- #1 Crow's Foot
97% 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 34.5% ★, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 6.2%
- #2 Trailblader
96% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: 迟到的南雨亭
Windows
Trailblader is a turn-based strategy game that features loop-based combat, integrating 4X strategy and hero development. The game tells the story of a hero who, having lost their homeland, leads the people to migrate to the wilderness to rebuild their home.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Deckbuilding 13.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Roguelike 9.4%
- #3 Uncivilized
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jamorian 5
Windows · Mac
A short-form empire building strategy game. Explore the planet and grow your colony, while attempting to negotiate with the many characterful rival factions. Make friends, break allegiances, or just drop nukes on them.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Diplomacy 24.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, War 4.7%
- #4 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sovereign Era Games
Windows · Mac
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Historical 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
- #5 Napoleon 1813
94% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Interactive EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
In an enormous strategic area stretching from Paris to Breslau, from Hamburg to Vienna, control everything from major strategic territorial decisions to tactical battle manoeuvres.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Historical 9.1%
- #6 ENDLESS Legend™ 2
93% matchVery Positive83% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26.4% ★, Diplomacy 18.3% ★, Historical 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, War 10%
- #7 Rules of War
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Endeavour Games
Windows
Take command in this 4X-lite strategy game with fast-paced tactical combat and missile warfare. Build your economy, deploy land, sea, and air units, expand borders, advance technology, and navigate deceitful diplomacy. In a world of collapsing nuclear powers, can you lead your nation to victory?
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Economy 9.7%
- #8 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
91% matchMixed48% of 57,106 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 48.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Diplomacy 18.9% ★, Historical 12.5%, War 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
- #9 Kingdom Chronicle
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: スタジオ白猫斎 / Studio HakubyousaiPub: くそげ工房 / Atelier KUSOGE
Windows
Take command of a warlord house and unify a war-torn continent in this turn-based fantasy strategy SLG. Master governance, diplomacy, alliances, and cunning schemes, and command six troop types in war. Recruit or capture officers from a cast of 168—every run a new path to conquest.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 18%, Strategy 11.9%, War 9.1%
- #10 Rogue State Revolution
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 538 reviews2021
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.Pub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, War 9.9%
- #11 Legions
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: MindscapePub: SNEG
Windows
In Legions, lead your empire to glory across 10 historical scenarios, from Caesar’s conquest of Gaul to the rise of Charlemagne. Master diplomacy, economy, and military strategy to dominate rivals in this immersive strategy game set in the ancient world.
Why similar: Diplomacy 33.5% ★, Historical 18.3%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #12 Kyivan Rus
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Plawius
Windows · Mac · Linux
A historical turn-based strategy game, where you evolve as a leader, gather armies, research technologies, found cities, build the economy, unite the tribes and expand your lands to strengthen your country! Play in a single-player campaign or skirmish against AI.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Historical 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Economy 9.7%
- #13 Rule of Iron: Dark Age
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eisengeist Studio
Windows
Build your realm in a turn-based campaign. Break theirs in battle. Real-time, 1:1-scale warfare where tactics, not spreadsheets, win clashes between tens of thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%
- #14 Timeline
87% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2022
Dev: Taueon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times. In the game you command wide range of units, make them collect resources and build buildings, towns and cities, explore the map and meet other players controlled by AI.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Diplomacy 20.1% ★, Historical 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #15 Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Illwinter Game Design
Windows · Linux
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 54.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 16%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, 2D 3.4%
- #16 Millennia
86% matchMixed67% of 3,770 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 30.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Historical 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, War 9.7%
- #17 Commander: World War II
85% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Commander: World War II is a turn-based tactical game where you lead either the Allies or the Axis to victory. Deploy infantry, tanks, planes, and naval units, capture locations, use the terrain, and counter specialized units in intense battles. Design your own maps and dominate the battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%, War 7.7%
- #18 Old World
84% matchVery Positive82% of 6,667 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.3% ★, Diplomacy 19% ★, Historical 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, War 10.7%
- #19 Grand Strategy: The Three Kingdoms
84% matchPositive88% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Yiming
Windows
Based on the classic history of the Three countries, the 2D grand strategy game integrates deep strategy, resource management, diplomatic game and sand table, presenting a magnificent stage for players in the turbulent world.
