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Team Complex LTD · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 87 % positive of 1,611 reviews, as of Oct 28

Start with your Command Center and expand it into a colossal modular flagship, module by module. Design custom warships from the ground up, grow a thriving civilization, and command powerful fleets across the Solar System in tactical real-time battles.

24 games that play like ERA ONE and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Dyson Sphere Program, Stellar Warfare and Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander.

Player tags

  • Action RTS
  • Space
  • Exploration
  • RTS
  • Sandbox
  • Base-Building
  • Strategy
  • PvP
Map region: Space & Sci-Fi
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Steam reviews

What players say

Players mostly recommend this early-access space RTS for its ship-building and Homeworld-style feel, while they flag optimisation, crew caps, bugs and limited content.

Many players enjoy designing their own capital ships and mothership from modular parts, saving blueprints and fighting in large fleet battles. Its look, soundtrack and battle effects are widely praised, and many compare it to the Homeworld series. Some players find the game limited in its current early-access state: there is no campaign, only the Federation is playable, and the crew cap restricts how large ships can be. Many also report performance problems, lag in long sessions and high PC temperatures. Some reviewers say patches have broken existing blueprints or introduced bugs, and some find the enemy AI and difficulty settings uneven. Reviews from the last year and older helpful reviews broadly agree.

Praised

  • Ship-building freedom

    Players enjoy designing custom capital ships and motherships from modular parts and saving them as blueprints.

    Many players
  • Homeworld feel

    Reviewers say it captures the look, movement and resource play of the Homeworld series and feels like its spiritual successor.

    Many players
  • Visuals and sound

    Players praise the battle effects, the explosions, the graphics and the soundtrack, though voice acting is called bland.

    Many players
  • Fleet and tactical battles

    Players enjoy controlling large fleets, with fighters, bombers and capital ships fighting across the battlefield.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Crew cap too low

    Players say the crew limit stops them building large ships and is hard to change outside sandbox modes.

    Many players
  • Performance and heat

    Players report frame-rate drops in long sessions and large fleets, and some say the game runs very hot.

    Many players
  • Bugs and patch regressions

    Players report crashes, broken blueprints after updates, missile friendly fire and missing cloud saves.

    Many players
  • Enemy AI and difficulty

    Players say the AI behaves the same at every setting, feels unfair or has a better economy, and that difficulty steps are poorly balanced.

    Some players
Who it suits
Suited to fans of Homeworld and space RTS who enjoy designing their own ships and are comfortable with early-access rough edges.
Who should skip it
Players wanting a finished game with a campaign, story or polished performance should wait for the full release.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with hundreds of hours mostly raise the crew cap, performance in large fleets and recent patch regressions, while newer players focus on the ship-building and the learning curve.

Summarised by AI from 58 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

Best matches

Plays and looks like ERA ONE

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like ERA ONE

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. ENDLESS Space™ 282 % positive of 17,329Shared: Space · RTS · Sandbox
  2. NEBULOUS: Fleet Command80 % positive of 4,109Shared: Space · Exploration · Sandbox
  3. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation75 % positive of 2,712Shared: RTS · Base-Building · Strategy
  4. Final Upgrade75 % positive of 441Shared: Space · RTS · Sandbox
  5. Outworld Station83 % positive of 855Shared: Space · RTS · Sandbox
  6. Outlive 2593 % positive of 215Shared: Space · RTS · Base-Building
  7. Annihilate The Spance88 % positive of 351Shared: Space · RTS · Base-Building
  8. Outscape74 % positive of 415Shared: Space · Exploration · RTS
  9. Desynced79 % positive of 1,911Shared: RTS · Sandbox · Base-Building
  10. Istrolid86 % positive of 2,696Shared: Space · RTS · Sandbox
  11. Supreme Commander 287 % positive of 8,379Shared: Space · RTS · Sandbox
  12. Planet S91 % positive of 2,904Shared: Space · RTS · Strategy

By look

Looks like ERA ONE

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Interstellar Space: Genesis83 % positive of 718
  2. X4: Foundations79 % positive of 25,510
  3. Galactic Civilizations III77 % positive of 8,340
  4. Nexus 5X90 % positive of 890
  5. NEBULOUS: Fleet Command80 % positive of 4,109
  6. Outscape74 % positive of 415
  7. Sins of a Solar Empire II82 % positive of 7,236
  8. Infinity: Battlescape79 % positive of 639
  9. Stellar Warfare80 % positive of 320
  10. Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation84 % positive of 446
  11. Final Theory78 % positive of 389
  12. SpaceBourne 274 % positive of 5,011

At a glance

What games like ERA ONE have in common

  • The tags they share most often with ERA ONE: Space (21 of 24), RTS (19) and Sandbox (12).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2026, 3 of them after ERA ONE (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Dyson Sphere Program (97 % positive of 83,847).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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