- #1 Dawn of Andromeda
97% matchMixed44% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Grey Wolf EntertainmentPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 27% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Space 10.7%, Indie 5.6%
- #2 Particle Fleet: Emergence
96% matchVery Positive92% of 1,261 reviews2016
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.9% ★, Strategy 25.6%, RTS 17.5%, Space 13.3%, Indie 9%
- #3 Age of Space
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PodPal Games
Windows
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: Strategy 22.6%, 4X 21.2% ★, RTS 17.7%, Space 16.4%, Real-Time with Pause 15.8% ★
- #4 StarDrive
96% matchMixed45% of 1,482 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 39.4% ★, Strategy 20.5%, Space 14.1%, RTS 13.4%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #5 Star Ruler 2
95% matchVery Positive82% of 719 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 35.2% ★, Strategy 19.3%, RTS 17.4%, Space 15%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #6 Armada 2526 Gold Edition
94% matchMixed68% of 108 reviews2013
Dev: Ntronium GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 12.8 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: Strategy 33.6%, 4X 32.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Space 11.4%, Indie 11%
- #7 Star Ruler
93% matchVery Positive83% of 340 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 34.9% ★, Strategy 24%, Space 14.8%, RTS 13.7%, Indie 6.7%
- #8 Empyrean Frontier
92% matchMixed68% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Galdor Studios
Windows
Empyrean Frontier is an epic real time strategy game that mixes classic RTS gameplay with a multi-stage campaign in which the player commands a fleet of ships through a galactic map. Boss battles, base building, planet destroying superweapons, and tactical skirmishes create a unique blend of genres.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.9% ★, Strategy 22.8%, RTS 15.7%, Action 12.1%, Space 9.4%
- #9 Chieftain
91% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Splout Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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!
Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, 4X 30.1% ★, RTS 18.9%, Indie 14.1%
- #10 Stellar Dynasty
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua R.D. Wilson
Windows
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 27.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 25.4% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Space 12.3%, RTS 12.1%
- #11 LazerGrrl
84% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Sandwich Generation
Windows
Fast paced PVP strategy. Bomberman meets RTS.
Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, Action 21.5%, Fast-Paced 15.7%, Indie 15.2%, RTS 10.2%
- #12 AI War: Fleet Command
90% matchVery Positive82% of 1,594 reviews2009
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"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 37.3%, 4X 18.6% ★, RTS 16.6%, Space 10.8%, Real-Time with Pause 7.6% ★
- #13 Battlevoid: Sector Siege
89% matchMixed58% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.6% ★, Strategy 21.1%, Space 15.1%, RTS 14.9%, Action 10.7%
- #14 Lords of the Black Sun
91% matchMostly Negative20% of 395 reviews2014
Dev: Arkavi StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Strategy 25.6%, Space 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%, Indie 6.5%
- #15 Distant Worlds: Universe
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,845 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 39.2% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Space 14.4%, Real-Time with Pause 14% ★, RTS 7%
- #16 StarDrive 2
88% matchMixed55% of 2,097 reviews2015
Dev: Zero Sum GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Strategy 31.1%, Space 16%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Indie 7.8%
- #17 Predestination
86% matchMixed45% of 86 reviews2019
Dev: Brain and Nerd Ltd
Windows
Predestination is a turn-based sci-fi 4X game set in the distant past of our own galaxy. Ships from countless races are flung back in time by a powerful hostile race known as the Revenants, and must now work to rebuild their empires and somehow stop the Revenants in the past.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, Strategy 25.7%, Space 14.2%, Indie 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%
- #18 Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
86% matchMixed68% of 125 reviews2014
Dev: Digital RealityPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
A stand-alone expansion pack to Legions of Iron, discover new innovations and even more stunning visuals that launch the Haegemonia experience into light speed.
Why similar: Strategy 37%, RTS 21.5%, Space 19.4%, Action 12.9%, Indie 9.3%
- #19 Crush Your Enemies
84% matchVery Positive81% of 439 reviews2016
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
Why similar: Strategy 29.2%, RTS 26.8%, Fast-Paced 17.4%, Action 15.3%, Indie 11.3%
- #20 Ceres
85% matchMixed52% of 156 reviews2015
Dev: Jötunn GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
Why similar: Strategy 25.2%, Real-Time with Pause 23.8% ★, Space 18.4%, Action 14.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #21 Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
83% matchMixed68% of 101 reviews2014
Dev: Digital RealityPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 27%
From the makers of the award-winning Imperium Galactica 1 and 2 games, discover a powerful space-opera like RTS game.
Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, RTS 26.1%, Space 21.4%, Action 9.4%, Indie 5.8%
- #22 Unending Galaxy
82% matchMixed62% of 124 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: Strategy 24.6%, 4X 24.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 23% ★, Space 13%, Indie 9.5%
- #23 The Last Federation
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 502 reviews2014
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Strategy 22.6%, Real-Time with Pause 18% ★, Space 15.9%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #24 Stars in Shadow
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 816 reviews2017
Dev: Ashdar GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 42.7% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Space 11.1%, Indie 6.7%
- #25 ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
80% matchVery Positive81% of 9,559 reviews2012
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.3 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 37.1% ★, Strategy 27.6%, Space 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #26 Space Empires IV Deluxe
81% matchVery Positive86% of 285 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.4 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 45.8% ★, Strategy 26.6%, Space 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Sci-fi 8%
- #27 Exo TD
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Virtual Classic Studio
Windows
Exo TD is a true 3D space Tower Defense. Invaders have scouted your planet as their next target, you must protect it by building destructive turrets, orbital defenses, shields, drones and more to defend against the incoming invasion force.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.8% ★, Strategy 24.4%, Action 13.8%, RTS 12.3%, Indie 10%
- #28 Meridian: Squad 22
79% matchMixed66% of 131 reviews2016
Dev: Elder GamesPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Meridian: Squad 22 is a single-player science-fiction real-time strategy game with a focus on base building and advanced tactics. Every single choice, every tactical decision you make, shapes the outcome of your story.
Why similar: Strategy 40.8%, Action 22.2%, RTS 22.2%, Indie 14.7%
- #29 WarZone Flashpoint
78% matchMixed53% of 80 reviews2018
Dev: Dust Storm Entertainment
Windows
WarZone Flashpoint is in an RTS in development by Dust Storm Entertainment. We're an indie team bringing you a classic RTS formula which we intend to update for a long time to come!
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Action 21.9%, RTS 19.9%, Indie 15.8%
- #30 Fortify
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Holgersson Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Fortify is a real-time strategy game with a tower defense twist. Defend your castle from attacking monsters and siege weapons by using ranged and melee defenders, catapults, cannons, oil fields and more. You start at the iron age, advancing to the medieval age, and later, the imperial age.
Why similar: Strategy 39.1%, RTS 25.3%, Action 20.3%, Indie 15.3%
- #31 Imperium Galactica II
75% matchVery Positive87% of 633 reviews2017
Dev: Digital RealityPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Strategy 38.4%, 4X 27.4% ★, Space 17.1%, RTS 17%
- #32 Defect
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Three Phase Interactive Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Create the most powerful ship in the galaxy piece by piece, take it into battle and then lose your ship to a traitorous crew in an endless cycle of punishment and revenge.
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Action 17.6%, Space 15.1%, Indie 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #33 Machines At War 3
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: Isotope 244 LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Real time strategy game featuring over 130 different types of units and technologies, 21 campaign missions with characters and an intriguing story, unlimited random map skirmishes with many customizable settings, network multiplayer to challenge your friends, and so much more in this RTS!
Why similar: Strategy 39.9%, RTS 28.2%, Action 18.8%, Indie 13%
- #34 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
67% matchVery Positive91% of 552 reviews2024
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Why similar: 4X 51.1% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Space 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #35 RogueCraft Squadron
75% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Missing Sentinel Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
RogueCraft Squadron is a fast paced real-time strategy space adventure with roguelike elements. Play as a squadron commander fighting against a hostile alien race; collecting resources, researching new ships and building an armada as you fight to survive against overwhelming odds.
Why similar: Strategy 33.1%, RTS 25.7%, Space 16.9%, Indie 13.2%, Sci-fi 11.1%
- #36 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
78% matchMixed44% of 956 reviews2012
Dev: Kerberos ProductionsPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.1 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 44.7% ★, Strategy 25.9%, Space 14.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.2%
- #37 Basic Warfare
74% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Bog Iron Games
Windows · Linux
Basic Warfare is a combination of RTS and Action genres featuring realtime multiplayer action combat and strategic economic simulation.
Why similar: Strategy 44.2%, Action 25%, Indie 17.7%, RTS 13.1%
- #38 Space Empires V
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 469 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 44.2% ★, Strategy 27.9%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%
- #39 Battleship Lonewolf
73% matchMixed59% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: WolfShipGames Co., Ltd.
Windows
Lone Wolf is a game to become a captain of the space warship “Lone Wolf" where in a space battle opera. You will fall into the charm of a gun that emits a powerful firepower toward the enemies, and you will be attracted by the various charms of the space warship “Lone Wolf”.
Why similar: Strategy 30.8%, Action 29.6%, Space 21%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Indie 6.9%
- #40 Solar Command
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the interstellar age. Prepare your decks, build your fleet, and construct an empire that will rule the galaxy. Enlist in the closed alpha today.
