
A historical turn-based 4X with the feel of '90s strategy games. Build your empire across eight eras in a roguelike campaign: five completed matches, win or lose, build bonuses for a sixth-match mythic finale. Beware your Archenemy.
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A historical turn-based 4X with the feel of '90s strategy games. Build your empire across eight eras in a roguelike campaign: five completed matches, win or lose, build bonuses for a sixth-match mythic finale. Beware your Archenemy.

HUMANKIND™ 2
Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.

Dominium Mundi
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7%, Diplomacy 12.8% ★, Historical 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 47.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Historical 8.4%, Strategy 6.4%
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Historical 11.2%, Strategy 5.1%
From a veteran 4X Strategy developer comes a new deep strategy game of logistics, empire, and control. Develop the New World, industrialise your capital, manage your growing Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals to become history's first Superpower. Can you exploit the New World to control the Old?
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2%, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
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Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.1%, 4X 25.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.8%, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 7.9%
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7%, Diplomacy 15% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Historical 9.9%
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: 4X 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6%, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Historical 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%
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 39% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Diplomacy 12.7% ★, Isometric 12.5%, Historical 10.5%
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 38% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Medieval 8.4%
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 41.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 5.9%, Resource Management 5.6%
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Isometric 8.9%, Historical 8.8%
Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.
Why similar: 4X 36.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Historical 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%
Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.
Why similar: 4X 39.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Old School 7%, Management 5.5%
Get ready for an exciting real-time strategy game experience like no other with Seven Kingdoms 2! Say goodbye to the monotony of resource gathering and army building, its unique gameplay offers a thrilling blend of city management, trade, industry, espionage, diplomacy, and conquest!
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7%, Historical 12.6%, Isometric 9.6%
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 39.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Medieval 6.4%, Strategy 6.3%
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 35% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Management 9%
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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Management 7.5%
Dominate five rival regions in a turn-based 4X. Save the world from Nihlex's evil alien forces in a race to conquer Mars' oil reserves. Research, boost your economy with stock trades, build units, fight tactical battles on a hex tile map. Are you strong enough to lead a united humanity to victory?
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, 1990's 8%, Old School 6.9%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Historical 10.6%
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 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Historical 10.5%, Old School 7.9%
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 46.3% ★, Grand Strategy 29%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Strategy 8.2%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Historical 13.3%, Strategy 9.2%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Diplomacy 18.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Historical 8.7%
The grand strategy you can actually finish. A full 4X empire to build, expand, and conquer, with all the depth and none of the grind, in a campaign you complete in a single evening. Fight across five ages on a fresh world every time, or design your own, all the way to total conquest.
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Diplomacy 16.5% ★, Historical 11.6%, Management 3.6%
In an enormous strategic area stretching from Paris to Breslau, from Hamburg to Vienna, control everything from major strategic territorial decisions to tactical battle manoeuvres.
Why similar: 4X 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Historical 8.2%
Amidst this chaotic era, shape your own destiny—whether as a loyal minister, a ruthless warlord, or an independent ruler. Every choice and battle writes your legend. Are you ready to rise from a commoner to claim the realm?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26%, 4X 23% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Historical 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%
A world where officers hide their names and abilities. Can you spot Zhuge Liang? A hardcore turn-based strategy simulation for true Three Kingdoms devotees.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2%, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Historical 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
Silla's thousand-year reign is crumbling, and Gyeon Hwon, Gung Ye and Wang Geon rise to claim the peninsula. Command 500+ historical figures across a 3D Korea in this turn-based grand strategy of statecraft, diplomacy and war—and reunite the Three Han.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.5%, 4X 18.2% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Historical 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%
A short-form empire building strategy game. Explore the planet and grow your colony, while attempting to negotiate with the many characterful rival factions. Make friends, break allegiances, or just drop nukes on them.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Diplomacy 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Grand Strategy 7.6%, Tactical 4.9%
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 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Diplomacy 18% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Isometric 8.5%
Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 9.6%, Strategy 6.6%
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 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Isometric 9.2%, Management 6.7%
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Diplomacy 17% ★, Historical 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Diplomacy 18.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Tactical 5%
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: 4X 36.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29%, Diplomacy 23.4% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Resource Management 3%
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 40.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Medieval 5.2%
Lead your civilization across six thousand years of history in this turn-based strategy game built for the Game Boy Advance. D-pad-first play makes it a natural fit for Steam Deck.
Why similar: 4X 49.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, Historical 17.5%, Strategy 10.7%
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 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Retro 8.4%
A turn-based hex strategy you can finish over lunch. Outsmart AI rivals, each with their own grudges, ambitions, and breaking points. Conquer provinces, command knights, scouts, assassins, and more. Unlock rule-bending scrolls. Go bankrupt and your own army defects.
Why similar: 4X 42% ★, Diplomacy 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Medieval 4.9%
Navigate through interactions with competing powers to lead your nation to global domination in this 4X open sandbox geopolitical sim set in post-WW2 alt-history world. You have 251 years at your disposal to conquer and unify the planet or take your nation into space. Can you make it?
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Diplomacy 19.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Management 5.6%
Spin the slot and decide the fate of your civilization. From seeds to kingdoms, from stone to steel. From the very first turn to a thousand years later, every choice becomes history. From the first spark of fire to a forest of skyscrapers. How long can your people survive?
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Historical 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Roguelike 8.1%
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Diplomacy 18.1% ★, Historical 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
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 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3%, Historical 11.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 4%
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Historical 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%
《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 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Historical 13.9%, Strategy 6%
Guide your people across generations in the pre-Columbian Americas. Build a lasting civilization through trade, diplomacy, culture, and war in this historical turn-based 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Historical 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
Miniciv is an accessible hex‑grid 4X turn‑based strategy. Start with one city and settler, explore and build your budding civilization into a mighty empire. Procedural maps and flexible playtime bring unique runs, pairing easy entry with deep political, trade, faith and industrial mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 45.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Strategy 8.1%, Indie 1%
Simple map coloring game, And about history of ancient civilized, Mini ancient strategy game with a large world map to explore, in which you can simulate different ancient civilizations, the game will have different chapters showing ancient historical events.
Why similar: 4X 38.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Historical 6.5%
SSI's Sword of Aragon was one of the earliest precursors to the 4x genre and is widely regarded as one of the best 4X games ever made. Combining deep RPG character progression, military units, resource management, and a fun story, Sword of Aragon is a MUST have for any fan of the 4x genre!
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Old School 8.9%, Retro 6.5%
Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 38.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1%, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Strategy 8.9%
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 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Diplomacy 15.5% ★, Historical 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%
Turn-based strategy game in a world filled with magics, demons and dragons! Build, expand, conquer, form alliances and wage wars.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Isometric 9.6%
Unify Japanese History! A Timeline Strategy Game Where History Itself Becomes the Battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Historical 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy 5.4%
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 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5%, Historical 13.1%, Medieval 9%, Management 7.3%
"Politon: Prologue" is the free prologue version of "Politon". This prologue includes a tutorial, game mechanics, and the prologue of the main story inside. Only Single-player modes are available.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Isometric 9.8%, Medieval 5.3%
Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.
Why similar: 4X 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Historical 10.4%
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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Historical 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 21%, Historical 15.3%, Strategy 11%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Tactical 4.2%