
Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Colony Sim, 4X, Grand Strategy.

Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.

Colonial Winds
Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.

Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Grand Strategy 15.4%, 4X 11.8% ★, Colony Sim 10.5%, Trading 8.8%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 21.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Moddable 9%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.2%
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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Trading 8.6%
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: Grand Strategy 18.2%, 4X 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Moddable 8.3%
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 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Moddable 8.9%
Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Base Building 10.5%, 4X 9.5% ★
A country simulator built on strategy: 160 real nations, deep production chains, a live world market, diplomacy, intelligence and war. Win the world with economy, not armies.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Political Sim 9.3% ★, Building 5.7%
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 6.1%
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 19.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Colony Sim 14.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Moddable 8.9%
Agecraft is a city-builder strategy where you guide a settlement through thousands of years of human history. Manage individual citizens, grow your economy, trade or wage war with other states, and advance from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Trading 11.1%
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 19.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Moddable 9%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.6%, 4X 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Moddable 8.2%
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 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.3%, Moddable 9.3%
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: 4X 20.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 8.3%
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 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 12.1%, Moddable 9.5%
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 20% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.3%, Moddable 9.2%
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 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Grand Strategy 14%, Building 6.3%
During Zhongping’s 6th year, Dong Zhuo threw the land into chaos. A penniless border refugee with a rusted sword, you gain the Northern Sword Sect System to build your sword school from nothing.
Why similar: 4X 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Colony Sim 13.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Trading 8.5%
VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 10%, Trading 9.7%, Base Building 8.5%
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 37.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Exploration 2.5%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.4%, 4X 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 8.5%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: 4X 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Colony Sim 14.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 9.2%
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6%, Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 16.6%, 4X 16.5% ★, Building 8.7%
Build a small kingdom by day and survive the night. Hexroads is a fantasy city-builder RTS where you capture towns, grow your economy, command defenders, cast spells, and choose new rewards each dawn.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.5%, 4X 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 8.9%
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Trading 10.7%, Space Sim 7.6%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3%, Colony Sim 14.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, 4X 17.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Space Sim 9%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 8.3%
Star Zeal 4x is an open world space based strategy and rpg hybrid with elements from the 4x genre and survival mechanics sprinkled on top of it. Highly emergent gameplay within an open world persistent galaxy is the core purpose and idea of the game.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Colony Sim 18%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Space Sim 8.4%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.2%
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Base Building 7.8%
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 6.5%
CONQUISTA—a strategy game that blends colony sim w/ 4X gameplay. Build thriving cities and lead your nation to dominance. With living units who work, build relationships, and pursue ambitions of their own, you must respond to their desires. The seeds of history may be sown through one's dreams.
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 20%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, City Builder 12.7%, Political Sim 9.2% ★
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Base Building 7.8%
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1%, Political Sim 14.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.5%, Trading 6.1%
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 36% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 8%, City Builder 6.6%, Procedural Generation 5.3%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, 4X 23.3% ★, Space Sim 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.6%
Base of War is a next generation 4x RTS game.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Building 6.8%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.4%
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 5.3%
Lead any nation in a deep, turn-based grand strategy and political sim. Master the economy, military, diplomacy and society against rival AI you can actually read. Build a democracy or a dictatorship; the game names what you become, and your reign becomes a shareable saga.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Grand Strategy 27.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Strategy 4.7%
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 23% ★, Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 15.4%, Space Sim 9%, Building 8.6%
Shape your civilization’s destiny in this epic turn-based strategy game. Manage resources, advance technology, and conquer through the ages. Every choice transforms history—will your empire rise to greatness or fall to obscurity?
Why similar: 4X 22.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Political Sim 10.5% ★
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.1%
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, 4X 18.6% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Space Sim 10.1%, Base Building 8.2%
Embark on a journey to explore & expand your nation through the early ages of antiquity. Lead it to exploit the lands and exterminate those who oppose you! This ambitious 4X/Grand Strategy game incorporates immersive city-building with RTS elements to the fray!
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Political Sim 10.6% ★
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 15.2%, Trading 14.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
Guide your state through a fictional industrial world where economic power becomes global influence. Use merchants, companies, politics, intelligence, and trade networks to control the flow of resources and decisions. Conquest is an option; true power lies in controlling the economy.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Strategy 6.6%
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8%, Colony Sim 9%, Political Sim 8.5% ★, Strategy 7%
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Trading 10.9%, Building 7%, Sci-fi 5.6%
A homage to classic real-time strategy games. Gather resources, build an empire, and command powerful armies to conquer the world. Lead six unique tribes, expand your territory, and engage in epic battles with hundreds of units on screen. Dominate in 18 missions and procedurally generated maps!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, Trading 11.8%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 38.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Strategy 6.8%, Space Sim 6.5%
New edition of the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Major developments: the war in the Ukraine and all of its consequences, conspiracy theories, fake news, interference by secret services, animal welfare and climate objectives.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Political Sim 13.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Sandbox 5.1%
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Political Sim 11.3% ★, Building 6.5%
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 42.9% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 7.9%
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 17%, Trading 13.1%, Building 5.8%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 11.1%, Moddable 10.1%, Building 9.4%