- #1 Rise of Hegemony
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lion Loewe
Windows
Take control of a country from its very first beginnings and lead it successfully to become a global hegemon. In a complex simulation of economy, diplomacy and warfare the path you chose to triumph is up to you.
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Diplomacy 20.6% ★, Economy 9.3%, Grand Strategy 9%, Political Sim 7.1% ★
- #2 One Planet
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Qardinal Games
Windows · Linux
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 29.8% ★, Diplomacy 26.3% ★, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.4%, Economy 7.3%
- #3 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
96% matchVery Positive86% of 770 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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 26.9% ★, Diplomacy 21.7% ★, Political Sim 13.7% ★, War 10%, Grand Strategy 9.9%
- #4 Tales From Outer Space
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: William MurphyPub: Ludi Absurdi
Windows · Mac · Linux
The hardest part about interstellar expansion isn't the technical cost, its the people. Exploit ecosystems, manipulate the masses, and conquer the intergalactic market. Growth is mandatory -- ethics are not.
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.3% ★, 4X 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14%, Political Sim 9.9% ★, Economy 9.7%
- #5 MA 2 – President Simulator
94% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Oxiwyle Inc.
Windows
Build nuclear weapon, wage wars, strategize and become the strongest leader
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.4% ★, 4X 23.3% ★, Political Sim 14.4% ★, Grand Strategy 9.4%, Economy 8.9%
- #6 Revival: Recolonization
94% matchMixed69% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26% ★, Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 10.2%, Hex Grid 9.9% ★, Economy 9.3%
- #7 World Warfare & Economics
93% 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 24.4% ★, Diplomacy 21.3% ★, Political Sim 15.7% ★, Grand Strategy 10.6%, Economy 8.9%
- #8 Power & Revolution 2020 Edition
92% matchMixed62% of 856 reviews2020
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
The new version of Geopolitical Simulator 4, the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and restart the economy, participate in the US elections or engage in lightning wars with new 2020 scenarios.
Why similar: Diplomacy 30.9% ★, Political Sim 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 11.8%, Economy 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #9 Eden Universe
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haxo Game Studios
Windows
A true God Game where faith, miracles, morality, and your Avatar decide the destiny of Eden itself. Guide your followers, perform divine miracles, and shape a living world as a young god.
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Diplomacy 23.3% ★, War 9.6%, Economy 9.4%, Management 7.5%
- #10 Global Protocol: New World Order
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: Dorlion Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Grand Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #11 Master of Galaxies
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zbigniew Peter Dudkowski
Windows
Master of Galaxies is a turn based space strategy game. Explore the galaxy and settle new planets. Research technologies and design powerful ships. Each planet can have a leader and a lot of buildings and worker improvements. Managing the empire is totally new and unique!
Why similar: 4X 40.8% ★, Diplomacy 23.9% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Economy 8.4%, War 7.9%
- #12 Rogue State Revolution
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 543 reviews2021
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.Pub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25% ★, Diplomacy 21.1% ★, Political Sim 11.5% ★, Grand Strategy 10.3%, War 9.6%
- #13 Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
89% matchMostly Negative37% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: JujubeePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.7% ★, 4X 14.2% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7%, Economy 11.9%, Political Sim 8.7% ★
- #14 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
88% matchMixed47% of 62,332 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 50.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Diplomacy 24% ★, Political Sim 10.8% ★, Grand Strategy 10.5%, War 9.1%
- #15 Three Kingdoms : Alias
86% matchVery Positive80% of 373 reviews2026
Dev: Plotrick
Windows
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 23.4% ★, Diplomacy 22.7% ★, Political Sim 15.7% ★, Grand Strategy 12%, Economy 8.3%
- #16 Imperialist
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 30.5% ★, Diplomacy 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 13.2%, Economy 11.1%, Hex Grid 6.3% ★
- #17 Dune: Spice Wars
86% 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 24.9% ★, Diplomacy 23.5% ★, Management 10.9%, Grand Strategy 9.7%, War 9.5%
- #18 HUMANKIND™ 2
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows
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 35.3% ★, Diplomacy 19.8% ★, Grand Strategy 11.3%, Strategy 9.2%, War 7.3%
- #19 Imperiums: The Americas
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
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 24.5% ★, Diplomacy 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 9.9%, Economy 8.7%, War 8.6%
- #20 World Order: Global Power
83% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Global Strategy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead any nation in a deep, turn-based grand strategy and political sim. Master the economy, military, diplomacy and society against rival AI you can actually read. Build a democracy or a dictatorship; the game names what you become, and your reign becomes a shareable saga.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Political Sim 18.5% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 7%
- #21 Mandate 1600: The East
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RM GAME
Windows
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 26.8% ★, Diplomacy 19.3% ★, Political Sim 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 6%
- #22 DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 34 reviews2024
Dev: OMNIAPub: NotTheBestGames
Windows
A crime based 4X strategy game with heavy RPG elements. Money, power, women... in the Prohibition, the world of crime is prospering, but in it, the road to the top is filled with blood. The ruthless competition, the greedy politicians and the pesky policemen, everyone wants to come out on top!
