
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.
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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.

Money Wars : Modern Ages
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.

Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
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 26.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Political Sim 9.3% ★
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Political Sim 9.7% ★
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Space 8%
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8%, Space 7.2%
A deep-space 4X simulation. Explore a procedurally generated universe, colonize worlds, build a realistic economy, and lead your civilization toward galactic domination. Brave ecological and economic crises, face famines, wars, and disasters, and ensure your survival!
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8%, Action RTS 8.6% ★, Political Sim 8% ★, Space 7.7%
Rebuild a scattered empire in a Gothic galaxy of distant beacons and lost colonies. A real-time 4X with four distinct playable factions, empire-wide command, and Living Sagas shaped by how you govern and conquer up to 10,000 star systems.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Grand Strategy 30.1%, Strategy 12.7%, Space 8.1%, Sci-fi 4.5%
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Space 5.9%
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Space 8.7%, Economy 6.6%
Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Space 9.7%, Futuristic 8.1%
Disasters rage. Political factions splinter and grasp at power. As the climate crisis threatens stability, will you unite the planet with diplomacy or take aggressive action? Deploy force or build consensus toward net zero emissions in this grand strategy game where stakes get higher by the minute.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32%, 4X 30.3% ★, Political Sim 12.8% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 6%
Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. Great noble houses, usurpers to the throne, rebels, assassins, court intrigues, disloyal admirals, incompetent governors and ever-present alien threat.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 33.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Space 7.4%, Sci-fi 5.7%
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Space 15%, Sci-fi 6.1%
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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Space 7.4%, Economy 6.2%
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Why similar: 4X 42.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, Strategy 12.8%, Space 11.2%, Simulation 6.2%
Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.6%, 4X 24.8% ★, Political Sim 9.8% ★, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8.7%
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 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11%, Economy 4.8%
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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 30%, Political Sim 14.8% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Economy 5.5%
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 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6%, Strategy 15%, Space 8.5%, Simulation 8.4%
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Economy 6.6%, Futuristic 6.3%
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Futuristic 7.7%, Space 7.2%
A grand strategy game built on a deep economic simulation and orchestrated by an intelligent AI storyteller. Ensure the survival of your domain at the edge of the galaxy: colonize worlds, manage populations, navigate politics, design custom goods, and master dynamic markets.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.8%, 4X 18.2% ★, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Economy 8.9%, Space 6.7%
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 37.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Simulation 4.7%
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Futuristic 10.3%, Space 8.5%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8%, 4X 29.3% ★, Space 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.6%
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: Grand Strategy 30.4%, 4X 29.4% ★, Political Sim 14.7% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.8%
A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.3%, 4X 27.3% ★, Space 14.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 6%
Zenith Frontier is a simulation-strategy game about the exploration and colonisation of space. Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions of autonomous citizens and private companies.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25%, Political Sim 14% ★, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 7%
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.8%, 4X 24.1% ★, Political Sim 11% ★, Futuristic 9.6%, Strategy 8%
The hardest part about interstellar expansion isn't the technical cost, its the people. Exploit ecosystems, manipulate the masses, and conquer the intergalactic market. Growth is mandatory -- ethics are not.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.8%, 4X 21.3% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Political Sim 9% ★, Economy 8.1%
Expand your empire one sector at a time in a fast-paced turn-based 4X strategy game. Capture planets, harvest resources, command powerful fleets, and adapt your strategy with unique Emperors and unpredictable divine interventions. Play solo, or challenge rivals in tactical PvP.
Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 31.8%, Strategy 11%, Space 8.5%, Resource Management 5.1%
Your colony ship has landed on an alien planet — but the environment kills electronics. Salvage the ark, survive the early years, and build a nation as your society regresses to medieval with remnants of modern knowledge. Grand strategy with simulated population and turn-based combat.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.1%, 4X 30% ★, Political Sim 12.2% ★, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8%
Command grand fleets and wage strategic wars on an interstellar scale in this new take on galactic Grand Strategy. Transform nature to suit the needs of Empire and surge forward! Will you guide aspiring interstellar nations to glory, or rekindle the flames of a long lost Empire?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.1%, 4X 15% ★, Political Sim 12% ★, Futuristic 10.1%, Space 8.1%
A vast, real-time geopolitical simulation where 196 nations live and breathe at once. Economy, finance, monetary policy, trade, energy, military, diplomacy, nuclear strategy, politics, society — every lever that moves a nation is in your hands. The clock never stops — until you stop it.
