- #1 Void Ascendancy
97% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
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 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.4%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 14.3%, Futuristic 5.2%
- #2 Money Wars : Modern Ages
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌍 Conquer the world with economy! 52 real countries. Offline strategy sim.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
- #3 Mandate of Galactic Empires
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oddbit
Windows · Linux
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Space Sim 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.9%
- #4 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
95% matchVery Positive89% of 703 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Space Sim 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #5 Order: The New Dawn
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
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 27.8%, Space Sim 24.9%, 4X 20.4% ★, Strategy 5.8%, Management 5.3%
- #6 5th Frontier, The New Space Race
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: J. C. SpringBourne
Windows
A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game. Design and build Your own fleet of space ships, to conquer the Galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9.9%
- #7 First Colony
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Atesh Entertainment, Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 15%, Economy 4.2%
- #8 Splinter Colony
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 29.2%, Strategy 17.2%, 1990's 7.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #9 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Space 5.8%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #10 Colonerra Age of Exploration
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Game Tzar
Windows
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 34.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Economy 4.9%
- #11 Unending Galaxy
89% matchMixed62% of 125 reviews2016
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 18.2%, Space Sim 18.1%, Space 7.9%
- #12 Galactum Meridian
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hedra Games
Windows
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 32.7% ★, Space Sim 22.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Space 7.2%
- #13 Nova Origin
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZapNova Games
Windows
Explore, scan, and conquer an unknown world. Deploy rovers, uncover hidden resources, and build a fully automated colony that must survive, adapt, and scale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Space Sim 24.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Futuristic 4.7%
- #14 Stellar Hustler
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Cenrellia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space trading roguelite. Buy low, sell high, dodge pirates, bribe customs, and pay off your debt to The Syndicate before time runs out.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.3%, Simulation 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Strategy 16.8%, Management 4.3%
- #15 Travelers in Space Crack
87% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Xenon LuPub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Travelers in Space Crack is a survive game in deep space. Explore in different galaxy through space cracks. To find and gather useful resource, to trade and make money are all important to develop your own fleets. And only through build massive fleets, you triumph over the unknown evil forces.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 16.3%, Space 4.4%
- #16 Galactic Conflict
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Shadowfoundry GamesPub: Sinpros Entertainment and Multimedia
Windows
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Space Sim 23.8%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Space 4%
- #17 Star Zeal 4x
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
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 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Space Sim 19.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #18 Arcbound
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Space Sim 28.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #19 Tidal Expanse
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.7%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Management 7.3%
- #20 Pandora: First Contact
84% matchMixed63% of 645 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 45.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 7.7%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #21 Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Illwinter Game Design
Windows · Linux
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 46.3% ★, Strategy 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, 2D 3.6%
- #22 HELLO EXO
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weasel Games
Windows
It is the year 2072. Recent research has revealed how to locate an Earth-like exoplanet. You were shipped there. Your mission is to repair the spaceship, keep people in hibernation pods alive, and prepare the exoplanet for their arrival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Space Sim 31.3%, Strategy 19.4%, Space 8%, Resource Management 2.5%
- #23 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
81% matchMixed65% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a Space 4X and an MMO. An online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players, or just sit and chat with the friendly community.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5%, Colony Sim 28%, Strategy 15.3%, Futuristic 6.7%, Space 5.5%
- #24 Antropico: Colonies
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Colony Sim 11%, Futuristic 8.5%
- #25 Irongrim Tower
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Promeduz
Windows
Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Space Sim 25.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Futuristic 5.1%
- #26 Orbit Engineer
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Albion Games
Windows
Orbit Engineer – Build, grow, and survive in your own space station. Manage crew morale, supplies, and research while facing unpredictable space events and system failures. Every decision matters as you expand and fight to keep your station alive in space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Space Sim 25.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Economy 4.4%
- #27 Gate Builders
78% 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 29.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Management 7.3%
- #28 Defense X
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Hcenter GamePub: 30 Game Studio
Windows
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Tactical 5.2%
- #29 Galactic Empire
78% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: NeuroCore Studios
Windows
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Space Sim 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.7%
- #30 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
76% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.5% ★, Colony Sim 29.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Management 3.9%
- #31 The Final Earth 2
75% matchVery Positive97% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Space Sim 21%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.4%, Management 7.3%
- #32 Space Empires I
77% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
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 32.3% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Management 9%, Economy 5.4%
- #33 Project Sol
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Reactions
Windows
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 34.5% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Management 5.9%, Space 5.3%
- #34 Solargene
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 848 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Space Sim 21.7%, 4X 17.2% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Management 5.8%
- #35 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
74% 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 35.4% ★, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Economy 7.4%
- #36 VOID PROFIT
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Corvid Food
Windows
Fly a rented corporate vessel in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Why similar: Space Sim 40.8%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 8.7%, Economy 7.4%, Space 5.1%
- #37 Children of the Galaxy
75% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Filip Dusek, Empty Keys
Windows
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 46.6% ★, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 21.1%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Indie 2.5%
- #38 Generation Nova
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Space Sim 26.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Space 6.3%
- #39 Amazing Space
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Space Sim 27%, Colony Sim 25%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Space 7.3%
- #40 Sidereal Wanderer
71% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: SPICE PRESSPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
As Captain, you must lead your spaceship to defeat the rebel forces scattered across the galaxy. Scour the sectors for enemies and remain alert! Determine the right coordinates and torpedo your foe down.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #41 ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition
72% matchVery Positive81% of 9,603 reviews2012
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Why similar: 4X 41.7% ★, Strategy 22.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #42 Armada 2526 Gold Edition
73% matchMixed67% of 109 reviews2013
Dev: Ntronium GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game. Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions.
Why similar: 4X 40% ★, Strategy 30.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Space 8.3%, Indie 2.8%
- #43 New Space Age
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NT7 Studio
Windows
A turn-based grand strategy about the exploration of the Solar System. Use technologies — from existing prototypes to near-future engineering concepts. Build a space industry and become the leader of a new era.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, 4X 15% ★, Space Sim 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #44 Oreship Stellar Frontier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tischkanten_Flavor
Windows · Linux
Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.9%
- #45 Possible One: Lunar Industries
69% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Space Sim 25.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Futuristic 7.3%
- #46 Eternal Space
70% match9 user reviews60% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Freeworld DevelopmentsPub: Studio Grandis
Windows · Mac
Eternal Space is a city builder and space exploration/combat game. Explore the Eternal Space, and manage your city while you fight pirates, or maybe even become a pirate! Keep your citizens happy, and collect taxes from them each year for a little bonus!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Space Sim 25.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 8.7%, Futuristic 7%
- #47 Stationbreak
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken SpaceshipPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?
Why similar: Space Sim 29.3%, Colony Sim 23%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Space 7.5%
- #48 Enterprise - Space Agency Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 0! Crunch Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Take the helm of a cutting-edge space agency with the mission to explore and exploit the Solar system. Realize the historical, and futuristic mission to establish humanity as the Interplanetary species.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Space Sim 19.1%, Simulation 9%, Trading 8.4%
- #49 Kepler Protocol
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Boe
Windows
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 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #50 SCP: Site Director
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noble Gas Studios
Windows
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 41.2%, Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, 2D 3.9%
- #51 Space Empires IV Deluxe
69% matchVery Positive86% of 291 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 52.4% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Space 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #52 Age of Beasts
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LD Gaming
Windows
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 42.2%, Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 22.8%, Management 7.1%, Combat 2.3%
- #53 Stella Nova
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DavePub: also Dave
Windows
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Space Sim 24.1%, 4X 18.3% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.3%
- #54 Industries of Titan
67% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Space Sim 17.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #55 Exostation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Space Sim 30.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Futuristic 6.3%, Economy 5.7%
- #56 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
65% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: Garan LornPub: Selenodrome
Windows · Linux
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 7%
- #57 Stellar Sovereigns
67% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Imagined Reality
Windows
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 29.1% ★, Space Sim 24.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Futuristic 7.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #58 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
68% matchMixed44% of 959 reviews2012
Dev: Kerberos ProductionsPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 50.8% ★, Strategy 21.2%, Space 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Sci-fi 6.1%