than ever before. The movie-like graphics and simple, tension-filled gameplay make this the perfect game for the realism fanatic and the casual gamer.
Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic
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Shares a challenging mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Reviewers of Command: The Silent Service cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Step behind the periscope of a German U-boat and take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The best-selling submarine series of all time continues with the highly anticipated Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic.
Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
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Shares a retro mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Reviewers of Command: The Silent Service cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
Cold Waters
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Reviewers of Command: The Silent Service cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: The Silent Service. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
Command: Northern Inferno
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: The Silent Service. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Command: Northern Inferno is a stand-alone game that uses the latest version of the Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations (CMANO) engine. Do you have what it takes to stand up to Soviet/WP forces and avert Armageddon?
Command: Chains of War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: The Silent Service. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
20 minutes into the future, a spark erupts in the Korean peninsula that will lead to a theaterwide conflagration embroiling the entire Western Pacific and drag all major powers into it.
Command: Shifting Sands
WHY THIS
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: The Silent Service. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Shifting Sands traces the history of many Arab-Israeli conflicts: from the sidelines of the Suez crisis, through the lightning Six-Day War, the guerilla-like War Of Attrition and the strategic surprise of the Yom Kippur War, all the way to the historic Osirak raid and the epic air battle over the Bekaa Valley.
Command: Desert Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: The Silent Service.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: The Silent Service. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Command - Desert Storm is a new DLC release for Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations. Fourteen historical & hypothetical campaign scenarios plus a bonus contemporary standalone scenario cover the major actions that marked the conflict, allowing you to explore the events that happened - and the ones that could easily have.
Frequently asked about Command: The Silent Service
- What games are most similar to Command: The Silent Service?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Command: The Silent Service are Distant Worlds: Universe, Order of Battle: World War II, Pandora: First Contact.
- Who developed Command: The Silent Service?
- Command: The Silent Service was developed by WarfareSims and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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