
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.
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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.

HEXPANSE
Hexpanse is a real-time space strategy game. Build your ships and stations block by block, mine asteroids, program the doctrine of your autonomous fleets, and conquer a procedurally generated galaxy. Play solo or in multiplayer.

After the Crash : Colony
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Hexpanse is a real-time space strategy game. Build your ships and stations block by block, mine asteroids, program the doctrine of your autonomous fleets, and conquer a procedurally generated galaxy. Play solo or in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, RTS 18.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Space 4.5%
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Space Sim 24.1%, Real Time Tactics 11%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.4%
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Space Sim 18%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Strategy 9%, Space 6.6%
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 37.1% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Space Sim 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%
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 45.9% ★, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 16%, Space 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.3%
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 51.6% ★, Strategy 17.1%, RTS 16.6%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 4.8%
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 37.6% ★, RTS 17.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Space 5%
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, Space Sim 20.9%, RTS 18%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 9.1%
Embark on a journey of strategy and domination in Moons That Belong, a 2D space strategy game that challenges your tactical prowess. Command your fleet, conquer planets, and outsmart your opponents in this visually captivating and intellectually engaging adventure.
Why similar: 4X 35.8% ★, RTS 20%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Space 7.8%
For gamers who love Master of Orion and Homeworld but want something new and different. For gamers with a small time budget. A lightweight fresh take on the space 4x game genre about the war between Terra and Mars.
Why similar: 4X 37.6% ★, RTS 20.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Space 4.9%
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 34.2% ★, RTS 19.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.4%, Simulation 8%
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, RTS 27.4%, Strategy 12%, Space 6.1%, Tactical 5.8%
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 37.4% ★, RTS 19.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.5%
In this game, you are a leader, leading a force of army to fight other forces in the deep spaces. You will plunder their resources, build your homelands, explore and expand, managing your army both strategically and tactically. This will be a saga written with blood and fire.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, RTS 22.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Space 4%
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 39.7% ★, Space Sim 22%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 10%, Space 7.8%
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 47.1% ★, Strategy 20.6%, RTS 17.6%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 4.1%
Command fleets in this indirect control RTS game set within treacherous asteroid belts. Easily design your own skirmishes for a quick 15-minute battle or dive into an hours-long campaign of high-risk surgical strikes and systematic border advancement.
Why similar: 4X 42.5% ★, RTS 21.8%, Strategy 17.6%, Minimalist 5.9%, Space 3.9%
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 26.5% ★, Space Sim 18.1%, RTS 16.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Space 8.3%
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 37.1% ★, RTS 21.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Minimalist 4.6%
MMO Real-time strategy star game.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, RTS 17.3%, Space Sim 13.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%
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 28.4% ★, Space Sim 22.3%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.7%
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 30.7% ★, Strategy 19.9%, Space Sim 17.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Space 8.7%
Design your own spaceships and assemble a fleet to fight in epic PvP battles. Ships are fully destructible and manned by persistent crew members including yourself. Ranked/casual matchmaking, PvE for practice. Show your creativity, strategy and tactics to defeat the enemy Admiral!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.8%, RTS 23.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.7%, Top-Down 4.8%
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 52.7% ★, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 19.5%, Sci-fi 6.7%
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 32% ★, Space Sim 21.1%, RTS 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 8.7%, Strategy 6.5%
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 44.7% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8%, Space 6.5%
Star Zeal 4x is an open world space based strategy and rpg hybrid with elements from the 4x genre and survival mechanics sprinkled on top of it. Highly emergent gameplay within an open world persistent galaxy is the core purpose and idea of the game.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, RTS 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%
Engage in real-time battles with customizable space warships. Explore the galaxy, forge alliances, develop powerful ships, and defeat alien invaders.
Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Space Sim 19.7%, Real Time Tactics 13.3%, RTS 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%
Online multiplayer drone warfare in space. Persistent universe, keeps going when you aren't logged in.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.2%, RTS 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10%
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 47.1% ★, Strategy 20%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Sci-fi 5.2%, Tactical 4.7%
Construct your Taskforce and lead your forces to domination in the ultimate Fleet Warfare RTS!
Why similar: RTS 25.2%, Strategy 21.6%, 4X 20% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Space 13.5%
The endless expanse of space has never been such a dangerous place. Take command as a Space Fleet Admiral who will face the challenge of galactic war and determine the fate of the universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.2%, RTS 20.8%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 15.3%, Sci-fi 6.2%
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 53.1% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Space 10.2%, RTS 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
真·春秋戦国戦略SLG―中国史上最もドラマチックな時代が舞台! 名もなき小国の人物から成長し、春秋時代の戦国武将を集め、領土を広げ、他のプレイヤーや味方と同盟を結んで共に戦い、戦略と知恵を駆使して始皇帝の如く天下を制覇しよう! いざ出陣だ!これは、始皇帝へとつながる戦乱!
Why similar: 4X 44.2% ★, RTS 22.3%, Strategy 19.2%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%
Eufloria 2 is the sequel to 2009's indie hit "Eufloria", featuring major gameplay additions and innovations, and a powerful level editor. Intergalactic floral conquest has EVOLVED to the next level!
