
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 4X, Grand Strategy, Strategy, Political Sim.

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.

One Planet
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.

World Order: Global Power
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.
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: Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, 4X 25.7% ★, Political Sim 20.7% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Strategy 6.7%
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: Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, 4X 25% ★, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 7.3%
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 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Political Sim 16.8% ★, Diplomacy 12% ★, Space Sim 8.7%
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: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Political Sim 18.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, Space 8.9%
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 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Space 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Real Time Tactics 6.5%
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 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Diplomacy 11.3% ★, Strategy 7.7%
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: Political Sim 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, 4X 22% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 7.6%
Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.3% ★, 4X 24.7% ★, Political Sim 18.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.8%, Space 7.5%
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: Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Political Sim 21.5% ★, 4X 17.7% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Space 7.9%
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: Grand Strategy 32.2% ★, 4X 29% ★, Political Sim 16.5% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Space 7.3%
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: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Political Sim 21.5% ★, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 8.2%
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 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Political Sim 21.3% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 3.9%
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: 4X 23.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Political Sim 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 18.6% ★, Multiplayer 4.7%
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: 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 27% ★, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, Space 9.2%, Space Sim 7.7%
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 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Diplomacy 17% ★, Political Sim 15.5% ★, Strategy 5.6%
Build nuclear weapon, wage wars, strategize and become the strongest leader
Why similar: Political Sim 23.9% ★, 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Diplomacy 17.2% ★, Trading 5%
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 38% ★, Grand Strategy 32.4% ★, Space 10.2%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 4.5%
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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7% ★, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Strategy 5.5%
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Political Sim 19.1% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.4%
Guide the Spirit of Europe in a turn-based historical grand strategy game. Expand across 23 cities, unlock great thinkers, inspire their works, and shape the Enlightenment through ideas, reform, and institutions.
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Strategy 7.2%, Resource Management 1.3%
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: Political Sim 28.9% ★, 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6% ★, Strategy 6%, Trading 4.6%
The Helios Accord is a post-scarcity science-fiction grand strategy game. Govern by consent, set doctrine, negotiate with civilizations, and send Citizen Minds beyond known space. Then Serenity of Dawn disappears. No wreckage. No distress call. Only an impossible signal that changes when observed.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Grand Strategy 31% ★, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Space 7.6%, Strategy 6.2%
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: Grand Strategy 31.4% ★, 4X 30% ★, Space 13.8%, Diplomacy 10.5% ★, Strategy 6.2%
New edition of the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Major developments: the war in the Ukraine and all of its consequences, conspiracy theories, fake news, interference by secret services, animal welfare and climate objectives.
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Political Sim 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 8.1%, Strategy 6%
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: Grand Strategy 27.8% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Diplomacy 15.7% ★, Space 10.5%, Strategy 6.1%
A real-time 4X where each faction plays like a different game. Rule a Gothic empire that runs on faith, unmake the galaxy world by world, or forge a warhost from salvage. Up to 10,000 procedurally generated star systems. No diplomacy. Only war.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Grand Strategy 34.3% ★, Space 10.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 3.5%
Online strategy in a fantasy world with single-player options. Explore the world, expand the borders of your polis, build settlements and produce goods. Immerse yourself in the role of a powerful tycoon of the city-republic, choose your path - magic, diplomacy, espionage or war.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Diplomacy 22.5% ★, Political Sim 20.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Strategy 6.4%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 34% ★, Space 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 3.3%
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 43.2% ★, Grand Strategy 37.3% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Space 9.7%
