60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Singleplayer, Simulation, 4X.
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Void Ascendancy
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.
Mandate of Galactic Empires
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.
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 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.5%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 14.3%, Futuristic 5.1%
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 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%
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 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Space Sim 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
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 27.9%, Space Sim 24.8%, 4X 20.3% ★, Strategy 5.9%, Management 5.4%
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 15%, Economy 4.3%
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 35.3% ★, Colony Sim 29.3%, Strategy 17.3%, 1990's 7.5%, Simulation 5.6%
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 40.3% ★, Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Space 5.8%, Sci-fi 5.6%
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 24.9% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Space Sim 18%, Space 7.9%
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 32.6% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Space 7.2%
Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Space Sim 24.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 15%, Futuristic 4.7%
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 29.4%, Colony Sim 28.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Space 4.4%
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 31.1%, Simulation 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Strategy 16.9%, Management 4.4%
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 32.3% ★, Space Sim 23.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Space 3.9%
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 28.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.6%
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 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 23%, Space Sim 19.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.3%
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 30.5%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 7.4%
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 45.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 7.7%, Sci-fi 6%
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 46.1% ★, Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, 2D 3.6%
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 35.8%, Space Sim 31.2%, Strategy 19.5%, Space 7.9%, Resource Management 2.6%
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% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Futuristic 8.4%
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 30.4%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Futuristic 6.7%, Space 5.4%
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 25.3%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Economy 4.5%
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 25.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Futuristic 5%
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 29.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Management 7.4%
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Tactical 5.2%
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 31.1% ★, Space Sim 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%
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 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 29.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Management 3.9%
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 34.4% ★, Colony Sim 29%, Strategy 15.6%, Management 6%, Space 5.2%
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 32.1% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Management 9%, Economy 5.6%
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 20.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Management 7.4%, Simulation 7.4%
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 25.2%, Space Sim 21.6%, 4X 17.2% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Management 5.8%
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 35.2% ★, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Economy 7.6%
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 40.6%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 8.7%, Economy 7.5%, Space 5%
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 46.5% ★, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 21.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Indie 2.5%
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 30.2%, Space Sim 26.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 6.3%
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 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Space 7.3%
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 41.6% ★, Strategy 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Space 9.6%, Sci-fi 5.6%
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 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.3%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Sci-fi 7.1%
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 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 7.5%
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 39.9% ★, Strategy 30.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Space 8.3%, Indie 2.8%
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 25.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Futuristic 7.2%
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 30.9%, Space Sim 25.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 8.8%, Futuristic 6.9%
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%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Space 7.4%
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 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Space Sim 19%, Simulation 9%, Trading 8.5%
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 6.1%, 2D 3.9%
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 52.3% ★, Strategy 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Space 7%, Sci-fi 6.2%
Colonial Wars is a sci-fi futuristic real-time strategy and survival game where you face up to three different opponents on battle maps, fighting for control of resources and territory while also contending with the local alien wildlife population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 22.8%, Management 7.2%, Combat 2.3%
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 30.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Futuristic 6.3%, Economy 5.9%
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 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.4%, Space Sim 17.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%
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%, 4X 18.2% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.4%
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%
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 50.7% ★, Strategy 21.3%, Space 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Sci-fi 6.1%
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% ★, Space Sim 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Futuristic 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 49.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Space 7.5%, Sci-fi 4.8%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Space Sim 17.2%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 7.6%
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 8%
X-Tension is the eagerly awaited expansion pack to X: Beyond the Frontier. The expansion is not limited by a linear plot line but makes use of new ways to expand your empire. You can now take part in missions that are offered to you throughout the game.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.8%, Simulation 24.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 45.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Space 12.2%, Trading 6.3%