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Diplomacy 22.1% ★, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Economy 9.5%, Grand Strategy 8.2%
- #23 Trade Conquest
82% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: GrandPaw Games
Windows
Turn wealth into political power in this modern Grand Strategy game. Build a global economic empire, manipulate governments, and challenge the world's superpowers through Economic supremacy or military Conquest.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.9% ★, 4X 19.4% ★, Political Sim 16% ★, Grand Strategy 11%, Economy 10.1%
- #24 Final Vanguard
81% 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 28.7% ★, Diplomacy 19.8% ★, Political Sim 12.4% ★, Grand Strategy 11.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #25 Millennia
81% matchMixed67% of 3,788 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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% ★, Diplomacy 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 11.1%, War 9.5%, Economy 9.2%
- #26 EraTurn
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lobelia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shape your civilization’s destiny in this epic turn-based strategy game. Manage resources, advance technology, and conquer through the ages. Every choice transforms history—will your empire rise to greatness or fall to obscurity?
Why similar: 4X 23% ★, Diplomacy 22.6% ★, Political Sim 14.5% ★, Grand Strategy 9.1%, Economy 8.5%
- #27 NationWar:Annals
80% 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: Diplomacy 28.3% ★, 4X 27.3% ★, Political Sim 14.8% ★, Grand Strategy 10.3%, War 8.5%
- #28 Crow's Foot
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Thelix
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 41.5% ★, Diplomacy 25.8% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Economy 9.3%, War 6%
- #29 TREUD
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nikolai Karulin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your society through 12,000 years – from the Stone Age to the present day – in a grand strategy game with a living simulation where real historical processes are recreated, but nothing is predetermined. Build, conquer, exploit. Crisis is part of history: keep power or side with the revolution
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.9% ★, 4X 18.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Economy 15%, Political Sim 8.3% ★
- #30 Twisted Three Kingdoms
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
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: 4X 23.3% ★, Diplomacy 20.6% ★, Political Sim 15.8% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #31 Feudums
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kalamona Studios
Windows
Lead your noble house through brutal wars, shifting allegiances and economic strife in an asynchronous multiplayer 4X strategy. Shape the narrative with or against real players in a medieval world where diplomacy isn't binding, there is NO pay-to-win, and only strategy determines your legacy.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Diplomacy 22.8% ★, Political Sim 13.9% ★, Grand Strategy 9.6%, Hex Grid 8.4% ★
- #32 Uncharted Sectors
77% 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: Diplomacy 26.7% ★, 4X 21.2% ★, Political Sim 15.4% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8%, Economy 12.7%
- #33 Freewake
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Oakshore Studios
Windows
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Diplomacy 22.5% ★, Political Sim 20.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9%, Strategy 6.4%
- #34 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WoN
Windows
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 39.5% ★, Political Sim 15% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5%, Economy 13%, Strategy 10.9%
- #35 Agecraft
75% 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 29.2% ★, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 12%, Economy 9.4%, War 8.9%
- #36 Government Contractors: Arms of Influence
75% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Dan K.Pub: Strategy Games Interactive
Windows
Historically accurate strategy game where you act as a government contractor researching, developing, and manufacturing weapons and technology for your clients. You choose the parts for each product, but be aware that cheap or wrong political choices may affect your success rate!
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Political Sim 15.1% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8%, War 9.4%
- #37 Gate Builders
74% 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 33.3% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 13%, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.2%
- #38 Concert of Power
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Piedmont Games
Windows
Rule a shattered North America where every claim can become a crisis, and every crisis tests the balance of power. Build industry, command trade, forge treaties, isolate rivals, and decide whether to preserve the fragile order or become the power that breaks it.
Why similar: Diplomacy 33% ★, Political Sim 22% ★, Economy 11.9%, Grand Strategy 11.2%, Management 7.9%
- #39 Great Houses of Calderia
73% matchMixed61% of 447 reviews2024
Dev: Resistance GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!
Why similar: Diplomacy 20.6% ★, 4X 18.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Economy 11.1%, Management 8.8%
- #40 Ascendant Dawn
72% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Nikous Studio
Windows
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world. Work your way up from a small clan to a great empire by founding cities and conquering your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, Political Sim 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14%, Economy 10.5%, War 9%
- #41 Gilded Destiny
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aquila InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.
