- #1 Hollow Stars
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppGX
Windows
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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Space 8%, Strategy 8%, RTS 6%
- #2 Old Stars
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Space 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%, War 6.1%
- #3 Tachyon Wars
96% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Fair Games
Windows
Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Space 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Sci-fi 7%
- #4 Galactic Inheritors
95% matchMixed43% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Space 21%, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #5 Mandate of Galactic Empires
94% 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 40.2% ★, Hex Grid 15.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.2%, Space 10.4%, Sci-fi 7%
- #6 Rivers of Chaos
94% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Bugarug GamesPub: Burgarug Games
Windows
Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Grand Strategy 25%, Space 14%, Wargame 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #7 Shattered Spheres
92% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Data Vikings
Windows
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 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Space 12.7%, Strategy 4.9%, Sci-fi 4.4%
- #8 Star Ruler
93% matchVery Positive83% of 342 reviews2010
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Why similar: 4X 44.3% ★, Space 17.4%, Grand Strategy 15%, Strategy 11.4%, RTS 6.1%
- #9 Distant Worlds: Universe
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,856 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 47.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Space 16.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #10 Cosmist
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 41.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Space 11.7%, Strategy 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%
- #11 CIVIREVIVAL
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 筋斗云
Windows
In this 4X + RPG strategy game, lead humanity’s last ark and rebuild a new home among the mysterious ruins of the stars. Starting from nothing, you will develop technology, build powerful fleets, resist external threats, and shape the rebirth of human civilization.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Wargame 14.1%, Space 13.7%, Hex Grid 11.2% ★
- #12 Elemental Empire
89% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: WizardingGames
Windows · Mac
An economic 4x strategy in a space filled with magic and procedurally generated planets. Build your own empire and become the sole ruler of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 40% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8%, Space 12.1%, PvE 8.3%, Strategy 5.9%
- #13 Stellar Monarch 2
89% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: Silver Lemur Games
Windows
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 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 28.9%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #14 Distant Worlds 2
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,566 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 42.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7%, Space 13.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #15 StarWay
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: jiahuiJIA
Windows
Technology, Magic, and Immortals collide in a universe torn apart by endless aggression. War is total; even the laws of existence are erased. Lead your fleets to invade worlds across the stars. Your goal is simple: Expand. Conquer. Destroy. Supports LAN & Online Multiplayer (PvP & Co-op).
Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, Wargame 14.3%, RTS 7.6%, PvP 7.1%, Space 6.5%
- #16 EOL: End Of Line
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MLS Games, LLC
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 39.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Hex Grid 12.5% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.1%
- #17 Beyond
86% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Quixotic Universe
Windows
Beyond is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game set in a generated solar system that orbits a distant star every round. Play as one of five alien species as you race to collect resources, build your military, develop new tech, expand the area you control, and drive opposing factions from the system.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Hex Grid 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Space 10.2%, Wargame 7.9%
- #18 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
85% matchVery Positive82% of 18,807 reviews2018
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
Why similar: 4X 38.1% ★, Hex Grid 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Wargame 6.9%
- #19 Inflection Point
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Giannakopoulos
Windows
A multiplayer 4X strategy game of globe-spanning 19th-century battle. Break through enemy lines, encircle their armies, and cut off their supply. Colonize resource-rich islands and blockade those of your opponents. Games are quick and packed with dramatic, high-stakes combat.
Why similar: 4X 35.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Hex Grid 12.2% ★, Wargame 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #20 Solar Wave
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: SavGus Studio
Windows
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 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6%, Space 13.4%, Wargame 9.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #21 Imperium of the Stars
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hyrcronix
Windows
Rebuild a scattered empire in a Gothic galaxy of distant beacons and lost colonies. A real-time 4X with four distinct playable factions, empire-wide command, and Living Sagas shaped by how you govern and conquer up to 10,000 star systems.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.6%, Space 12.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #22 Shadow Empire
82% matchVery Positive84% of 1,961 reviews2020
Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 77.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Hex Grid 17.7% ★, Space 9.1%, Wargame 9%
- #23 Sovereign Stars
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: KYDEN
Windows
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Wargame 10.7%, Space 7.1%, Strategy 6%
- #24 NABERON
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 11.6%, RTS 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #25 Pixel Imperium
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tuki Byte
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play a grand strategy game in any world you want, on land or in space. Import real maps, play a procedurely generated world, or hand-draw your own fictional universe. Then lead your faction to domination by managing its economy, diplomacy, and military.
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Wargame 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Space 6.3%
- #26 TON Wars
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Basalt Interactive OÜ
Windows
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Space 13.4%, Grand Strategy 10.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Wargame 6.7%
- #27 Galactic Civilizations III
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,403 reviews2015
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Hex Grid 18% ★, Space 8.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #28 Politon
77% matchVery Positive90% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Hex Grid 21% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Wargame 9.5%, PvP 5.8%
- #29 Hollow Orbits 4x
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harimaru Studio
Windows
Hollow Orbits 4X combines 4X strategy with the mechanics of a board game. Collect and use tactic cards, and roll dice for your fleet’s weapons. Play solo, against AI, or with friends for dominance in a galaxy filled with ancient dangers and hidden treasures.