Why similar: 4X 40.7% ★, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Space 8%, Simulation 7.8%
Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.9%, RTS 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.7%
Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.3%, RTS 22.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 7.3%
Real-time strategy game. Players move freely to find a suitable place to settle down and develop. They build various buildings to explore, attack, and defend themselves, so as to resist AI attacks. They also find and defeat other targets on the map to become the only surviving human player.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, RTS 21.3%, Real Time Tactics 14%, Strategy 12%, Minimalist 5.5%
Chieftain is a fantasy game of world conquest - containing elements of a procedurally generated 4X world, and real-time skirmishes including hundreds of soldiers on screen battling for your dominion and reign to be supreme!
Welcome to the future of space warfare! Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander puts you in command of an advanced space battlecruiser and tasks you with exploring sectors, fighting and boarding enemy ships, and invading planets. Manage your ship, crew and escorts effectively and find your way to victory!
Why similar: Space Sim 24.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, RTS 11.3%
AT THE LIMITS OF EARTH, AT THE EXTREMITY OF HEAVEN. A REAL-TIME STRATEGY NIGHTMARE.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, RTS 18.3%, Space Sim 14.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Real Time Tactics 8%
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Space Sim 21.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Sci-fi 5.5%
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.2%, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 19.1%, Real Time Tactics 18.2%, Space 10.6%
Evolve from being a nobody to being the center of power! Age of space combines real time resource management with tactical combat. Work as a mercenary for clients in our solar system as you gradually get dragged into a liberation war between the Martians and the UEA. Who will you side with?
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, RTS 24.4%, Strategy 20.9%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 4.1%
Send a scout. Dispatch your army. Grow your realm while they march. It's the browser-empire loop that ate your nights — rebuilt as a single-player RTS, one full run from frontier to final battle in about 3 hours. No alliances, no always-online, no getting farmed in your sleep.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 21%, Strategy 20.7%, RTS 18.1%, 4X 17.1% ★, Simulation 15.1%
A war fought in pencil on a single sheet of paper. Your fleets are marks drawn by your Hand. Command sketched ships in real-time battles, alone across a conquest campaign, or online with friends.
Why similar: RTS 30.2%, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Space 12.5%, Minimalist 6.6%
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
Why similar: 4X 36.8% ★, Strategy 31.3%, RTS 20.1%, Space 11.8%
Command a squad of mercenaries to battle monstrous foes across five stages. Start small, strategically deploy and upgrade your team using earned resources. Build an unstoppable force and prove your tactical skills by surviving the onslaught and securing victory.
Why similar: RTS 29.7%, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 23%, Real Time Tactics 20.7%, PvE 2.6%
"Haunted Dorm" is a 2D tower defense game. In the game, players need to evade the pursuit of dream hunters, find a suitable dormitory to hide in, and develop the economy to build forts to resist the dream hunters.
Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, RTS 21.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Tactical 3.1%
Single-player space strategy about the last ship of a vanished civilization: built to copy itself, no longer able to. Turn dead systems into mines, refineries, and shipyards. Design fleets, command the fights, lose ships, never the factory. Find out what silenced the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.9%, RTS 25.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Space 10.4%
Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.
Why similar: 4X 66.2% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Space 6%, Sci-fi 3.2%
A strategy game about space (location) in space (cosmic). Colonise the galaxy with a thousand clicks of a mouse. Winner of DreamHack Austin Jam!
Why similar: 4X 38.4% ★, Space Sim 23.4%, Strategy 20%, Space 8.7%, Simulation 8%
Four ships and the cold between the stars — and something behind you the instruments can't hold. Command a small fleet through a branching run of real-time-with-pause tactical combat, and reach the end with all of them still lit. You cannot kill what isn't fully here. Not yet.
Why similar: RTS 27.3%, Space Sim 19.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Minimalist 5%
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.
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Space Sim 23.9%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 14.5%, Space 4%
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 59.3% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Space 10%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Tactical 2.7%
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, 4X 26.1% ★, RTS 22.1%, Space 8%, Sci-fi 4.1%
A sci-fi, 4X, real-time strategy game. Build, fight, and explore to survive against an unstoppable alien threat. Carry the fight from one galaxy to the next as you battle back from the brink of extinction, and unlock the secrets of the past to restore your people to the path of galactic super power.
Why similar: 4X 38.6% ★, RTS 15.9%, Strategy 12%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Space 9%
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Space Sim 18.7%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, RTS 12.7%, Space 6.4%
Conquer the galaxy one world at a time. Nova is a fast, minimalist real-time strategy game of fleets, factions and gravity. Send your forces between planets, portals and stations, outmaneuver seven rival AI factions, and survive black holes and asteroid belts across 12 chapters.
Why similar: RTS 28.6%, Strategy 21.4%, Real Time Tactics 20.5%, Minimalist 10.3%, Space 6.8%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 48.8% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 14%, Space 8.4%, Sci-fi 6.1%