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Squirrel's Pick Squirrel's PickThe best game on this page. If you only try one, try this. Closest Match Closest MatchThe most similar game to the anchor, by what players say.
Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles
PC
NavalTacticalMilitary
$39.99 ~15.9 hr median no co-op complexity: heavy 89.8% of 709
The Squirrel's verdictTask Force Admiral puts you in command of a WWII Pacific carrier strike group: planning wave timing, managing launch windows, and coordinating surface escorts rather than clicking individual crew stations. The wartime planning pressure is real, and the visuals earn consistent praise, but reviewers flag bare content and the absence of any in-game tutorial as significant barriers. Rated Very Positive at 89.8% positive; median playtime around 15.9 hours.
Not for you if you want hands-on individual crew control rather than fleet-level launch decisions, or need a built-in tutorial to get started.
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Hidden Gem Hidden GemLoved by the players who found it, but still under the radar.
Naval CombatWargameWorld War II
Jank Tolerant Jank TolerantRough edges and bugs — rewarding if you don't mind them.
$24.99 ~27.5 hr median co-op complexity: moderate 89.3% of 439
The Squirrel's verdictBoat Crew trades the bomber for a PT boat in a Pacific campaign, keeping crew skills, ship upgrades, and the threat of losing everything mid-engagement. Crew members can level multiple skills at once instead of being locked to one station, loosening the frantic role-switching Bomber Crew demands. Co-op supported. Suits players who want the same under-fire crew management with a looser, map-based campaign instead of discrete bombing missions.
Not for you if you want Bomber Crew's tightly scripted missions rather than an open campaign map, or plan to play well past the roughly 10 hours before reviewers say encounters start repeating.
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Base BuildingWorld War IIColony Sim
$29.99 ~26.1 hr median no co-op complexity: moderate 85.3% of 1k
The Squirrel's verdictPlayers who want the WWII air-war setting without split-second crew scrambling will find Ground of Aces fits: build and staff a Battle of Britain airfield, manage supply chains, and send crews on missions through a colony-sim loop. Reviewers praise the plane management and base-building framework while flagging thin depth and survival-foraging mechanics that feel out of place. Rated Very Positive at 85.3% positive; median playtime is 26.1 hours.
Not for you if you prefer frantic real-time crew control over base-building and resource management, or want a feature-complete colony sim rather than an early-stage one.
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Budget Pick Budget PickThe best game here for the least money.
Space SimOpen WorldAction
Strong Mods Strong ModsA deep, active modding scene extends it past its base content.
$9.99 ~42.6 hr median no co-op 80.2% of 672
The Squirrel's verdictVoid Destroyer 2 trades Bomber Crew's cramped multitasking-under-fire for Newtonian ship-to-ship dogfighting that scales into fleet command and RTS-style base building. Same appeal for managing multiple systems at once and feeling outmatched by your own ambitions, but here it's solo ship progression across a large map rather than one bomber's single mission run, with 42.6 median hours logged.
Not for you if you want co-op play, tight mission-length sessions, or a stable game free of the crashes and progression bugs reviewers report.
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ActionSci-fiAdventure
$15.99 ~14.7 hr median no co-op complexity: moderate 74.4% of 3k
The Squirrel's verdictSame studio formula: assign crew to stations, juggle guns/engines/repairs mid-mission while things catch fire. Space Crew swaps bombers for a spaceship crew fighting boarding parties and system failures, and reviewers who've played both call it less hectic and thinner on flavor than Bomber Crew. Suits players who want the same panic-management loop in a shorter, calmer dose.
Not for you if you want Bomber Crew's chaos and depth rather than a scaled-back, reportedly less flavorful reworking of it.
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