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.5%, Political Sim 13% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.9%
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Space 9.7%, Simulation 9.5%
Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Space 9.6%, Futuristic 8%
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Political Sim 15.7% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%
An economic 4x strategy in a space filled with magic and procedurally generated planets. Build your own empire and become the sole ruler of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Grand Strategy 37.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Space 8.9%, Resource Management 4.9%
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Why similar: 4X 42.3% ★, Strategy 20.6%, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Space 13%, Sci-fi 5.1%
Lead a tribe of survivors, rediscover ancient technology, manage wasteland settlements and wage wars of conquest and political struggle in Afterworld, an original post-apocalyptic survival grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio, the creators of Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.6%, 4X 33.1% ★, Strategy 12%, Political Sim 10% ★, Futuristic 5.5%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 32.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Futuristic 9%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Action RTS 16.6% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Space 6.6%
Lead your people through all of human history on a spherical planet. Wage war and forge alliances as you guide your nation in this 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Political Sim 10.9% ★, Simulation 10.1%
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 38.4% ★, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 16.1%, Colony Sim 11%, Futuristic 7.9%
At a turning point in history, decide the future of a nation. Mandate 1600: The East is a global historical grand strategy game. Govern lands and dynasty, secure your bloodline, grow through trade, and prevail in war. Rewrite history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.7%, 4X 25.7% ★, Political Sim 14.6% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%
Clash of Cultures is an addictive turn based stratergy game that is simple to learn yet has a lot of depth. Research technologies, shape your government, progress through the ages, and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 31.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Economy 6.6%, Simulation 4.4%
4X Lite Strategy Game where You are a war AI rebooting after 800 years of silence. Your orders are still active. The enemy is gone—so is everyone else. Conquer the galaxy, uncover corrupted memories, and face the horrifying truth: no one told you to stop.
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Grand Strategy 35.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Sci-fi 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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: Grand Strategy 32.4%, 4X 29.1% ★, Political Sim 16.4% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Space 7.3%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.1%, 4X 30.1% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Space 8.9%, Futuristic 7.7%
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3%, Strategy 18.1%, Economy 6.3%, Futuristic 6.3%
It's late 2022 and the AI race just started. Train models with real personalities, fill the map with datacenters, survive the scandals, and get to superintelligence before the rival CEOs who trash-talk you on social media.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Futuristic 10.2%, Economy 9.1%
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Space 13.1%, Simulation 10.1%
「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 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Futuristic 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%
Lead a living star network in this real-time 3D sci-fi strategy game. Expand from one stellar core, link orbital nodes, secure resources, and launch coordinated assaults as every connection reshapes your economy, defenses, and territorial control.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1%, Action RTS 15.6% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Futuristic 4.9%
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 30.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Futuristic 8.1%
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world. Work your way up from a small clan to a great empire by founding cities and conquering your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.6%, 4X 30.1% ★, Political Sim 14.6% ★, Strategy 9%, Economy 7.9%
Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9%, 4X 31.2% ★, Space 10.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Sci-fi 6.6%
Warring States: Grand Ambitions is a grand strategy game set in ancient China. Rule as a feudal lord during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras. Shape your empire's fate with branching focus trees, city building, tech trees, and historical choices.
Why similar: 4X 39.3% ★, Grand Strategy 33.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Build a civilization from its first settlements into a mighty world power in this turn-based strategy game. Explore uncharted lands, expand your empire, forge lucrative trade relationships, and develop your economy and technology.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.9%, 4X 33.6% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Economy 4.4%
Rebuild a fallen species in this dark sci-fi 4X strategy game. Extract and refine real elements, command drone swarms, and make tough choices as you guide The Exalted Descendant toward resurgence—or extinction—in a procedurally generated galaxy. No diplomacy. No mercy.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Colony Sim 8.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 7.2%
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Economy 6%, Futuristic 5.8%