Why similar: Diplomacy 24.2% ★, 4X 20% ★, Political Sim 15.2% ★, Grand Strategy 10.7%, Economy 10.1%
- #42 Europa Universalis V
71% matchMixed67% of 30,806 reviews2025
Dev: Paradox TintoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 53.1 hrsMean: 124.7 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: Diplomacy 27.6% ★, 4X 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 12%, Economy 11.2%, War 10.7%
- #43 Samhan: Where Korea Began
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CODEMAPO
Windows · Mac
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: Diplomacy 20.4% ★, 4X 18.7% ★, Political Sim 17.1% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4%, War 8.7%
- #44 Conqueror's Stage
71% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: LeftLane InteractivePub: Lunexa Solutions
Windows
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 34.7% ★, Diplomacy 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4%, War 8.4%, Economy 7.1%
- #45 Crown Of Hispania
70% 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 26.1% ★, Diplomacy 23.8% ★, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Grand Strategy 11%, War 9.6%
- #46 Geopolaris: Conquer & Dominate
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fenek Games
Windows
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 32.3% ★, Diplomacy 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4%, Political Sim 11.1% ★, Management 7.4%
- #47 Imperiums: Greek Wars
72% matchVery Positive85% of 548 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 29.6% ★, Diplomacy 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 11.3%, War 10%, Economy 9.4%
- #48 万象战略
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
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 42.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★, Strategy 8%, Economy 7.3%
- #49 Global Supremacy
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glory MediaPub: SJ co.
Windows
A vast, real-time geopolitical simulation where 196 nations live and breathe at once. Economy, finance, monetary policy, trade, energy, military, diplomacy, nuclear strategy, politics, society — every lever that moves a nation is in your hands. The clock never stops — until you stop it.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Political Sim 17.1% ★, Grand Strategy 13.1%, Economy 10.1%, War 8.5%
- #50 ENDLESS Legend™ 2
67% matchVery Positive83% of 3,878 reviews2026
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.9% ★, Diplomacy 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 11.2%, War 11%, Economy 10.1%
- #51 Old World
69% matchVery Positive82% of 6,919 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.7% ★, Diplomacy 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 11.5%, War 11.1%, Economy 9.9%
- #52 Dawn Of Imperialism
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nitrid Game
Windows
Guide your state through a fictional industrial world where economic power becomes global influence. Use merchants, companies, politics, intelligence, and trade networks to control the flow of resources and decisions. Conquest is an option; true power lies in controlling the economy.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Economy 8.5%
- #53 War and Politics
67% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: JIYUTORISEI
Windows
A strategy simulation that combines elements of war and politics. Take on the role of President (or Prime Minister) and manage the government, policy, taxes, military, and diplomacy. Win elections and achieve victory in war. Turn your beliefs into reality.
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.1% ★, Political Sim 20.8% ★, War 13.1%, Economy 11.6%, Grand Strategy 10%
- #54 Ode to War
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Joran Batty
Windows
A civilization MMO: from a single town to a galactic empire. The server ticks once an hour and keeps running while you sleep. You administer towns, not a nation, so each one holds its own stores and anything you need from a neighbor has to be traded for.
Why similar: Diplomacy 37.4% ★, 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 12.2%, War 7.6%, Massively Multiplayer 6.6%
- #55 Prevent WW3
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NT7 Studio
Windows
You have no direct power - only diplomacy and influence. A global strategy game where you lead an international organization: stop conflicts, resolve economic crises, and restore stability before the world descends into chaos.
Why similar: Diplomacy 34.6% ★, Political Sim 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 12.7%, War 8.7%, Economy 7.9%
- #56 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sovereign Era Games
Windows · Mac
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 36.1% ★, Diplomacy 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16%, Economy 8%, War 7.2%
- #57 Star Traders: 4X Empires
70% matchMixed63% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Diplomacy 28.6% ★, Economy 10.4%, Grand Strategy 10.2%, Management 7.5%
- #58 Lawgivers II
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 712 reviews2023
Dev: Damian BernardiPub: SomniumSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.1% ★, Political Sim 20.7% ★, 4X 16.8% ★, Grand Strategy 9.5%, Management 9.2%
- #59 Throneforged
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Genesis Worlds
Windows
Forge your empire. Claim the throne. A competitive 4X strategy game where every tile matters, every decision counts, ZERO RNG, and one win condition exists. Claim the central Throne and hold it for 10 turns.
Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Diplomacy 23% ★, War 10.9%, Economy 9.8%, Grand Strategy 9.1%
- #60 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
66% matchMixed69% of 2,301 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 38.6% ★, Diplomacy 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%