Games Like Hexarchy

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 17.2% ★, Hex Grid 14.4% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Historical 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a streamlined, fast-paced 4X experience that captures the essence of empire building without the typical multi-hour time investment.

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: 4X 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Turn-Based 9.6%, War 8.6%, Historical 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends traditional 4X mechanics with a character-driven event system that feels as impactful as playing cards from a deck.

Scythe transports you to an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, one ravaged by the First World War. Take up the role of leader by assuming command of one of 5 factions, and set out to conquer the coveted "Factory". Lead your mechs to war and your people to victory!

Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Hex Grid 18.6% ★, Turn-Based 15.4%, Historical 7.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a digital adaptation of a board game, it perfectly balances resource management and territory control with card-driven actions.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Tactical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deep 4X empire management with tactical, turn-based combat that rewards careful planning and unit synergy.

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 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Historical 10.2%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It provides a modern take on the 4X genre with a focus on historical progression and tactical combat encounters.

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: 4X 15.1% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Historical 10.7%, Turn-Based 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 4X experience that serves as the foundation for the strategic depth found in Hexarchy.

Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.

Why similar: Turn-Based 21.8%, Hex Grid 21.8% ★, Card Game 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, PvP 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This digital board game features a unique blend of card-based strategy, hero progression, and hex-grid exploration.

Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.

Why similar: 4X 19.2% ★, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Turn-Based 11.2%, War 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep, hex-based wargaming experience for those who want more complexity in their strategic simulation.

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 28.4%, Turn-Based 22.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 22%, Strategy 11.5%, Tactical 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: While smaller in scale, it offers the same tight, high-stakes tactical decision-making on a hex grid that Hexarchy players enjoy.

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Why similar: 4X 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Turn-Based 11.5%, Historical 9%, War 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep historical grand strategy game that emphasizes the tactical management of your empire's expansion.

For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

Why similar: Turn-Based 34.7%, Co-op 17.7%, Hex Grid 15.3% ★, Multiplayer 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines hex-grid exploration with turn-based combat and strategic party management.

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Why similar: Management 62.4%, Strategy 37.6%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces traditional deckbuilding with dice-building, providing a similarly innovative way to manage your civilization's actions.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, War 13.5%, Tactical 9.9%, Co-op 9%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While technically an RTS, its fast-paced expansion and resource management feel very similar to a condensed 4X game.

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.5%, 4X 21.7% ★, Hex Grid 15.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Card Game 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game mixes survival, strategy, and card-based combat in a dark, procedurally generated world.

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Historical 10.7%, War 9.9%, Military 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A historical 4X strategy game that focuses on the political and military challenges of the ancient world.

Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!

Why similar: Turn-Based 19.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Tactical 11.7%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game that focuses on unit positioning and map control on a grid.

Engage in epic simultaneous turn-based combat in this fusion of cards and turn-based strategy. Assemble your regiment, claim your territory, and lead your forces to triumph!

Why similar: Hex Grid 22.5% ★, Turn-Based 17.2%, War 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical game that uses card-based mechanics to influence unit movement and combat on a hex grid.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Turn-Based 47.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes strategic planning and resource management through a unique, turn-based exploration loop.

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 21.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Turn-Based 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Tactical 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval turn-based strategy game that combines board game elements with tactical combat.

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, War 11.2%, Management 11.2%, Tactical 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a fast-paced 4X experience set in a rich sci-fi universe with a focus on territory control.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 36.9%, Turn-Based 31.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features tactical, turn-based combat on a grid paired with deep, procedural storytelling that makes every campaign unique.

A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 48.7%, Card Game 45.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Strategy 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends deckbuilding mechanics with map-based exploration and tactical combat encounters.

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

Why similar: Turn-Based 26.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Military 15.9%, Tactical 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, turn-based tactical game that focuses on solving combat puzzles through clever ability usage.

This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.

Why similar: Turn-Based 31.5%, Card Game 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive, card-driven board game that focuses on strategic manipulation and resource management.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Turn-Based 42.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.1%, Tactical 15.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a strong focus on tactical, turn-based combat and difficult strategic choices during travel.

Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Why similar: Turn-Based 55.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly tactical, turn-based combat experience that rewards precise positioning and planning.

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Hex Grid 15.7% ★, Deckbuilding 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%

Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.

Why similar: Turn-Based 26.1%, Card Game 23.6%, Co-op 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It brings a unique tactical experience by combining grid-based movement with card-based combat abilities.

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Turn-Based 9.9%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★, Historical 7.9%

Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.

Why similar: Turn-Based 42.8%, Tactical 24.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It features simultaneous turn-based tactical combat that requires deep foresight and strategic planning.

With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.

Why similar: Card Game 39.8%, Hex Grid 18.2% ★, Turn-Based 14.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game uniquely combines card-based strategy with board-based tactical movement and terrain building.

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: 4X 17.7% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Turn-Based 9.5%, War 8.6%, Historical 8.4%

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: 4X 17.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.7% ★, Hex Grid 12.4% ★, Military 8.8%, Historical 8.5%

A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.

Why similar: 4X 17.1% ★, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Turn-Based 10.1%, War 8.7%, Historical 8.2%

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Hex Grid 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, Turn-Based 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%

From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!

Why similar: 4X 20.1% ★, Hex Grid 17.9% ★, Turn-Based 10.7%, War 8.9%, Historical 8.6%

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: 4X 21% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, War 10.3%, Historical 10.2%, Military 9.8%

Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.

Why similar: 4X 23.9% ★, Hex Grid 22.3% ★, Turn-Based 16.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%

Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.

Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Historical 11.2%, Military 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Hex Grid 16.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4% ★, Turn-Based 8.7%, Historical 8.7%

Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.

Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Hex Grid 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, Hex Grid 16.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Management 7.6%

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.

Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Co-op 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, PvP 8.4%

Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!

Why similar: Hex Grid 23.2% ★, Turn-Based 15.1%, Military 13.3%, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%

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 16.7% ★, Hex Grid 13.1% ★, Grand Strategy 11% ★, Turn-Based 9.5%, Historical 7.3%

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Turn-Based 14.3%, Grand Strategy 11.7% ★, Historical 11.6%, Military 9.4%

The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Card Game 18.1%, Military 14.3%, Strategy 7.2%

Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.

Why similar: 4X 39.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Hex Grid 14.1% ★, Tactical 12.6%, Turn-Based 11%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: 4X 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, War 9.6%, Historical 9.4%, Turn-Based 9.4%

The Armchair Historian brings you a new turn-based strategy game set in the Victorian Era. As muskets become rifles and infantry is confronted by modernizing artillery, it is imperative to adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield. This is a new age, not of courage and chivalry, but of Blood and Iron.

Why similar: Historical 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Military 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, War 11.1%

Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans?

Why similar: Hex Grid 23% ★, 4X 16.6% ★, Turn-Based 15.3%, Card Game 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Turn-Based 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Hex Grid 14.3% ★, Turn-Based 12.5%, Tactical 7%

Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil

Why similar: Turn-Based 18%, Historical 17.1%, Card Game 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Turn-Based 17.5%, War 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%

A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.

Why similar: 4X 18.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Turn-Based 12.5%, Historical 11.7%, War 8.7%

Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.3% ★, Turn-Based 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Tactical 7.7%

Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 33.8%, Card Game 29%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: Hex Grid 31.1% ★, Deckbuilding 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Co-op 11%, PvP 10.7%