Why similar: 4X 44% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Historical 10.9%, War 7.9%
- #20 Phase Line Red
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Savukuru
Windows
Take command in Phase Line Red, a WEGO turn-based tactical wargame. Plan company-level operations, issue orders to your platoons, and watch the chaos of WW2 combat unfold in thrilling, simultaneous cinematic replays. Master the fog of war and push the frontline forward.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%, Historical 19.5%, Strategy 13.7%, War 11.7%
- #21 Kingdom of Krawall
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TinyDragonMagic
Windows · Linux
A fast-paced strategy game about building a kingdom, outplaying your rivals, and conquering your enemies. Play solo or in multiplayer and enjoy the depth of a classic 4X in a single sitting.
Why similar: 4X 48.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Strategy 13.2%, War 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
- #22 Horn of the Warlord
81% matchNo user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: MagicKrol
Windows · Mac
Lead a Viking clan to glory in this accessible turn-based conquest strategy game. Expand your kingdom, raise armies, besiege castles and outsmart a challenging AI across handcrafted worlds built for endless replayability.
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 11%, War 9%
- #23 万象战略
82% 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 43.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 8.2%, War 7.1%
- #24 Fool`s Road
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Pikas
Windows
Turn-based strategy where chess-like battles evolve into full army command. Build your class fantasy, recruit troops, and enjoy thoughtful tactical runs.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22.8%, Deckbuilding 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Roguelike 12.8%
- #25 Mercatoria
79% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Dinkel Games
Windows
Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.
Why similar: 4X 36.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Historical 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%, War 8%
- #26 Imperialist
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you exploit the New World to control the Old? Lead your nation over five centuries of history in this 4X Strategy game. Build production chains, manage logistics, grow your Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals diplomatically or on the battlefield, to become history's first Superpower.
Why similar: 4X 37.2% ★, Diplomacy 22.5% ★, Historical 16.5%, Economy 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%
- #27 Plane Starship2:Galactic Contender
78% 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 42.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, War 10.6%, Strategy 8.5%
- #28 Clash of Cultures
78% 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 43% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Economy 7.6%
- #29 Dominium Mundi
79% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 58% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Historical 11.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Medieval 6.4%
- #30 WarBoard: Arena Empire
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Velron Games
Windows
WarBoard: Arena Empire is a turn-based tactical strategy game on a hex arena. Command Rome, the Turks, Vikings, Egypt, Japan or Persia. Play solo against AI, or battle up to 4 Steam friends in private matches. Every move counts.
Why similar: 4X 38.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Strategy 11.6%, Historical 11.1%
- #31 WARONOMY
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Aventine Legends
Windows
Waronomy is a deceptively simple, yet highly strategic turn-based conquest wargame set in a medieval fantasy world, where strategy is everything: raise armies, empower heroes, forge elite stacks, and annihilate rival warlords until every castle on the map is yours.
Why similar: 4X 38.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, War 8.5%, Medieval 8.2%
- #32 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
75% matchVery Positive87% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Diplomacy 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, War 11.8%, Historical 10.1%
- #33 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 53.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Economy 7.8%, 2D 3.4%
- #34 The Civil War
76% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Dagger Interactive TechnologiesPub: Strategy First
Windows
This old-school turn-based strategy game covers the American Civil War from the years 1861 to 1865. Play as the North or South, and take over a certain amount of cities of the opposing side before the war ends.
Why similar: Diplomacy 39.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 21.3%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #35 Terra Invicta
73% matchVery Positive81% of 9,434 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 28% ★, Diplomacy 19.2% ★, Historical 12.9%, War 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%
- #36 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
76% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Aserisoft
Windows · Mac
Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.
Why similar: 4X 44.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Medieval 9.4%, War 8%
- #37 Dynastic Era
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LOONW
Windows
Simple map coloring game, And about history of ancient civilized, Mini ancient strategy game with a large world map to explore, in which you can simulate different ancient civilizations, the game will have different chapters showing ancient historical events.
