- #1 Frostward
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KoPoint Games
Windows
Plan industrial districts and strive toward monumental wonders while defending humanity against hostile forces and the endless winter.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Hex Grid 20% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, City Builder 7.9%, Survival 5.9%
- #2 Myriads: Renaissance
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★, Medieval 7.5%
- #3 Cities Domination
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: D Green Games
Windows
Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Hex Grid 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Medieval 10.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #4 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
95% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Hex Grid 18% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 9.7%
- #5 Crow's Foot
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Thelix
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based hex strategy you can finish over lunch. Outsmart AI rivals, each with their own grudges, ambitions, and breaking points. Conquer provinces, command knights, scouts, assassins, and more. Unlock rule-bending scrolls. Go bankrupt and your own army defects.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Hex Grid 6.5% ★
- #6 Elaborate Lands
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elaborate Games
Windows
Elaborate Lands is a relaxing, turn-based strategy game. It combines unique gameplay mechanics with elements from 4X, city-builder and puzzle builder games. Build cities, gather resources, research technologies and expand your territory. Different maps and biomes offer near endless replayability.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Hex Grid 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Medieval 7.2%
- #7 扩张吧王国 Expand the Kingdom
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: 奥特斯盗
Windows
"Expand the Kingdom" is a strategy game based on construction and expansion. In the game, you need to expand and plan land, acquire resources to maintain the internal balance of the kingdom, and survive and defeat all opponents in the competition between kingdoms.
Why similar: Hex Grid 35.9% ★, 4X 21% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Medieval 10.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #8 Shardorium
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turtle Speed Development
Windows · Mac · Linux
Indie turn-based strategy game. Capture the whole shard by defeating their guards, build your own stronghold, level up your heroes and equip most powerful items!
Why similar: Hex Grid 31.2% ★, 4X 22.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 6.2%
- #9 Ultakia
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Simon Alber
Windows
Ultakia is a turn-based space 4X strategy game with distinctive resource management. Explore exotic systems and acquire powerful technologies. Exploit your planets, trade with other races and destroy those who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Hex Grid 23.1% ★, Diplomacy 12.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #10 Flora Domina
91% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Hex Grid 18.2% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7%
- #11 Thule
90% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Xeaker
Windows
A quick turn-based 4X strategy game with RPG elements. Explore and conquer randomly generated worlds, complete diverse missions and forge a powerful empire.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Medieval 8.9%, City Builder 7.3%
- #12 BOC: Birth of Cultures
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Hex Grid 19.4% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Building 7.1%
- #13 Island Dwellers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Hex Grid 11.5% ★, Resource Management 7.8%
- #14 万象战略
88% 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 37.7% ★, Hex Grid 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Medieval 8.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%
- #15 Monarchs at Play
86% 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 32.1% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Hex Grid 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Building 7.2%
- #16 Tartaria: Frozen Frontier
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rubedo Games
Windows
Lead your clan, build settlements, and survive enemy raids in a turn-based strategy set in the harsh northern lands.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Hex Grid 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★, Medieval 7.2%
- #17 A New World: Kingdoms
87% matchNegative0% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A New World: Kingdoms is a turn-based strategic 4X game. Carefully expand your kingdom by constructing buildings and managing your resources. Building your own empire is not easy; there will be challenges along the way, from mountains to navigate to your rival and his warriors.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #18 Diehexegy
85% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Aebersoft
Windows · Linux
Diehexegy is a hex grid turn-based 4x game with a unique twist: your armies are composed of dice. It has multiple victory conditions and straightforward gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 43% ★, Hex Grid 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Medieval 10.1%
- #19 hexurb
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2021
Dev: byMixNez
Windows
hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.9% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #20 Potventure
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, City Builder 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 6.8%
- #21 Lands of Rumour
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Hex Grid 14.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 6.2%
- #22 Dwarf Guild Mania
82% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Hex Grid 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.6%
- #23 Critias Empire
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Hex Grid 13.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #24 Business Empire
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dragon Slumber
Windows · Mac · Linux
BUSINESS EMPIRE is a 4X turn-based strategy game that puts you in charge of an ever-expanding company. Design your own products and market them to the masses, set up distribution routes, and develop new technologies.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #25 Marble Age
81% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 20.3% ★, City Builder 14%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%
- #26 DeckTerra
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Medieval 4X Deckbuilder. Lead a kingdom as you build your deck to conquer the map and expand your rule. Develop your technology through the middle ages to improve your army of knights and keep your peasants happy. Develop your trade, religion, science, and military to conquer the continent.
