
Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, 4X, Turn-Based Strategy, Simulation.

Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.

Void Ascendancy
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.

Exodus: The Colonization of Space
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 40.6% ★, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 13.7%, 2D 1.8%
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 25% ★, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11.4%
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 44.5% ★, Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 4.6%, 2D 1.9%
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 54.6% ★, Strategy 24.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, 2D 3.2%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Top-Down 5.5%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 49.7% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Top-Down 6.5%, Simulation 5.1%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 57% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Economy 10.3%, Simulation 7.1%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Strategy 14%, Simulation 11.5%, 2D 2.3%
Conquer Europe, become an Emperor. Build your family’s dynasty through seven centuries, from 800 A.D. to 1492 A.D., up until the inevitable collapse of the feudal system.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European...
Why similar: 4X 44.3% ★, Strategy 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Historical 10%, Economy 2.1%
Children of the Galaxy is a grand scale 4x turn-based strategy game with a turn-based combat and tactical elements. You can explore the galaxy, colonize planets and build huge armies of starships to fight in epic space battles.
Why similar: 4X 58.3% ★, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 18.4%
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, the expansion delivers six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their...
Why similar: 4X 49.6% ★, Strategy 27.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Historical 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Colony Sim 25% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 8.6%, Grid-Based Movement 7.7%
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Why similar: 4X 65.2% ★, Strategy 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.3%
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 37.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Grid-Based Movement 7.9%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Why similar: 4X 67.9% ★, Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Singleplayer 1%
"Three Kingdoms Scroll" is a game that respects authentic historical elements, with careful research into historical details as the foundation of its design. We have strived to make this title a Three Kingdoms-themed strategy game that emphasizes local culture, traditions, and human connections.
Why similar: 4X 44.4% ★, Strategy 18%, Simulation 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Historical 5.6%
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game. Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions.
Why similar: 4X 50.4% ★, Strategy 33.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%
Mythological Units. Ancient China. Experience a turn-based 4X strategy game where the land around you is slowly dying. Incarnate one of the four Fantastic Creatures: Dragon, Tiger, Turtle or Vermilion Bird and fight for survival.
Why similar: 4X 43.4% ★, Strategy 31.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
In an enormous strategic area stretching from Paris to Breslau, from Hamburg to Vienna, control everything from major strategic territorial decisions to tactical battle manoeuvres.
Why similar: 4X 47.2% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Historical 5.7%, Economy 5.7%
Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.
Why similar: 4X 47.7% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Historical 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Why similar: 4X 53.7% ★, Strategy 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Diplomacy 5.9% ★, Simulation 1%
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 63.2% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Historical 6.5%, 2D 1.5%
"Humankind in a Nutshell" is a compelling 4X strategy game with slot mechanics. Starting in the Ancient era, players manage their tribe's needs, fend off barbarians, and advance through tech to build a thriving nation. Construct diverse facilities for strategic superiority and aim for victory.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Historical 9.1%
Based on the classic history of the Three countries, the 2D grand strategy game integrates deep strategy, resource management, diplomatic game and sand table, presenting a magnificent stage for players in the turbulent world.
Why similar: 4X 49.4% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Historical 6.4%, Top-Down 4.5%
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Historical 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.
A turn-based grand strategy about the exploration of the Solar System. Use technologies — from existing prototypes to near-future engineering concepts. Build a space industry and become the leader of a new era.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Diplomacy 23% ★, 4X 19.4% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.6%
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 39.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Economy 8.1%, Historical 8%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.6% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Economy 8.2%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Diplomacy 18.2% ★, Strategy 8.2%, Economy 8.2%
《水浒豪》是一款回合制战略游戏,是《三国志》、《文明》、《欧陆风云》的粉丝们不容错过的作品。您扮演山寨之主,运筹帷幄,纵横捭阖。原著中528位好汉、116处据点、49个势力在游戏中登场。被奸臣谋害,魂断蓼儿洼?呸!洒家要清君侧!慢着……洒家要当皇帝!兀那赵老官!给洒家从宝座上爬下来!
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 13%, Historical 12%
Diehexegy is a hex grid turn-based 4x game with a unique twist: your armies are composed of dice. It has multiple victory conditions and straightforward gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 54.8% ★, Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, 2D 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.2% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 15%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 8.3%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 63.6% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%
Agecraft is a historical strategy and city-building sim. Build your settlement, develop the economy, take care of your people, and guide your civilization through the ages, from the Stone Age to the future.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Historical 8.3%
The original roguelike/4X strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Passage, and The Legend of Zelda." IndieCade Finalist.
Why similar: 4X 51.8% ★, Strategy 23.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 8.3%, 2D 1.2%
With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...
Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%, Historical 9.1%, Economy 2.3%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 8.6%
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
Why similar: 4X 71.3% ★, Strategy 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Expand your kingdom: Gather resources and transport them to your capital city to produce the materials you need to expand your army and conquer new regions. Research new technologies to improve your economy and army. Use your troops wisely to outmanoeuvre your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 49.1% ★, Strategy 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Economy 7.1%, Historical 7%
Sent to the edges of your kingdom as a noble, you must explore new lands, build settlements, and compete against rival lords. Plan wisely, manage resources, and decide in short, strategic turns who will gain fame, power, and influence in the Frontiers of the Realms.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Colony Sim 23% ★, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Top-Down 3.5%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, Diplomacy 18.2% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Economy 8.2%
Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times. In the game you command wide range of units, make them collect resources and build buildings, towns and cities, explore the map and meet other players controlled by AI.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Diplomacy 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Economy 8.8%, Strategy 8.6%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Strategy 8.7%, Economy 8.1%
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 64.9% ★, Strategy 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 66.9% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A turn-based grand strategy game focused on ruthless conquest and clever planning. Command armies, conquer procedurally generated regions, manage resources, and outthink rival warlords through smart timing, army composition, and siege tactics.
Why similar: 4X 48.2% ★, Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Historical 7.9%, Grid-Based Movement 5.7%
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 54.5% ★, Strategy 18%, Simulation 12.9%, Historical 8.1%, Economy 6%
Overview: Manage resources and defend your base against alien attacks. Design: Build structures, collect resources and defend your colony with defense towers. Automation lets you focus on strategy.
Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 7.1%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 8.4%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: 4X 36.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Economy 8.1%
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Why similar: 4X 36.8% ★, Strategy 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.4%, Historical 8.8%, Simulation 3.4%
A short-form empire building strategy game. Explore the planet and grow your colony, while attempting to negotiate with the many characterful rival factions. Make friends, break allegiances, or just drop nukes on them.
Why similar: 4X 44.5% ★, Diplomacy 26.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Strategy 9.2%, 2D 1.9%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 64% ★, Strategy 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%