Strategy · Space · Tactical games to play together

32 Strategy · Space · Tactical games your group can play together online, including Down with the Ship, ACE Strategy: Mecha Nova, and Sins of a Solar Empire II.

All games: 24

Down with the Ship

Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.

93% positive of 861 reviewsPlaying now: 44$14.99

ACE Strategy: Mecha Nova

A tactical roguelike deck building game. Recruit elite mecha pilots, deploy drones and cast commands. Master your ACE mechas while collecting unique cards and chips in battles, and form your own build for total battlefield dominance.

77% positive of 117 reviewsPlaying now: 1$14.99

Sins of a Solar Empire II

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

82% positive of 7,239 reviewsPlaying now: 768$49.99

Relentless Expanse

Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!

91% positive of 113 reviewsPlaying now: 1Free

Starborne Frontiers

Starborne: Frontiers is a free-to-play tactical autobattler with hundreds of unique ships. Form your fleet, customize it with a variety of equipment, and use strategy to create the perfect battlefield formation. Take on bounties, engage in the PvP arena, and bring order to the Frontier.

66% positive of 318 reviewsPlaying now: 18Free

NEBULOUS: Fleet Command

Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

80% positive of 4,109 reviewsPlaying now: 123$29.99

Boom Slingers

A fresh take on the classic artillery genre! Fight in physics-based battles online against players around the world. Defeat your opponents with UFO-tracked Cows, gravity-defying Anvils, or a good ol' fashioned Baseball Bat. The choice is yours!

90% positive of 121 reviewsPlaying now: 2$6.99

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.

88% positive of 5,101 reviewsPlaying now: 159$39.99

Creeper World 4

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

94% positive of 4,572 reviewsPlaying now: 198$24.99

AI War 2

The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

87% positive of 1,131 reviewsPlaying now: 13$19.99

Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

77% positive of 4,839 reviewsPlaying now: 123$29.99

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

74% positive of 9,754 reviewsPlaying now: 197$19.99

Hades' Star

A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.

72% positive of 2,696 reviewsPlaying now: 134Free

Worbital

With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

87% positive of 419 reviewsPlaying now: 5$12.99

BATTLETECH

Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

83% positive of 23,156 reviewsPlaying now: 1,616$9.99

Heat Signature

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

94% positive of 6,867 reviewsPlaying now: 27$14.99

Star Realms

Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!

85% positive of 2,257 reviewsPlaying now: 68Free

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

67% positive of 5,146 reviewsPlaying now: 40$14.99

Auralux: Constellations

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.

78% positive of 156 reviewsPlaying now: 2$9.99

DG2: Defense Grid 2 Makes Tower Defense a Shared Puzzle

Team up with one friend to defend power cores in DG2: Defense Grid 2. Choose fully cooperative Doubles or the more competitive Coordinated Defense, online or on one computer.

85% positive of 2,711 reviewsPlaying now: 52$9.99

Natural Selection 2

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

85% positive of 8,647 reviewsPlaying now: 142$4.99

STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

96% positive of 36,325 reviewsPlaying now: 1,950$19.99

BattleGroupVR

BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

91% positive of 858 reviewsPlaying now: 0$24.99