- #1 Stellaris
97% matchVery Positive86% of 197,307 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 145.5 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 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Real-Time with Pause 12.2% ★, Space 8.8%, Diplomacy 8% ★
- #2 Falling Frontier
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stutter Fox StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Diplomacy 11.6% ★, Space 6.4%
- #3 Advisors at the End of the Universe
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Flux-Soul
Windows · Linux
AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.9% ★, 4X 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Diplomacy 10.2% ★, Base Building 8%
- #4 Lord of Rigel
95% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Rhombus Studios
Windows
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 19.2% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9%, Diplomacy 11.8% ★, War 6.1%
- #5 Commanders Fury
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
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 25.5% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7%, RTS 11.3%, Real-Time with Pause 8.9% ★, Diplomacy 8.8% ★
- #6 Fragile Existence
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fragile ContinuumPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Save humanity from the brink of extinction in this sci-fi strategy game of survival. Travel among the stars to seek out resources, establish and develop colonies to sustain civilization, and grow your military might to push back against an overwhelming threat.
Why similar: 4X 19.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, Management 5.7%
- #7 Kingdom Wars 4
93% matchMixed66% of 241 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.1 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: 4X 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8%, City Builder 11.2%, Diplomacy 11.1% ★, RTS 8.6%
- #8 Knights of the Crusades
92% matchMixed69% of 183 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 18.9%, 4X 15.1% ★, City Builder 13%, RTS 10.4%, Diplomacy 9.9% ★
- #9 The King's Campaign
91% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World Studios Inc
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 21.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.8%, Real-Time with Pause 15.1% ★, Diplomacy 10% ★, RTS 9.1%
- #10 Final Vanguard
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heavy Pepper Inc.
Windows
Rule a living interstellar empire in this real-time 4X grand strategy. Make decisions that shape civilian lives, manage fragile supply lines, lead military conquests, and decide whether your civilization thrives or collapses under its own expansion.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Real-Time with Pause 11.9% ★, Diplomacy 10.9% ★, RTS 8.8%
- #11 Solar Wave
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: SavGus Studio
Windows
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 26% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, RTS 10%, Wargame 8.5%, Space 7.7%
- #12 Small Kingdoms
89% 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 23.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, RTS 10.1%, City Builder 8.7%, Wargame 8.5%
- #13 Fertile Crescent
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gold_iron_and_salt
Windows · Linux
A real-time grand strategy game set in the Bronze Age. Lead one of 29 ancient civilizations from a single settler to an empire. Found cities, work the land, research new technologies, advance your culture, and wage war. Will your civilization outlive the age that made it?
Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, RTS 10.3%, Wargame 7.8%
- #14 Distant Worlds 2
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,566 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 34.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1%, Real-Time with Pause 8.2% ★, Space 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #15 Astronomics Rise of a New Empire
87% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: JayFiArts
Windows
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire is an easy-to-learn real-time global strategy(4X) game. Control your faction in an intergalactic conflict. Manage your economy, conduct diplomatic negotiations and build a fleet to rule the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 23% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Diplomacy 14% ★, RTS 9.2%, Space 6.7%
- #16 Norland
85% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 15.6%, Diplomacy 12.8% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Colony Sim 8.8%
- #17 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
86% matchVery Positive93% of 16,354 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15.7%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, RTS 8.8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #18 Medieval Kingdom Wars
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,616 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: 4X 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, City Builder 11.5%, RTS 9.2%
- #19 Manor Lords
84% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 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 19.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Colony Sim 8.3%
- #20 Existence: The Outer Reach
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cozy Orchards
Windows
Existence is a strategy game on a massive scale. Lead your expanding empire, explore the galaxy, and master simultaneous space and planetary battles. Engage in solo play or team up with friends for intense PvP and co-op action.
Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Diplomacy 19.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5%, Management 8.8%, RTS 8%
- #21 Distant Worlds: Universe
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,856 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 40.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Real-Time with Pause 10.8% ★, Space 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #22 Crown Of Hispania
81% matchPositive100% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Regalis StudioPub: indie.io
Windows
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
Why similar: 4X 20.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Diplomacy 13% ★, RTS 8%
- #23 Agecraft
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows · Mac
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 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Diplomacy 9.7% ★, Colony Sim 8.6%
- #24 RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: RAVINE Games
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 17.4%, Diplomacy 17.1% ★, City Builder 15.3%, 4X 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 9.6%
- #25 Reshaping Mars
81% matchVery Positive84% of 834 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「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 21.1% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #26 Against the Storm
79% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 18.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3%, Diplomacy 13.3% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Colony Sim 8.4%
- #27 World Warfare & Economics
80% matchMixed59% of 688 reviews2023
Dev: Okron Studio
Windows · Mac
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Why similar: 4X 21.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Real-Time with Pause 14.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.3% ★, RTS 9.3%
- #28 Old Stars
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, War 7.8%, Space 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #29 Goblins of Elderstone
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Colony Sim 8.8%
- #30 Rebel Inc: Escalation
77% matchVery Positive82% of 7,594 reviews2021
Dev: Ndemic CreationsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Why similar: 4X 21% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16%, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, War 7.5%
- #31 Cataclismo
76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.7%, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Colony Sim 8.5%
- #32 Powerplay
74% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
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 26.1% ★, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Colony Sim 10%
- #33 NABERON
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
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 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, RTS 11.4%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%
- #34 NationWar:Annals
76% matchMixed68% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5%, RTS 10.1%, Wargame 8.3%
- #35 Spaceman's Luck
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows
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: 4X 26% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Space 13%, Real-Time with Pause 9.6% ★, Strategy 6.7%
- #36 Nova Roma
73% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, City Builder 13.8%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Base Building 9.4%
- #37 Dune: Spice Wars
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,585 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Management 9.9%, RTS 9.5%
- #38 Kinjea
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tenikkan Games
Windows · Linux
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 28% ★, Real-Time with Pause 22% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #39 Whiskerwood
71% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, City Builder 13%, Colony Sim 9.7%
- #40 Solar Nations
74% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Flomgus Games
Windows
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: Real-Time with Pause 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, 4X 14.1% ★, War 9.5%, Space 7.2%
- #41 Solar Nations 2
72% matchVery Positive85% of 634 reviews2025
Dev: Flomgus Games
Windows
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: 4X 23% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Real-Time with Pause 17.3% ★, Wargame 8.3%, Space 7.1%
- #42 Pan's Permia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Byte-Era
Windows
Pan's Permia is a planetary city builder survival game, with intricate building mechanics, villager survival, in depth army combat, and tower defense mechanics!
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, City Builder 18.8%, RTS 12.9%, War 11.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #43 Rogue Carrier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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 22.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%, 4X 9.6% ★, Colony Sim 7.9%
- #44 Exogate Initiative
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10%, Colony Sim 9.4%, RTS 9.2%
- #45 Small Kingdoms Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Rule a small fantasy kingdom and conquer your rival as you build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and real-time strategy game, the Small Kingdoms Prologue is a free introductory campaign
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, RTS 11.8%, Wargame 9.6%, Real-Time with Pause 8.4% ★
- #46 Terra Invicta
67% matchVery Positive80% of 9,948 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 53.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, War 7.7%
- #47 Stellar Dynasty
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua R.D. Wilson
Windows
A sci-fi, 4X, real-time strategy game. Build, fight, and explore to survive against an unstoppable alien threat. Carry the fight from one galaxy to the next as you battle back from the brink of extinction, and unlock the secrets of the past to restore your people to the path of galactic super power.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 20.7% ★, RTS 9.6%, Space 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #48 Europa Universalis IV
70% matchVery Positive88% of 137,440 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 284.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Wargame 7.9%
- #49 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #50 Near Sol
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: LTide
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, RTS 12.5%, Management 8%, Space 7.3%
- #51 Star Trek: Infinite
69% matchMixed42% of 3,529 reviews2023
Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 18.9 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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, RTS 9.3%, Space 7.1%
- #52 Frontline Logistics: Isarian Warfare
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Immersive Pixels Studio
Windows
A pausable real time tactical and resource management sim driven by dynamic battlefield events. War isn't just about combat; It’s about the daily lives of your soldiers. Keep logistics running, scavenge every usable resource, and do what you can to ease the harsh reality of life on the frontlines.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.8% ★, 4X 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 11%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 7.2%
- #53 Nexus Legacy
67% matchMixed66% of 365 reviews2026
Dev: Nexus Legacy Team
Windows
Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.8%, Diplomacy 15% ★, Wargame 8.9%, War 7.7%
- #54 Gate Builders
68% 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 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Management 8.9%, Space 7.1%
- #55 Uncharted Sectors
68% matchNo user reviews2029
Dev: Luc ToupensePub: N42C
Windows · Linux
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 22.4%, 4X 18% ★, Diplomacy 16% ★, Real-Time with Pause 8.7% ★, Colony Sim 7.9%
- #56 Earth of Oryn
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Earth of Oryn
Windows · Mac
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.4% ★, 4X 20.1% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Wargame 8.6%
- #57 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
66% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.1%, 4X 16.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Base Building 9.4%
- #58 Heart of the Machine
65% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 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: 4X 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 9%