Why similar: 4X 40.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Strategy 10.4%, Historical 7.8%
- #38 Terrol
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Terrol is a strategy game focused on capturing and holding strategic resources. The objective is simple: control all resources and destroy rival empires.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, War 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Strategy 10.5%
- #39 Kingdoms of Myth
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marcos Cruz
Windows
Lead a global army with unique units and heroes, each with their own skills. Kingdoms of Myth features 100 civilizations with unique armies, tech, and skills, providing diverse ways to defeat enemies.
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Historical 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 7%
- #40 Ever War
71% 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 41.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #41 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 38.6% ★, Historical 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, War 11.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #42 Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
73% matchVery Positive87% of 1,547 reviews2008
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European...
Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Historical 18.9%, Strategy 15%, Economy 2.4%
- #43 The Battle of Polytopia
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,904 reviews2020
Dev: Midjiwan AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.8% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, War 10.9%
- #44 Samurai Conqueror
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Miura Production
Windows
Rewrite Japanese history across ages in this historical strategy simulation spanning from the Kofun to the Meiji era. Command great leaders, unify the nation, and reshape destiny.
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, Historical 16.6%, War 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
- #45 Palm Kingdoms 3
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hack The Publisher
Windows · Mac
Palm Kingdoms 3 is a turn-based strategy game with deep mechanics. Explore maps, build your kingdom, and lead armies in rich, tactical combat. Here, power lies not in a single character, but in the unique Commanders you cultivate within your ranks.
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, War 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #46 For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 171 reviews2009
Dev: Crystal Empire GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical figures and events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Diplomacy 21.1% ★, Historical 17.2%, War 9.4%, Economy 8.4%
- #47 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Estuego Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy game based off the Napoleonic Wars! Lead, attack, buy, and communicate. Learn how to play difficult 4x grand strategy games by starting with simple strategy. *Disclaimer, this game is made by a teenager for a school project*
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Historical 13.3%, War 6.8%
- #48 Tank Operations - Diary of the War
69% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Linked Dimensions
Windows
Experience World War II’s defining battles from a new perspective! In Tank Operations: Diary of the War, you command Allied forces through intense, turn-based warfare. Master battlefield tactics, upgrade your troops, and face an expansive campaign.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.6%, War 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Historical 20.5%, Strategy 13.2%
- #49 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
68% matchMixed69% of 2,267 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 40.9% ★, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Historical 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #50 Kingdom's Life
70% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Historical 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, War 10.8%, Economy 7.9%
- #51 Great Powers
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 37 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 37.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Historical 11.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #52 Commander: Modern War
69% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience the thrill of a modern conflict between two factions, as you outsmart your opponents in an epic game of strategy and cunning. Take command of your ground, air, and naval units and lead them to victory in the most immersive turn-based battle simulation. The battlefield awaits.
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Strategy 12.5%, War 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.6%
- #53 Chess 2
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Chess 2 combines chess-like tactics with territory control, economy, diplomacy, and special units. Expand across the map, build your position, and outplay opponents in singleplayer or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Diplomacy 18.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, War 11.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%
- #54 Hexarchy
68% matchVery Positive82% of 1,589 reviews2023
Dev: Main Tank SoftwarePub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Historical 13.3%, Deckbuilding 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, War 11.5%
- #55 Tracktopia
67% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: GalaDev
Windows
Tracktopia is a strategy game with city-building elements, where your city moves on tracks and serves as a super powerful unit. Expand it to boost production, advance technologies, and create smaller units to ultimately defeat the enemy nation!
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Economy 7.8%
- #56 Imperiums: Greek Wars
67% matchVery Positive86% of 544 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 31.8% ★, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Historical 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, War 10.5%
- #57 Folk Emerging
66% 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 39.7% ★, Historical 17%, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 HUMANKIND™
65% matchMixed69% of 28,527 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.0 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 41.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Historical 17.3%, Strategy 12.6%, War 7.5%
- #59 Ascendant Realms
65% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Soaring Pals
Windows · Linux
In Ascendant Realms you lead a nation in a struggle for glory. Cozy setting meets tactical thinking from classic turn based strategies, but twists it with compact gameplay. Develop your city, research new technologies, fight other leaders - or just create your own story in the sandbox.
Why similar: 4X 39% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, War 11.2%, Economy 8.7%