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Hex Grid 23.1% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Medieval 7.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%
- #27 Isle of the Crown
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Devious Oatmeal
Windows
From a simple home to a mighty kingdom; explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate your opponent in this strategic pixel-art chess-like hex game using cards as your pieces and their abilities as your tools. As many games before it, and as the saying goes; easy to learn, hard to master.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Hex Grid 14% ★, Building 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
- #28 HUMANKIND™
78% matchMixed69% of 28,603 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Hex Grid 10.6% ★
- #29 Ever War
77% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Autware
Windows
Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Hex Grid 21.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #30 Pandora: First Contact
79% 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 52.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Hex Grid 16.2% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #31 Little Oceania
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Oyster Games
Windows · Mac
Little Oceania is a Tetris-like strategy building game where you create delightful kingdom dioramas by placing cute miniature structures. Plan well, create synergies, discover new structures and combos, and continually expand your picturesque ocean kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Hex Grid 13.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #32 As Far As The Eye
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,123 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.9% ★, City Builder 18.2%, 4X 17.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Building 7.8%
- #33 Dawnfolk
75% matchVery Positive95% of 723 reviews2025
Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Medieval 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #34 Kepler Protocol
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Boe
Windows
Kepler-186e, Humanity's first colony — on a world that is not theirs. Lead the Kaiserreich in turn-based hex strategy against the Ordo Arachnis, a swarm intelligence with no commander. Research, build, supply, fight. Survive.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Hex Grid 23.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #35 Punk Wars: Prologue
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #36 Knights of Legends
75% matchMostly Negative39% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: KOL StudioPub: KOL Games
Windows
CLASSIC TURN-BASED STRATEGY GAME 1.DIFFERENT RACES DIFFERENT HEROES 2.BUILD YOUR OWN KINGDOM 3.RECRUIT POWERFUL UNITS 4.EXPLORE AND CONQUER 5.CLASSIC SIMULATION RPG
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Hex Grid 31.2% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Medieval 7.6%
- #37 Yield! Fall of Rome
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 266 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Hex Grid 17.5% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Medieval 8.7%
- #38 Peaceful Lands
74% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: SigmosGames
Windows
Peaceful Lands is a relaxing minimalist building strategy game where you place tiles to create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape. A great way to relax, sit back and watch your beautiful land grow. Strategize, beat your high score and have fun.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Hex Grid 17.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Relaxing 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #39 Seed of Light
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ratware
Windows
Seed of Light is a cozy roguelite city builder about bringing light into a world swallowed by a dark fog. Manage your resources, find synergies, generate enough light to overcome the darkness and expand your territory!
Why similar: Hex Grid 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #40 Mech and Tech 1
72% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: colmer_it UG
Windows · Mac
Conquer. Build. Survive. A tactical strategy game on procedural hex grids - intense, deep. Plan every move: establish your base, secure supply lines, and unleash suppression fire against all who stand in your way. Research new technologies - improve your units. Play solo, co-op, or PvP.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Hex Grid 19.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 11%
- #41 First Days of Atlantis
74% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Twinfox Interactive
Windows
Quickly build beautiful cities on colorful islands in the ancient Mediterranean Sea. The perfect game to play and relax for half an hour.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Hex Grid 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Relaxing 6.8%
- #42 Folk Emerging
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Hex Grid 14.3% ★, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Survival 6.6%
- #43 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
71% matchMixed48% of 58,486 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 49.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Diplomacy 17.5% ★, Hex Grid 16% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #44 Rising Lords
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 973 reviews2024
Dev: ArgonwoodPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Medieval 16.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%
- #45 Against the Storm
70% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Diplomacy 15.7% ★, Medieval 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #46 Clash of Cultures
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zach
Windows · Mac
Clash of Cultures is an addictive turn based stratergy game that is simple to learn yet has a lot of depth. Research technologies, shape your government, progress through the ages, and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%, Medieval 7.9%
- #47 One More Voyage
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: starshed studio
Windows
ONE MORE VOYAGE is a minimalist 4X game with incremental progression. Embark on voyages through the galaxy on the flight from an enemy seeking your extinction. Explore strange planets, harvest vital resources and unlock transformative technologies. Can you find a way to escape from your pursuers?
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Hex Grid 21.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Resource Management 7.9%, Exploration 5.5%
- #48 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
70% matchMixed59% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Medieval 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 6.6%
- #49 军团战棋Legion War
70% matchVery Positive90% of 826 reviews2021
Dev: Bear & Cat Studio
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
"Legion War" is a 4X strategy game in a fantasy setting. You can build and expand your territory, explore unknown lands, and search for mysterious treasure, cultivate your own heroes and troops while exterminating your opponent's, and challenge the god who rules the world behind the scenes.
Why similar: 4X 37.2% ★, Hex Grid 28% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #50 Great Powers
69% 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 35.2% ★, Hex Grid 21.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Medieval 7.7%
- #51 Radia Island
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #52 Astro Protocol
67% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #53 Kingdoms and Castles
68% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Medieval 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #54 Abrupt Valley
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abrupt Games
Windows
Welcome to Abrupt Valley, a competitive 1v1 city building/auto battler game. Create your city, upgrade your buildings, prepare you army and watch it fight your enemies. Optimize your city, adapt to your opponent and climb the ladder !
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Medieval 9.2%
- #55 Egypt: Old Kingdom
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,258 reviews2018
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.6%
- #56 CastleOn
66% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Diplomacy 16.2% ★, 4X 13% ★, Medieval 10.8%, Base Building 10%
- #57 Liegecraft
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: From Chaos
Windows
You are the King. Lead your vassals, build your feudal realm and conquer foreign kingdoms in this blend of turn based 4X and realtime rpg. Attend feasts, host tourneys and fight duels. Every character has their own mind so promote the loyal, scheme against rivals and imprison the disobedient.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Hex Grid 18.6% ★, Diplomacy 17.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Medieval 11.2%
- #58 ENDLESS Legend™
68% matchVery Positive83% of 19,068 reviews2014
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
ENDLESS Legend™ is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS Space™ and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
Why similar: 4X 46.4% ★, Hex Grid 18.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Medieval 2.3%
- #59 Tiny Kings
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Floating Chicken Games
Windows
Tiny Kings is the whimsical medieval base builder where your dreams of building and managing a pint-sized kingdom come true! Unleash your inner ruler and build your kingdom, manage your citizens' tasks, and dominate the siege to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Medieval 14.7%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%
- #60 Islets Defense
65% matchVery Positive94% of 191 reviews2025
Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Medieval 10.5%