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  1. #1 RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
    97% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: RAVINE GamesPub: V Publishing
    Windows

    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 19.7%, Diplomacy 15.4%, 4X 14.9%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 7.5%

  2. #2 Knights of the Crusades
    96% matchMostly Positive75% of 165 reviews2025
    Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
    Windows

    Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, 4X 16.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Diplomacy 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%

  3. #3 Songs of Syx
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
    Dev: Gamatron AB
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 22.7%, Grand Strategy 20.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 7.5%

  4. #4 Nova Roma
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
    Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac

    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 20.1%, 4X 19.4%, City Builder 12.1%, Diplomacy 12%, Base Building 9.9%

  5. #5 Manor Lords
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
    Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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 20.8%, Grand Strategy 19%, Diplomacy 13.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 9.4%

  6. #6 Norland
    94% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 20.2%, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Diplomacy 13.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 9.6%

  7. #7 Whiskerwood
    93% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
    Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Grand Strategy 19.8%, 4X 19.4%, Diplomacy 12.5%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 9.8%

  8. #8 Against the Storm
    92% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
    Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Grand Strategy 19.7%, 4X 19.5%, Diplomacy 12.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 9.6%

  9. #9 Heart of the Machine
    91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
    Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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: Grand Strategy 19.8%, 4X 19.7%, Diplomacy 13.3%, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 9.6%

  10. #10 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
    Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 20.9%, 4X 17%, City Builder 13.8%, Diplomacy 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%

  11. #11 Eastern Era
    89% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,401 reviews2026
    Dev: FunYoo Games
    Windows

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    Why similar: 4X 21.5%, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Diplomacy 13.1%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%

  12. #12 Medieval Kingdom Wars
    90% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,602 reviews2019
    Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.5%, 4X 19.3%, Diplomacy 14.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 9.7%

  13. #13 Empires of the Undergrowth
    89% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
    Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 19.9%, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Diplomacy 12.1%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 9.7%

  14. #14 Mandate Order
    88% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Digital Sky
    Windows

    Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.

    Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Grand Strategy 17.3%, 4X 16.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 9.9%

  15. #15 Kingdom Wars 4
    87% matchMixed67% of 236 reviews2021
    Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%

    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: Grand Strategy 21.5%, 4X 20.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Diplomacy 12%, Base Building 8.5%

  16. #16 Goblins of Elderstone
    86% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
    Dev: Outerdawn
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    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 21.9%, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Diplomacy 14.1%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%

  17. #17 WHO THE HELL OPENED THE PORTAL?!
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Uberbax Gaming
    Windows

    A funny pixel art roguelite strategy. You manage a fantasy island kingdom connected by magical portals. By day — build, gather resources, hire heroes, and dive through portals to expand into new lands. By night — defend! The same portals unleash hordes of demons straight from Hell.

    Why similar: 4X 26.3%, Grand Strategy 21.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Medieval 7.2%

  18. #18 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
    Windows · Mac

    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: Grand Strategy 27.1%, 4X 25.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Immersive Sim 6.6%

  19. #19 Base of War
    84% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2023
    Dev: Atom Games
    Windows

    Base of War is a next generation 4x RTS game.

    Why similar: 4X 29.6%, Grand Strategy 25.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Isometric 9.7%, Open World 5.8%

  20. #20 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Madnetic Games
    Windows

    Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!

    Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Medieval 12.1%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.5%

  21. #21 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
    83% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
    Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    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 33.5%, Grand Strategy 21.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Medieval 8.5%

  22. #22 The King's Campaign
    81% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2023
    Dev: Bad Logic Studios
    Windows

    Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield

    Why similar: 4X 26.1%, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Diplomacy 11.3%, City Builder 8.1%, Medieval 7.8%

  23. #23 Global Protocol: New World Order
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dorlion Interactive
    Windows

    Command any nation in a modern grand strategy simulation set in 2026. Manage diplomacy, economy, espionage, and warfare while shaping the global balance of power. Lead a superpower or build a small state into a global force in a dynamic geopolitical sandbox.