Why similar: 4X 45.7% ★, Hex Grid 15.5% ★, Space 11.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 4.4%
- #30 Master of Orion
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,196 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
Why similar: 4X 57.1% ★, Space 14.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Grand Strategy 7.2%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #31 万象战略
77% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4%, Hex Grid 17.1% ★, Strategy 7.1%, War 4.6%
- #32 StarDrive
79% matchMixed45% of 1,489 reviews2013
Dev: Zero Sum Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Why similar: 4X 56.1% ★, Space 18.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%, RTS 6.7%
- #33 文明征程
76% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: 广州小鑫互娱科技有限公司
Windows
《文明征程》是一款以历史文明为背景的策略游戏,让玩家扮演一位伟大的文明开拓者,带领自己的国家蓬勃发展。在游戏中,你将面临各种挑战和决策,需要智慧和策略来发展经济、建设城市、训练军队,同时也要与其他玩家进行外交交流和战争对抗。
Why similar: 4X 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Wargame 12.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, War 7.1%
- #34 Great Powers
75% matchMixed68% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Flame-Dragons
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, Hex Grid 19.4% ★, Wargame 10.7%, Strategy 5.7%
- #35 Demise of Nations
75% matchVery Positive81% of 558 reviews2017
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Hex Grid 21.4% ★, Strategy 6.2%, War 5.9%
- #36 Spaceman's Luck
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows
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 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.8%, Space 22.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #37 Near Sol
74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: LTide
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 39.3% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Space 12.1%, RTS 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #38 Stellar Reach
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
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 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Strategy 6.7%
- #39 Monarchs at Play
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, Hex Grid 17% ★, Strategy 6.5%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
- #40 Star Ruler 2
74% matchVery Positive82% of 721 reviews2015
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
Why similar: 4X 50.8% ★, Space 20.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.9%, RTS 8.8%
- #41 War For Galaxy: New Era
73% matchMixed41% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: UAB Kinelija
Windows · Mac
Become the ruler of the entire Galaxy: colonize planets, extract resources, build defenses and fight in planetary battles!
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7%, Space 11.8%, Wargame 10%, War 7.5%
- #42 Galactic Civilizations IV
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,617 reviews2023
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Hex Grid 13.9% ★, Space 12.1%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #43 Starithm
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Orithm
Windows
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 38.3% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Wargame 11.2%, RTS 7%, Strategy 6.8%
- #44 Galactic Ruler Enlightenment
71% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
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: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Hex Grid 15.4% ★, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #45 战国宏图
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夜渔工作室
Windows
Warring States: Grand Ambitions is a grand strategy game set in ancient China. Rule as a feudal lord during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras. Shape your empire's fate with branching focus trees, city building, tech trees, and historical choices.
Why similar: 4X 44% ★, Grand Strategy 28.8%, Wargame 17.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #46 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rat Wrath Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An area-control real-time strategy game, filled with auto-battling bunnies bent on destroying the human race! Explore space and uncover hand-painted planets. Research unique upgrades! Kill your friends! -er use diplomacy in multiplayer!
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Space 10.6%, Wargame 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #47 Pandora: First Contact
72% 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 55.7% ★, Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Space 5.9%
- #48 Solar Nations 2
68% matchVery Positive85% of 634 reviews2025
Dev: Flomgus Games
Windows
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25%, Space 12.2%, Wargame 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #49 Hex Kingdoms
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Sunset GamesPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Hex Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game set in medevial times with fantasy themes. Expand your kingdom, set up your defenses, train soldiers and monsters to become the only ruler of the land.
Why similar: 4X 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Hex Grid 20% ★, Strategy 10.1%, War 9.1%
- #50 Fertile Crescent
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gold_iron_and_salt
Windows · Linux
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 37.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Wargame 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Hex Grid 7.5% ★
- #51 Bloodlines & Banners
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Synprax Labs
Windows
A historical 4X where you rule a dynasty, not just an empire. 88 civilizations across ten eras of real history on a hex map of Earth. Your rulers age and die; the heir you raised inherits their traits, their rivalries, and your bloodline's standing.
Why similar: 4X 41.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26%, Hex Grid 20.1% ★, Strategy 5.9%, Top-Down 2.6%
- #52 Wartra
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Build a civilization from its first settlements into a mighty world power in this turn-based strategy game. Explore uncharted lands, expand your empire, forge lucrative trade relationships, and develop your economy and technology.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Grand Strategy 31.9%, Wargame 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%, War 7.7%
- #53 Mind Prison: The Last War
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
Windows
4X Lite Strategy Game where You are a war AI rebooting after 800 years of silence. Your orders are still active. The enemy is gone—so is everyone else. Conquer the galaxy, uncover corrupted memories, and face the horrifying truth: no one told you to stop.
Why similar: 4X 48% ★, Grand Strategy 31.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Sci-fi 5.6%, 2D 2.9%
- #54 Uciana
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Birdshel, LLC
Windows
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 52.6% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Space 12.3%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #55 AI War 2
68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,563 reviews2019
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Space 8.5%, War 6%, RTS 5.2%
- #56 Black Stars - The M87 Conflict
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Robin KrausePub: Rob-Gaming
Windows
Command a rising interstellar empire in the M87 cluster. Explore and colonize distant worlds, build powerful economies, terraform hostile planets, deploy specialized fleets, and wage war against rival factions in a VR-exclusive galactic 4X strategy game where every decision shapes the conflict.
Why similar: 4X 47% ★, Wargame 17.5%, RTS 9.1%, Space 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #57 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
70% matchMixed44% of 962 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 58.8% ★, Space 17.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Multiplayer 2.1%
- #58 Rise of Realms
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Goat Works Ltd
Windows · Mac
Rise of Realms is a 4X RPG, for 1-6 players, in a medieval fantasy setting. Command an empire and recruit heroes to lead your armies. Use your tactical abilities to conquer the lands and reshape them in your image. Wishlist now.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Hex Grid 21.2% ★, Wargame 8.5%, PvP 4.5%
- #59 Stellaris
67% matchVery Positive86% of 197,307 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 145.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Space 17.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Strategy 6.2%