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Games like Star Ruler
Blind Mind Studios · 2010 · 82 % positive of 335
24 games that play like Star Ruler and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: StarDrive, Star Ruler 2 and Galaxy Reavers.
Player tags
At a glance
What games like Star Ruler have in common
- The tags they share most often with Star Ruler: Strategy (23 of 24), Space (23) and 4X (17).
- They came out between 2006 and 2026, 22 of them after Star Ruler (2010).
- Best rated by Steam players: Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander (95 % positive of 11,171).
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® and Space Empires V both play and look like Star Ruler.
By gameplay
Plays like Star Ruler
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
StarDrive
44 % positive of 1,473
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Star Ruler 2
81 % positive of 715
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Galaxy Reavers
69 % positive of 201
Shared: Strategy · Space · RTS
StarDrive 2
55 % positive of 2,084
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
77 % positive of 793
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Interstellar Space: Genesis
83 % positive of 772
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Dawn of Andromeda
43 % positive of 239
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Beyond Sol
78 % positive of 186
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Galactic Civilizations IV
73 % positive of 1,887
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Distant Worlds 2
71 % positive of 3,237
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Distant Worlds: Universe
75 % positive of 1,819
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
83 % positive of 236
Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
More matches
- Stellar Warfare85 % positive of 367Shared: Strategy · Space · RTS
- ENDLESS Space™ 283 % positive of 22,190Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- Outscape75 % positive of 419Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- Stellaris86 % positive of 185,433Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- Space Empires V72 % positive of 453Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- Istrolid87 % positive of 2,662Shared: Strategy · Space · RTS
- Planets Under Attack72 % positive of 1,119Shared: Strategy · Space · RTS
- Starion Tactics40 % positive of 176Shared: Strategy · Space · Indie
- Galactic Civilizations III76 % positive of 10,282Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- ZeroSpace80 % positive of 1,543
- Master of Orion76 % positive of 7,918Shared: Strategy · Space · 4X
- Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander95 % positive of 11,171Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
By look
Looks like Star Ruler
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Space Empires V
72 % positive of 453
Gratuitous Space Battles
71 % positive of 848
Microsoft Allegiance
79 % positive of 180
Star Wolves
84 % positive of 422
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
90 % positive of 463
Master of Orion 2
96 % positive of 1,569
Space Empires IV Deluxe
85 % positive of 270
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
77 % positive of 793
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
76 % positive of 1,650
Freespace 2
78 % positive of 305
AI War: Fleet Command
82 % positive of 1,582
Psycho Starship Rampage
85 % positive of 157
More matches
- Ascent - The Space Game67 % positive of 340
- Astroflux72 % positive of 333
- UFO: Afterlight65 % positive of 517
- Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey66 % positive of 236
- Duke of Alpha Centauri77 % positive of 526
- Space Pirates and Zombies90 % positive of 3,102
- Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising76 % positive of 455
- Parkan 272 % positive of 369
- Yargis - Space Melee58 % positive of 229
- Avorion90 % positive of 13,614
- Solar 291 % positive of 2,138
- ΔV: Rings of Saturn93 % positive of 2,954
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.