60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, 4X, Sci-fi, Space.
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.
Distant Worlds 2
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Galactic Inheritors
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.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 40.8% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Space 12.7%, Simulation 8.7%
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 45% ★, Space 21.5%, Strategy 13.9%, Grand Strategy 11.1% ★, Sci-fi 5.8%
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 41.4% ★, Space Sim 20%, Space 10.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Grand Strategy 8% ★
Do you have a Spaceman's Luck? A space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Space 20.7%, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Space Sim 6.1%
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 48.7% ★, Space 16.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Grand Strategy 10.8% ★, Sci-fi 5.6%
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 45.7% ★, Strategy 18.7%, Space 18.3%, Grand Strategy 9.1% ★, Sci-fi 4.8%
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 34.3% ★, Space Sim 25.1%, Space 11.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 6.1%
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 37.7% ★, Space 12.6%, Grand Strategy 10.9% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Science 9.8%
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 43.4% ★, Strategy 23.3%, Space 18.9%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Indie 3.8%
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 29.7% ★, Strategy 18%, Space Sim 16.2%, Space 15.1%, Simulation 12.3%
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 32.1% ★, Space Sim 14.1%, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Space 11.7%, Science 11.1%
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 55.1% ★, Space 18.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Indie 3.1%
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 52.6% ★, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Indie 5.5%
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 56.8% ★, Strategy 19.7%, Space 14.7%, Sci-fi 4.6%, Grand Strategy 4.2% ★
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 52.9% ★, Strategy 20.1%, Space 19.4%, Sci-fi 4.3%, Indie 3.3%
ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Why similar: 4X 47% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Space 17.5%, Sci-fi 6.2%, Grand Strategy 3.2% ★
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: 4X 35% ★, Space 17.3%, Grand Strategy 15.9% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 6.6%
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 56.6% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Space 17.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%
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 49.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 6.1%
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Space 9.6%
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 63.8% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Space 10.3%, Sci-fi 3.7%
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 39.6% ★, Space Sim 21.9%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Space 7.7%
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 41% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Space 16.1%, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Sci-fi 6.8%
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 37.1% ★, Space Sim 21.5%, Strategy 18%, Space 15.2%, Simulation 5.7%
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 41% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Space 9.8%
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 59.5% ★, Strategy 20.6%, Space 12.9%, Sci-fi 7%
A real-time grand strategy 4X set in a living Gothic Space Opera galaxy. Lead asymmetric factions, expand across the stars, survive galactic crises, and adapt to a universe shaped by a dynamic Game Director.
Why similar: 4X 46.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 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 35.3% ★, Space Sim 21.8%, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Space 6.4%
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 51.5% ★, Space 20.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Indie 2.6%
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 35.4% ★, Space 19.7%, Strategy 17.7%, Grand Strategy 10% ★, Simulation 8.1%
Take to the stars and explore the solar system. Master the orbital mechanics of N-body physics. Plot a careful course to complete your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 35.6%, Space 17.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 16%, Physics 9.3%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Strategy 17%, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Science 12.3%, Sci-fi 4.7%
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 56.8% ★, Strategy 21.3%, Space 15.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%
A simulation sci-fi game where players take on the role of the project manager of a space elevator project. They will progressively achieve project phase goals and ultimately accomplish the ultimate goal of constructing a Mars colonization spacecraft.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.4%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Space 13.1%, Exploration 7.2%
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 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, Space 13.7%, Space Sim 11.1%, Strategy 9.5%
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 33% ★, Space Sim 16.8%, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Space 11.9%, Strategy 8.3%
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 40.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Space 12.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
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 57.8% ★, Strategy 19.2%, Space 16%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Conquer the galaxy in this arcade-like strategy game. Pick and send your generals to deploy the fleet in the far-off star sectors, mine resources, and upgrade your ships forgeries. Deities might interfere with your plans.
Why similar: 4X 47.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Space 13.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Sci-fi 5.1%
Pilot your ship across a procedurally generated star map as corruption spreads inward. Each sector holds a stabiliser; protect it from raiders and pump energy into its shields. Jump between nodes, prioritise threats, and manage energy. Hold the line until time runs out, or be consumed by corruption.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.2%, Space 24.6%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 6%, Sci-fi 5.7%
Experience epic space battles in NULLSPACE, a story driven real-time strategy set in a retrofuturistic universe. Command massive fleets across the battlefield or jump in and take direct control of individual squadrons. Lead your forces to victory in visceral space combat.
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Space Sim 15.4%, Science 13.7%, Grand Strategy 12.8% ★, Space 10.9%
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 52.2% ★, Strategy 20.6%, Space 17.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%, Indie 3.7%
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 34% ★, Space Sim 21.3%, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Space 10.6%, Strategy 6.5%
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 39.2% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Grand Strategy 13.5% ★, Space 9.6%, Exploration 7.4%
Build rockets and shoot them into space. Once you reach orbit, you are halfway to explore anywhere in the Solar System.
Why similar: Space Sim 32.4%, Space 23.9%, Science 15.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Exploration 8.5%
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 32.6% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Space 7.2%
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game. Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions.
Why similar: 4X 47.9% ★, Strategy 29.8%, Space 16%, Indie 6.4%
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 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Space 15%, Strategy 10.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Science 19.7%, Space 16.6%, Strategy 7.1%, Physics 7.1%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 45.7% ★, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Space 7.7%, Exploration 4.9%
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 38.5% ★, Strategy 18.7%, Space 17.3%, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Sci-fi 6.8%
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 36.8% ★, Space Sim 20.9%, Space 14.6%, Strategy 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%
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 49.4% ★, Strategy 21.1%, Space 18.5%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Indie 5.2%
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Space 23.5%, Science 21.1%, Strategy 17.6%, Space Sim 15.4%, Simulation 13.4%
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 53.9% ★, Strategy 21.4%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Procedural Generation 2.7%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Control your aerial and ground units using Real-Time-Strategy, OR switch during battle and join your comrades yourself in high-action dogfights and ground battles in Novastride. Dominate enemy civilizations throughout the galaxy and be the great strategist to lead your nation to victory.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Space Sim 14.5%, Space 14%, Grand Strategy 11.9% ★, Strategy 10.8%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Space 14.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 39% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Space 14.1%, Strategy 9%, Sci-fi 6.4%
