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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 42.9% ★, Colony Sim 27.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Exploration 4.2%

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 41.8% ★, Colony Sim 27.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 5.8%

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 46.7% ★, Colony Sim 29.8%, Strategy 14%, Exploration 5%, Simulation 4.4%

A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.

Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Alternate History 10.9%, Exploration 4.9%

Build a realm and a deck to match. Grow villages into cities, shape production chains and play cards for supplies, expansion and tactical support. A turn-based strategy game where rivals act in the same round. Play against AI or challenge friends online.

Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Card Game 13.6%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.7%

In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.

Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Exploration 3.9%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, Card Game 14.3%, 3D Platformer 10.3%, Simulation 7.4%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, Card Game 14.2%, Collectathon 13.3%, 3D Platformer 11%, Arcade 7.9%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 22%, 3D Platformer 10.9%, Arcade 8.3%, Simulation 7.2%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Card Game 16.8%, Collectathon 14.9%, 3D Platformer 12.2%, Arcade 9.1%

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 45% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%

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 47.5% ★, Colony Sim 30.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Exploration 4%, Base Building 3.3%

Children of the Galaxy is a grand scale 4x turn-based strategy game with a turn-based combat and tactical elements. You can explore the galaxy, colonize planets and build huge armies of starships to fight in epic space battles.

Why similar: 4X 63.8% ★, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 17.8%

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 40.3% ★, Colony Sim 34.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Alternate History 8.3%, Simulation 7.4%

HEXARX is a tactical turn based, crew management, ship building space combat game! You and your crew have been contracted by the Mega Corporations of New Hexaria Galaxy. Build, configure, upgrade and modify your ship. Manage and equip your crew members. Man your stations and protect your claim.

Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Colony Sim 27.5%, Collectathon 17.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 4.8%

Govern the New World as His Majesty's Viceroy during the Age of Exploration. Explore unknown lands, build thriving colonies, trade across the Atlantic, wage war, and forge an independent nation in this historical turn-based 4X strategy game.

Why similar: 4X 51.8% ★, Colony Sim 28.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Exploration 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%

An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 18.9%, 1980s 17%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Conquer Europe, become an Emperor. Build your family’s dynasty through seven centuries, from 800 A.D. to 1492 A.D., up until the inevitable collapse of the feudal system.

Why similar: 4X 71.8% ★, Strategy 28.2%

War and Empires is a war strategy game set in the Middle Ages. It tells a story about the ferocious barbarians continued to expand into the empire's territory and occupied the holy city symbolizing imperial power in the dark ages!

Why similar: 4X 54.1% ★, 3D Platformer 16.9%, Strategy 14.9%, Base Building 7.4%, Simulation 3.7%

Run the last known gas station in the southwest in this base building colony sim. Set the fuel price, build and staff a fortified outpost, send crews into the wastes, and deal with the factions at your pumps. Weigh morale decisions against one another as you expand your empire.

Why similar: 4X 37.5% ★, Colony Sim 34.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%

Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!

Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Exploration 6%

Kepler-186e, Humanity's first colony — on a world that is not theirs. Lead the Kaiserreich in turn-based hex strategy against the Ordo Arachnis, a swarm intelligence with no commander. Research, build, supply, fight. Survive.

Why similar: 4X 45.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.6%, Alternate History 9.5%, Base Building 7.1%, Strategy 4.6%

Moonport is a side-scrolling, real time strategy, space colony simulation with roguelike elements. You play as a brave space explorer who aspires to colonize the moons of Saturn. How many moons can you conquer?

Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, 1980s 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.5%

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 52.8% ★, Simulation 17.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%

We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!

Why similar: 4X 42.3% ★, Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 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 41% ★, Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.6%

Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.

Why similar: 4X 79.4% ★, Strategy 20.6%

Deckbuilder with 4X elements. Explore a world to find artefacts, play cards to add cities, farms, temples and ports, trade with your neighbours or invade them, and defend yourself against natural disasters and orcish raiding. Choose one of three factions and add cards to build on their synergies.

Why similar: 4X 60.5% ★, Card Game 24.2%, Strategy 15%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.