    Why similar: 4X 33.1%, Grand Strategy 27.4%, Diplomacy 11%, Sandbox 8%, Immersive Sim 7.4%

  24. #24 Business Shark
    81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
    Dev: SmartLife
    Windows

    You will have to develop your city, watch over expenses, strive for higher tax revenues, meet the needs of your residents by producing the right products for them

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 31%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 19%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.9%

  25. #25 Beyond Astra
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Nebule Games
    Windows

    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 22.9%, City Builder 13.4%, Diplomacy 12.9%, Base Building 10.3%

  26. #26 Lands of Rumour
    78% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Vaeril Games
    Windows

    Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.

    Why similar: 4X 31.5%, Grand Strategy 25.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 5.6%

  27. #27 Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
    80% matchMixed68% of 201 reviews2017
    Dev: Illyriad Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.5%, City Builder 16.2%, 4X 15.7%, Diplomacy 8.5%, Sandbox 8%

  28. #28 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
    78% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
    Dev: Romulus
    Windows

    It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.

    Why similar: 4X 25.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 9.5%, Open World 8.3%

  29. #29 Antimatter
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
    Windows

    Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !

    Why similar: 4X 31%, Grand Strategy 26.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 6.6%

  30. #30 Sengoku: Shadow Strikers
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ikemoto Systems
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Turn your clan into a Sengoku legend in this tactical RPG. Recruit and train warriors, shape alliances, conquer castles, and alter history through brutal turn-based battles. Influence the outcome of feudal Japan in Sengoku: Shadow Strikers.

    Why similar: 4X 35.5%, Grand Strategy 30%, Base Building 13.8%, Isometric 9.7%, Medieval 7%

  31. #31 Within a Dead City
    75% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2023
    Dev: Moonroof Studios
    Windows

    Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.

    Why similar: 4X 36.1%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Isometric 10.4%, Medieval 9.2%

  32. #32 Khaldun: Text Based Strategy
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SkyWolf
    Windows

    Khaldun is a medieval-themed ASCII graphics kingdom management game. Take part in realistic war simulations and decide every detail of your kingdom, from its economy to its demographics! Your decisions will shape the life of a nation. Rise or be lost to history...

    Why similar: 4X 27.8%, Grand Strategy 25.8%, Medieval 12%, RPG 11.8%, Sandbox 6.6%

  33. #33 For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game
    77% matchMostly Positive77% of 171 reviews2009
    Dev: Crystal Empire GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical figures and events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4%, 4X 28.5%, Diplomacy 16.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Medieval 6.8%

  34. #34 Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
    77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,697 reviews2011
    Dev: Stardock Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%

    Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!

    Why similar: 4X 37.4%, Grand Strategy 32.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Diplomacy 5.7%, Strategy 4.3%

  35. #35 Critias Empire
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
    Windows

    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 33.5%, Grand Strategy 21.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9%, Isometric 6.9%

  36. #36 Starithm
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Game Orithm
    Windows

    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 36.9%, Grand Strategy 31.1%, Isometric 11%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.1%

  37. #37 Empire Origin:Rise
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: EmpireOrigin Studio
    Windows

    The grand strategy game "Empire Origin: Rise" is coming. Explore the traces left by human civilization on the earth, pursue the great achievements of the kings in the historical fragments, and revive the brilliant civilization in history. glory? territory? Waiting for you to dominate the world!

    Why similar: 4X 32%, Grand Strategy 25.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Medieval 11%, Base Building 7.6%

  38. #38 Star Trek: Infinite
    73% matchMixed42% of 3,468 reviews2023
    Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

    Why similar: 4X 32.4%, Grand Strategy 29.2%, Diplomacy 16.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Open World 5.8%

  39. #39 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
    72% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,461 reviews2022
    Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.3%, Medieval 17.1%, 4X 14.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%

  40. #40 Noble Legacy
    71% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
    Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
    Windows

    Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?

    Why similar: Diplomacy 17.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Medieval 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9%

  41. #41 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NetEase Games
    Windows

    《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!

    Why similar: 4X 35.9%, Grand Strategy 30.1%, Base Building 10%, City Builder 9%, Strategy 4.8%

  42. #42 Terrol
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Max Krupp
    Windows

    Terrol is a grand strategy game focused on capturing and holding strategic resources. The objective is simple: control all resources and destroy rival empires.

