
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.
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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.

Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
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.

Star Trek: Infinite
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.
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: Diplomacy 17.6% ★, 4X 11.5% ★, Grand Strategy 8.8% ★, Space Sim 7.5%, RTS 6.4%
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: Diplomacy 20.4% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 14.1% ★, RTS 8.1%, Space Sim 8%
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: Diplomacy 21.2% ★, 4X 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Space 8.3%, Management 7.2%
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 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Space 12.3%, Sandbox 7%
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: Diplomacy 22.6% ★, 4X 18.5% ★, Grand Strategy 14.7% ★, RTS 9.7%, Space 8.8%
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: Diplomacy 20.5% ★, 4X 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, Space Sim 9.3%, Military 8%
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: Diplomacy 22.2% ★, 4X 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, Management 11.7%, RTS 9.4%
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 21.9% ★, Diplomacy 15.1% ★, RTS 12.7%, Grand Strategy 11.8% ★, Space 10.6%
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 20.4% ★, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, RTS 11.9%, Space 7.6%
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 19% ★, Diplomacy 18.6% ★, Grand Strategy 14.1% ★, Space Sim 11.2%, RTS 9.8%
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: Diplomacy 22.9% ★, 4X 16.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Management 7.8%, Space 7.8%
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: Diplomacy 21.4% ★, 4X 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Space 9.5%, Management 7.7%
A galaxy with its own economy, its own wars, and no reason to wait for you. Trade, mine, fight, and salvage a living - alone on the rim, or at the head of an empire the great powers can't ignore. A single-player space sandbox that never stops moving.
Why similar: 4X 18.6% ★, Diplomacy 17.2% ★, Space Sim 14.3%, Space 11.1%, RTS 10.1%
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, RTS 12.6%, Simulation 8%, Management 7.6%
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: Diplomacy 18.9% ★, 4X 16% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, RTS 8.2%, Management 7.4%
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 22.4% ★, Diplomacy 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Management 11.1%, Space 9.2%
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: Diplomacy 23.7% ★, 4X 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Management 8.1%, RTS 7.5%
Play campaign stories within the Galactic Ruler universe. Invade the galaxy to eliminate those who stand in your way or rally alien races to defend against the invaders. Fight battles at both planet and space across a procedurally generated galaxy. Use new unit control systems to manage your forces.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.9% ★, 4X 18.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Space 10.4%, Space Sim 7.2%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, RTS 9%, Management 7.3%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.3% ★, 4X 16.1% ★, Grand Strategy 11.8% ★, Space Sim 11.1%, Space 9.4%
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 22.1% ★, Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, RTS 11.8%, Space 9.2%
A grand strategy game of world domination. Conquer and unite 195 countries before an unknown enemy arrives. Build your economy, military, and influence. Choose war or diplomacy, control resources, and shape the future—only one ruler will rise to the top. Will it be you?
Why similar: Diplomacy 28% ★, 4X 21.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, RTS 12.3%, Military 9.5%
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: Diplomacy 25.5% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Management 8.7%, Military 7.1%
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 28.9% ★, 4X 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, RTS 11.3%, Military 7.3%
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% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, Space 8.5%, Military 7.3%
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: Diplomacy 23.4% ★, 4X 18.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, RTS 10.6%, Military 7.9%
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: Diplomacy 25.3% ★, 4X 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Management 9%, Space 8.8%
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 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, RTS 13.8%, Management 10.6%, Space 10%
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 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, 4X 11.4% ★, Management 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
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: Diplomacy 25.3% ★, 4X 19.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Management 8.8%, Military 7.1%
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.9% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Management 8.7%
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: Diplomacy 30.9% ★, 4X 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Multiplayer 6.5%, Military 5.2%
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: Diplomacy 27.4% ★, 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 6.9%
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Diplomacy 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Space 8.8%, Management 8.6%
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: Grand Strategy 24% ★, Diplomacy 21% ★, 4X 13.2% ★, Management 10.3%, Military 8.5%
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 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Space 11.5%, Space Sim 9.3%, Strategy 7.9%
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: Diplomacy 23.5% ★, 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Space 9.1%, Space Sim 8%
A multiplayer space RTS blending in depth mechanics with fast paced skirmish matches. control and manage an empire together with your team in large-scale physic-based online battles, and expand your army mit modded factions
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.2% ★, 4X 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9% ★, Space Sim 13.1%, RTS 11.8%
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: Diplomacy 27.5% ★, 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, Management 8.9%, Military 7.7%
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 23.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Space 19.2%, Management 8.7%, Strategy 7%
Become a strategeist and lead one of hundreds of nations on the globe across centuries of conflict and diplomacy in this grand strategy game. Balance war, politics, and internal institutions to shape the fate of your empire, and secure your legacy in history.
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, 4X 12.4% ★, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8%
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: Diplomacy 26.8% ★, 4X 19.8% ★, RTS 14.2%, Grand Strategy 11.6% ★, Sandbox 5.7%
The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends expeditions to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find a refuge for the population of Earth.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.8% ★, 4X 20.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Space 9.3%, Management 9%
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: Diplomacy 26.2% ★, 4X 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, Management 9%, Military 8%
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 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, 4X 11.5% ★, Space 9.3%, Management 8.3%
Space strategy gaming reimagined. Dive into fast-paced real-time planetary battles against the backdrop of a turn-based campaign that sees you build your empire in the stars. With hundreds of troops and ships at your command, can you forge an empire that lasts?
Why similar: Diplomacy 31% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3% ★, RTS 14.5%, Space 9.8%, Military 9.2%
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, RTS 12.2%, Military 11.9%, Management 10.5%
As the leader of a nation, dispatch and control your team of characters all around the world to destabilize your enemies and establish your supremacy. All methods are fair game: hacking, sabotage, political interference, military strikes, corruption, treachery, assassinations, data theft…
Why similar: Diplomacy 31.6% ★, 4X 21.3% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, RTS 12.5%, Co-op 6.2%
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 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, RTS 13.4%, Space 12.9%, Management 10.3%
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Space Sim 15.4%, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, RTS 10.4%
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Space 12%, RTS 10.3%, Management 8.7%
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: Diplomacy 29.4% ★, 4X 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Management 8.8%, Space 7.6%
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Space Sim 16.6%, Space 13%, Grand Strategy 12.2% ★, Strategy 8.2%
Develop your nation, command your army, and dominate the world in a real-time strategy game combining economic management, diplomacy, technological progress, and military conquest.
Why similar: Diplomacy 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, RTS 14.4%, Military 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
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: Diplomacy 25.6% ★, 4X 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, Management 9.6%, RTS 9.5%
Star Zeal is a space based 4x strategy and rpg hybrid. A mixture between a procedural, open ended RPG and a space civilization builder. Go on an adventure with your character and their faction whilst making friends, enemies and exploring a vast galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, RTS 12.3%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 39.1% ★, Space 16.1%, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Strategy 7.2%, RTS 6.7%
Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, RTS 16.6%, Space 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%