A new expansion of the ultra-realistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! New Features for 2021: administration of the EU, Covid vaccinations, Biden's Challenge, political coalitions, diplomatic negotiations, worldwide tax and free-trade agreements.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Political Sim 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26% ★, Real Time Tactics 8.3%, Strategy 5.7%
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 44.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.3% ★, Space 19.7%, Strategy 10.6%
Zenith Frontier is a simulation-strategy game about the exploration and colonisation of space. Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions of autonomous citizens and private companies.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Political Sim 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.9% ★, Space 8.6%, Strategy 4.7%
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: Grand Strategy 38.8% ★, 4X 38.6% ★, Space 11%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 4.5%
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 36% ★, Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, Space 13.1%, Strategy 11%, Real Time Tactics 9%
Kill Capture Destroy (KCD) is a real-time strategy and combat game that combines the intensity of military vehicle gameplay with the depth of strategy and simulation. It gives you control not just over the battlefield, but over the politics and government decisions driving the wars.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Political Sim 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, Trading 5.4%
🌍 Conquer the world with economy! 52 real countries. Offline strategy sim.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Political Sim 22.7% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 3.7%
Build up a Space Empire and establish control of the Galaxy and the Universe! Nova Empire is a multiplayer space game in which the aim is to build your empire and conquer the galaxy in epic space battles against your rivals with other allies worldwide!
Why similar: Political Sim 27.7% ★, 4X 25.9% ★, Space Sim 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.9%, Strategy 6.8%
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 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29% ★, Diplomacy 13.4% ★, Space 9.8%, Strategy 5.5%
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: Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Political Sim 25.7% ★, 4X 22.9% ★, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Strategy 5.1%
A Cold War real-time grand strategy game. Players lead a country through the revolutions and superpower conflicts of the late 20th century, competing in the space race and nuclear arms race, destabilizing and overthrowing rival powers to expand their spheres of influence.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.6% ★, Political Sim 31.6% ★, Diplomacy 16.1% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Multiplayer 3.9%
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 59.5% ★, Political Sim 24.5% ★, Diplomacy 6.6% ★, Strategy 5.8%, Multiplayer 2.4%
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.
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.5% ★, 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Space 9.1%, Space Sim 8%
Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, Political Sim 14.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.5%, Trading 6.2%
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 27% ★, Space 9.6%, Space Sim 9.4%, Real Time Tactics 9%
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 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2% ★, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Political Sim 14.2% ★, Strategy 6.1%
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: Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, 4X 25.5% ★, Political Sim 22% ★, Space 10%, Strategy 5.5%
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 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Political Sim 25.5% ★, Strategy 6%, Trading 4.7%
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 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 32.8% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Space 8.1%, Simulation 4%
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: Political Sim 30.5% ★, Diplomacy 21% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, 4X 14.8% ★, Multiplayer 5.1%
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: Grand Strategy 31.3% ★, 4X 29.9% ★, Political Sim 27.4% ★, Strategy 5.8%, Exploration 2.4%
Your colony ship has landed on an alien planet — but the environment kills electronics. Salvage the ark, survive the early years, and build a nation as your society regresses to medieval with remnants of modern knowledge. Grand strategy with simulated population and turn-based combat.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.8% ★, 4X 31.5% ★, Political Sim 24.4% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 2.8%
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: Grand Strategy 31.9% ★, 4X 30.4% ★, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Multiplayer 6.1%, Strategy 5.8%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, 4X 24% ★, Political Sim 18.4% ★, Diplomacy 18.1% ★, Multiplayer 5.3%
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 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 32.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Space 10.3%, Strategy 6.9%
Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?
Why similar: Political Sim 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 30.5% ★, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 3.1%
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: 4X 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Space Sim 9.9%, Space 8.6%
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: Grand Strategy 26.5% ★, 4X 25.7% ★, Diplomacy 25% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.7%, Strategy 4.7%
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: Grand Strategy 33% ★, 4X 29.9% ★, Space 19%, Strategy 9.5%, Space Sim 3.9%
The player is the architect of the world, plays for one of the world forces and achieves its dominance in the world with the help of tools and through indirect influence on countries and key figures. The story-driven game takes place through key historical events that have impacted the modern world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.8% ★, Political Sim 34.9% ★, Diplomacy 16.5% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 1.8%