Games like Star Ruler
Closest overall match: AI War: Fleet Command (★ 2.6). Highest rated: DEFCON at ★ 3.1. Quickest to finish: Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Star Ruler? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, RTS and 4X.
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78%
1. AI War: Fleet Command
Shares Grand Strategy, 4X, RTS, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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70%
2. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
Shares 4X, RTS and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10
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66%
3. Multiwinia
Shares RTS and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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64%
4. Darwinia
Shares RTS and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
63%
5. Oil Rush
Shares RTS and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 26%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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62%
6. Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Shares 4X and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
62%
7. Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Shares Grand Strategy, 4X and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 92
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 10
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62%
8. Interplanetary
Shares 4X and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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62%
-
61%
10. DEFCON
Shares RTS, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
60%
11. Atom Zombie Smasher
Shares Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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59%
12. Warstone TD
Shares RTS, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Star Ruler?
On our similarity model, AI War: Fleet Command is the closest match to Star Ruler — shares Grand Strategy, 4X, RTS, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
Which game like Star Ruler is rated highest?
DEFCON holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.1/5 from 177 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Star Ruler on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.