    Why similar: 4X 32.6%, Grand Strategy 30.4%, Medieval 8.5%, Open World 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%

  43. #43 Galactic Civilizations IV
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,388 reviews2023
    Dev: Stardock Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

    Why similar: 4X 29.6%, Grand Strategy 27.3%, Diplomacy 16.4%, Isometric 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%

  44. #44 Tales of a Spymaster
    73% matchMixed55% of 31 reviews2019
    Dev: Gerard Morris
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Break from the traditional role of ruler and take up a new set of tools within Tales of a Spymaster, a turn-based strategy set in a fictional world, filled with threats and opportunities. Choose your kingdom and guide your ruler to victory, in whatever manner you deem fit.

    Why similar: 4X 21.5%, Grand Strategy 18.8%, RPG 13.1%, Diplomacy 12.8%, Simulation 9.9%

  45. #45 Rule of Iron: Dark Age
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Eisengeist Studio
    Windows

    Build your realm in a turn-based campaign. Break theirs in battle. Real-time, 1:1-scale warfare where tactics, not spreadsheets, win clashes between tens of thousands of soldiers.

    Why similar: 4X 24.4%, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Diplomacy 16.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.9%

  46. #46 Gate Builders
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pyralis Studio
    Windows · Linux

    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 34.3%, Grand Strategy 29.6%, Diplomacy 13%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 5.9%

  47. #47 Distant Worlds 2
    70% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,478 reviews2022
    Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

    Why similar: 4X 46.4%, Grand Strategy 35.5%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

  48. #48 云之城
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ALGHUB
    Windows

    It's a Chinese ancient city building strategy game that features ancient-style city building, a rich social simulation system, and always dissatisfied citizens. You come to a nice place, and you will become a lord who leads people to live in peace, reclaim wasteland, and build a stable city.

    Why similar: 4X 42.6%, Base Building 25%, Simulation 12.6%, RPG 11.1%, Strategy 7.7%

  49. #49 Small Kingdoms
    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Bad Logic Studios
    Windows

    Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.

    Why similar: 4X 32.1%, Grand Strategy 29.7%, City Builder 10.9%, Medieval 10.7%, Base Building 7.3%

  50. #50 Europa Universalis V
    66% matchMostly Positive72% of 26,573 reviews2025
    Dev: Paradox TintoPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 45.3 hrsMean: 90.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

    Why similar: 4X 33.8%, Grand Strategy 31.6%, Diplomacy 13.5%, Immersive Sim 5.3%, Building 4.4%

  51. #51 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
    70% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
    Dev: Aserisoft
    Windows · Mac

    Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.

    Why similar: 4X 42.1%, Grand Strategy 29.9%, Medieval 12.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7%

  52. #52 CivIdle
    67% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
    Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

    Why similar: 4X 30.3%, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Medieval 9.4%

  53. #53 Empire’s Supreme Command
    67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: iGindisGames
    Windows · Mac

    Turn-based strategy. Build, trade, fight, and lead your empire to victory.

    Why similar: 4X 31.2%, Grand Strategy 26.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Diplomacy 14.2%, Building 5.7%

  54. #54 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2024
    Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows

    Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Diplomacy 15.6%, Isometric 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

  55. #55 CastleOn
    68% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Lord Castleon
    Windows · Linux

    Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!

    Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Diplomacy 15.6%, 4X 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Isometric 10.1%

  56. #56 Apoikia
    66% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
    Dev: Charlie
    Windows · Mac

    Apoikia is a city-building and economic simulation where you grow a settlement into a thriving hub by mastering supply chains, regional markets, and legal policy, with upcoming combat and free-market investment systems.

    Why similar: 4X 26.2%, City Builder 19.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Open World 8.8%

  57. #57 Stellaris
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 191,915 reviews2016
    Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 142.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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: 4X 35.5%, Grand Strategy 33.8%, Diplomacy 10.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 5.4%

  58. #58 Kingdom's Life
    68% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
    Dev: Strudio Company
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.

    Why similar: 4X 34.8%, Grand Strategy 29.9%, Sandbox 9%, Medieval 8.4%, City Builder 5.3%

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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