Top 15 Star Ruler Alternative and Similar Games | Sep 2024

Star Ruler is a large scale, real-time grand strategy set in space. Design, build, and take control of potentially thousands of ships, and expand the reach of your empire across the entire galaxy. Research new technologies, capture enemy vessels, and conquer enemy planets on your path to galactic domination. Chat with other players at any time to discuss strategies or arrange multiplayer games.

1. Sword of the Stars (series)

Sword of the Stars (series) It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. But tragedy strikes, as Earth is ravaged by an alien force. The dawning of a new era was stymied by a grim, new reality...FEATURESA powerful......

2. Space Empires IV Deluxe

Space Empires IV Deluxe The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.......

3. Galactic Civilizations (series)

Galactic Civilizations (series) Galactic Civilizations III is the largest strategy sandbox ever made. Start with a single world and expand across the galaxy through diplomacy, trade, cultural hegemony or military conquest in this single-player or multiplayer 4X strategy game.......

4. Horizon game

Horizon game Horizon builds on popular 4x Turn Based space strategy games to bring an evolved game of exploration and conquest with open space navigation and tactical ship combat.......

5. Stellaris

Stellaris Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder in Stellaris, the evolution of the 4X strategy genre with space exploration at its core.......

6. Star Traders 4X Empires

Star Traders 4X Empires Star Traders 4X Empires is a civilization building game based on the Star Traders RPG. Discover more than 100 lost technologies, upgrades, and ship components as you reclaim the Star Traders’ heritage and discover the future.......

7. Stellar Monarch

Stellar Monarch Turn based, 4X, empire space builder, singleplayer, asymmetric, Emperor focused grand strategy. The game is a fast-paced, turn-based space empire builder with no micromanagement, asymmetric mechanics, and that focuses on you as the emperor.......

8. FreeOrion

FreeOrion FreeOrion is a turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game.......

9. Free MARS

Free MARS It is the year 2077, for the first time in its history mankind has finally began the colonization of another planet. Will the pioneers from Earth succeed in colonizing their new home or will they fail to survive against the harsh and inhospitable conditions of the Red planet?FreeMars is a......

10. Endless Space (series)

Endless Space (series) Endless Space 2 will put you in the fascinating role of a leader guiding a civilization in making its first steps into the cold depths of interstellar space. You will explore mysterious star systems, discover the secrets of ancient races, develop advanced technologies of unthinkable power, and, of course, encounter......

11. Freelancer

Freelancer Freelancer is a space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios.......

12. Haegemonia The Solon Heritage

Haegemonia The Solon Heritage After the destruction of the Armada, a mysterious artifact of Solon origin was discovered, leading to technological advancements and intense military buildup. It was not that well received, however, due to the lack of a new campaign in favor of refining and rebalancing gameplay. Because of contract issues (mainly of......

13. Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident The game is set in the 22nd Century. The player is Marcus Cromwell, a famed spacecraft captain whose father, Richard Cromwell, the first spaceborn human, captained the colony ship Noah's Ark through a wormhole near Mars that was presumed destroyed when the wormhole collapsed. Cromwell sets out on the SpaceTech......

14. Starfall Tactics

Starfall Tactics Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Starfall Tactics allows you to assemble and customize your own spaceship flotilla and lead it into battle. Pick a side, fight other players and create a name for yourself in a decaying, war-torn galaxy. Exciting PvP matches, ranked matches for advanced strategists and wargamers, challenging......

15. Pox Nora

Pox Nora Pox Nora is an online, collectible, turn-based strategy game. Players can take their deck of Runes (cards) and go on an adventure in the many single player campaigns, skirmish against the AI, or battle against other players in player vs player matches. Public decks are available to unlock with gold......