- #1 Build The Sun
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
- #2 Aven Colony
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,779 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Sci-fi 7%
- #3 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Tactical 6.7%
- #4 Arc of Icarus
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 7.3%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #5 Uciana
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Birdshel, LLC
Windows
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 50% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Space 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #6 Ymir
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 7.6%
- #7 New Homestead
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Linus Witte
Windows
New Homestead is an online turn-based, strategy game. To build up a functional economy, you have to develop your cities and conquer your enemies on a procedurally generated map!
Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.1%, Strategy 6.4%
- #8 A New World: Kingdoms
92% 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 36.3% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Cartoony 6.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #9 Space One - Electron
91% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Character Customization 5.6%
- #10 StellarForge
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justin HellmanPub: Darkstar
Windows
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 39.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 3.3%
- #11 Little Porp
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 35.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Casual 5%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
- #12 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
89% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 41.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.7%, Strategy 9.3%, City Builder 8.2%, Base Building 7%
- #13 Planetbase
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 29.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 11.2%, Strategy 7%
- #14 Void Ascendancy
88% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
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 45.1% ★, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Space 5.3%, Sci-fi 4.2%
- #15 Exogate Initiative
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 8.3%, Tactical 7.3%
- #16 Radia Island
86% 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 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #17 Project Sol
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Reactions
Windows
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 42.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Space 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #18 Punk Wars: Prologue
84% 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 36.6% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Base Building 7.6%
- #19 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
85% matchMixed44% of 959 reviews2012
Dev: Kerberos ProductionsPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.0 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 60.4% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Tactical 4.2%
- #20 Pirate Plight
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 9%, Tactical 8.1%
- #21 The Promised Land
84% matchVery Positive87% of 779 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, City Builder 18.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Casual 7.3%, Adventure 5.9%
- #22 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 28.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Space 5.7%, Base Building 5.4%
- #23 Beyond Astra
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 36% ★, City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Space 7.9%, Base Building 6.5%
- #24 Industries of Titan
81% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 6.8%, Space 6.5%
- #25 Anno 2205™
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,333 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, 4X 34.7% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Space 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #26 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 7.4%, 2D 3.8%
- #27 My Colony
79% matchVery Positive90% of 279 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, City Builder 44.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #28 Solaris
79% matchVery Positive80% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: SpacialCircumstances
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 51.5% ★, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Tactical 7.6%, Sci-fi 7%
- #29 Master of Orion 3
80% matchMixed54% of 190 reviews2016
Dev: Quicksilver SoftwarePub: Wargaming Labs
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 70% ★, Strategy 17.9%, Space 7.9%, Sci-fi 4.2%
- #30 Splinter Colony
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 49.5% ★, Colony Sim 33.2%, Strategy 14.5%, 2D 2.8%
- #31 CityPunk
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nubosoft
Windows · Mac
Build upward in a city under corporate control. Place tiles, optimize spatial layouts, and manage powerful adjacency effects while balancing profit-driven demands against the needs of your residents in a dense cyberpunk megastructure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 35.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Base Building 7.2%, Casual 4.2%
- #32 Powerplay
75% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #33 OBRII
75% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 32%, Strategy 14.3%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #34 Stella Nova
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DavePub: also Dave
Windows
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, 4X 22.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 7.5%, Strategy 7%
- #35 Galactic Empire
76% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: NeuroCore Studios
Windows
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 40.2% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Space 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #36 Space Empires IV Deluxe
78% matchVery Positive86% of 291 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.3 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 65.5% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Space 9.9%, Sci-fi 8%
- #37 Vega Chronicle
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Just Add Lava
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your civilization to galactic glory in this bite-sized 4X strategy game. Build, colonize, trade, and, by tact or might, overcome all who oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 51.6% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Space 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #38 Legends of Heropolis DX
74% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 28.8%, Casual 7%, Cute 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
- #39 World Cruise Story
73% matchVery Positive93% of 90 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Casual 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8%
- #40 H3X@G0N@L
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 26.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 8%, Space 4.8%
- #41 Plane Starship2:Galactic Contender
72% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: 爱芙尔
Windows
This is a 4x turn-base strategy game. You can develop your planet, expand your territory by colonizing and building space stations, research technology to unlock more ships, and ultimately discover and eliminate your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 46.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Space 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Tactical 8.1%
- #42 Peasants
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, City Builder 30.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Cartoony 6.4%
- #43 Sky Base Venus
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, City Builder 23.5%, Space 13.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.2%
- #44 Empires Edge
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, 4X 24.7% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #45 StarDrive
73% matchMixed45% of 1,489 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 63.4% ★, Space 14.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #46 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
68% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
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 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 30.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Tactical 5.5%, Space 5.4%
- #47 Tropical Resort Story
69% matchVery Positive90% of 208 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, City Builder 30%, Casual 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Cute 5.6%
- #48 Master of Orion
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,174 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.4 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 65.7% ★, Strategy 16.7%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #49 Outer Frontier
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Roley Games
Windows
Grow crops and fight giant birds, mine precious materials while avoiding sink holes. Keep your societies needs met before unrest breaks out. And finally end the war by tracking down the enemy leader.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Space 10.2%, Strategy 6.7%
- #50 Antimatter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 6.8%, Strategy 4.9%
- #51 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Space 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 11%
- #52 Orbiteers
66% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Northborne Studios
Windows
Design efficient space stations across the solar system in this minimalist puzzle-builder. Solve unique challenges with help from your assistant L.U.N.A., optimize your builds, maximize your score, and lead humanity’s journey beyond Earth!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Cartoony 7.7%
- #53 Trappist
67% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Space 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #54 Wild West Pioneers
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%
- #55 StarDrive 2
69% matchMixed55% of 2,102 reviews2015
Dev: Zero Sum GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 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 52.6% ★, Strategy 20.7%, Space 16%, Sci-fi 10.8%
- #56 Space Empires V
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 63.2% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Space 12%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #57 Lords of the Black Sun
70% matchMostly Negative20% of 396 reviews2014
Dev: Arkavi StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 61.8% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Space 15.8%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #58 Colonerra Age of Exploration
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Game Tzar
Windows
Govern the New World as His Majesty's Viceroy during the Age of Exploration. Explore unknown lands, build thriving colonies, trade across the Atlantic, wage war, and forge an independent nation in this historical turn-based 4X strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 49.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Adventure 5.3%, 2D 2.4%
- #59 Songs of Syx
66% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 6.2%