Why similar: Strategy 39.8%, 4X 31.4% ★, Indie 16.2%, Space 12.5%
- #41 Commanders Fury
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
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 30.9% ★, RTS 18.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Real-Time with Pause 14.4% ★, Space 13.2%
- #42 Heathen Engineering's Terran
72% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Heathen Engineering
Windows · Mac · Linux
Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action! Found an empire and expand across the stars, command massive fleets in interstellar conflicts and pilot powerful warships as you battle for victory in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Strategy 24.5%, Space 14.3%, Action 13.5%, Indie 10%
- #43 Uncharted Space - project 3062
68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Kong Linghui
Windows
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 30.8% ★, Strategy 22.4%, RTS 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Space 6.6%
- #44 Jon Shafer's At the Gates
73% matchMixed41% of 498 reviews2019
Dev: Conifer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
At the Gates is an indie strategy game from Jon Shafer, designer of Civilization 5. You are a dark age lord building a kingdom to replace the crumbling Roman Empire. Manage your clans, explore the landscape around you, harvest its resources, and build a mighty economic and military machine.
Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, 4X 37.6% ★, Indie 16.3%
- #45 Vega Chronicle
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Just Add Lava
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose peace or destruction to conquer the stars in this turn-based 4X game. Trade and negotiate with alien civilizations. Command semi-autonomous fleets in real-time combat. Explore the galaxy and build your colonies. Unlock ancestral virtues to enhance your civilization for the next play-through.
Why similar: 4X 39.9% ★, Strategy 25.8%, Space 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #46 Micromanagement
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: FuzzyCube
Windows · Linux
You're bacteria. Luckily, you have psychic powers! Control your mutation to overwhelm and conquer. Gain amazing abilities for both tactical and strategic advantage. You'll need them all because this microcosmic world has a new threat...
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 45.9% ★, Strategy 37.4%, Indie 14.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #47 Galaxy Reavers
72% matchMixed70% of 204 reviews2016
Dev: Good Games
Windows
This is a fun yet challenging RTS game. To survive in the vast galaxy, you need to build up your own fleet and customize your warships. You will also learn to control them efficiently in battle to defeat your enemies, conquer planets, and expand your galactic empire!
Why similar: Strategy 33.3%, RTS 26.2%, Space 23.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Indie 7.3%
- #48 Shallow Space
74% matchMostly Negative25% of 231 reviews2015
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Construct your Taskforce and lead your forces to domination in the ultimate Fleet Warfare RTS!
Why similar: Strategy 27.5%, RTS 21.6%, Space 20.8%, 4X 16.2% ★, Action 7.2%
- #49 Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™
61% matchVery Positive90% of 1,188 reviews2024
Dev: Westwood StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The Second Tiberium War begins in this legendary sequel to the original Command & Conquer. With his forces stronger than ever, arch villain and leader of The Brotherhood of Nod - Kane - is pitched in an epic battle against the world's war machine - the Global Defense Initiative.
Why similar: Strategy 42.9%, RTS 32.2%, Action 18.4%, Sci-fi 3.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #50 Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
71% matchVery Positive88% of 705 reviews2010
Dev: Kerberos Productions Inc.Pub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.
Why similar: 4X 45.8% ★, Strategy 25.6%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.9%
- #51 Etherium
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 953 reviews2015
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.
Why similar: Strategy 30%, RTS 22.4%, Sci-fi 21.1%, 4X 13.4% ★, Space 10.4%
- #52 Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
60% 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 48.1% ★, Strategy 33.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%
- #53 TerraMartis4x
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LeBroGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.6% ★, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Space 8.6%
- #54 Fantastic Creatures
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Callisto
Windows · Linux
Mythological Units. Ancient China. Experience a turn-based 4X strategy game where the land around you is slowly dying. Incarnate one of the four Fantastic Creatures: Dragon, Tiger, Turtle or Vermilion Bird and fight for survival.
Why similar: Strategy 37.3%, 4X 32.4% ★, Indie 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #55 The White Laboratory
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 361 reviews2019
Dev: Laboratory Systems
Windows
The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35.6% ★, Strategy 30.6%, RTS 14.4%, Indie 12.8%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #56 Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
69% matchVery Positive95% of 218 reviews2012
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 39.6% ★, Strategy 31.8%, RTS 18.2%, Indie 10.5%
- #57 Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: Artifice Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Spaceships, lasers, and… chickens! What more could you ask for?Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is a creative new take on space-themed videogames that merges the deep, thoughtful gameplay of strategy games with the intuitive accessibility of physics-based games.
Why similar: Strategy 33.7%, Fast-Paced 19%, Action 14.4%, Indie 12.9%, Space 12%
- #58 Master of Orion
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,105 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.9 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 48.3% ★, Strategy 28.2%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 1.9%
- #59 Stellar Monarch 2
62% matchVery Positive88% of 123 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 43.2% ★, Strategy 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Space 11.1%, Sci-fi 8%