Why similar: 4X 41.7% ★, Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 6.7%, Exploration 6.2%

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 45.5% ★, Colony Sim 29.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.

Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Colony Sim 32%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Combat 1.3%

This is a simple and fun elimination game.

Why similar: 4X 63.6% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Dynamic Narration 9.4% ★, Singleplayer 0.2%

An idle space 4X drawn entirely in Minitel-era text. Your empire builds, scans and colonizes while the game is closed — but the Hegemony raids on ninety seconds' warning, and something at the centre of the galaxy has started listening.

Why similar: 4X 49.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Exploration 4.7%

Train your baseball players and create a winning team!

Why similar: Baseball 40% ★, Colony Sim 30.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10%, Arcade 3.5%

The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.

Why similar: Colony Sim 69.5%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 15.1%

Digital Diamond Baseball is a statistically accurate baseball simulator and tabletop board game companion.

Why similar: Baseball 48.1% ★, Card Game 13.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Artificial Intelligence 11.1%

Wasteland Robot: Atavism is a card-based survival game with roguelike elements. You, a pre-war robot, must explore the wasteland, gather resources, craft tools, and fight with the mutants. Your ultimate goal is to bring vanished life back to this land. Until then… do whatever it takes to survive!

Why similar: Card Game 26.4%, Collectathon 19.8%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 16.5%, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: 4X 38.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, 3D Platformer 12%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7.7%

Build cities, research technologies, command armies, and guide your civilization through ancient times in a turn-based strategy game of exploration, expansion, diplomacy, and conquest.

Why similar: 4X 58.6% ★, Alternate History 20.7%, Strategy 17.3%, Exploration 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Stack Epoch is a settlement-building card game. Stack cards to gather resources, construct buildings, and battle various creatures. Stack character cards on trees to get wood. Combine wood with other cards to craft huts and expand your territory!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Card Game 29.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Exploration 7.1%

Hexpanse is a real-time space strategy game. Build your ships and stations block by block, mine asteroids, program the doctrine of your autonomous fleets, and conquer a procedurally generated galaxy. Play solo or in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 57.1% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Artificial Intelligence 8.6%, Exploration 7%, Base Building 5.4%

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 41.8% ★, Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.3%

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.

Why similar: 4X 83.5% ★, Strategy 16%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 36.4% ★, Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.4%

The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.

Why similar: 4X 79.4% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.

Why similar: 4X 82.8% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%

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 37.3%, 4X 35.4% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Exploration 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%

Build a colony on a fungal alien world and keep it alive. Explore the shrouded lands and claim them. Build, and grow your colony. Be prepared to defend against hostile and terrible threats. Xenobiome Command goes hard - from planetfall to last stand.

Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Colony Sim 33.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 5.7%

Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!

Why similar: Colony Sim 70%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 13.8%

Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.

Why similar: 4X 39.1% ★, Colony Sim 31.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Base Building 7.3%

The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Why similar: 4X 78.8% ★, Strategy 20.3%, Action 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Hell Forest is a digital board game. In Hellwood, you take on the role of a strategic commander, leading a magnificent, non-violent war. With limited resources, you will use your wisdom to claim victory in one region after another.

Why similar: 4X 55.4% ★, Card Game 22.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

A fast-paced, minimalist turn-based strategy game. Wargame.

Why similar: 4X 65% ★, Strategy 19.6%, Alternate History 15.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Dominions II is turn based fantasy game in which you take the role of a powerful being that is trying to become the supreme god. The type of Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or statues. The game features a large variety of spells and units.

Why similar: 4X 76.2% ★, Strategy 23.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

Why similar: 4X 74.6% ★, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Jump, collect coins, and enjoy a fun, easy adventure for players

Why similar: Alternate History 26.8%, 3D Platformer 24.8%, Arcade 18.1%, Action 14.7%, Strategy 7.7%

Digital Diamond Baseball is a flexible, transparent, and hyper-accurate computerized baseball simulator that allows gamers to play games, series, tournaments, and entire seasons, using players from any baseball season in history.

Why similar: Baseball 50.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 15.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Arcade 6.8%

Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, 3D Platformer 11.7%, Arcade 8.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 50.6%, Simulation 23.7%, Strategy 21.8%, Combat 3.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%